I'll still buy a Corvette. Its a fantastic vehicle and one Americans should be proud of. Funny we buy foreign cars with problems with no issue but bish about this.

 

I agree that my GS had dash rattles and had to be removed and reinsulated, and my breaks squeak ,but it wasn't dangerous. The reports are saying that delamination will occur from heating and cooling the adhesives in the roof and that the roof would come off at high speed. Imagine what a flat and large piece of aluminum would do when it hits the windshield of the car behind you. The car is literally coming apart. We complain about rattles and brake squeaks. The vette guys complain about roof coming off and engine fires. I spent a lot of time on vette forums last night and although the owners love their cars there are many frustrated owners on these forums who battling GM corporate for help

 

motor authority article


http://www.motorauthority.com/blog/1...of-losing-roof

 

The bottle of glue reads, 'in case of rollover, kiss your %^&* goodbye'

 

^^^ on that thought, my neighbor was hit head-on in a collision while driving a Vette and he nearly died. No more Vettes in his garage. Now he drives a Mercedes.

 

Article is spot on.

Every car goes fast now. You need the style, reliability, and refinement as well.

 

I like Vettes but would never want to be in an accident in one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yoa8McfOY0

 

I noticed the local Chevy dealer had well over a dozen Vettes sitting out front cluttering up the lot.

 

I think the 'Vette will last, even if the CAFE laws force it back into smaller engines (perhaps like Ford's Ecotec twin-turbo V6)....it is simply too much of an American icon to fold. And even if Chevy or GM itself folds, that doesn't necessarily spell the end of the Corvette...its production rights will likely be bought up with another firm.

A good example of this was back in the 1960's, when Studebaker folded in 1964-65. Its beautiful Avanti sports-coupe was so inspiring and such a classic that the rights were bought out and it continued on, for decades, as a special-order, hand-built car, built first at the old plant at South Bend, IN, then in an Ohio plant.

It also has to be remembered that the Corvette did not always have a V8. In fact, the original 1953 and 1954 versions came with the old Chevy in-line, stove-bolt, 150 HP six and a 2-speed automatic transmission (that's right, there was no manual or a V8 until 1955, when Fords' new competing 2-seat Thunderbird then forced it). Early Corvettes also had only one paint color (white) with red or red/white vinyl interiors.

 

hilarious

I wouldnt say it but sometime I feel the same way. They are to expensive for that to be true though

I read that they are selling them for 38k after rebates right now. You can have a vette for less than a G37 or BMW 335

 

I like this response. The Corvette needs to get a little more affordable and cheaper for it to survive. Currently the price ranges from $48k to $105k....that is a very wide price range. I can see it doing so much better if they can get a v6 version in the $35-$45k price range. It also needs to platform share with something, whatever happened to the Cadillac coupe it used to share its platform with?

 

Thanks.


I agree that a lower price (and higher production levels from the Bowling Green plant) might stimulate Corvette sales, but there would still be a lot of people who just couldn't accept the car without a V8 (even though the initial 1953-54 Corvettes had in-line sixes). After Studebaker's demise, the Avanti I mentioned in my last post survived only by becoming a special-order, hand-built car, at very high prices.....that is likely (but not certain) to happen to the Corvette if Chevy or GM folds. Like the Avanti of the 1960s, I just don't see the Corvette folding. If the Corvette becomes a special-order, hand-built car and its price rises, of course, regardless of engine, it would make the Corvette less-competitive with upper-level Porsches (one of its current strong points now).


The Cadillac version you are referring to is the XLR roadster........one of Cadillac's most expensive products, especially the XLR-V. It may not last much longer due to poor sales, if it has not already been dropped....but it never had the 'Vette's popularity to start with. Unlike the Corvette, it used either a N/A or supercharged Cadillac Northstar V8 instead.

 

I've owned a few vettes and my last was a restored '69 I owned for many years and sold two years ago.
I've been a Corvette guy for years and can't accept a 6 cyl vette even supercharged or turbo'd.
American muscle is a V8.The bigger cubic inch displacement,the better.

 

I agree to an extent, but the new CAFE rules in 4 or 5 years are going to make it more difficult to just keep sticking big engines in small platforms. That's probably not going to affect just the 'Vette, but the big V8 Mustangs, Challengers, and Camaros as well. The V10 Viper looks like it is going to be the first casualty....it will either get a smaller engine or be dropped.

 

I fully expect Vettes to continue to have V8's in our lifetimes. Having fewer cylinders isn't the solution to fuel economy, smaller displacement advanced technology V8's might be in the cards.