2012 Corvette Production Numbers Released

[Joe L.]

Re: 2012 Corvette Production Numbers Released

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The "formula" for the Corvette has remained essentially unchanged for its 60 year history. As much as we all might abhor the idea, I think the "formula" for the Corvette is going to have to change rather drastically if it's going to remain relevant and survive.

[Steve B.]

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Zora must be turning in his grave.
I don't want to rant but................ three months ago when GM was sending out $3000.00 former customers special incentives and other incentives to "select" customers you'd think that I and alot of other former and current Corvette owners would find sometihing to get us into the Chevrolet Dealer and give us that push to buy a new Corvette. Nothing. I called Chevrolet and told them I wanted that $3000.00. That and my GM employee discount would have made me gladly buy a new Grand Sport. Chevrolet didn't even tell me sorry, just you aren't a target or select customer. 40 years of owning Corvettes and NOTHING. Remember too I sold these cars back in the 70's.
Very Disappointing in seeing such low sales numbers. GM is dumb, very Dumb.
Like the Doc said his kid patients pop seeing his Corvette ALL red blooded boys POP when they see a Corvette. The Car is NOT affordable anymore to the masses. All the young boys and girls (early 20's)who are friends with my kids pop, and their eyes light up when I take my Corvette out. I saw a little boy in a Uplander Van stretch his neck as his mom passed me on my left in a 35 zone. GM has just priced them out of reach.
Oh yeah the C7 will not be cheap. How many guys 55+ and up can keep buying these Cars ?? GM has a terrible greed problem. They rather sell less units and more profit. They should be doing the opposite. More units LESS profit. Get the Corvette back on the road like when I was young. I don't want a Porsche, Ferrari Corvette. Makes me sick. Save the Wave, I'm going out for a ride with the roof off.

Exactly! In the 60s the target buyer was in his 20/30s. Now decades later they are still basically going after the same buyer. I saw this coming many years ago and if they continue on its path, I don't see Corvette surviving another 60 years.

[George J.]

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I'll go back to lurking now.

Dave,
please do. I can't tell you how much I think you're full of ----.

George

[Jim D.]

Re: 2012 Corvette Production Numbers Released

I'll go back to lurking now.

Thank you. You may want to add more fiber to your diet as well.

[John F.]

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IMO GM needs to downsize Corvette into something like this -

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304724404577293812942708538.html#articleTabs%3Darticle

[Michael J.]

Re: 2012 Corvette Production Numbers Released

IMO GM needs to downsize Corvette into something like this -

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304724404577293812942708538.html#articleTabs%3Darticle

EEEEKKKK!!!!!

If they did and called that ugly thing a "Corvette", I would sell all mine immediately. How embarrassing that would be, kinda like Ford did with the Mustang II, huge mistake.

[Joe C.]

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Treading on thin ice is looking for the Corvette to change drastically. Better to let the iconic name die a noble death than to redefine the car to a drastic extent.

At the Florida Regional was heard a hint of what might lie ahead. The big engines and lofty horsepower numbers are dead. Smaller, more compact and less powerful powerplants are ahead. I hope that this means a somewhat leaner and meaner Corvette. A simpler car, more in the tradition of the straight axle and midyear body styles. The Corvette has gotten much too bloated, too dimensionally large in all directions, and waaaaaaayyyyyyy too complicated and gimmicky.

My wish is for a uncomplicated, 2700 pound Corvette with a 5.0 - 5.5 liter engine making around 400 HP. This is a lofty wish, considering that the Corvette is targeted to an aging demographic that can no longer tolerate driving a spartan automobile, but it is, nonetheless, still what I consider a logical progression for the marque. Call it a "test bed" if you will. A gentle probing meant to determine what the next niche market might be like for the car. If that fails, then I'm afraid it's "curtains" for Zora's legacy.

Will the kids buy it? I'm not optimistic. There's no "panache" in owning a Chevy. But at least the Corvette name will come to signify, again, what it once stood for in the last 10-15 years of its life before the iconic name is retired forever.

[Joe L.]

Re: 2012 Corvette Production Numbers Released

Treading on thin ice is looking for the Corvette to change drastically. Better to let the iconic name die a noble death than to redefine the car to a drastic extent.

At the Florida Regional was heard a hint of what might lie ahead. The big engines and lofty horsepower numbers are dead. Smaller, more compact and less powerful powerplants are ahead. I hope that this means a somewhat leaner and meaner Corvette. A simpler car, more in the tradition of the straight axle and midyear body styles. The Corvette has gotten much too bloated, too dimensionally large in all directions, and waaaaaaayyyyyyy too complicated and gimmicky.

My wish is for a uncomplicated, 2700 pound Corvette with a 5.0 - 5.5 liter engine making around 400 HP. This is a lofty wish, considering that the Corvette is targeted to an aging demographic that can no longer tolerate driving a spartan automobile, but it is, nonetheless, still what I consider a logical progression for the marque. Call it a "test bed" if you will. A gentle probing meant to determine what the next niche market might be like for the car. If that fails, then I'm afraid it's "curtains" for Zora's legacy.

Will the kids buy it? I'm not optimistic. There's no "panache" in owning a Chevy. But at least the Corvette name will come to signify, again, what it once stood for in the last 10-15 years of its life before the iconic name is retired forever.

Joe-----


I'm thinking more along the lines of car about the size of the Pontiac Solstice, or smaller, with a direct injected and possibly turbocharged V-6. The Solstice had a curb weight of about 2850 pounds but I think a new Corvette would need to be lighter. A direct injected, turbocharged V-6 could easily make 400 hp. More than that is absolutely unusable in a street car. I think a lot of folks have that figured out.

[Michael J.]

Re: 2012 Corvette Production Numbers Released

Joe-----


A direct injected, turbocharged V-6 could easily make 400 hp. More than that is absolutely unusable in a street car. I think a lot of folks have that figured out.

I don't know, the 638 HP my new ZR1 puts out is VERY useable, I use it all the time