Will the C8 follow suit of past generations and go after Porsche 911 or Exotics?
 

Before the Camo shots I was pretty sure that GM is going after the exotics (in looks and performance) such as Ferrari, Lambo and McLaren but not so sure any more! Either way I am still confident in GM and they will be building an amazing machine! Time will tell.

I hope not. Follow a different path Go a different direction. Create unique, not me-too. Set a standard for others to imitate. The best don't play catch-up. Period.

Numerous pictures a while back of the car bench marked against the 911 variants.

The back is very tall, which cuts down on the svelte exotic look. They may have done that to increase luggage space, to make the car more of a daily driver, which would line it up more with Porsche. Having the performance of the 911 models is nothing to be ashamed of.

If I were to position the C8, it is targeting Porsche, while looking a bit more exotic, but not all the way exotic.

I have instructed in Ferraris and driven a few of them. I wasn't all that impressed with the switch gear in the cars. A switch is a switch. The only Ferrari that impressed me was their 4 seat CUV that I looked at last year. A list price of $359K and you could smell the leather 20 ft away from the car. Not sure how long the smell would have lasted but it did smell nice.

Bill

You are 100% spot on. This is one of the biggest factors that helped me decide on a Corvette instead of a Porsche 911, which is considered one of the more reliable of the Euro sports cars (but that's not saying much).

So instead of calling it super car or whatever you want here is ultimately what those cars are a boutique experience.

Is someone going to buy a C8 over a 488? I doubt if they can afford it, more than likely they will get both.

You don't have Corvette owners who own a Ferrari, you have Ferrari owners who own a Corvette. There is a big difference in that.

The performance gap gets smaller and smaller so Ferrari and the rest move the post. Material quality, custom car anyway you want, ass kissing dealer experience, etc.

I don't get the obsession over this whole idea anyways. There is no magic to make a 300K car cost 80K, there just isn't. You can make an 80K car as fast as a 300K car, but it still isn't the same thing.

If I had 488 money, I'd get a 488. I'm not there yet but I'm getting there and the bigger issue over the price of the car is the cost of ownership. I don't have it so I'm getting a C8.

I love Porsche's. Chevy will never be Porsche. Drive their cars, sit in them, and walk around them in detail they are a world apart in detail engineering. They build what they want to build and price it accordingly. Chevy starts with a price and builds it accordingly.

Go to a Porsche dealer and spend some real time walking around a 911, or any of their cars. If you can't see the difference then you probably don't care about those things. I think most Porsche owners care about it, the others just want the brand or the name.

But in the end the Corvette is going to be a better performing car once I am done with it and I can live with the detail engineering for 1/2 the cost.

Beware of used McLaren repair/maintenance costs...Ive heard nightmares.

Also the Z06 and/or ZR1 has already "held a torch" to Porsche's GT cars for the past few generations.

Here's what I will say...my wife and I have "Ferrari money". But, we aren't pretentious; we're about meritocracy in all things including the merit of products we purchase. So, a Corvette delivers everything we want/need in a sportscar/supercar, but without paying a vast sum more for things that are mostly pretense/prestige. While we have the Ferrari money, we get more value out of splurging on vacations, our house, etc.

So the theory that "someone who can afford a Ferrari will just buy a Ferrari" does not hold true. We'll buy the C8 (most likely wait for the Z variants) because it's nearly as good, and then spend the remainder elsewhere (ie. not a car).

I was going under the qualification of shopping for a car. Do all people who have that kind of money have a car like that, no and that was not the intent of my post.

My intent was someone with Ferrari money walking into a Ferrari dealer and looking at a 488 isn't going to look across the street and see the C8 discount signs(6 months after launch) and run across the street to the Chevy dealer.

Affording one and owning one are two different things also. I could go buy one now and sacrifice other things, their primary market segment are people who do not need to make those decisions. My idea of owning one is doing all of it, at the same time, without a care about one or the other.

we don't want the new C8 ME to be just a poor man's Porsche.
Hire away Ferrari designers for a really exotic look
make sure it has a V8
a roomier interior for 2 (no pretend backseat)with an optional ultra plush interior and optional awd(finally)

since GM looks at Porsche, they may want to offer a varied selection of Corvette models-SUV, Sedan,
and add a Cayman/Boxster type Corvette into the mix.
of course improve quality to make J.D. Power's list-

I think it's targeting the Miata this time.