2019 Corvette C8 mid-engine?!!

[TURNA]

Junk........32 valve V-8........ What year is this????

Looks like Chevy is late to the party once again.

 

[oldmansmonte]

A hybrid version? What a joke. "My Corvette gets such great gas mileage". Why don't the just add a back seat and make it a 4 door? Moms everywhere will love it.

 

[oldmansmonte]

When the camo comes off, I predict it will look and run like a Ferrari for 1/3 the price.

They are talking mainstream motors in the article like they are planning to sell 10's of thousands/year of them and not 4,000 over 2 years like the original Ford GT's (or 250/year like the new GT). That means it will be sub $100K, maybe even sub $80K.

I have always said, with each new Corvette model, Chevy finds a way to build them cheaper than the last model. Adjusting for inflation, Chevy can probably build a C7 cheaper than they built a C4. Corvette owners are constantly bitching about their plummeting resale values. What do they expect when Chevy charges more for the newer models that actually cost them less to build?

That bodes well for cheap supercars in the future.

If I went to the dealer and bought a Vette, or maybe a high end Camaro for that matter, I'm in it for the long haul. I'm getting it exactly the way I want it and I'm going to love it. I'm talking at least 20 years. Buying a Vette for resale value is buying for the wrong reason. If you always have to have the latest and greatest, but yet have that kind of disposable income, then quit yer bitchin.

 

[UNGN]

If I went to the dealer and bought a Vette, or maybe a high end Camaro for that matter, I'm in it for the long haul. I'm getting it exactly the way I want it and I'm going to love it. I'm talking at least 20 years. Buying a Vette for resale value is buying for the wrong reason. If you always have to have the latest and greatest, but yet have that kind of disposable income, then quit yer bitchin.

You'd probably want to haggle over the price, too... and the Chevy Dealer wouldn't you give you the time of day when you show up to buy one (they probably will now - my local Chevy dealer has over 100 sitting on the lot). When the C7's first came out though, unless you were the guy that traded up every year, the salesman assumed you were a tire kicker and ignored you.

Corvette buyers have become the ones that ALWAYS have to have the LATEST AND GREATEST. All supercar buyers are. With the Depreciation hit these cars take, buying new can't be justified rationally. It has to be an irrational emotional attachment, now.

Chevy used to sell Corvettes to 40 year old school teachers. No more.

 

[oldmansmonte]

You'd probably want to haggle over the price, too... and the Chevy Dealer wouldn't you give you the time of day when you show up to buy one (they probably will now - my local Chevy dealer has over 100 sitting on the lot). When the C7's first came out though, unless you were the guy that traded up every year, the salesman assumed you were a tire kicker and ignored you.

Corvette buyers have become the ones that ALWAYS have to have the LATEST AND GREATEST. All supercar buyers are. With the Depreciation hit these cars take, buying new can't be justified rationally. It has to be an irrational emotional attachment, now.

Chevy used to sell Corvettes to 40 year old school teachers. No more.

Its funny, there's this local restaurant that does a cruise night every Tuesday in the summer. Huge turnout with a great selection of cars every week. There is this entire crew of old guys that show up first and take up the whole front row with their C5's. They think they are THE COOLEST with their C5's. They have every lame aftermarket piece on them like those awful slotted rear tail light covers. You can tell this is the well to do crowd and they bought that C5 back in the early 2000's at 52 years old and in their mind this would be the last big car purchase they would ever need to make. Well once they realize no one gave a crap about their 5's anymore one by one they all started showing up in C7's this summer.

 

[motorheadmike]

Its funny, there's this local restaurant that does a cruise night every Tuesday in the summer. Huge turnout with a great selection of cars every week. There is this entire crew of old guys that show up first and take up the whole front row with their C5's. They think they are THE COOLEST with their C5's. They have every lame aftermarket piece on them like those awful slotted rear tail light covers. You can tell this is the well to do crowd and they bought that C5 back in the early 2000's at 52 years old and in their mind this would be the last big car purchase they would ever need to make. Well once they realize no one gave a crap about their 5's anymore one by one they all started showing up in C7's this summer.

So you are saying the market is going to drop out on C5s? Excellent.