Key Fob leaks and solid steel rotors are enough proof for me.... prove me wrong.
 

I tend to agree with you.

Seems accurate.

Brakes can be replaced in a couple hours so they are not conclusive of anything. There a many reasons why the final brake set might not be mounted. One is that they are simply not ready yet. Another is that they were not testing the brakes; only the suspension was being evaluated with the aero. But the reason you are wrong is that the ME will not sell more than 40K units annually and will likely average 25K over the first 5 years. Corvette/GM did not invest hundreds of millions of dollars into BGA to make such a miniscule number of vehicles because the losses would be prohibitive. Corvette must have a profitable business case or call it a day.

LOL, this post is loaded with funny!

If the C8 flops the BG Assembly Plant can be retooled to assemble other vehicles. I hope the smart people at GM have accurately estimated the sales of the C8 and new Cadillac such that the BG plant will be a profitable operation.

Right. Being able to buy the equivalent of a Porsche 911 Turbo S, which is the car the ME has been benchmarking for over a year, for $67K would be amazing. The Turbo S starts at $190K, however, so unless Corvette has a magic robot that can build cars for less than half the price of Porsche, your business case makes no sense. GM is not in the nonsense business since Mary Barra took over.

That is being kind.

So Corvette is building a ME that will cost $60K? A glorified Fiero is not going to compete with anything.

The cost of a Porsche has a lot less to do with the manufacturing costs than the badge. Porsche has one of, if not the highest, profit per car of any manufacturer. A Porsche could cost (retail) significantly less and still be profitable for the company:

http://www.autonews.com/article/2016...n-a-sacred-cow

Actually, there are precisely ZERO reasons to test a CTF car on a racetrack with anything other than the production brake package. The brakes are such an important part of the handling package such as ABS and stability control that even besides the fact it would make no sense to design and manufacture a brake package outside of the production specification the testing done would be essentially useless without the production brake package.

I am pretty sure they have robots in Germany too and likely they are better than the ones we have. Please explain why the Corvette engineers have been benchmarking the ME against the Turbo S for more than a year if they don't intend the ME to compete with it? They should have been benchmarking against the Cayman GTS if that was the price target.

Agree with you other than the Caddy part. Just because there's a FOB that had a Caddy logo means nothing. The C8 FOB that just leaked clearly had a 3D printed rougher insert where the emblem goes. That part replaced the part with the Caddy emblem. My guess is they're using the "fanciest" FOB they have which was a Caddy unit, they updated the buttons for the ME shape/features needed and only recently added the C8 emblem to keep it under wraps. The front of the FOB has the same buttons/profile as the C8 emblem one.

We've seen no Caddy mules testing. Not saying it might not eventually happen, but I don't think it's currently happening.

The current car competes on a performance level with the 911 but compares at a Cayman price point. Price does not always equal performance. Just because the Turbo may be a benchmark does not in anyway indicate that the base modle Vette is the car they intend to mark that performance level.