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12-30-2017, 03:46 PM #11"The Rock"
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12-31-2017, 08:36 AM #12Long Live the Opti
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Man, I'm just afraid that if they go full Mid Engine with the Corvette, it's going to destroy what the car has always been, the affordable sports/supercar. Yeah, it would be affordable at $150K for what you'd get, but you'd absolutely be turning your back on the 40-80K market where the car has been firmly entrenched and absolutely successful for decades now. I fear GM in their quest to take the corvette to the next level is going to remove the majority of it's customer base at the same time.
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12-31-2017, 10:24 AM #13"The Rock"
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12-31-2017, 10:42 AM #14Long Live the Opti
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Not really, because those were just model variants. You could still easily buy a new base model for $50K-ish. But if they go full retard and the Corvette becomes a 100% mid-engine setup, with a base sticker of $100k+, that's a whole other market and you just snubbed the bread and butter market that made the Corvette's existence. And TBH I'm not a fan of the idea of a split model where the base is Front Engine and variant is Mid-Engine. I think that would lose some customer base too.
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12-31-2017, 10:44 AM #15"The Rock"
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I guess I look at it from my perspective... the only way I would get a base would be with plans to heavily modify it... leaving it no longer a 50k car... if i didnt wamt to modify, Id get a c6zr1 or c7z06, which new were amd are all but 100k cars.
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12-31-2017, 11:42 AM #17"The Rock"
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The C8 is supposedly supposed to sell alongside the c7.
I wouldn't say gm is playing catchup. This car has been in development for a long time now. It's never been an IF it will happen situation, it's always been WHEN. There was a mid engine rotory powered c3 back in the day for what it's worth.
If it stays in the sub 200k territory, it'll still be a budget supercar. Hell the C6z and C7z already dance around cars that cost 3 or 4 times as much.
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12-31-2017, 01:31 PM #19Long Live the Opti
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Pardon my french, but no fawking way. IF they sell this thing alongside the C7, my bet is it's it's own car, a'la Ford GT. I'll say it now. There's ZERO chance they sell this mid-engine car simultaneously with the C7 and call both a Corvette. Unless, as I said earlier, they go full retard, which I wouldn't put past them either.
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12-31-2017, 01:37 PM #20Xtreme Member
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Eh, it's not unheard of. GM has been trying to turn Stingray into its own brand.
Who knows, until GM confirms the mid engine seen at Milford is a corvette, there will be speculation.
I know a few people who know, but they like to be employed.
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