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My life partner is a super grounded and smart girl. I repeat her theory often: “ If you were not there to actually see it, don’t necessarily believe it”
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Here's what I believe took place...Zerv02 has a friend who works for GM. This friend was able to get Zerv02 a seat in one of the captured fleet test vehicles and then told Zerv02 that the reveal was going to take place at the NAIAS and that the car was going to MSRP for $169,900. Anyway, Zerv02 believed his source was correct, and his source probably thought he was correct too at the time. Zerv02 got a couple of things right on his interior sketch because he saw the interior, but he missed the boat on the NAIAS information. I also believe he'll be proven wrong again when GM gives us the pricing. Chalk it up to someone's first rodeo with what he hoped was privileged information. Hopefully he learns something from all of this and becomes a better forum contributor as a result.
...And as fast as he arrived (with different usernames), he’s now gone. Lesson: if you proclaim to have privileged information and make bold predictions here, you best be right, because your reputation and credibility are at stake. He certainly wasn’t the first and definitely won’t be the last to be eviscerated for promoting what turned out to be bad intel. So long Zerv.
Last edited by Glenn Quagmire; 01-15-2019 at 02:23 PM.
Zerv, You were right, G.M. released the heavily camouflaged C8 Corvette under the top secret code name "Chevy Blazer" This makes your "confirmed" price for the C8 of $169,900 a little suspect. I live near the Milford test facility and I have a friend whose property overlooks part of the test track. I also know 3 engineers that work on the project. These guys are totally professional. No one is talking because it would mean their job.
I have been saying it all along..... I still believe the C8 is going to be revealed sometime this month! I think it will be a stand alone reveal in Detroit! It should have been at the Detroit auto show!!!! Anyways, I am still heading to the show on Friday regardless.....
BTW....key words, "think" and "believe".....
Last edited by Supersonic 427; 01-15-2019 at 01:16 AM.
GM's CEO had such a good reception in Washington DC, maybe the C8 ME Reveal will be at the "new" DC Auto show date: April 5-14. Hey, it's on the "media" East Coast!!!
Edit: Remember, I said "maybe" this is not a supposed prediction.
GM's CEO had such a good reception in Washington DC, maybe the C8 ME Reveal will be at the "new" DC Auto show date: April 5-14. Hey, it's on the "media" East Coast!!!
Edit: Remember, I said "maybe" this is not a supposed prediction.
While being ‘hoping and a wishing’ and with the ‘media’ East Coast in mass, let me plug the Black Tie Tailgate Event this Feb, 01 at the Philly Auto Show for the ME reveal. Half way between DC/Balt and NYC/Boston with probably the highest concentration of 911’s on the East too.
Nah, that ain’t gonna happen. But boy, Kerbeck’s Exotics Display is worth the visit.
This thread reminds me of how over time captors begin to sympathize with their abductors.
So true. Stockholm syndrome at its finest.
Originally Posted by Glenn Quagmire
...And as fast as he arrived (with different usernames), he’s now gone. Lesson: if you proclaim to have privileged information and make bold predictions here, you best be right, because your reputation and credibility is at stake. He certainly wasn’t the first and definitely won’t be the last to be eviscerated for promoting what turned out to be bad intel. So long Zerv.
And good riddance.
Last edited by MagRedConv; 01-15-2019 at 08:54 AM.
It's too bad he's gone. His threads at least provided a good opportunity for the constant bitchers and moaners to have their daily rants and vents. They should at least thank him for this much even though they feel completely cheated, duped and violated over the reveal date speculation in an area devoted to hearsay and speculation.
While being ‘hoping and a wishing’ and with the ‘media’ East Coast in mass, let me plug the Black Tie Tailgate Event this Feb, 01 at the Philly Auto Show for the ME reveal. Half way between DC/Balt and NYC/Boston with probably the highest concentration of 911’s on the East too.
Nah, that ain’t gonna happen. But boy, Kerbeck’s Exotics Display is worth the visit.
Good to know! And, yes, Philly-town has got some very real car-people. Whereas a lot of DC has people looking at their cars as they wait for their funded job to rematerialize. Could be a low turnout here in/at April auto show if those back-pay checks aren't made.
GM's CEO had such a good reception in Washington DC, maybe the C8 ME Reveal will be at the "new" DC Auto show date: April 5-14. Hey, it's on the "media" East Coast!!!
Edit: Remember, I said "maybe" this is not a supposed prediction.
Having lived and worked in DC for many years, I don't think so. The DC auto show is not well attended, and manufacturer participation is also rather sparse. It's always been a sad event, and I simply stopped going. While there's no shortage of press in DC, the press corp here is almost exclusively on the political beat. Auto shows simply aren't on their radar.
01-14-2019, 09:21 PM
