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Originally Posted by Norm Peterson
Sadly, so do lots of folks, including me. While I probably could stretch far enough to reach $75k, it would be financially foolish of me to raid my investments and inheritance deeply enough to do so. Being (newly) retired is also a factor.
Could be the badge, but I think for some of the people who will buy this car it's that a car with this overall character was even built at all. Hopefully the fortunate few will use it for what it can do rather than simply acquire it for its relative scarcity.
It appears that both Chevy and Ford are aiming a bit higher than just at each other . . . *cough* BMW *cough* Porsche *cough*. What a time we live in.
Norm
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Exciting times for sure! I think you've boiled it down nicely in the second paragraph. And frankly GM could have put an 85G price tag and some folks would still buy it (not a criticism). Where I get a disconnect is the it is being marketed as THE track ready car from the GM stable with very lofty promise of its capability vs other cars et al (ref the "kingdom-come" comment). Not even the new Vette came with such claims. Yet thus far I haven't seen performance numbers to back it up, albeit there have been only 2 so it is early days still.
I would also like to know how it stacks up against cheaper cars, like GM's own C7 Z51, as 20 grand (more or less) is quite a pile of change for me (and many others no doubt). So perhaps we sit and wait for more data to come out thru 2014, including the Vette's Ring time (which for some reason hasn't been released yet).