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The C8 is here and the horses are in the back. Post about how much you hate it or how you are definitely selling your C5 for 25k to buy it or how prices of the geriatricly owned right lane hog C7s are going to fall through the floor or whatever your pillow time fantasy is. Also feel free to contribute any sort of information that you have on this car, on dealerships that are high Corvette volume, on your guesstimated dealer markups or how crowded your local golf course parking lot is going to be with these.            Things we know, kind of. (Feel free to add) GM says under 60k. Let's we what the dealers say. Claimed 495hp All cars are now dry sump with a three stage scavenge pump No stick, all dual clutch flappy paddle (GM says that it is a separate system from the ECU and when it is in manual mode the car cannot override the shift) Z51 package (straight from the video, saved you 2 min)  What's the verdict before we see the car 1st hand?
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-I want to Leroy the first one that parks up a tree -It makes a large number of boomers angry, which owns -I can already see parts which are going to be fun to lego into other GM products, if GM doesn't do it already -I still want a smog-era C3 more, but I'm weird -Sixty Thousand loving Dollars
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I love everything but the no manual. I'm assuming that is due to the linkages needed. We'll get dealer markup for a while, but the C8 will be high volume enough that after a year or so, I bet you'll be able to do MSRP or better on the base ones.
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The only thing about that I don't like is the huge ugly intake manifold/cover, what's going on there?NumbersMatching320 posted:-I can already see parts which are going to be fun to lego into other GM products, if GM doesn't do it already
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The outside looks great, although in a generic '10s hypercar vein. Unfortunately, you have to drive the car from the interior, which took a stop at Buttons R Us and built a button wall between the driver and passenger.  
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Steering wheel also looks a bit funky, and that yard o' buttons... Still, mid engined 500hp V8 for that price...
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lol they know that most the time the only person in the c8 will be the driver. but 500hp  Wonder what it can do with a hot cam. And I also wonder if theyre going to go twin turbo or twin rotary supercharger for the Z06 equivalent. seeing how mid engine packaging is very conducive to the twin snail layout. Rigged Death Trap fucked around with this message at 13:23 on Jul 22, 2019 |
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Rigged Death Trap posted:lol they know that most the time the only person in the c8 will be the driver. Has there been a mid-engine car with a supercharger scoop sticking out above the roof line? I want them to do that.
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The C8 is confirmed as coming to Australia with factory RHD models being done in the states. I bet it'll end up being $200k AUD. If by some miracle it hits Australian shores under $120k then sign me the gently caress up. I think i'm ready for a mid-life crisis, have been doing too many track days recently, drive a bogan overpriced LS3 powered GM product already and my penis is below average in length, it's like they built this thing specially for me. I think it looks fantastic, and i'm not the biggest fan of the current gen Camaro styling. Our choices over here now that our fun domestic V8's are dead have been $60-70k AUD for Mustang GT's or $90-100k AUD for Camaro's that have been locally RHD converted, neither of which interest me all that much at those prices.
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the steering wheel is bad and the tail lights look very camaro-ish and kinda bad but i assume that will get fixed easily in the aftermarket the button column is hilarious and awful and probably the only not fixable part but again sub-70k for the performance package
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The people happiest about this are the service advisers because book time is gonna go way up for warranty work.
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Don Lapre posted:The people happiest about this are the service advisers because book time is gonna go way up for warranty work. I was thinking that, too. Even in the cutaway car servicing the engine looks problematic, I can only imagine how that changes when you add body panels / undertray.
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I'm digging the exterior. The interior is hopefully something that looks better in the flesh. May be the first vette that kind of appeals to me and may look at one in the future. Do we have a timeline yet when they're coming out? Is the C7 the shortest generation of Vette?
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slidebite posted:I'm digging the exterior. The interior is hopefully something that looks better in the flesh. May be the first vette that kind of appeals to me and may look at one in the future.
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meatpimp posted:I was thinking that, too. Even in the cutaway car servicing the engine looks problematic, I can only imagine how that changes when you add body panels / undertray. On the C6 c7 the hood was just for showing off the engine anyway. You do almost anything from the bottom. But yeah, doing a belt looks like a pain in the rear end.
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Waiting on C7 prices to hit rock bottom myself.
