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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Corvette with no Soul comes with a plastic gimmick.

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

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.

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.