Should Chevy Corvette have 2 versions?

**6 Shooter** · 03-05-10, 05:02 PM

Presty - I did not buy a Vette until our 3 boys moved on, family came 1st!

Instead of buying a sports car for me, we bought a new CaJun Fish & Ski boat for us to enjoy on family outing while the kids were growing-up, I'm glad that's the route we took. It was and still is a good old boat, we have many great memories from those times.

Time flies and the kids will be gone before ya know it, a Vette will come with time if you so desire.

L8TR - D

**fst64_v8pwr** · 10-20-10, 11:56 PM

agreed enough knock offs

**Mike85mph** · 10-26-10, 04:06 PM

Porsche has several - the 911 with all its variants, and then there's the Boxter and the Caymen. No reason not to have another totally different version of the Corvette in a similar fashion. I'd call it the Stingray and it would be to the parent Corvette what Boxter and Caymen are to the 911. The 1999 - 2000 FRC didn't sell because it was the "cheap" Corvette, but with a totally different car, then it will work. It should be smaller, but not as small as say, the Saturn Sky, and here's where a high performance V6 works. It should weigh about 2500 to 2800 pounds and pack about 300 to 350 hp, even if it takes a turbo. I am really confident that it will work and GM would sell a bunch of them. Prices should compare to Mustangs, and let the tuners have at it. I think it would put a dent in the Mustang market, and would really be a cool car.

**njlouc** · 10-26-10, 04:29 PM

IMHO:
The glory days of (all) sports cars are fading. To be optimistic lets say it is on hold.
GM certainly cant spend much$$ to come out with a sports car at this point. Just count your blessings that the Vette is still around. The tree huggers in this society would love to see a pedal powered Vette, let alone a Mustang competitor.

It seems to me that the FRC was a great idea, but it came about when the Vette was experiencing great sales and on top of that the $$ difference between a coupe and a FRC was minimal. That is the real reason for it's lack of interest at the time. When it became a "racer" it gained greater popularity, but by then it was up in price and weight.

**Mike85mph** · 10-26-10, 05:06 PM

I had a '99 FRC and loved it - wish I could hve kept it when I bought my '08 z06 Not everyone saw it the way I did though, until they made it the Z06.