msdunkel

There are only 2 dealers in the Atlanta area and it was almost as if I was talking to the same guy. I get it that repeat customers will get priority and this would be my first Porsche which puts me at the bottom of the list. Regarding ADM, I know its business but I take it personally and wouldn't buy a car that required such an absurdity. Once dealers get their allocations and it becomes obvious that either they will have plenty of inventory or the car will be scarce I'll be able to make a better decision; hopefully I can buy locally but I'd travel/ship if I had to. (Un)fortunately? I've also got my eyes on fire-sale '19 ZO6's or even ZR1s. I know its not cool to admit it here, but I like GM products and with only 1 exception in 25 years of continuous ownership they've caused me very little trouble. It is my belief that in the month following the C8 release there will be a sweet spot where there's still enough existing inventory to get something close to what I want and the price will be low enough to the bottom that it will make sense to stop waiting and buy. At that point my choice will be made for me if I haven't already ordered a Spyder.

Own Goal

Getting "off topic"? It's about a Corvette on a Porsche forum. That's like a 180 deal, the motorcycles and A Basin are actually bringing it back....

odurandina

Snowboarding on loose granular popcorn is a colorful topic all by itself.
pizza burns/serious skin off from ice crystals is a real thing when it's 70F outside.... then there's UVB/cosmic, alpha/gamma rays, mesons, high energy barions and serious skin cancer risk taking root from one end of your body to the other but i digress-----

fast1

I don't believe that C8s will be available until late 2019. So maybe January 2020 will be a good time to shop for a Z06 or ZR1, but I already saw a 2019 Z06 for under $70K at the Kerbeck site. If I were you I'd be patient with ordering a GT4. In six months, a year at the latest, it's a virtual certainty that you'll be able to order a GT4 at sticker. The GT4 should be awesome on the track, and I can't wait to read reviews from Rennlist owners.

bigs

I was pretty much thinking these very same thoughts a couple of days ago - for the very same reasons. Plus, since I live in winter snow country, a high performance sports car pretty much spends 4 months in the garage. My Audi A6 Quattro is 13 years old, still handles quite nicely, has decent speed, looks great, and can easily out-perform any 4x4 SUV or pickup in the snow. Plus it rides comfortably.

We're gettin' old, Gretch! Maybe it's not even a matter of "gettin'" anymore!

odurandina

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Crisis

I sure hope not. That first rendering of the front 1/4 view looks very awkward. And the plastic in the front fascia looks really cheap.

mikes70

I remember reading/seeing in Car and Driver a few years back about how many competitions they did about the Vette vs 911. It came out fifty/fifty for the most part.
And yes, I just read this week GM is 'X'ing the Camaro.
Have a buddy I track with, drives a Camaro ZL1-1LE, super reliable, drives to track, drives home. I just have a 7.2 C2S and he kicks my butt. However, my first day on the track
in 2014 with my pro-touring Camaro, I had an instructor named Bill Gleason. He took me out in his Cayman S (may of been an R) and rode the a$$ of a C-7r for about 10
laps until we spun off course. He had me in the passenger seat while the Vette driver had "no bags of sand" in his passenger seat.
Two each there own, driver, driver, driver....I'm looking forward to seeing it and hopefully driving one, but I think you'd have to pry my 911 from my cold dead hands for any
other sports car.

polecat702

Last time I was working in the patch in Midland, I could have sold my El Camino, on the spot every time I stopped for gas, or to grab a bite. Never saw another one in the 3 months I was there. Lot of older men would have traded me their crew cabs too for it. I'll keep it till I croak, it's paid for it self many times over and I still drive it almost every day. Best $6200.00 I ever spent, and for it's day it was loaded.

polecat702

It's furnace hot here in Vegas, like 108. FWIW, it's always a dry heat! I like the picture of the new Vette, I'm not a fan of blue, but I think it'd look awesome in badass black. IMHO, all sport cars look better in black, but that's just me.

Own Goal

Don't know about your ElCamino, but I had a red '79 back when. The new Vette will be Intresting.
by the way, do you still on some property around Fredricksburg?

Mussl Kar

Looking forward to the launch. If GM pulls it off it will be a disposable track car. Buy first year, drive snot out of it. Trade in for year 2. Rinse and repeat. Bring to Porsche dealer. Do donuts in parking lot.

Gator_86_951

I want it to succeed as much as anybody, but I am thinking it won't get there in the first year. Let's see how it goes....

Peter Zimmermann

Add Texas to Bakersfield, CA! We've been saying, "Yeah, but it's a 'dry heat,'" for twenty years!

spanky

Did one of these run at this years Le Mans 24hr race back in June