A $350k ‘Vette? Don’t make me laugh. If I really wanted an über Corvette I’d get a regular Z06, take it to LPE and let them turbo the bejeezus out of it. Then I’d be out the door for about $120k, kicking ZR1 butt wherever I’d come across it. I’m still thinking about what to do with the other $230k…

Awesome, the winner shall receive Dumbass of the Year, awarded by LeftLane News.

That greedy guy is gonna lose his shirt

A lol, let me tell you why not…

There are idiots out there aren’t there? The car is set to sticker for only just North of $100K.

The CORVETTE is NOT yet ready to demand such a price.

The con-artist selling the car must have ordered an early copy and wants to sell it off as a collectible. The fool who signs for it is the biggest jackass in the world… next to the fool who said let’s not put price controls on the FORD GT and the other who said the same for the Nissan GT-R.

I’ll wait for the C7, myself.

Greed … isn’t that the American way? There is probably an idiot out there with far too much cash and little patience drop that kind of coin because s/he can. Definitely not worth it … but … gotta pay to play, right?

Blakkarr,

No “Fool” decided not to put “price controls” on the Ford GT and GT-R….because they can’t! The factory cannot set the transaction price for the dealer, to do so is a violation of several federal and state laws. The market sets the price, some for over list, most for less.

But Britney isnt in charge of her money any more

Arbeiter, while a manufacturer may not directly control the price to which a dealer sells its vehicles for, it can control the pricing by penalizing the dealers that do sell its products at unereasonable prices.

Someone will buy it and it’ll probably never see a track. Just like people bought the incredibly ugly Reventon. Exclusivity is the key.

That is the funniest thing I’ve read in a long time. No one in their right mind would ever consider buying it for that price. Even the biggest vette fanatic will know they can get an early build ZR1 for less. Heck, the guy selling these ZR1s was able to get on the list to buy 3, that should tell people something.

Inspire- Come on, saying greed is American way? Take your head out of your ass.

Arbiter- What Ted Bell said. But regardless, that still doesn’t prevent high transaction prices.

SoLoveLA- I don’t believe the majority of us care…
LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE!!!!

Jamaicandude- True, true… Or even a Callaway C16, that would be neat too.

My guess is that someone will pay 300K for this car. The guy/doll who sells it will finance his 2 Vettes and will sell them shortly thereafter. The buyer will keep his for 30 years and will appreciate at unbelievable rate. In 30 years it will cost 2 mils in today’s USD somewhere in India, China or Russia.

What good does it do to have a car sell for $350K if you don’t get 2/3 of it?

Price controlling does not mean necessarily the company keeping the price down, but jacking it up to insure they get every cent they can for it. I hate to point the the same car over and over again, but the DODGE VIPER is a poster child for a company jacking the price up.

Not long after to the car was launched dealers were marking up the price by as much as double. Chrysler got wise and just listed the car at $100K and no one who has purchased one has complained about the price.

After the first year of the FORD GT the company could have easily just said, “Because of demand we will list the car at $250K instead of the original $150K. Have all dealers know this.” It’s surprisingly easy.

The GT-R is too soon out the gate for Nissan to do much about but that will change. Either they will up production to alleviate demand and rein in the price, or just change the list price.

Demand for the product gives the manufacture leeway to do such things. Teh makers are not powerless. Nissan can simply refuse to allow dealers who don’t play ball to even have a GT-R for show. FORD could have done the same but was slow and lazy, as ever, about it.

CHRYSLER, did nothing because they really were unsure of the car for the first couple of years. Once they domesticated their monster (adding power windows and a roof that did not leak for starts), They jacked up the price to their current range point. This was with the first gen car as well.

GM is a little new to the $100K car range so it is no shocker that this may not go addressed soon if at all.

But again I stand by my assertion that no CORVETTE is worth that much yet.

Maybe the ALMS winning C5R or the C6R but not a ZR-1.

BTW, the ZR-1 was capped at 2000 units a year for the run of the C6 CORVETTE not just 2000 units period. It’s an easy mistake to make and one this con is trying to capitaplize on. Leave it to other sources besides LLN. The Z06 ships around 3500 units/year.

