odurandina

^^i was thinking the same thing when he posted about his 720 a few pages
back. Not trying to roast him. He's very blessed to have it.

C5driver

The most interesting part of this video is not the cliche'd 60's white male with the Southern drawl explaining how to store the hood [sic] in the trunk, but the thought of just how the 20-something "influencer" will be influencing and driving a whole new demographic/generation into the Corvette family.

The C8 won't change the minds of some, but it has opened the eyes of many.

SoCal-NSX

exactly...if Ferrari could put a prancing horse on the hood and call it their budget friendly mid engine sports car and sell it for a base price of $180,000 those people would be doing back flips.... funny how that works

JustSlummin'

That's gotta' be some kind of record, no? It's great to see such interest in an item non-Porsche related. I bet that Mary and friends are jumping with joy at the (mostly) positive response.
I must confess to taking two hours yesterday to scroll through the combined thread. Great idea, BTW.
Per my avatar, you can see that I am a fan of both brands. I am rooting for the Stingray to be a success, but I am sticking with my Z06 for now.

C5driver

If success is defined by sales, then GM will sell every one they make and this car will print money.

If success is measured by performance, this is v.1 and after the bugs are ironed out, it'll be a success as well.

I think the biggest success for the C8 will be reintroducing the brand to a whole new demographic and lowering the average age of owners.

billh1963

Wait a minute...let's get the stereotype right . An older white Southerner would be in a C3 or maybe a C4.with Cragar wheels on it. His poorer relations would be parked around the trailer in their late '70's Camaro or Fox body Mustang

A C5 through C6 (maybe even 7) would have an older Guido from Jersey talking with a thick accent saying "fvck" every other word while stroking his gold chains and rubbing his slicked back greasy hair

billh1963

A bunch of people jumped over from the Corvette forum when the Rennlist thread was mentioned

soulsea

There are many reasons for the great interest in this car and this thread.

First of all most of us are car guys here, many have tracked alongside the other brand, many like you and I have owned both brands, and most others have at least cross shopped both brands.

Plus I'd bet that if the 911 switched to a front engine architecture it would elicit a similar response in other brand car forums.

I don't know how well this car is going to sell (personally I find the design somewhat clumsy and ungainly in its base form), it will really come down to how many older customers they lose vs how many younger customers they gain. It will also depend on whether they really got it together with this new architecture cause nothin will destroy sales faster than a car that every day you hear of another issue and/or recall. What I do know is that if they do get it together it will eat away at Porsche sales, and that's another reason for the interest here. Porsche has been raising their prices very aggressively across their product line and the base 992 is now $113k. I don't know where the threshold is where a critical mass of potential customers that can afford both cars says 'I prefer the brand image/association and superior build quality but not at that much of a price difference' ... undoubtably if the C8 performs well on the road and isn't plagued with issues it will negatively affect a 911 sales market which is already softening on its own.

neanicu

Here is the " engineering perspective " :

C5driver

That’s me!

TexasRider

100% true ^^^. I gave up on that resale value thing long ago. But especially now as there are lots more cars out there to choose from.

As I said earlier in the thread a couple of nice I think 2016s 911s were available at my dealer. He said lets talk and the numbers looked very good. That tells you what the trade in price was. I didn't bite as I had a new Cayenne on order for Mrs TR. Sport car sales are soft and used prices are down - considerably. Unless they are GT cars. Walk in to a Lambo dealer and prove it to yourself if you want.

And . . . I want to see this Corvette. And I soon will.

I can't help but be amused at the amount of micro cut criticisms this Corvette has.

I was just a kid racing on 2 strokes. I remember when Honda brought out the Elsinore. Now they had gone from 4 stroke to 2. Snickers and giggles . . . then of course they shot to the front and the starting gate was full of them. I've seen it since - the smaller and smaller the cuts protest - the closer it is to waxing some tails.

Alan C.

Funny. I was racing a Husky when the Elsinores came out. Deffinitely changed the game.

Caustic

I am not sure it will impact 911 sales greatly, I feel the 911 has too many things going for it for Porsche to be too worried. The vette is almost completely the opposite in outward personality. There will be some people moving toward the C8 from a 911, but I suspect its the 718 that is going to take a massive hit. How could I justify making a purchase on a 4 cylinder sports car when I could have a V8 with a removable hard top roof and more weekend getaway capacity for the same price?

And what happens to the BMW Supra?

https://www.motortrend.com/news/10-c...e-c8-corvette/

clutchplate

Tires on the blue C8 are Michelins so another win for the Corvette. What's the 992 shipping with? Goodyears?

hacker-pschorr

Who's salty? I merged and moved them, we do this kind of thing all the time. It doesn't take a PHD to understand why a thread about Corvette's doesn't stay in the Boxster technical forum.

Plenty of people are finding the now long running merged thread just fine. Not very well "hidden" if you ask me. Hiding this thread would have been moving it to Off Topic where unpaid members do not have access to.

For the record I grew up on the Corvette side of the car world and I still frequent it from time to time. This has nothing to do with "hiding" Corvette chatter from the Porsche car masses.

Of all the things to get one undies in a knot about, this is pretty hilarious.