More video from Bowling Green, skip to 1:34

I'm a 100% Ford guy, never owned any GM product.

1. Doesn't look like a vette to me.

2. I would drive the hell out of that thing.

I need one of these in my life.

Seen one in person. Like it.

Heard the first year is already sold out.

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that's the reason why they said they were going to be running two shifts.

I like it, and will look seriously at the Z06 when they are released.

For the old guys that are apparently new to the internet in this thread, the current Z51 package is basically a suspension/brake upgrade, adds ~$10k to the base model and adds 5HP. The Z06 is ~$80k 650 HP, the only model currently over $100k (~$123k) is the ZR1 which is the 755HP track monster, i would not expect pricing on the new generation to deviate from this structure much. So yes i would expect a shit load of performance for well under $100k.

I use my STI for Groceries, my C6 is used to embarrass the ignorant kids that think only old guys drive them.

already done with the ZR1

These things happen

Not for 60 Grand!  Hell.....Not for 160 Grand.

The spoiler on the back ruins the look

It’s the only decent corvette produced.

You have no idea what the z51 package is.  It gets a 5 hp bump and other goodies but not 750 Hp.  That will be the Z06 package in a  couple years.

Ferdinand Alexander Porsche just rolled over in his grave

Ha

This really does put the Corvette in the exotic class.  It's a working man's exotic car.

I think this is the first exciting product to out of Detroit in a very long time.

No doubt Jeremy Clarkson will find a reason to hate it, droning on about how some $800,000 supercar is better and not taking into consideration the price point at all.

It's predictable.

In spite of being a good post, don't expect a response. I'm still hearing crickets on my post from a few pages back (reposting below on the off chance it might trigger a reply).

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Remember, he took great care in crafting those specific scenarios. He just forgot to include a caveat that any reply challenging their accuracy will be ignored. It's like arguing with a liberal. Only their "facts" and assertions matter. Regardless of whether they're patently false.

Unfortunately, a couple other guys weren't as tactful in calling his scenarios into question. So he took the easy out, disregarded legitimate replies, and focused on his bruised feels. Then parlayed the butt hurt into a crystal ball scenario...

And there it is. Cargo scenarios didn't go as planned. So we get this unsubstantiated timeline of events. Kind of ironic. Considering how you asserted folks who don't own a Vette can't opine about Vettes. Yet somehow you deserve the latitude to make wild projections without any firsthand intel.

The cooler heads? Lol. Seems more like...

Clarkson actually really likes the 2nd gen ford GT, 2000s model.

His only issue was the NVH, but then he said, for the price that's what you get.

Its growing on me.

I want a black one with camel interior and port wine red seatbelts.

make that two please.

make that two please.

I'd like one in silver, but this looks good too...



....or you could spend $450,000 and get an Italian fix and repair hobby.

For 60K ?????

If corvette could choose to sell one to:
a) everyone who can afford one between ages of 20-25
b) everyone who can afford one 60-65

They choose b every time.

Also, I'm sure they will be adding a supercharged versions that will push well beyond that 500 hp.

This corvette is going to sell.  It looks like exotics that cost hundreds of thousands more.

Not a reborth. They've tried this time and time again. It wasnt ever good enough to wear the Corvetter name, until now.

Yeah, you're triggering a reply. . .Wow 17'er, your begging for attention is really sad. And you demand a reply, but you & your cohort come out the gate with "Boomers are gonna die off soon" "you are a clown" and a tawdry Cialis comment.  I did read every post, but figured there was too much chickenshit to bother with trying to have an actual conversation with anyone. Where was I when you were storming about my silence? Actually, I left the insults here to log onto the Corvette Forum. I didn't just visit the C7 section, I fent to the C8 section also. Yeah, there were spirited disagreements, and I spent a bit of the evening reading the back-n-forth in the C7 & C8 sections without encountering one chickenshit insult. Go figure.

The ignorance is thinly disguised in the spoiler above.  The  premise being that current model owners are an impediment, the implication being that only young woke people know the true value of the C8.  Again with the narcissist youngster view.  The truth of the auto business is that reputations are made on repeat business. Jeep owners buy the next Jeep. Mustang drivers are true to Ford, and Corvette Forum sponsors like Mike Furman will confirm that their livelihood is based on repeat Corvette business. So, despite your baiting comments, a lot of us really do embrace the next new thing.

Despite your self-centered demand to be noticed, you don't really know anything. And most of the bravado written here comes out of a mouth  that can't even afford a used Corvette!  OTOH, I've consistently owned sports cars since I was 17. I was a registered poster on LS1.com while this forum was new, & crashed, and had to have everyone recreate their accounts.  I first logged into the Corvette Forum before many of you teeners connected to the Internet.  I had a friend that worked on the Vette assembly line when it was on Union Blvd in St. Louis, and another friend who worked on the Bowling Green assembly line. Yes in point of fact, in contrast to yourself, I damned well do know a thing or two.