Try car mags plus their sites. I go with MT and Automobile.

I dont see why not, it performs better than cars that cost equal or more.

You get the dorky plastic hood window.

The Corvette with no Soul comes with a plastic gimmick.

Haha, I hope he goes bankrupt because he is probably some guy worth only like 100k and can’t even afford a ZR-1..he just hatched this plan so that he can cover the cost of his by selling the other two at huge mark ups - I hope it back fires

Correction:

Demand for the product gives the manufacturer leeway to do such things. The makers are not powerless. Nissan can simply refuse to allow dealers who don’t play ball to [not] even have a GT-R for show. FORD could have done the same but was slow and lazy, as ever, about it.

That guy is just naughty by asking 300,000$+ for a car sold with a little over 100,000$, but hey this is USA, the country of all posibilities so I won’t wonder if some losers will pay the price and then say how proud he(they) is(are) because he owns a 300,000$+ Corvette that in reality cost 100,000$+!!! Ahahaahahaha life’s great!

no one will buy that. I bet $350K on that statement.

Good freakin’ luck.

Supply, Demand. It just takes one buyer.

I’ll take one for $350 dollars that’s my max bid on GM junk

Hey nice car.

I won’t contribute much this time to the “CORVETTE fighting” again. The car, itself, resolved that fight back when the C5 first shipped.

But I know it’s daunting, to some, that GM, a mass-mass-producer of automobiles, can go from junk to greatness so quickly. It’s hard to fathom that a company that makes hundreds of thousands of units of a given vehicle, was and will be again #1in the world, can trump some many of the world’s finest sports cars so completely in just a decade or so.

Smack-talkers either just want their infamy or can not stand that the CORVETTE, a car that has been on the lower half of the curve for so long, is not made of unobtainium an yet regularly whups cars that are. They is just scare’ed !

I know I was when I first read those times the GT-R posted. But you get over it. THE GT-R has so many weaknesses, it’s not funny, but the racing variant seems to fix them.

The CORVETTE rocks and rules!

$350K is still too much to pay for any CORVETTE. I don’t think even Callaway sells their Super-Vettes for that much.

When these exclusive cars come out you see a lot of this sort of stuff. The problem is that these plans to sell orders rarely work out for the the people who come up with them. The reason is that the dealers where the orders are placed have to be in on the plan somewhere and the manufacturer has to be willing to build multiple cars for the same person. Even if this guy gets through those two hoops who knows how many of his “pre-orders” he’ll actually get. I’m sure there are a lot more than 2000 deposits and “pre-orders” on the books at the various Chevy dealerships nationwide. For many of these people it will be a LONG wait until they see their car if they get one at all.

Best of luck to this guy, if he the stars and moon align and he finds someone dumb enought to give him ANY money he should consider himself blessed.

If it had a square bottom steering wheel and goat dick leather headliner,the Euro-trash wanna be’s would think it’s Italian.

holy **** 350k? Everyone is just trying to make mondo bucks on the markup on these things, even the private sellers on Ebay, and apparently now Craigslist.

Yeah I love the Vette and I love the ZR1 but 350k is way too much and I’ll even say that a ZR1 isn’t worth that much $. Did you hear what I just said LP and Heart64? Didn’t believe you’d hear me say that didn’t you?

Anyways yeah for much less then 350k you could go and take a brand new ZO6, take it to Mallet Performance, Callaway, Lingenfelter my choice of preference, spend about 50k and get a twin turbo 427 Z06 that would be worthy of 800 to over 1000hp, and then I’d go and buy a GT-R too.

“Arbeiter, while a manufacturer may not directly control the price to which a dealer sells its vehicles for, it can control the pricing by penalizing the dealers that do sell its products at unereasonable prices”

Really Ted? How can it do that? GM can neither set a maximum or minimum price it’s dealers can charge due to fed and state laws, etc.

