Money. The V8 uses more fuel and oil changes cost more due to the greater oil volume, brake pads and rotors are vastly more expensive, and last but not least there is the V8 insurance. V8 sports cars have put countless children of insurance employees through college.

Hard to know if it’s worth it without knowing the torque output, but I’ll bet it’s quite high at low rpm.

Har har, you made a funny!

Check out Car and Driver May 2018. They nailed the LT2 specs over a year ago so their other predictions are worth considering. The other two engines they described were both 5.5L DOHC V8s: One a naturally aspirated 600hp screamer with a FPC and 8700rpm redline and the other a beastly 800hp twin turbo.

But some cars are assembled in the US and some are not, and of those assembled in the US there is a wide range in the proportion of American made content.

I suspect the use of superchargers is primarily due to packaging constraints. They can’t abandon the V8, and because of the V8's balance requirements the V must be 90˚. That puts the turbos way out on the sides where they interfere with the wheels and suspension.

It’s the natural progression for GM given their expertise in hybrid technology and if you look at the C8 frame displayed at the reveal the space for the battery and motor is all right there to see.

Cool! That’s my favorite part of the launch page. I’ll bet it was hard to keep mum about the C8 before the launch. 

Best C8 article I’ve read yet, and I’ve read a bunch.

They’re afraid to show them since it’s too recent.  It might look better than the C8 and it’s still up to date enough not to seem quaint.

There is. It’s an AWD hybrid like the NSX. The big center tunnel is for the battery.

495 might keep it in a lower insurance bracket.

Almost guaranteed the mid engine C8 will handle better than the Mustang, both at the limit and on the streets. You just can’t duplicate the mid engine chassis dynamic with a big heavy V8 over the front wheels.

The C7 Corvette is one of GM’s most reliable problem free cars. Hopefully the C8 remains so. It has essentially the same engine so that should be good but the Tremec DCT and new Digital Vehicle Architecture are unknowns.

There’s a button right on the center consol for manual lift. No need to use GPS if you find it scary.

They should just give every astronaut a Corvette C8 Z51 Stingray. Imagine the street cred of having space jocks gun around in Corvettes when they’re landlubbing it on Terra.

Except until now GM has been putting up front engine sports cars against rear and mid engine Porsches.

Z51 improvement is probably just tires. Maybe the eLSD helps over the mechanical LSD.

Zora Arkus-Duntov would would say the C8 has it’s engine mounted amidships.  

No the C7 used transverse composite springs front and rear.