C8 mid-engine corvette. GM loves their people.

DLSTR

The right seat should be good for that. I never had an issue with any of the 3 Lotus Esprit Turbo's Ive owned lol

Tick64

I wish the C8 didn't continue the C7 trend of a giant boxy ***-end.

Shoeshear

You're not a fan? I kinda like it. It was something different yet still corvette-y.

sunkist350z

I agree the c7 has lots of curves and swoops, and the square rear seems out of place.

kromberg

The ME C8 is going to be around the $130K MSRP, but I doubt you could pick one up for anything under $150K. For that price, you can pick up a nice low mile Lamborghini or Ferrari. GM started to out price their indented buyers starting mid run of the C6. The base model C8 is targeted for around $80K, again way over priced.

sunkist350z

C8 looks cool, I agree over priced. If top model goes for under 100k it would be a great bang for the buck supercar killer.

UNKNOWN_370

https://www.motor1.com/news/298642/m...-size-details/

Looks like the c8 may be substantially smaller than the c7. It has lines strongly reminiscent of two vehicles. The Acura NSX and Ferrari 458. Not bad cars to copy. But this car needs to start at $70,000 and end at $170,000. Not start at $170k.

This will undoubtedly be an amazing car. If you've driven a c7 or camaro 6. Both vehicles perform way above their price point. It's truly unreal. You have two cars that are common on the street but you really can't find a true performance competitor in their price ranges. The camaro competes with M cars and AMG's while the corvette competes with jaguar f type R and cars similar that are double the price.

I can only imagine the c8. It's just going to be untouchable. But what angers me is that GM is falling back into its 2006 problems because they are bad at innovating outside the sports car and truck arena. They always have too many vehicles in their lineup and go into deficits when they won't sell. GM needs a better business team. But at least they don't abandon enthusiasts.

But no more bailouts for GM

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CRiZO

GM is smart to flex their size. They can price out their competition.

If they actually pay attention to the interior for a change, they could easily charge $170k. The income divide is only growing, and for top earners that's not much anymore. Making it $70k would just dilute the product and wouldn't gain many additional buyers.

Personally, I'm kinda stoked to think about owning a used one in a decade. Mid-engine reliable supercar for $60k? Yes please.

Spooler

Price is a big deal. If they go to high they just priced themselves out of a sale on their upper tier models.

Baronsmokes

Rumor I here from my Corvette friends.
Will introduce car this summer.
Not as much HP as ZO6.
In the next 3 -5 years will increase HP to ZO6 level and also add Hybrid with gas and electric motor.

UNKNOWN_370

I say. Start at 70k. Even if the starting model to drops down to 400-420hp. We still looking at a lighter car most likely with a dual clutch. Even with the power reduction it will be faster than the current vette.

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ZCanadian

GM needs to make money on this, so they don’t have the flexibility to price it low, or anywere close to the current Vette.

Even sharing as much of the platform, drive train, suspension and electronics as possible with other product, development costs will be high on this and volumes will be low. As a result, it will need to run on a flex line (hello Oshawa???), where it will no doubt displace other profitable product. I’d fire the board and management myself if they did so just to throw money out the window.

That said, the reality is that however good it might be, you simply cannot charge well into the 6 figures for a Corvette. It will still be a GM, with terrible panel gaps, uninspired interior, and a paint job that one owner recently described to me as “someone sprayed over a pepperoni pizza”. By the time you get north of $150, there are just too many acknowedged good options out there. Perhaps (if the size and this new layout afford room for golf clubs) they may woo the odd dentist away from Porsche. But regardless of how many N’burg Ring records it might achieve they are not going to displace any sales of true exotics or even the current amazing lineup of performance saloons.

There just isn’t the cachet in the Corvette name, nor the depth of market for this type of car, to charge what they need to. Honda/Acura recently found this out, and GM will as well.

JTM88

I'm interested in the performance, but the looks just don't do it for me. I guess I need to wait until it's actually revealed.

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UNKNOWN_370

I'm not sure GM will sell many corvettes at this price point. But there's also rumour corvette may become its own brand next generation. This may help the price transition??? GM is gonna have to look at Mc Laren for interior ideas.

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ZCanadian

Gawd, I hope the lessons of 10 years ago are not so soon forgotten by GM executives!