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Maybe I'm blind, but where the gently caress is the gear shift? I know it's auto-only and it's bound to be an electronic thing so it doesn't need to be traditionally-designed but I still don't see one. Is it under that little flappy thing on the central pillar? Is it that cluster of buttons on the left side? The uppermost one looks like it has a P on it. Edit: yeah it's the button cluster on the left. Ok then.
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https://youtu.be/NZGCJu2OaAg Jay took off his Canadian Tuxedo for this, so you know it's a special event. e: It doesn't really sound very good at the end. slidebite fucked around with this message at 19:42 on Jul 22, 2019 |
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^^^ It's really weird seeing him like that, it's like if someone shaved your dog as a surprise Olympic Mathlete posted:I want one without the body on it. C8 Vettekart, on episode 452 of Roadkill
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net work error posted:Waiting on C7 prices to hit rock bottom myself. I told myself the same thing for C6 prices when the c7 came out and it just never really happened. Prices just continue to depreciate with time and miles.
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I think it’s 490 HP base and 495 HP with the Z51 package. I don’t see dealer markups lasting real long. Chevy presumably is gearing up to poo poo out 50,000 of these things a year. I’ll get one if I fit in it and haven’t suffered a financial meltdown. Im 6’6” and fit okay in the C6 but real bad in the C7 and I’m guessing the C8 isn’t going to be great but maybe if I can lose some rear end padding it’ll be doable.
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 This is good. I have a set of 5x120.6 work vsxx 3pc wheels that I am definitely holding on to now
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Somewhat decent set of pictures here from a SD event: https://www.corvetteforum.com/forum...cajon-ca-2.html
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The massive button column is at least an improvement over the randomly scattered blanks of shame/poverty you end up with in a 911 or whatever.
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bird with big dick posted:I think it’s 490 HP base and 495 HP with the Z51 package. One thing they said about making it mid engine is they don't have to compromise for tall people. You'll have to verify of course, but apparently the footwell is super deep.
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re: the button column; Think of it this way, every button is something you don't have to stumble around a clunky-rear end touchscreen interface to do.
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Some of the early renders had the entire center console as a touch screen and I hated it so much. I borrowed a Tesla for a couple of days from a friend of mine, and I loved driving it but the touch screen everything was horrible. bird cooch fucked around with this message at 00:54 on Jul 23, 2019 |
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No pure coupe? Targa if not a convertible?
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slidebite posted:No pure coupe? Targa if not a convertible? Don't think there's been a "pure" coupe since the C6? Every C7 had a removable roof I believe. Kind of impressive they can get all the rigidity they need without the roof, though I guess the question would be whether the car could be lighter if they were using the roof as structure.
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It really annoys me (as it has for years) that you can't get a base Corvette with a regular solid, fixed roof. GM execs and marketing suits will point to the low sales of the C5 generation fixed roof coupe, which was butt-rear end ugly and only available as a manual (which, regardless of whether you like automatics, excludes a big chunk of potential sales). Edit: for the, C8, I can't tell for sure, but it looks to me like outward visibility is going to suck rear end... maybe that's to be expected. But the dashboard looks 5 feet deep, like a 4th gen f-body. Why does it need that much dashboard? Number_6 fucked around with this message at 04:40 on Jul 23, 2019 |
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I can't wait to get to drive one in a couple years because I'm pretty sure my mother is gonna buy one. Never driven something mid-engined. And hey, finally a good looking Corvette. They haven't managed that since the 70s. Resting Lich Face fucked around with this message at 06:40 on Jul 23, 2019 |
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I love it and I love the button wall.
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Having trouble deciding between red/black or blue/silver color combos
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The Big Jesus posted:Having trouble deciding between red/black or blue/silver color combos White with a red interior. Black wheels.
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I've always been partial to red with a tan interior.Resting Lich Face posted:I can't wait to get to drive one in a couple years because I'm pretty sure my mother is gonna buy one. Never driven something mid-engined. Super Soaker Party! posted:Don't think there's been a "pure" coupe since the C6? Every C7 had a removable roof I believe. 
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slidebite posted:I've always been partial to red with a tan interior. I've got red with tan interior right now. Doesn't look right on the vette tho, at least not in their online thing.
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FBS posted:I love it and I love the button wall. Same also same
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