The optics on “brand America” are currently being assailed. An interesting time, then, for General Motors to renew its interest in the European market, although the reasoning is sound. The eighth generation messed with the formula by moving that famous V-8 power unit—a staple of internal combustion for decades—from the front to the middle. That’s a very European engineering maneuver, never mind that the father of the original ’Vette, the brilliant Zora Arkus-Duntov, had been pushing for that configuration as far back as the early ’60s. (Check out the CERV I and CERV II concept cars for proof, the latter going further still by also featuring four-wheel drive.)