Trail is getting warmer...Mid-Engined Corvette

[G.Irish]

Maybe they would offer the mid engine as a higher trim up and test the waters before doing it 100% all in every trim? They'll really need to find a good balance where they won't completely destroy their business line of customers and not sell enough to make them not break even to sales in camaros and corvettes are right now....

From the article they said the C7 will continue to be sold alongside until 2021. So maybe they're giving themselves a buffer to decide whether or not to continue making a less expensive front-engined Corvette.

Still, I'd imagine the margins would be bigger on a more expensive car, so they wouldn't need to sell 30k a year to make it work.

Don't get me wrong I have always been a big Corvette fan (cross shopped the Z06 at one point if you remember) but there's a very specific buyer for an exotic and then there are people that buy Corvettes.

That is the million dollar question. If you make a MR Vette for maybe $80-130k, would people who would normally buy a 911, Aston Martin, used Ferrari, or AMG GT S switch over? I think some would, but how many?

And as we talked about the other night, how happy is that 911 guy gonna be with the customer experience in the typical Chevy dealership?

The big draw of American muscle has been the low(ish) cost hoonage supplied by a V8 to the rear wheels. I don't see the same jackwagons who would buy a Ferrari or high-end 911 plunking down similar money on a brand that fetches no exclusivity to the owner.

I think the MR Vette would still have to be significantly cheaper than a 911 Turbo (about $150K) to succeed. Maybe the C8 Z06 could cost around $150k, but at that price it'd have to have over 700 hp and be able to take down everything including the 911 GT3RS (GT2RS if they make it), 675LT, upcoming 488 Speciale, etc.

Chevy is never going to have the brand cachet of Porsche, Ferrari, or Lamborghini. Exclusivity-wise, I think all of the supercars are becoming significantly less exclusive now. Ferrari is upping production, Porsche is making a lot more GT3's and GT3RS's than in the past, and McLaren is trying to move a lot more units per year. In that environment, I think waitlists and huge dealer markups are gonna become a lot less common.