And I can’t help but notice the correlary here between price gouging from oil companies and dealers here. Limited supply and no competition mean prices go up with strong demand. Those that defend the oil companies in this market have nothing to say about dealers maximizing their bottom lines on a special product.

I don’t think this car is worth $350k, but there’s not a doubt in my mind it will spank a $350k Ferrari 599 Fiorano on the track.

“The CORVETTE is NOT yet ready to demand such a price.

Comment by Blakkarr, posted on March11 at 6:10 pm ”

You don’t know too much about Corvettes, do you? Classic big block Corvettes from the ’60s and early ’70s have been selling at Barret-Jackson and elsewhere for north of $350k for years now. Original L-88s and the super-rare ZL-1 come to mind. Don’t believe me? Check it out yourself.

Actually, the first 2009 ZR-1 already sold at Barrett-Jackson for $1 million, so you’re already wrong even on the new model.

The dude’s selling it on Craiglist right next to the lawnmowers and pee-stained sofas?

dont be dumn people it an very very very nice car but not for 350k

Z06ified,

I mean a new CORVETTE, not the old collectibles. Anyone who pays three times the sticker for a new CORVETTE or any car for that matter, is a sucker. That’s my feeling.

Would I pay $110K for a ZR-1? If I had it, yes, in a hummingbird’s wing beat! $350K? Make the car out of precious metals and then we’ll talk.

350k is just the price of admission to get the hottest car on the planet. This car will sell easily at that price because everyone and their father wants to drive true American muscle.

how can 1 person order 3 ZR1’s? with 2000 being made per year, i wouldn’t think 1 car dealer would get 3 ZR1’s allocated to them.

and granted, it might be better on a track than a 599, but its still a Chevy….not a Ferrari.

Its amazing when I read this and see that some people just don’t understand what “market value” is. The readers of this board probably wouldn’t pay these numbers, but I’ve been in the car business for many years now and one thing I’ve learned that even if I wouldn’t pay, someone will. Market Value is what people are willing to pay for them. If there are those willing to pay those numbers, thats market value! So, you’re wrong and they are right. And how do I know, because they’re all paying it and enjoying those cars, and those complaining aren’t. If those weren’t appropriate values for those car, then they’d be selling them for less right?

I’m in Southern California. There isn’t a Porsche, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Rolls, Bentley, or Maserati dealership that doesn’t mark up the hell out of there cars…even standard ones like F430’s and GT3’s. $300k+ for a F430 or ZR1? Hmmm. Lemme think. And yes, you routinely see them asking for $20k and $30k over on some “exclusive” cars.

Sticker is the Manufacturer’s SUGGESTED Retail Price. Not what that car should sell for. By a Chevy truck and get $10,000 off sticker. By a GT500 and pay $10k to $15K over. See what I mean?

The more exclusive, the bigger the number. And for the performance that car is going to have, what car at $350,000 is going to hang with a ZR1???! Only 1000 built?? Done. Talk him down to $300k!

u obviously have a point….but even if the market dictates $350k + for the ZR1, its still a $350,000 Chevy. i can see paying dealer mark ups on a Bentley, Lambo or even a GT3/GT2. The people who are spending this kinda coin on this can spend the money and will spend the money.
and its not about what car can “hang” with the ZR1. 99.9% of the people out there dont use their supercars to their potential. if it was me, id be driving and Italian car…and no, not a Fiat.

I have no clue why you people are saying it wont sell. I bet they sell very very well. The first zr1 has already sold for 1 mill. someone with the money wont care about the 350k price tage thats not anything to them. When they get to the dealer to buy one and there told thay cant get one till next year that this years supply is out they will go wherever they can to get one, And it dont matter that its a chevy are what it is, you think becouse it says chevy on it that the lambo will still beat it just becouse it says lambo, no. and to be honest i would rather have a chevy anyday least you can drive them. lambos are fun for about the first 5 min.

all you people also saying this isnt a lambo are any other kind of car, thats the rason i want this. When i pull up next to you at the light in a zr1 and you got your lambo just becouse its a lambo and not for performance and i blow your doors off your going to be wondering what the hell was you thinking while i have a big grin on my face