(07-22-2019, 10:47 PM)Ryan T Wrote: I’ve talked to several people who (like me) are more likely to buy a C8. It’s at the absolute top end of what I could afford to make payments on, in it’s base model. I know several car enthusiasts who could swing a modded 25-30k and put some money into it or a ~$60k new car. In a stretch I could swing the new Corvette and rely on the warranty until I pay it off. That’s what a lot of guys are banking on and I can’t blame them. Pay $60k for a ten year old Ferrari with questionable history or the same money for a brand new car with a warranty. Hard to pass up if you want performance and don’t care as much about the name.
I think what you describe is a much more likely market - people reaching up on performance versus reaching down on affordability. I guess I was thinking the R8 and the 911 dreamers of the world probably had specific reasons for wanting those. I'm projecting, probably. As for a 430? Meh. Then again, I've half considered selling the 911 and getting a 2002... because I'm dumb.
The car will sell well, there's no doubt about that.
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth