What/who is your 'source' re: the $60K #'base price' on the new ME? To date, the only figures I've heard being kicked around all hover around the $150K mark. Since I've been 'in line' for one at a dealer back East since 2014 - I'd really like to know!
If you're looking for a sub-6 figure SL-C that for darned sure
ought to be priced far higher, at $87,500 I don't think it's even
possible to beat Pete B's SL-C no matter
how or from
what angle one might choose to look at it (initial cost/resale market/maintenance costs, "depreciation", etc., etc., etc.). That thing is just
NUTS!
https://www.gt40s.com/threads/2015-superlite-sl-c.52358/#post-526973
If you want more h.p., swap an LS9 (or whatever) into it and you'd
still be way ahead money-wise... ;-)
I swear, this will be my last Corvette related post!
Chevy will sell just a few thousand C7 ZR1s, that's the size of the market for a $150K Corvette, 2000-3000 annually at most. Chevy has a very successful system for selling and marketing the Corvette that goes back decades. They are able to amortize development and other model specific costs over many more units. They sell it with a modified pickup truck engine that makes it's way in to millions of other units. More importantly the profits earned on parts & service over the lifetime of that car represent the lion's share of the profit per vehicle. So volume matters, a lot. It also leads to additional truck/ SUV sales.
I repeat: CHEVY DID NOT JUST DRAMATICALLY REBUILD AND UPSIZE THE CORVETTE FACTORY TO SELL 80% LESS CARS. My source for C8 pricing is my brain, and it's correct.
To the side point about the C7 Z06, it's just too heavy, too complicated, too heat soaked, too optioned, too fancy. The C8 Z06
should be a track capable car with iron 2 piece rotors, 18" forged wheels all around, NA high revving with no DOD, manual no AC seats, manual trans, and a much lower gear ratio than the cars typically come with having a top speed of around 185 or so but getting there very quickly. Then the C8 ZR1 should be the GT machine that weighs 4000# and runs 22" wheels, carbon brakes, ass massager, DCT, etc... The reality is that GM knows their market, middle aged guys that mostly want to look cool but few care about how the car really works at the track. I don't mean just lap times, that's not all there is. So they aren't building the cars exactly right currently. The best Corvette currently is a C7 GS with a well built NA 427ci engine.
To your next point, you argued with me that a 5 figure used well built SL-C was unlikely, then posted a link to one? Huh? I'm confused. I'll be able to buy the right car at a price I agree with in time, is my position.
I'm not as talented a mechanic/ fabricator or as wealthy (or maybe prioritize differently) than many of you. But I do enjoy the nicest things. In sports cars. I greatly prefer NA, manual trans, shit tons of power, truly lightweight, and no BS electronics. For these reasons the SL-C is very appealing to me. When ever I buy something big I often study, learn, shop, and buy deliberately, and in that order. Most people reverse that order.
Thanks for ya's input, it's really cool that we have such true car guys around here!