Chevrolet planning low-cost Corvette under Stingray? - Less than 400hp

[Mook]

Question is...would anyone really buy a Corvette with LESS than 400hp? Seems retarded.

If you're burnt out on musings about the Chevrolet Corvette, you'll want to go ahead and skip this post. Motor Trend reports General Motors is hard at work on a low-cost version of the seventh-generation sports car for 2015. Rumored to be called the Corvette Coupe, the car will forgo the Stingray and skip the 450-horsepower 6.2-liter V8 engine in favor of a 5.3-liter V8 with under 400 ponies. If you're keeping track, that's a shade of the same engine found behind the headlights of the 2014 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra.

The report also suggests the Coupe will receive a number of aesthetic tweaks to separate it from the Stingray, including different front and rear fascias as well as new front fenders and a rear diffuser. Motor Trend says the point of all this is to cut the car's price tag, which means we may see a Corvette on showroom floors for less than $50,000 if this car comes to fruition.

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[EmersonHart13]

Chevrolet planning low-cost Corvette under Stingray?

Imo this is a gamble

 

[Mook]

Because NOW what happens, is the base v8 camaro is making more HP than a base Vette. I cant see this "report" panning out.

 

[Turk]

I think a lot of people will.

 

[Mook]

Offering less than 400hp in a Corvette makes little sense...especially when the v6 camaro isnt making much less

 

[PANDA]

Yeah as long as you still can sit in a lawn chair next to it at car shows old dudes will swing hard.

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

Guessing the weight would be the same too

 

[Turk]

Will it sell??? That's the only thing that needs to make sense.

 

[Mook]

I think it will sell, but itll be low volume (which they might make it anyway).

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

It will. Who doesn't want to own a corvette?

 

[Mook]

I sure as hell wouldn't want to own a poverty vette

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

Same idea with selling v6 camaros and v6 mustangs. It'll sell if it "looks cool".

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

I sure as hell wouldn't want to own a poverty vette

Well duh. Nobody on this site would but plenty of people want the look without the price tag.

 

[Mook]

Maybe...Id be curious what vette owners think (aside from Panda )

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

Can't wait for the competing 4cyl r35 and the v8 hemi viper

 

[radioguy6]

Geriatric owners will push all in for it.

 

[Mook]

Tossed a poll up on the FB page.

http://www.facebook.com/questions/10152623814620451/

 

[ktraver97ss]

Well, the 5.3 does like boost...make a 5.3L DI for under 50k id think it would do ok.

 

[Dasfinc]

Question is...would anyone really buy a Corvette with LESS than 400hp? Seems retarded.

Specifically one that is visually distinguishable in a significant way from the more powerful ones.

 

[Yaj Yak]

Same idea with selling v6 camaros and v6 mustangs. It'll sell if it "looks cool".

plenty of chicks drive vettes... they don't care about 450hp.

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

 

[Turbocharged400sbc]

id buy one if it had a 3800....otherwise...nah

 

[Lead Pipe]

Maybe...Id be curious what vette owners think (aside from Panda )

Since you asked.... I think it's a great idea IF they do it right. They would need to make it very track oriented and dump the frills like 7 different driving modes, that rev match bullshit, two tone interior, targa top and such. It would have to be like a cayman sort of or a 1 series. Make it a fun car to drive. The people that sit in parking lots want the stingray, they don't give a shit what it costs. It has to be targeted at younger people like 30-40 years old. They need a cheaper performance car because the Camaro has being bastardized ad bloated. Old men that thing giant talking robots are cool buy that shit box. If GM can sell a $50K Camaro then they can sell a sub 400 hp Vette, there is a niche for it.

 

[The Broken Regal]

I sure as hell wouldn't want to own a poverty vette

Are you kidding, if this is anything like all the recent entry level "poverty" luxury cars like the G25, 320i, c250 etc etc... That vette will sell

Anything people can do to make it look like the have something worth more than it is

Remember, a 318ti owner can still say they own a bmw when asked

A entry level vette is still a c7 vette!

 

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