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bigtedaf08 · 07-29-2007, 10:37 AM

Im just gonna chirp in from the business side of all this and see what everyone thinks. Ive been reading around and from what we know save adding a supercharger not much new development will be done. so this gives us some things to keep in mind
1) is gm willing to upstage the corvette with a camaro
2)how does gm answer to the gt500
3)answer the following with what gm has in hand.
so with that said, i dont think that they will upstage the corvette, its too valuable to them, and too offer a cheaper car, with a higher performance engine, regardless of weight, i dont think makes business since to them, since horseposer sells more than other merits a car might have. Also the gt500 at about 45k (right?) put gm in a tight spot intentionally by ford, and was a hella good business call, since to upstage that, they would have to have a camaro that upstages the vette, which again i dont think will happen unless in a very limited very pricey production run. so my take on this is then that gm keeps the same structue and tier to there production models that they had for the 4th gen camaros, giving the direct injection 6 from the cadillac to the base camaro, the downtuned vette engine out of the pontiac g8 to the z28(372hp or something like that), and the full blown old vette engine,ls2, to the ss at 400 hp. (the only problem i have with this is i read someone said that its going to be 2 v6's and a v8, and that the ls2 is going to be phased out) If they do this then gm easily bests the mustang in 2 out of 3 tiers and preserves the corvette as the flagship, which to me makes business sense. This also gives them room to offer an exclusive cobra killer in the 55-65k range that wouldnt be so painful to the vette, which could sport an ls7, or supercharged variant (even though gm hasnt been to fond of blowers on these animals as yet weve seen). other convincing angles of this is that it has been noted that cadillac is coordinating on this project so to see the cadillac 6 in this thing wouldnt be a surprise, also, everyone buying one of the ss' would prolly know that for a little bit more you could bolt on a supercharger and smoke the nuts off of a gt500. thanks for reading, im interested in everyones take on this.

07-29-2007, 10:37 AM	#172
bigtedaf08 Drives: 02 dakota r/t Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: dallas/c-springs Posts: 2	Im just gonna chirp in from the business side of all this and see what everyone thinks. Ive been reading around and from what we know save adding a supercharger not much new development will be done. so this gives us some things to keep in mind 1) is gm willing to upstage the corvette with a camaro 2)how does gm answer to the gt500 3)answer the following with what gm has in hand. so with that said, i dont think that they will upstage the corvette, its too valuable to them, and too offer a cheaper car, with a higher performance engine, regardless of weight, i dont think makes business since to them, since horseposer sells more than other merits a car might have. Also the gt500 at about 45k (right?) put gm in a tight spot intentionally by ford, and was a hella good business call, since to upstage that, they would have to have a camaro that upstages the vette, which again i dont think will happen unless in a very limited very pricey production run. so my take on this is then that gm keeps the same structue and tier to there production models that they had for the 4th gen camaros, giving the direct injection 6 from the cadillac to the base camaro, the downtuned vette engine out of the pontiac g8 to the z28(372hp or something like that), and the full blown old vette engine,ls2, to the ss at 400 hp. (the only problem i have with this is i read someone said that its going to be 2 v6's and a v8, and that the ls2 is going to be phased out) If they do this then gm easily bests the mustang in 2 out of 3 tiers and preserves the corvette as the flagship, which to me makes business sense. This also gives them room to offer an exclusive cobra killer in the 55-65k range that wouldnt be so painful to the vette, which could sport an ls7, or supercharged variant (even though gm hasnt been to fond of blowers on these animals as yet weve seen). other convincing angles of this is that it has been noted that cadillac is coordinating on this project so to see the cadillac 6 in this thing wouldnt be a surprise, also, everyone buying one of the ss' would prolly know that for a little bit more you could bolt on a supercharger and smoke the nuts off of a gt500. thanks for reading, im interested in everyones take on this.