I would happily entertain an LSA/T6060 donor, if it weren't worth 3 times the maximum I hope to put into my coupe.
2019 Corvette ZR1 made by Honda
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I routinely piss off corvette groups at shows by asking ;;; Is this the future engine donors of America club????
Well last year I decided to recycle a few more vette parts for my use.
20161015_200836 by joe leleux, on Flickr
If you hate it , you don't have to look.
Well last year I decided to recycle a few more vette parts for my use.
20161015_200836 by joe leleux, on FlickrIf you hate it , you don't have to look.
The vast majority of Vette owners are card-carrying AARP members that dislike most new cars anyway, and don't care for G-bodies either. They barely respect the turbo Regals, but that's about it.
Chevy knew the average age of their buyers was approaching 60, which is why they switched to the C7... to attract rich 40-50 year old GTR and M3 buyers. It worked to sell Z06's (and GS's), but my local Chevy dealers has about 150 "base" C7's sitting on the lot that nobody wants.
With each successive Corvette, Chevy finds a way to make them cheaper than the previous model, but also charge more, so they are a cash cow and they have a ton of room to "deal", but this also means the previous models have no resale value, so when the 65 year old Corvette guy goes to trade in his low mile, like new 4LT C6 (that he paid almost $70K for 6 years ago) on a $61K C7 ($72K - $11K mark down), the dealer says "I'll give you $19K trade-in".
The 65 year old whiny***** Corvette owner, looks back at his like C6 and says "the C7's are ugly anyway" and drives away in his C6.
The result of all this is my local chevy dealer has 150 base C7's sitting on the lot.
I sure hope that spoiler is functional. You can tell it is a current GM product, tiny side windows.
I thought the new Ford Mustangs looked like Honda Accord coupes at first, but they have grown on me.
I don't mind the new Corvettes, I think GM did a nice job making the car more modern and a better competitor to cars like the BMW M3 without totally ditching the Corvette look. I think GM realized the 'Vette wasn't really appealing to younger buyers, and it was easily outperformed by European sports cars. It had become an "old man's sports car" and while it wasn't bad, it was too much money for not enough car. I believe this car was meant to address that, and based on rumors, the next gen Corvette is supposed to be mid-engined, and this car will probably serve as a transition from the C4, C5, C6 cars to what the mid engine Corvette will be.
That all said, that wing on the back looks awful.
I don't mind the new Corvettes, I think GM did a nice job making the car more modern and a better competitor to cars like the BMW M3 without totally ditching the Corvette look. I think GM realized the 'Vette wasn't really appealing to younger buyers, and it was easily outperformed by European sports cars. It had become an "old man's sports car" and while it wasn't bad, it was too much money for not enough car. I believe this car was meant to address that, and based on rumors, the next gen Corvette is supposed to be mid-engined, and this car will probably serve as a transition from the C4, C5, C6 cars to what the mid engine Corvette will be.
That all said, that wing on the back looks awful.
I think you just described one of my uncles. Wisdom doesn't always come with age. He's also sitting on an '88 that he's convinced is worth $50k because it's only got 20k miles on the clock. Oh, Corvette guys.
Personally I liked the 90's ZR1 and then didn't like a Vette until the c6 came out, I think the c5's are hideous. After seeing the c7 I didn't care for the c6 nearly as much.
I think you just described one of my uncles. Wisdom doesn't always come with age. He's also sitting on an '88 that he's convinced is worth $50k because it's only got 20k miles on the clock. Oh, Corvette guys.
I know soo many people like this. (Big generalization here but,) Corvettes are a sports car for people who know nothing about cars; they are usually bought as a status symbol for "I'm retired and I have money to spend on expensive, unnecessary stuff, and I'm still cool and hip because I have a sports car".
And I'm willing to bet 90% of those Corvettes never hit 100 mph for more than a few seconds at a time, never see rain, snow, etc., never see an autocross course or a drag strip. They sit in the garage and collect 15-40,000 miles of the course of 20 years. And then their owners decide they don't use the car enough and want the money back and try to sell it as a "classic" in pristine condition with ultra low miles for way more than it's worth. Then the market is flooded with old, overpriced Corvettes that no one wants.
I think this latest Corvette is designed with this in mind, and trying to change the demographic of it's buyers to address that issue.
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