Cool render, but probably unrealistic. A mid-engine car has completely different proportions and stance.

Here’s more speculation on the “unicorn” version of Chevy’s sports car, the mid-engine Vette. An ever elusive beast decades in the making, many have swooned at the possibility of a production mid-ship Corvette and recently, we’ve even seen spy shots of test mules running around. Something’s brewing at Chevrolet but with no concrete proof, the rumor mill grinds on.

And that brings us to this photochop by artist Hansen Art comes in. Looking little more than a regular Z06, it’s essentially a doctored up version of the production car. We’ve seen other renders that are probably more realistic in that they reflect the proportional changes that a mid-engine car would have.

This interpretation has the same cowl to windshield ratio as the front-engine car and in real life. This would be drastically shortened as space behind the rear seats allotted for engine placement would result in a “cab forward” look.

Like we reported earlier, this render has proportions commensurate of a mid-engine car.

That seems to be the conundrum here with a mid-engine Vette. How to differentiate it among a slew of high performance mid-engine cars that because of their chassis blueprint, end up looking the same. One way to differentiate a mid-engine Corvette from the rest of the pack is to beat them in performance while undercutting them in price. An age old formula that has worked wonders for Chevrolet over the years.

It’s all irrelevant if the car isn’t coming. As recently as March, Corvette head honcho Tadge Juechter said he had “no knowledge of such a car…” Some folks say that the Vette mules we saw last year may morph into a king of the hill Cadillac.

Of course, we’d like to see it as a Big Kahuna Vette. So if you’re listening GM, that’s where we’d place our vote.

Looks like an idea for an aero kit more than a mid-engine car.