The C7 after the C8
06-15-2019, 11:18 PM
#81
Melting Slicks
So Corvette is going to bet the ranch on an unproven, completely new design without a manual or cargo space which has never been desired by Corvette buyers. Oh, and they are going to sell 50K MEs every year to the same folks who bought Fieros 30 years ago. Yup, that sounds like a plan.
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06-15-2019, 11:50 PM
#83
Moderator
So Corvette is going to bet the ranch on an unproven, completely new design without a manual or cargo space which has never been desired by Corvette buyers. Oh, and they are going to sell 50K MEs every year to the same folks who bought Fieros 30 years ago. Yup, that sounds like a plan.
06-16-2019, 08:57 AM
#85
Burning Brakes
06-16-2019, 09:21 AM
#86
Drifting
Bowling Green, Ky. — General Motors is adding a second shift and more than 400 hourly jobs at its Bowling Green (Kentucky) Assembly plant to support production of the Next Generation Corvette, which will be revealed on July 18, 2019.
https://media.gm.com/media/us/en/gm/...linggreen.html
Don’t think you can be more specific than that. Unless you think GM is conducting a big psyop campaign on the CF and PCMIII.
06-16-2019, 09:27 AM
#87
Drifting
With the end of the C7 production the FE Corvette is part of history with the ME platform being the future.
That said...MAYBE the FE platform is "reborn" and sold as a Cadillac GT car? The plant expansion could support that idea but it is still highly unlikely.
That said...MAYBE the FE platform is "reborn" and sold as a Cadillac GT car? The plant expansion could support that idea but it is still highly unlikely.
06-17-2019, 09:01 AM
#89
Instructor
Ford and Chevy have previously used the Grand-am/IMSA series for R&D on new products. Ford ran the 5.0L engine for 5 yrs before releasing it in 2011 MY vehicles and ran the Ford GT ecoboost in street form in the DP cars with Ganassi for 2 yrs before the car was produced. Chevrolet took major aero elements from the c6R and applied them to the c7. Chevrolet also "randomly" badged their mid engined DP cars "corvettes" for several years and after they rebaded them cadillacs is when people started seeing the prototypes on the street.
Nobody can tell me that these car manufacturers run endurances races in the prototype class simply because they like wasting millions of dollars without gaining useful info. especially when they run a slew of street going parts on those parts, Hell, take a look at the porsche and ferrari cars and you will see a VIN even on the factory race team cars.
06-19-2019, 06:21 PM
#90
Race Director
Oh, and I also predict that the manual transmission C7 used inventory will hold their residual values much much better over the next 10 years than the automatic C7 cars. I say this since 70% of C7 are auto, and once the manual stick is extinct in Corvette production, and despite that there will NEVER be a shortage of manual trans C7 cars ( 25 thousand were made over several years) ,the manual will become the most desirable option. Currently manual C7's get less resale value than autos, but this will reverse within 5 years.
Go on KBB, Black Book, etc and spec out identical 2015 C7's, one with manual, one with automatic and you will see.
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06-26-2019, 10:08 PM
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06-26-2019, 10:14 PM
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Boy, if that's true that kind of sucks. Not that I'd ever be a Camaro buyer, but it'd be a shame if it went away. I was hoping they'd do a decent restyle on it. Had heard rumors the next gen got the ax. Looks like it might be so.
Bummer.