Yes, I can stand to be told I'm wrong. But there's ways to disagree with person without being an ass.  Supra actually did write a piece a nice piece, but he he overstepped his privilege with me in the first sentence. So I walked away.   Before you dogpile my ass further for not playing your game here, consider for a moment if the arfcom Staff would appreciate the fact the your writing style drives clicks to another web site.

As someone who had to warm up to the C5 (eventually grew to like them - daily drove my 02 Z06 for a number of years, loved it) and still doesn't really dig the C7s, this C8 is a mind blowing jump.  Instantly I want one, which does not fit with my early retirement plans, dammit.

Their camo was damn effective btw, I didn't have a great feeling about the prototype cars, and that coupled with the rumored $100k new price range, just had me turned off a little.

This is an absolute home run - these are going to sell like crazy for them.

Oh, and this is absolutely deserving of the Corvette name.  This is what the Corvette has been working toward for basically it's entire run.  I can't believe they pulled it off, and it will absolutely breathe new life into the car for a decade at least.

I shudder to use the term "gamechanger", but if this isn't an appropriate instance then I don't know what is.

Kudos - job well done Corvette team.

~$60,000 MSRP.  I wonder what the dealer markup is going to be.  $40,000?

If not Corvette, what other names starting with C should it be?

If they are essentially sold out, you can bet their won't be any $60k Corvettes siting on the lot.  They'll put all sorts of high-margined dealer options on them, and sell them at a premium for awhile.  I think Chevrolet hit a home run on this one.  I think it will make Corvette cool again with a younger generation.

They're going to want this one.

No doubt autos are quicker. I do enjoy driving a manual in summer now, but I also like the auto option when I'm feeling a little lazy.

Same here. I want one, GT500 can suck a dick.

The Corvette just might have signaled the beginning of the end of retro-designed cars.  I wonder how Ford will respond.

I've already talked to my local Chevy dealer and can order one at MSRP when the order-bank opens next year.

Won't see it until the models to fill the lots are made and delivered.

Bought a Z06, ZR2, Equinox recently and many others in the past from them.

I'm thinking silver with tan interior and Z51 - my Z06 was silver and it looked great.

In a year, they will be below sticker.

Of course there will be those who will just have to have one of the early ones sitting on the lot at a considerable mark-up.

I was set on getting a new GT500 to go with my Terminator. However, the 4k+ lb weight, limited production and ADM... Fu*k that, I'll get a C8 Z06 or ZR1....

Wait, did you just try to disparage me by referring to my state and when I joined this site?



Look, I've been to Missouri, the tornado in Joplin did your state a favor. As far as joining this site?
Sorry, not sorry I've been living life and gaining real experiences not on an internet message board.

They should have stayed in their lane.
Remember kids, no matter how much horse power they put in it, no matter how fast it does this or that in, in the end it is still just a vette.

On the Corvette Forum there is a thread about the dealers who will sell at MSRP, and stated they will NOT sell above.  Many dealers have responded in that thread.

My local dealer will sadly not be one to sell at MSRP

Is that the new narrative?

It's a very romantic view of how things work.

Silver would be my first choice too.  Although I kind of like the clay grey as well.

I see this as a response to Ford GT.

To extend that thinking, I see it as a gigantic FUCK YOU! to Ford.

I like the way free-markets work.  If a dealer can sell it for a premium, I say more power to him.  There's nothing noble in holding the price lower than the market will bear.

I don't take offense to people making money.

Compare to the 485 scatpack rt challenger at 4230lbs

Just in raw power/wt the corvette will be fast to say nothing of traction and handling.

If that four wheel electric launch planned stuff is real it will scream in the future

Good god I hope it is the end to retro styled cars.

I never got it. Are these name sakes and the designers behind them not capable to standing on their own? Why cant they be new designs?
Should innovation be stifled cause we pine for what always been done/what we're used to/comfortable with?

Go buy the fucking old one.

I guess that's why I've liked german cars, the designers dont have that hang up.

The gen 6 stang is the first mustang I'd ever buy and all the mustang guys clown on it and talk about their crappy looking and crappy  performing older ones are so much better.

Camaro guys are like that too. They'll spend the entire night telling you why the pre gen 6 Camaros are much better.

Car dudes are strange

I'll tell you where it comes from.  As a member of GenX, the only real performance cars we could own came from the early 70's and late 60's.  All the older cars from the mid to late 70's and into the 80's were pretty much shit.  They were crappy constructed, and they had no performance.

So for those GenX folks that came of driving age in the 80's and early 90's, OLD was cool.  Old cars was where performance could be found.

Now, that isn't true.  Lot's of cars will destroy cars from the late 60's and early 70's.  The old "muscle" cars can't really compare to the modern offerings.

Not only will the retro-designed cars go away, but the inflated "collector market" will lose steam, they'll go the way of all other old car.  In 1985 a 1970 Barracuda or a 1969 Camaro was the bomb.....today not so much.  Today's cars are better in every way.