Still ~$20k more expensive and not as performant.

Not necessarily—the Corvette sports the reputation of having the highest auto mortality rate per driver, iirc.

surprisingly he gets it regularly maintained according to Nissan’s schedule. But yeah he always tries to guilt me into driving it whenever I’m in Seattle (not often, I’m from socal). I always refuse because it’s practically new and I’d feel like shit if anything happened to it lol.

Been there, done that as the 3rd owner of a Corvette.

I think BiffMagnetude’s post is probably accurate for some of the owners.

You are right in your assessment. Know a guy in town with 2015 Z06 who drives it a few weekends in the summer, and that’s it. Wouldn’t want to damage the resale potential, don’t cha know.

I’m not a Corvette guy, my dream car has always been a Porsche 911. Fell in love with them when I was 8, took my 32 years to buy one. Seems to be a similar situation with Porsches. I was surprised when looking for one how many were 20 years old with only 20k miles on them. I asked one of the guys who’s car I looked at…

After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true.

I work with these guys who never drive them. They are around my age, 55-64, they remember the C2-C3 years and they always wanted one. The cars never get driven as intended, ever.

They are just keeping them safe. Corvettes don’t do well in the wild

A friends neighbor bought one the day he retired in 2002. He barely got past 500 miles before he died in 2012. His son has put more miles on it by just taking it to the grocery store once a month.

Back when I was in college and it was just a late-model used car, my friend owned a ‘63, f.i., 4-speed, split-window Corvette. It was his daily driver (except it was very hard to start in cold weather) and it was never garaged. We drove that car 250 miles in a blizzard. It was actually quite good in the snow.…

A friend of mine’s grandpa had a standing order with his local Chevrolet dealer for a new fully loaded Corvette for every year. It didn’t matter if it was the same car or not. Red over tan. Every single year. He kept his cars but I would imagine the Hawaiian shirt crowd does this a lot.

2015 C7 M7 Z06/Z07 - 41,000 miles Wouldn’t sell it for less than $120k. Comes with winter tires used.

It’s not so surprising. A lot of people see the Corvette as a pinnacle car... the dream car. It needs to be saved for special, precious moments. Why drive all the fun out of it? It is safer to keep it in the garage and only take it out on dry days for a quick jaunt to the juice bar and to the do-it-yourself spray car…

For men of a certain age, a Corvette is a lifetime achievement award from that man to himself. He really just wants to prove he could get himself a Corvette, thus fulfilling his Manifest Boomer Destiny.  

The Corvette is a slightly over normal sports car, seen as a lifetime achievement by many of its owners. There you go... You have your answer.

“Why does this happen?”

Because Vette’s are a suburbanite status symbol. Something to fill the hole in their 3 car garage and leave the door open on the weekends so all the neighbors driving by can see it.

I for one am tired of celebrities being asked about social issues. Like these people are singers, actors and whatnot. They aren’t (with a few exceptions) dedicating their lives to a struggle, they’re dedicated to a craft (also a noble endavour). Like, the reason why I can’t see it for Kendrick Lamar is because that…