Love Bob Lutz he has been involved with BMW and the M3 and so many manufacturers. One thing we need to relize that the FE is toast and in 2009 the C7 was going to be the ME and the only thing that stoped it was the bankruptcy.

Bob mentions that before the bankruptcy the rear mid engine corvette would only cost five grand more than the front mid engine corvette withcomparable equipment...

add mrc, dct and maybe z51 heavy duty coolers, brakes and suspension and we have the proce of the c8 starting msrp...according to Mr Lutz...

should revolutionize the sports car market...come 2019 calendar year or 2020 model year delivery time frame...

I just watched it, well worth the time.

You Tube

Bob L also had great points about car ownership and the direction of the automobile. How every one is focused on the payments not as much with MSRP and true ownership, cars are becoming more like expensive appliances. Eventually autonomous automobiles will be the death of many manufacturers as we know them today. I can see it now honey I am taking my Google/Apple car to work O No please just shoot me!

C7 is done, we live in a great time when we can buy 4 door sedans & suv’s that are faster than our last generation Corvettes. The ME will be just 5k give or take a few thousand more than the C7 today and GM will follow the same trajectory as the C6,C7 with its models. Sounds like Cosworth will be building some aspects of the double overhead cam motors which will be in the faster Z versions of the ME. I can’t see the C7 being produced for much longer as way to many of them are sitting on dealer lots. GM spent a lot of money to upgrade the plant, today car manufacturers don’t wait to get paid on those investments like they did a decade ago. I truly believe the ME is closer to production than many of us think. Get you names on the ME wait list or if you're still wanting an FE you better do it sooner than later because change is coming faster than you think.

Cosworth V8 info being built in Detroit
https://www.forbes.com/sites/samabue.../#4e954d83d8df

fwiw..no interior space for stuff...the really really cheap plastics in the interior, the weird rear opening trunk that required popping the canvas roof sail panels didnt help sales.

i drove one of the gxp turbos when they went on fire sale..it was a nice fun car to drive with the turbo.

I didnt buy it but man it was a hell of a deal.

pretty cars too but even the mx5 is a low volume seller, really low. Same for the fiat 124 derived from the mx5.

the kids just dont aspire to own sports cars any more

from a looks, price and even performance perpsectice the solstice gxp was a hell of a car.

the turbo coupes with manuals are as bob mentions quite rare and they were pretty but the targa roof didnt fit in the car. That was so they could continue to sell them under the safety standards of convertibles,

Bobs great.. i dint agree with him on tesla or on the fact americans are moving away from car ownership for a long long time.

i did find his statement hiw a luxury brand lease could cost less per month than a lower oriced vehicle lease. I believe his example was a mercedes e or c class versus a chevy..

its true the subsidized rates of near luxury and luxury brands often is equal to or even slightly less than american branded products...

i believe GM s moves into ride sharing and re leasing preowned lightly used vehicles with an extended warranty could resolve that foreign brand subsidized lease situation.

surprisingly corvette buyers tend to jot buy by monthly payment as often as other brands...

they usually oay cash in full at time of purchase...

Bob suggests a five grand price increase over a similarly option front engine corvette makes the most semse.

hopefully one day we will at least get to see the cadillac concept vehicle styling..

he spoke of the cadillac version quite nicely.

id be interested in seeing it.