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Originally Posted by olrocker

I don’t have a problem with the C8 as a super car at all. It’s an amazing performance car that absolutely rivals Ferraris, Lambos, McLarens, you name it.

The fact that it’s from GM to me makes it even better. Chrysler no longer makes the Viper. The Ford GT is super limited production and a - gasp - V6. GM is really the only American company building an attainable Supercar with a proper V8.

It’s just not a Corvette

If anything they could - and should - have created the Corvette sub-brand and, as some rumors that actually were in the air a few years ago, call this one the “Zora” and continue the front engine/manual gearbox as the Stingray.

Zora is coming and it will be a beast. It will be a magnitude of change above the C8 variants currently on the street. So in a since, there already is a Corvette portfolio bordering on a sub-brand.

• Stingray: base version priced to be accessible to traditional Corvette buyers. It can, however, easily be optioned out of the reach of the average car buyer.
• E-Ray: Wide-body, pushrod based with front e-motor to provide traction for ridiculous acceleration.
• Z06: Wide-body track beast with a sophisticated flat-planed DOHC.
• ZR1: Still yet to come. Most think it will be a wide-body twin-turbo DOHC, basically a boosted Z06. I believe it will save the twin turbos for Zora and instead add a front e-motor to solve the one lingering problem with the Z06. Traction. We’ll see soon enough.
• Zora: Still yet to come. This will be all the goodies wrapped in one package. Wide-body. Flat-planed DOHC, twin-turbos, front e-motor. 1,000 plus hp.

Whether or not a sedan and/or a crossover (think Purosanque) get added to the portfolio is yet to be seen.

This sort of parallels the Challenger portfolio that went from base V6 all the way up to Demon 170 and priced accordingly. Or the Mustang lineup which goes from EcoBoost all thee way up to Darkhorse with each step priced (or overpriced) accordingly. But Corvette has a higher starting point and higher priced top ends. Given that we’re talking Corvette relative to Challenger and Mustang that should come as no surprise.