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    Quote Originally Posted by Sahara54 View Post
    Have you seen this seasons grand tour with Clarkson driving one. It’s a rocket. Those ecoboost’s are a damn good engine.


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    Nah... but i saw a doc on the new gt a while ago. Nothing against their performance, but i need v8 or larger sound from the exhaust.

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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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    Quote Originally Posted by Fastbird View Post
    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.
    Lol... the corvette lost that market with the intro of the c6zr1 then the c7z.... affordable for most is the 40-50k...

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    Quote Originally Posted by popo8 View Post
    Lol... the corvette lost that market with the intro of the c6zr1 then the c7z.... affordable for most is the 40-50k...

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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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    Quote Originally Posted by Fastbird View Post
    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 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.
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by popo8 View Post
    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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    still see clean c6zr1 grab upper 60k range too. beautiful cars. I've been seeing alot of c7z06 quite often no matter the weather. guess every one wants to go fast now adays

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tubby Z28 View Post
    still see clean c6zr1 grab upper 60k range too. beautiful cars. I've been seeing alot of c7z06 quite often no matter the weather. guess every one wants to go fast now adays

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    Thats the new flavor... every one making factory drag cars, near 1k hp street cars. Its a great time... lol. Just expensive.

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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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    Quote Originally Posted by Dan View Post
    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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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Fastbird View Post
    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.
    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.

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