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Originally Posted by Tcoat
Yes we can count. It is now twice. This thread is all speculation and I can speculate with the rest so I don't need to substantiate shit.
Your support for an inexpensive MR Corvette is that they made the fucking Fiero. That is just foolish logic.
Scale of production, massive development costs, the intended target market and a few other things I can't think of right now all will make the MR inherently more expensive. These things will be intended to compete in a market against Lambos and Ferraris and will not start at $55K. Now, if we want to say it will come in at the price of the top two levels I am with you.
We will see soon.
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Watch your language old man. No need to get your depends in a bunch.
Guaranteed they will continue to make the current FR for a while because the C7 is still new (2014 launch). There is no arguing that. They will develop the MR for the top tier level. Not a Ford GT competitor, not $450k+; not at that level, but ZR1 replacement level or $150k+, yet there is no doubt that this will make its way eventually to the base trim. There is no reason for it not to, again, because there is no inherent reason why a Corvette can't be MR and be priced the same as the current base Corvette.
The evolution of each gen Corvette requires major investments. The MR would be no different.
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Originally Posted by Dadhawk
I think you are confusing MR as the driving force here. They could absolutely build a MR car that cost no more than Chevy Spark if they wanted but from what I can see that is not the car they have configured here.
GM would have had to start with the low end as the target and build up from there. You can't build the high end and ratchet it down, at least not practically. To my untrained eye the swooping body and such on what we seen is expensive to build, a much more complex body than the C7 Vette.
That said, I'm hoping I'm wrong and you are right. I would buy a $55K MR Corvette tomorrow assuming I can get it without a 2x dealer add-on fee.
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Technology always trickles down and gets cheaper. They will offer the MR on the top trim and eventually reduce it down as a standard for the C8. I don't know how well the C7 is being received, so maybe the C7 will have a shorter run than generations of the past.
They look dramatically different? The MR and FR C7 look closer in body complexity than the difference between the C6 and C7. I don't think this thing is Ford GT Supercar wild in body design at all.
https://www.motor1.com/news/134774/c...ne-spy-photos/