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Originally Posted by MATTY-1LE
Not to start a debate thread, but i respectfully disagree. This car wont be affordable to the common man anymore. Retirees, older men yes, but not the common man (myself 73k a year salary) will never see one of these in a garage. Heck even the c7s are selling 45-55 used.
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Fair enough, yea its pretty hard to afford a Corvette if you are a younger working man. I may have taken some liberty with the scenario of a guy with kids having a C8 in the garage. But, consider this:
An article from jalopnik...someone in the comments compared the real inflation adjusted cost of Corvettes, to household median income in current dollars, and then determined how many "years of income" people needed to purchase a corvette:
https://jalopnik.com/the-corvette-is...-30-1783232862
1956 ~$25,600 / ~$11,000 = 2.33 years per ‘Vette
1966: ~$30,300 / $14,600 = 2.08 years per ‘Vette
1976: ~$32,400 / $19,000 = 1.71 years per ‘Vette
1986: ~$58,500 / $23,600 = 2.48 years per ‘Vette
1996: ~$57,400 / $27,800 = 2.06 years per ‘Vette
2006: ~$52,500 / $35,500 = 1.48 years per ‘Vette
2016: ~$55,400 / $38,700 = 1.43 years per ‘Vette
So even if the C8 costs slightly more than the C7, it is still far more affordable than the C1-4 cars ever were.