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WORDS SCOTT EVANS
PHOTOGRAPHS WILLIAM WALKER
we’ve been saying it could and should just to start. One thing that still remains next to each other. Their side profiles
for 60 some-odd years: It put the engine entirely separate: their prices. are nearly identical; the roofline, front
behind the driver. The mid-engine Nearly everything about the 2020 fenders, and A-line (the primary char-
Corvette is real, and I’m driving it. Or Chevrolet Corvette Z51 and 2020 Porsche acter line connecting the front and rear
am I driving the new 992 Porsche 911? 911 Carrera S is effectively equal—on fenders below the windows) are almost
They’re the same shade of red and have paper. The Corvette is 3.9 inches longer, carbon copies.
nearly identical performance. They even 3.2 inches wider, and 2.2 inches lower, but The Corvette is 253 pounds heavier,
have similar rear weight biases. And that’s you’d barely notice with the two parked owing in part to its top-trim 3LT
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