Chevrolet Corvette Indy Concept

The Chevrolet Corvette Indy, also called the Chevrolet CERV III, was a supercar concept shown by Chevrolet at the 1986 Detroit auto show. General Motors design chiefs Chuck Jordan and Jerry Palmer created it in three versions as a possible successor to the 1984 Corvette C4. The first two had futuristic Kevlar and carbon fibre bodies, one in a targa style and one with a fully glazed cockpit and wing-style doors, with all wheel drive, a rear mid-mounted engine and a twin turbocharged 2.6 litre V8 derived from the Indianapolis 500 racing engine, rated at more than 650 horsepower and a speed of 338 km/h. A third GT version appeared in 1990 with a 5.7 litre, 380 horsepower V8 from the Corvette ZR1, designed by Lotus, and it foreshadowed the C5 Corvette of 1997.