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Originally Posted by snizzle

That time when world class exotic beater isn't somehow enough....

It's a world class exotic beater in the current time, but this time next year who knows what'll come out from Europe. It'll turn some people away but it'll also bring more people to buy it.

I think this might also be happening for racing purposes but that's probably not a major point to making the Corvette mid engined. Although with GTE/GT LeMans slowly turning back into GT1 it only makes sense to go mid engined

Originally Posted by DGthe3

Minor styling choices are one thing. Making the Corvette dramatically more expensive and less useful as an everyday car, simply because the upper tier is nearing the performance limit is extremely different. That goes against the core appeal of the Corvette for a huge chunk of buyers. I can't think many people bought Corvettes explicitly because the tail lights were round or because the headlights flipped up.

I think the price change will be a big deal if Car and Driver are to be believed with a entry price of around $80k, but with the Camaro now reaching into the 50's it would make me consider a Corvette currently over a Camaro. So this might be a move to protect sales of the Camaro and also move the Corvette into a much higher performance bracket. The Camaro 1LE might be pretty close to the Corvette (non Z06) in terms of performance, and the ZL1 might be as close of not closer than the 1LE because of the HP difference