’VETTE YOUR BOTTOM DOLLAR
THE new-generation C8 Corvette has finally been announced, and as well as being the first-ever mid-engined ’Vette, this is the first time the car will leave the assembly line in a right-handdrive configuration to be made available to us Aussie battlers straight from Holden dealers. The new C8 comes fitted with the 6.2-litre LT2 V8, pumping out just shy of 500hp, and will be auto only. Local pricing is still to be confirmed, but with US prices starting at $60,000, the threat of our government’s unexplainable luxury car tax sinking its claws into this new Ferrari lookalike is worryingly high. We shared the news on our Facebook page; here’s what you had to say.
Jason Cant – It looks more like a cross between a Ferrari 458 and an Acura NSX.
Sean Hammond – It kind of looks like a redneck Ferrari, but in a good way.
Dave Anderson – It’s not a ’Vette anymore.
Joel Maddick – Yeah it is, it’s a mid-engine Corvette. This is more Corvette than the new Supra is a Supra. Greg Damiani – It looks like the first ’Vette that doesn’t have a unique look, which is a shame.
Joel Maddick – It’ll be better than anything Australia has ever produced. This is good. Imagine pulling up in your Mustang at the lights and you have a Camaro wanting to race you, and then you both get overtaken by a mid-engine sports car. Good time to be alive.
Michael Hughes – That’s a nice Corvette GTO 458.
Kim Sullings – I’ll have one, count me in!
Justin Roser – Gross, it’s bad enough seeing those dirty Mustangs.
Johan K Van Hooff – I thought it was a Honda NSX at first glance.
Ben Wakeford – Is it trying to be a Ferrari or a GT40?
Missy Marnie - No no no no NO! It’s meant to be a Corvette, not a Ferrari!
Paul Harrigan – It looks more like Eurotrash than American muscle.
Dave Baudinette – It will be interesting to see what money it is in RHD, Aussie-complianced form. I don’t think it will be a competitor to the Mustang dollar-wise, but I also can’t wait to see one in the road here.
Dwayne Hood – I am a Chevy guy, and they crossed the line. They just stole the model of the GT Ford. I hate Ford, but that is what it looks like. It’s a sad design by their engineers.
Evan Mándís – You’d hope the designer of the Ferrari 458 got some royalties for this!
Adam Conti – I would love to slap a Corvair badge onto it just to piss Corvette fans off even more.
Aiden Sibrava – Ferrari be like: “Sure, you can copy my homework, just change it up a little.”
Peter Brock – Talk about the wrong direction. If Ford had so much success revitalising the Mustang, why on earth didn’t they make a retro Stingray?
Julian Newton – Best-value supercar this world has ever seen, irrespective of Aussie price!
Phil Saunders – Auto trans only, how exciting.
Thomas Sidney Sanderson – It looks like a Grand Theft Auto V rip-off of a supercar.