Skid Row Joe

Looking back on it to the C2s, I feel that the Corvette has always been bargain priced for what it brought automotive-wise. Along the price lines of the Cadillac, for instance. Pricey, but never out of reach for those with the desire and ready funds to buy one new. I see no reason why GM would change the value pricing of the Corvette now. A few thousand dollar bump Up, is all I would expect from the base pricing of the C7.

69L79

So Dave, tell me, all these multi mllionaires that you know drive Vettes? Oh, I know. They have Vettes in their "stables". Amirite?

MAGA.

fasttoys

I-SPEEED

Short, factual, and perfectly said.

MitchAlsup

What we could do is start a list (from the already presented data) and those who guess a $$$ for the base model that is more than 20% off get permanently banned.

PCMIII

Used car salesman, right? Or do you sell gold coins on Fox?

PCMIII

He is not going to pay, duh. How gullible are you?

Skid Row Joe

IIRC, he claims to be an adjunct assistant to Democrat Congressional or Senatorial Gov't. Officials. He works at either the Pentagon Complex or in downtown Washington D.C. He claims to previously be some sort of commercial aviation PIC. Possibly a DC-9, MD-90, or B737, pilot. He also claims to be an Engineering schooled college graduate, as well as a University of Texas MBA degreed graduate. 66 yrs old. Of course, he may not be any of those. He's good for the $1,000.00 wager, IMO. Are you good for the $100.00?



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PCMIII

$1K is chump change for me. $100K would buy me a new Zora.

Skid Row Joe

Foosh,
Seems he's on in the wager. 👍

jimmyb

So...you KNOW the price of the ME, but you think Foosh, IN FRONT OF THE ENTIRE FORUM, would WELSH on the bet. Frankly, I have less faith in YOU paying up should you lose.

pietro c7

tcinla

skank

C7 FE = Y1XX Internal Code
C8 FE = Y2XX Internal Code
C8 ME = ZERV Internal Code
Anybody that denies this above information and wants to bet on whether this information is correct or not is a drunken Sailor
Foosh will lose his bet !

PCMIII

There is not a scintilla of sense in any business case for the ME alone to be produced by BGA. None.

skank

You are correct ! I've been extolling those virtues for a long time also.

skank

I also believe they will build both ME and FE Corvettes. They didn't triple the Bowling Green Plant size to build just one car configuration. I got on Google Earth and calculated the square footage of the original roof (942,160 sq. ft) and the new buildings roof (802,380 sq. ft.) using the Google Earth Ruler Line Measure function. It is reasonably accurate. The Bowling Green Corvette Plant information page has always indicated that the square footage of the old plant as 950,000 sq. ft. That aligns very closely with the 942,160 sq. ft. above since there are a few elevated second story office areas in the old building to make up the other 8,000 sq. ft. Gallagher-Kaiser Construction Co. of Troy, Michigan was the General Contractor on the new addition of the Plant. They have indicated a 897,000 sq. ft. on their website(see link below). Check out the photo spread of the new plant interior on the link below. Clearly they have not indicated the subterranean lower levels under the main area of the new addition or also the second level of the above grade line structure. There are 2 upper levels clearly shown on the photos during construction(see photos from Corvette Blogger article below). The lower sub grade level appears to be at least 30 feet deep. I did talk to Kai Spande at the Laguna Seca IMSA race a few months ago and he validated that there were up to 4 levels in the new building but 3 levels in some of it. Using my estimates from the roof calculations it seems plausible that the new addition realistically is at least 2 million sq ft of all 4 levels combined and not the 897,000 that is indicated on their stats. That in effect is a tripling of the square footage of the entire plant. I'll bet that GM didn't want to draw attention to the actual real square footage to the public especially us Corvette geeks. I've talked to Gallagher Kaiser as well as another sub-contractor on the job named Walbridge Construction Co. The Walbridge person I talked to indicated 4 levels as well. He even mentioned the new hill that was created by the excess soil from the lower level excavation of the new building. Sure enough, while viewing Google Earth you can see there is a new huge 50-60 foot high mound of soil that shows near the plant.


Using the Google Earth Ruler Line Measurement function the Concrete foundation is 460 feet wide by 1,000 feet long for a total square footage of 460,000 square feet per level. The foundation clearly shows the approximately 30 foot high foundation wall allowing 2 tall lower levels for a total of 4 levels. There is an additional 2 levels at 342,380 square feet per level at the rest of the new addition.

https://www.corvetteblogger.com/2017...ssembly-plant/

http://www.gkcorp.com/project-portfo...te-paint-shop/

http://www.walbridge.com/market/automotive/

Zaro Tundov

I'll take you up on that bet. There will be one C8 Corvette and it will be the ME one we've all seen in camo.

I'll bet you a new C8 optioned out to no more than $75K.

Please note I will take my C8 Corvette Coupe in Sebring Orange with dark grey or black leather interior, MRC, PDR, and the best seats available. I also want the rearview camera mirror and all the blind zone doodads since I expect we won't be able to see out of the C8.

Since I'm a nice guy I'll cover the destination fee and sales tax, so you only need to buy the C8.

skank

There are so many on this Forum with this wet dream of an inexpensive base C8 ME. What all of you don't understand is that both ME and FE are going forward.

Zaro Tundov

So you won't take the bet. I figured as much.