C8 Corvette Reveal: What Do You Expect?

Keith Tanner said:

Mike said:

GM's previous experience with mid engine cars are the Corvair and the Fiero. I'm really hoping that they pulled a first-gen Volt and put all of the pedantic, obsessive, edge-case engineers on the job. 

OTOH, my personalized plate goal for this is FIERO2M4.

Shouldn't this be a 2M8?

On one hand, that is technically correct. On the other hand, depending on how you interpret, it can suggest I'm on the pull and not a married man.

I have a feeling that Chevrolet is going to have no problem selling every single one they build. 

I don't know if I read it here, or somewhere else. I read they have added 400 additional employees to Bowling Green plant?

Mike said:

Keith Tanner said:

Mike said:

GM's previous experience with mid engine cars are the Corvair and the Fiero. I'm really hoping that they pulled a first-gen Volt and put all of the pedantic, obsessive, edge-case engineers on the job. 

OTOH, my personalized plate goal for this is FIERO2M4.

Shouldn't this be a 2M8?

On one hand, that is technically correct. On the other hand, depending on how you interpret, it can suggest I'm on the pull and not a married man.

I think that would be I12M8

*or I12M8M8 ...not that there’s anything wrong with that.

In reply to poopshovel again :

I will never intentionally own a brown car. Ever. Just not my thing. 

I want to see one in the flesh, because this looks as over styled as I feared. It looks like a Ferrari and a vector had a baby, and the vector had the dominant genes. 

And that interior. Sooo GM. They haven’t made a good looking car since the C4, and haven’t made a handsome car since the 2-door Corvair. 

Appleseed said:

I will never intentionally own a brown car. Ever. Just not my thing. 

Good news then. Its bronze. Zeus Bronze.

Metallic brown is still brown. I stand by my opinion.  

Mike said:

GM's previous experience with mid engine cars are the Corvair and the Fiero. 

I let this go as long as I could.  Production Corvairs were rear engined.  IIRC only the Monza GT show car was mid-engined.  There are rumors that Zora put together a mid-V8 “proof of concept” vehicle using a Corvair as the mule, but that car has not surfaced.

DrBoost said:

And that interior. Sooo GM. They haven’t made a good looking car since the C4, and haven’t made a handsome car since the 2-door Corvair. 

Just handsome? Or like ssssuper handsome?

I love the brown. 

Looking forward to the C8.R in IMSA and WEC. 

Do they have a gold stripe option? Brown with a gold stripe, no spoiler. Brown interior, yellow calipers and seatbelts. Man, I want to go sit in all the seats to see how I fit. 

AngryCorvair said:

Mike said:

GM's previous experience with mid engine cars are the Corvair and the Fiero. 

I let this go as long as I could.  Production Corvairs were rear engined.  IIRC only the Monza GT show car was mid-engined.  There are rumors that Zora put together a mid-V8 “proof of concept” vehicle using a Corvair as the mule, but that car has not surfaced.

 

You sounded like an angry Corvair there. *Googles* Damn, I hate being wrong on the internet. 

I’ll just leave this here. 

Mike said:

I just realized the Evija and C8 seem to claim similar, if non-specific 0-60 performance. The Lotus costs a little more than thirty centivettes.

2,100,000/60,000 = 35...still a lot of Corvettes though.

Appleseed said:

I will never intentionally own a brown car. Ever. Just not my thing. 

I value you’re opinion. I just wanted to add fuel to the fire:

Mild...

...or wild...

...this thing looks good regardless. The configurator is pretty slick too.

Why would you settle for the meek version? It’s a shouty car. Embrace it. 

Arctic white 1LT with Z51, cloth interior and body color accents and high wing.. 

Edit: also the Pewter wheel option is my favorite wheel color offered. 

 

spacecadet said:

 

Arctic white 1LT with Z51, cloth interior and body color accents and high wing.. 

 

I was gonna say I need a moment alone, but instead of announcing it I just went ahead and took that moment.  The body-color accents fix my only complaint.

spacecadet said:

 

Arctic white 1LT with Z51, cloth interior and body color accents and high wing.. 

 

Body color accents looks great on the side and front. The problem is at the rear, where to my eyes, the black looks better in nearly every case.

What do you think the C8 will do to the value of the C7 cars?  Will they go down because of the popularity of the C8, or will they go up because they're the last example of a front engine Corvette?

In reply to stuart in mn :

They will do both, just depends on the time scale.