C8 Corvette

[ace4059]

LOL.

Need motivation to keep hitting the gym? Watch a 400lb fat man try to climb on a locomotive or use the head in the nose.

Here’s the thought process of people that work for the RR.
Hit the gym??? That’s what gastric bypass is for!!!

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

If demographics are Corvette's biggest problem, the launch video was completely wrong. Maybe they were reinforcing their base, but they people they should be targeting won't remember the Challenger exploding, let alone the moon landing.

[Renegade]

Can they make it cool?

I don’t know. An American just launched to the ISS for the 50th moon landing anniversary. A West Pointer MD tabbed combat diver astronaut. Paint one red, white, and blue and give it to him when he comes home.

But wait.
That’s just some Boomer, gen x model racist patriarchy shit.

Give one to Black Widow in her new movie. But wait, she’s just some racist hetero that inappropriately subjugated anime culture.

Give one to black panther in his new movie. There will be others turned off.

There seems to be no cohesive way to make it cool.

GM could not capitalize on the Apollo 12 crew all having Corvettes....

[vandal5]

Wondering if the mid-engine was a request by the racing team?



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[flenna]

What Corvette and GM should have done is give one to Maverick! Instant coolness!

Now that would be a cool way to launch the C8. He can do for GM what he did for the Kawasaki Ninja 35 years ago.

[bp7178]

Except he's riding a Kawasaki Ninja H2 in the trailer.

[Adrenaline_6]

Except he's riding a Kawasaki Ninja H2 in the trailer.

Yup....hence the words "should have".

[glocktogo]

That’s how I’m feeling now. I love the European cars and would love a Porsche, but I can’t afford the cost of entry for a new one. That leaves used with all the possible repair bills or the collector price tags.

Corvettes carry there own stereotypes as we have seen.

Stereotypes are cheaper to buy and maintain than a foreign performance car though.

[ramairthree]

GM could not capitalize on the Apollo 12 crew all having Corvettes....

1971 to 1974 had several issues that killed American performance car glory yeras
The C1 averaged about 6.5k sales per year.
The C2, retrospectively the most lauded, about 25k per year.
The C3, also occurring during the peak performance classic years before gas, smog, exhaust, compression, insurance raised their head etc. - debuted at about 35k, waned, resurged midlife to over 50k a year, and exited averaging about 40k.
The C4 came on the scene at over 50k and soon became a 20k a year car.
The C5 averaged mid 30s.
The C6 struggled to stay in the teens after the first few years.
Selling 12k Corvettes mid model run to a population of 282 million
Compared to selling 40k mid model at the deepest slump of performance to 216 million Americans is a huge issue.
The C7 numbers should be familiar to those looking at the
C8.

The C3 was weak in 70 and 71 but bounced back hard, doubling sales.

[bp7178]

LOL.

Need motivation to keep hitting the gym? Watch a 400lb fat man try to climb on a locomotive or use the head in the nose.

Not even that. Motivation to hit the gym is watching sedentary people cross the street when they misjudge traffic...that awkward stride is a muster of all the forward movement they can manage. You are literally watching natural selection with traffic laws.