Mercury must be in retrograde because I like the design of a Corvette and I’m at least 40 years away from the retirement home in Broward County.

If they add a manual there is no reason.  If you really want a manual, get a C7 because I’d hazard a guess prices are going to plummet. 

As the owner of a 8 year old R8, I agree.*

*(Just not until the AWD hybrid version comes out for $110k)

This old millennial isn’t going to be able to sleep tonight. It feels like waiting for Santa. I am WAY too excited.

The new 911 is fucked.

The (Audi) R8 is dead, long live the C8.

No.

Boomer here, and past owner of several generations of Corvettes.

Great article, great reveal. I like it. I stayed up too late. This old boomer is going to bed.

I am freaking the fuck out

Starting price at less than $60k.... Consider the game changed.

I think the most apt comparison would be when the NSX debuted in 1990.

How many 65 year old white dudes are gonna crash this thing by not putting the pushbutton transmission into the correct gear? I have a feeling we will soon find out...

In a show of astonishing restraint, David stops short of claiming that the Lunar Rover was based on a Willys-Overland MB platform...

Exactly. $1500 is beater car money. If it runs and drives, it’s NP. You drive it until it stops driving. If it cost more than a couple hundred bucks to fix, you scrap it and move on.

 Don't forget the Corvette branded Depends.

won’t someone think of the forgotten boomers, that hard working class that pulled up every ladder after they climbed it and told the next generation, “we got ours, tough shit for you guys.”

But Boomers, you can wear branded Corvette hats and polos and white New Balance runners in any Corvette. You can fit any Corvette with chromed OEM wheels, Lambo door hinges, and listen to Rush Limbaugh in any Corvette. You can be racist and myopic from behind the wheel of any car, regardless of where its engine may…

And just like *that* I went from complete indifference about this Corvette to actually rooting for it and looking at my finances to see if I could afford one on my modest salary. I can’t. Yet.

But also, don’t bank too much on a customer base that’s aging out/dying off. Or you’ll actually end up like Harely Davidson.