balthazar

2 reasons IMO. It's not what the Corvette 'is', and the C7 is such an incredible design, increasingly standing out as more and more brands go to / offer a mid-engined car… to me ME is boring by now. In dim light they all look the same and they seem even more constrained in design by the engineering.

I don't think it's just about money. Ford has been building trucks since 1905, they've been crushing the full-size segment for 50+ years, trucks are hardwired into the Corporation's DNA. And now -- much to toyota's dismay no doubt -- Ford is doubling down on trucks and is just beginning to flex it's muscle in the only spot toyoter has had any success; where the 'coma sits. Toyoter has always been focused on cars (and CUVs now), but the cars are still looking to continue to constrict, and their trucks aren't anywhere near where the cam/rolla is. toyota is going to see some real erosion, IMO.

The materials look pretty excellent, but stylilistically I don’t like it. Then again, I feel the move to mid-engine is wrong for the Corvette.

The vast bulk of the F-Series is the F-150. The problem with the theory that “if toyoter got on it” is that Ford NEVER sits still on the F-150, and they’re LIGHT YEARS ahead of where the tundra will be 2 generations from now. It’s a no-win scenario.

I prefer a more sedate tonal delivery (like yours) to the hyped / on speed deliveries most of these review videos offer, so kudos there. The voice level, yes, could be higher, but ALSO the background music needs to be more like 50%; it should stay in the background & not compete with the voiceover. Overall I say; well done!

Hmmmm; 1 generation/a decade old, little in the way of changes, not much effort put in? Reminds me, perhaps, of another car's eerily similar descriptions… what was it?? Oh yes. The Vega. ?

They still make Lotus’s???

Yep: ‘53-55. BTW: I love the CTS coupe. It’s like a road-bound UFO.

4 '53 Eldorados together (out of 532 built / 192 known survivors as of 2012) ~

'38 Dodge ~

I think due to the well-known fact it's replacement is coming, Cadillac jacked the price for '19. It was $35,500 in 2018.

So a "rebadged toyoter"; a marketplace also-ran? That's you suggestion for success???

Yep- hence the many posts here stating such. As gas engines got their legs back under them, diesels would have had to keep pace.

Again: no argument against the O/P.

Those are the competition : Ford <> Chevy <> GMC <> Dodge. They compete, and hard, against EACH OTHER. nissan / toyoyo are after-thoughts, market-wise. 2018 F-Series was 909,330.

Yer funny

Then again- you read the text here and maybe I'm off in my assessment. 4.3L V6 diesel, 101 HP, 5-spd manual, plus basically aping Chrysler's Ram Induction 'math' of the 1960s.

It weighed more than a Cutlass V6 tho- by hundreds of pounds. 350-D might have been pretty close. Point is, 110 HP in the midst of an era of top-to-bottom performance malaise is not as big a deal as hindsight would imply. Dad had a '77 Safari 301, with 135 HP, that I drove 1000s of miles. No speed demon, certainly heavier than a Cutlass diesel, but it was 'fine' for regular transportation duty. I don't think the diesel's performance killed it then - it was the unreliability.

Sure… just like the BMW/Daimler alliance.

Don't forget :

Remember; this is an era when the base motor Corvette had but 175/185 HP.

Really? How are Uber & Lyft's profits? They're also "knowingly" chasing EV sales; how's the profits there?

Wheel off the Spirit of America LSR car ~ For reference; per the dually Ford behind it, the Ford should be on 20" rims.

THIS is a panoramic sunroof! ~

Can't argue against that. It may have also sped up turbo proliferation, as they were sorely needed on '70s-80s diesels. But GM had a ton of turbo experience already at that point.