I have a Manual C7 and
wouldn't sell it
because it's a manual. Have owned and loved almost exclusively manuals all my life and I just can't see myself driving an automatic sports car, playing with paddles, and trying to fool myself into thinking it's a manual. I have a Lincoln with paddles and it just doesn't do it for me, and it goes like snot too. My diesel truck is a M6 and I wouldn't sell it for the same reason. Everyone has their preferences but I honestly believe with the disappearance of manual transmissions, and being the last generation of FE, and once the C8 drug begins to wear thin, we will see the C6 and C7 hold value extremely well. Remember back in 2014 when every review said: "GM finally listened and built this car right"... Well.... they did, and that still holds...
Next year, the ME Z06 will likely be announced, the bargain basement introductory price of the C8 base will be no more and the leftover and used C6's and C7's are going to start looking a lot more attractive. Now that GM has the C8 on roads everywhere (or will this season), there will be a few tweaks made and the price of the 2021 base will no doubt be adjusted considerably to increase the black ink in GM's ledgers. It will still be a reasonably priced American made exotic but I just can't see this car entering it's second or third year at a base price less than $ 100k. The Z06 will start at or over $135k...Put a couple options on it and you will be at $160k so fast you won't know what happened. The ZR1 or Zora or whatever ....well.... we will talk about that next year after we see the Z06... And before you ask me for my source...lol.... this is purely my own opinion and I remember a time before when I was wrong...... I think....