Suns_PSD

I use to ride very fast liter sportbikes, and I rode them hard. At that time I felt I definitely needed a very fast car.

But it's hard for me all these years later to imagine the need for such power. I guess I'm just exposed to too much traffic and radar enforcement.

I watched a fancy Italian ME car zig zag around on an Austin highway a few days ago, he was accelerating, changing lanes, braking a lot, in the end he seriously ended up about 50 yards in front of me after 15 miles and I was just cruising in a lifted diesel truck with my kid. You can't go anywhere. I experience the same thing in my Vette. I want to exercise it but any more than a 2 second pull and I'm out of space.

It's fun to have a fast car at the race track, but doesn't actually go much faster around the track.

The Hill country roads that I spent my youth riding on, in addition to being more crowded and enforced these days, because they have all these slight rises in them, it's hard to safely go very fast in a low sports car because you can't see very far down the road. Unlike a high sport bike where your head being 2' higher you can commonly see 3x as far down the road. So I'm really limited in a sports car to how far I can safely see, which keeps my speeds to really no more than about 80 when the speed limits are mostly 65 anyways.

I guess I just can't see any logical reason for anymore than about 550 rwhp.

rmorin1249

I'm a buyer if they have an entry level model at about $75K. Any more than that, I'll watch others buy theirs.

elegant

Lots more detailed ME engine info in this earlier thread:

https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums...gh-2021-a.html

Achmed

There is no reason why chevy could not or would not sell their base level ME at a similar price as Porsche's, which are already close to the Stingray and Grand Sport prices.

jimmyb

You're all wrong...

dmaxx3500

id bett , there will be a $75k or so entry-level c8 ME,,remember GM needs cash to fund the 850hp $200,000 cars,,and building 20-30,000 low end cars would help offset the trick parts

RussM05

My dealer who seems very knowledgeable on the ME said starting price should be $65,000. The only way they will make enough to cover the tooling and engineering cost is to keep the average price in the $80,000 range and sell a minimum of 15,000 units. I really doubt GM would sign off on a money loosing ME model.

Another point is if they price the base over $100,000, they know the unit sales history of the Z06 and ZR1 and that's not enough units to make a business case for the ME. My opinion is if priced over $80,000 the demand will fall sharply.

elegant

Going back to the OP in this thread, the announced maximum in the NA Engine Forecast for the 5.5 L, 32V, DOHC motor is 850 HP. That is the announced maximum for that motor, but nowhere in that document does it also say that that is what it would be for the Corvette. While it is likely IMO to be that the Corvette would be the platform with the maximum amount of power, again, we all know about assumptions.

Second, please and even more important, before anyone makes the assumption it would be the full 850 HP amount, it could well be 785 HP and still be within that stated maximum amount.

jovette

NemesisC5

Don't put all your faith in the referenced "engine forecast", it is merely a forecast and things will absolutely change.

Greg00Coupe

What did the C4 with the Mercury engine (sorry not sure the designation) sell for 25 years ago? Go from there.

Personally I've been saving in a separate investment account for 3 years. Hope to flip it and move on.

rcbracer

I only briefly looked at the GM announcement website, so I might have missed it, but did they give torque or weight numbers?

rogue3standingby

Not sure why you resurrected a thread from 2017 to ask an unrelated question.