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Oh definitely. What I "asked" for was just a pipedream. I do not expect anything like that to ever come out. I was just thinking aloud.

A lot of wishes and fishes here but the dream of seeing another performance model above the Vette is just that, a dream IMO. We will just skip the fact that GMs possible ace up the sleeve here is a ZR1 that could be 90% of what I see being asked for here (like weight reduction). As stands now though, any performance model above the Vette will still be called a Vette, in one form or another.

Yeah, I'm not picturing a 250-500k car here. I'm picturing something that starts at probably 100k, weighs maybe 300, 400lbs less. It will be a much cleaner body. The aero will be more built in instead of tacked on, like a 911 GT3 or most McLarens.

The only thing I may do with the Corvette that would be "above" the current one is make one that doesn't accommodate golf clubs in the rear. They could probably utilize 95% of the current vehicle but make it a tad smaller, better proportions, and it would be lighter. I think that little adjustment may make it a tad more dialed in because it definitely wouldn't be considered a GT car, it would ONLY be a sports car. I'm not trying to take anything away from the current car because it's one bad-a car but I think this would allow them to turn the wick up to 11 on every driving aspect of the car. Just a random idea...

Why would they do that? THE Corvette could be THAT hyper car. The many versions of it that Im proposing. What you are proposing is a death knell to EITHER the Corvette OR GM's next level hypercar that will NOT be called Corvette. Talk about waste of resources. The resources (money and time) of engineering such a hyper car remain the same whether a new hyper car adorns a Corvette badge or not, but the 70 years of Corvette branding goes to shyte by doing this. Creating a new name, new marketing, new sales angles for both the new hyper car NOT named Corvette and THE Corvette itself could be better put to use on other projects since Corvette has a 70 year built-in name recognition as THE sports car FROM GM. Better still, the Corvtette is WORLD known as AMERICA's sports car... If resources (time and money) are going to be spent on hyper cars, and new marketing and sales angles are to be established for a new hyper car, might as well use that 70 year history of Corvette, but SPIN off Corvette on being its OWN brand and creating a hyper car FOR the NEW Corvette brand. Then to secure bread and butter sales, create a fast as phoque SUV for the new Corvette brand. The Corvette logo and JAKE with Corvette Racing have plenty of brand recognition to pull of a Corvette brand with Corvettes in the GT realm, track realm, hyper car realm and in the fast as phoque SUV realm. Mercedes SL has gone down the route you are proposing. The SL was a race car and a GT car only to become a very expensive Ford Thunderbird. The modern Mercedes exotic/hyper cars only last a couple of years of production only selling a couple of thousand. That works for Mercedes as Mercedes NEVER worked hard enough to put ANY brand recognition on a long production run sports car like a Ferrari Dino/ 308/328/348/F355/360/F430/458/488/F8/SF90 The SF90 you are talking about... has its lineage IN the 488 Pista you dumb aZZ... Its a continuation of... Its a succesor to Dino/ 308/328/348/F355/360/F430/458/488/F8 Ferrari has many itenerations of those models each being a tad different from each other specializing in different areas of sports driving. Different weight savings, different suspensions and suspension tunings and the like for track work or for grand turismo driving. Porsche does the same thing for the 911. The 911 has different eras too. But with Porsche, Porsche has kept the 911 name but chose different chassis designation numbers to differentiate the new successors. Same for Corvette with C1 and C2 and C4 and C8 but with Chevrolet, only one model does double duty for GT and race track versions. When a track version comes along, Corvette keeps the GT part of the car IN the track car. But...Porsche and Ferrari ALSO produce a LINEAGE of hypercars. Porsche started out its first hypercar in the mid-80s based on the 911. Added turbo and AWD which then became a 911 turbo staple. But the 959 was born which became the Carrera GT. 959/Carerra GT/918 Ferrari though, has a LONG history of mid-engined hypercars and V12 front engined GT cars... Road cars to sell to finance racing. succesors upon succesors upon succesors. Lamborghini ALSO falls in to this category. Funny you mention McLaren because McLaren ALSO has been following IN the footsteps of Ferrari and Porsche and Lamborghini. McLaren has branched out from the F1 in the 1990s and kept lineages and create succesors year after year after year after decade after decade. Mercedes is the ONLY one to stop lineages to create new names. Only the SL has continued on but the SL today is just a fancy, expensive personal coupe Thunderbird convertible... that is NOT what I want Corvette to become... NOT a Mercedes competitor but an ALL Ferrari/Porsche competitor. A Ford GT competitor. Nothing from Mercedes because Mercedes hypercars just become garage queens.

Here we see Laura Branigan peforming in Chile in 1988 and singing Alphaville's "Forever Young" (1984) to a live audience. She seemed like a neat lady. And the Chilean audience can teach SOME Americans a thing or two about class, which makes sense because Chile is often considered the most progressive country in Latin America, with Argentina and Uruguay also in the running.

THAT exactly is what I want too. What I eluded to when I said this: yes. exactly. Yes. it is the finish line...but... What @ccap41 said And with that kind of Corvette, the price does NOT have to be hypercar priced , but Corvette priced and compete with LaFerraris and Porsche 918s and Ford GTs and be EXACTLY like those cars...

REV= Ram EV

Or you could just stop beating this particular dead horse. BTW, that Ferrari wastes most of that near 1000HP with that paltry 590 foot-lbs and for MORE than double the money of said 911. And why in the hell would GM waste R&D dollars on another ICE sports car that YOU want to be above the Vette (when it is clearly NOT needed) when they are going all EV? At that point, that little Italian trash will be as irrelevant as the horse and buggy. Just stop this stupid crusade of yours already. It's just old, dumb, repetitive, and just beyond any further explanation at this point.

Enjoying my week off, catching up on sleep, puttering around the house. Got the Jeep washed to get the salt off. My sister traded her ‘15 Trax w/ 26k miles on a new ‘23 Equinox today, wanted a bigger car before she starts snowbirding down South. Nice car.

Yes those are all good points. Agree on the ‘off white’ thing. A little more buff / tan in the color of the seats may be better for cleanliness long term. this is a good rig for someone who wants enough comfort for themselves, without the size of the vehicle getting too large. Still has good leg room front and back. Really airy cabin with the panoramic roof. I think if they ever redesign the dash with more of an upright screen, that’s ok…but the current layout I was ok with. With it angled towards you as the driver it definitely is easier to see and easier to operate as things are closer in reach. I will say this, I probably wouldn’t look at this vehicle in anything besides Avenir trim. No valid reason they couldn’t build this in the US or Oshawa. Maybe if they re-introduced this vehicle with a new name, that would help. ‘Envision’ never has seemed to generate any traction from a marketing perspective.

It is and it would be more of an engineering exercise really, probably would not make any money to build a hyper car. And the Corvette beats any other American or Asian sports car in performance already so not like any of GM’s key rivals are doing it. All the hyper cars or from Europe, it would be nice for America to build one, but probably not going to happen.

Or GM could just make a sports car above the Corvette to be more on par with the Ferrari SF90 and McLaren Senna both of which can smoke the 911 GT3 RS or 488 Pista all day long. The 911 GT3 RS 0-60 time is 50% slower than the Ferrari SF90, the top speed is nearly 30 mph less. Big gap between the hyper cars and the super cars.