GM Once Again Shows Off Radical Corvette Concepts
Since its inception, the Corvette has been a blue collar sports car, America's sports car, that was not only fast and cool but also accessible. You didn't have to be some rich guy with a mansion to own one, unlike Ferraris and such.
While the C8 Corvette pushed the sports car upmarket some, while also giving it an exotic flavor by putting the engine midship, it has remained fairly accessible, although sadly not as much as in the past.
But it seems GM really wants to make the Corvette its vanity project to take on Ferrari, Koenigsegg, Lamborghini, McLaren, and others. We guess it's to show Americans can make ridiculous hypercars with inflated prices, too.
This sort of attitude has birthed other ridiculous things like modern muscle cars which cost more than $100,000 (those were supposed to be even more attainable than the Corvette).
GM says it's doing the work to 'propel (the Corvette) into the future.' And we guess in the future one will have to be a rich and powerful executive to enjoy one.
We get these concepts are design exercises, but we also know concepts affect future production cars. Our hope is this fascination with making the Corvette so over-the-top doesn't result in a future model that has a base MSRP of $750,000 or more, pricing out the enthusiasts who have been loyal to the sports car for decades.
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