What if the new ME Car is not a Corvette?
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What if the new ME Car is not a Corvette?
First off, I am not attempting to start a thread on what evidence points to the new car being a Corvette. I just am asking those who plan on purchasing the ME Corvette what will you do if it is badged as something else, will you still purchase the car? For example, it is released as say a Caddy?
Again, I am not trying to get everyone trading evidence on what it is going to be just what will you do if…..
BTW I have a 2017 Stingray which I really like and plan on keeping for some time.
Again, I am not trying to get everyone trading evidence on what it is going to be just what will you do if…..
BTW I have a 2017 Stingray which I really like and plan on keeping for some time.
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I'd still look at it. I have a Ford Mid Engine and last GM was a Fiero..... so, need to check it out.
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If the ME is designed by Corvette and built in Bowling Green, and it's badged as a Vega, I will still buy it.
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Could the Corvair be called a ME? drove it on a windy day over the bridge and the front wheels almost did a wheely. Fiero did they not have problems? cute looking car though.
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Nice theoretical question, but it will only be a Corvette ME for at least 2020 and 201 model years. No one is discounting a Cadillac ME further down the road. Reason: Cadillac has too many more immmediate issues to deal with than a very small market take rate like a ME Cadillac would be.
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Nice theoretical question, but it will only be a Corvette ME for at least 2020 and 201 model years. No one is discounting a Cadillac ME further down the road. Reason: Cadillac has too many more immmediate issues to deal with than a very small market take rate like a ME Cadillac would be.
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The first AWD hybrid ME will be a Caddy.
There, I said it...now, can we move along?
There, I said it...now, can we move along?
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i'd just debadge it, unless they called it a zora. it'll either be a corvette or a zora or some combination of the 2. i hope they are not foolish enough to use the same body panels for the cadillac as they chose to do with the cimarron and cavalier, i would have to say about the lowest point cadillac ever sank to except for the 350 diesel.
until cadillac introduces a signature sedan with STYLING that everyone has to take seriously, it will not get back to the place of esteem that it held from the 1910s to the 70s.
if gm plans to keep 2 or more models of the corvette, i would expect to see the mid engine be called the corvette zora, or just zora, and the c8 would be a new version of the c7.
until cadillac introduces a signature sedan with STYLING that everyone has to take seriously, it will not get back to the place of esteem that it held from the 1910s to the 70s.
if gm plans to keep 2 or more models of the corvette, i would expect to see the mid engine be called the corvette zora, or just zora, and the c8 would be a new version of the c7.
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C'mon, .. the motor is in the "rear" in all of these type cars!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_2300_engine
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Didn't Tadge say there would be no ME Corvette?
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So those ME's in BG are not Vettes, ok yeah....... IT's coming , it's a VETTE.
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i'd just debadge it, unless they called it a zora. it'll either be a corvette or a zora or some combination of the 2. i hope they are not foolish enough to use the same body panels for the cadillac as they chose to do with the cimarron and cavalier, i would have to say about the lowest point cadillac ever sank to except for the 350 diesel.
until cadillac introduces a signature sedan with STYLING that everyone has to take seriously, it will not get back to the place of esteem that it held from the 1910s to the 70s.
if gm plans to keep 2 or more models of the corvette, i would expect to see the mid engine be called the corvette zora, or just zora, and the c8 would be a new version of the c7.
until cadillac introduces a signature sedan with STYLING that everyone has to take seriously, it will not get back to the place of esteem that it held from the 1910s to the 70s.
if gm plans to keep 2 or more models of the corvette, i would expect to see the mid engine be called the corvette zora, or just zora, and the c8 would be a new version of the c7.
There will be two separate models, one with the engine in front of the driver and one with it behind. GM ain't dropping their 65 year old traditional GT layout that'$ worked amazingly well for them. Each model will benefit from the other.
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