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Originally Posted by KaMaRow
Well Because I too just went by what I was hearing like most of the general public about what an awful car it was so I never looked at them. Its sales number would also support the disinterest the public has in the car so again I never even looked at them. But now I own one so....
On naming. Whens the last time the newest Corvette has been referred to as the stingray? Yes yes I know it is called that but none of my paper work or manual or the car itself has the words stingray anywhere on it. and no video or review calls it that. Its always the C8 and its trim 1lt 2lt 3lt and its package z51. The new one is Z06. How many Z cars does Chevy make? Z71, Z72, ZR1,Z28,Z51,ZR2,Z24, SS, RS and so on... 1LE packs on and on... Maybe new cool names would help. Hennessey gets it. They name their Builds cool names. I mean the Camaro exorcist or resurrection who doesn't want that car LOL. When you talk to basic non car people saying what Chevy you own is like spitting out a jumble of letters and numbers.
At least they aint as bad a German car companies. All their cars are just numbers with a random letter after it. 760i for example. Most times I need a spread sheet to know what Mercedes or BMW im looking at.
Hell 80% of dodges success has been attributed to its car naming.
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This is every car and in my experience the more enthusiast of an owner the more they refer to their car as their gen name.
example, bmw owners dont say I have an m3. they will say i have an F80 M3. So the person knows what generation it is. They have no problem selling their cars even tho its just simple numbers, 550, 340i, etc.
saying "I have a C8" just saves time if you're talking to anyone who knows cars. they'll know you have the newest gen vette.
same with AMG owners w204, w212, etc. zr1, zl1, z51 are just packages the platform is either camaro or corvette which is the name and I doubt any of that impacts sales