Listen, IMHO you have the best C7 - period. God, you have the handling pkg. of the Z06: if I had known the GS was coming, I would have ordered one and been happy for a hell of long time. Best handling corvette ever!!!!I read the article on the provided link. At $170K when you also factor in the taxes on top of that certainly appears to be steep, and may scare a lot of folks sitting on the fence from opening their wallets. I guess it will come down to what the pricing for a base C8 will be and see if a price point exists to ensure that good sales numbers will still occur to those who are anticipating the arrival. Personally, I will probably be out if I cant get into a nicely optioned C8 for around the $120K mark. I'll keep my C7
Makes a lot of sense to me and I think you will be right.I read online (ya, I know) that Acura only sold a combined 850 NSX's in the U.S. for 2016 and 2017 model years. It was always intended to be a niche vehicle.
By comparison, the C7 peaked at 34,839 in 2014. Entirely on entry level Stingray's and Z51's in the first model year.
With all of the investment put into Bowling Green, wouldn't it be safe to assume that GM would be aiming for that many, or better in C8's first year. If so, then wouldn't it be safe to assume that C8 pricing would be similar to current pricing, at least on the entry level model(s)?
(And of course, the entry level Stingray has outsold the GS, ZO6 and ZR1 every year)
I read online (ya, I know) that Acura only sold a combined 850 NSX's in the U.S. for 2016 and 2017 model years. It was always intended to be a niche vehicle.
By comparison, the C7 peaked at 34,839 in 2014. Entirely on entry level Stingray's and Z51's in the first model year.
With all of the investment put into Bowling Green, wouldn't it be safe to assume that GM would be aiming for that many, or better in C8's first year. If so, then wouldn't it be safe to assume that C8 pricing would be similar to current pricing, at least on the entry level model(s)?
(And of course, the entry level Stingray has outsold the GS, ZO6 and ZR1 every year)
JMO but I'm betting they max out production first year at 20,000. That's based on the C8 entering the market at $70,000 for bare bone base c/w burlap bag seats .... lol... (ok... the burlap seats were a joke).... If indeed you are correct and the ME does enter the market at C7 base price ($55,500 +/-), then I could easily be missing the mark and they may strive to match early C7 production numbers. The other twist to this would be the level of what we currently call options that GM decides to build into the base model as standard. This could drive the base model entry price up into the $80 k range. (US $)
Reflecting on the recent announcements of GM plant closures, and the suggestions that the remaining plants will be required to operate at minimum 80% capacity, if the C8 is targeted for only 20,000 units in its first year, as you suggest may be the case, then it stands to reason that at least one other vehicle would need to be produced simultaneously at the plant.
C7 continues with a slight re-fresh? Cadillac sports car? Corvette based SUV? C7 Camaro moves to Bowling Green?
IMHO I believe the base price of the C8 will be within $5,000 from a base C7. Tadge even made that comment at least 3 years ago and with the time that has gone by hopefully (it should be) that gap is even less. Anything more and they'd loose a huge majority of past, current and new Corvette customers. Everyone thought the C7 - Z06 was going to be North of $125,000 base model, surprise in 2015 it was $89,900.00 CDN. Everyone was so dead wrong. The C7 - Z06 was really not that much more then the C6 version, even far less in some cases.
In late 2007 I recall looking at a Will Cooksey Edition Z06 listing for $108,000.00CDN, some 7 years later I purchased a Z06, 2LZ, A8, PDR, premium paint and black rims and it was only $96,840.00CND. That 2008 would have been the worst Corvette purchase ever for me. The C7 Z06 was so much more car for $12,000 less $$$$
I was actually really disappointed that ZR1 base was so much above the Z06. But chatter like this gives some insight to what GM thinks a Corvette buyer will pay. I think GM over priced the ZR1 because of all the hype people were preapred to pay based on what owners were thinking the price would be.
The Corvette is one of their highest profit margin cars. Settle down guys.........