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Originally Posted by DisturbedSS
Since everyone here seems to measure performance based only on straight line 1/4 mile driving, the suspension improvements means little - on a real race track, that suspension REALLY comes into play, totally 100% agree. Im not a tracker these days however, but raced often when I was younger.
There are few Helllcats produced and on the road today, enhancing value - but its not an exotic car by any stretch, so will never retain value like one. It looks like a plain old challenger with a body kit from a distance. Corvettes are iconic, challengers are not - its all about brand, like paying extra for a fancy label shirt even though its made from the same cotton material with buttons as a cheaper one. The Hellcat should have been its own unique shape, not modeled after an existing line. Since the Viper is going away, it could have been the new replacement.
I disagree 100% on Corvettes retained value, I sold my 2013 GS for exactly what I paid for it. Now if you go pick a 2016 stingray off the lot and take it to a dealer 3 months later, then yes, you will get pounded on value. I have a sneaky feeling the newer model Vettes will depreciate faster than the older gens...but thats just a guess. Whenever you radically change a cars cosmetics, its a whole new metric.
Sick car = YES! then again you own a Z/28 man, cmon....hardly fair. I like it! 
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everyone measures performance in a straight line but I will agree that it is often the benchmark for performance/muscle more so than a road course which will reveal the better handling car and will more often than not prove that muscle/horsepower is not the final arbiter for 'performance' for everyone.
Did you buy your GS new? I always liked the C6 GS but I know they have taken a huge drop in value. Selling it straight out is definitely better than trading it in.
I imagine there were some decent discounts on your 2013 given it was the end of the model (C6) run which is great. That is what I saw on my Z/28 - I bought it for over $26,000 of MSRP.
'Few Hellcats produced'? Not by a long shot - I believe there were 7100-ish in 2015 but nearly 12000 in 2016! So they are far from rare especially when you compare those numbers against ZL1s and Z/28s.
But buying a new ZL1 today will be much different than buying a new one in even two years. We saw that with the 5th Gen ZL1 - when they were new, often they sold at MSRP (or higher) and by the end of the model run, you could buy a new 2015 ZL1 for 20% and more off MSRP. I know that because I did that when I bought mine in December of 2014.
And the 6G ZL1s, like all those before them, will not retain their value any better or worse. Those who buy the first model and pay MSRP or more soon learn that when the market gets more saturated, the car they paid a premium for is just another used car, albeit a fantastic one for performance!
Just compare what was being paid new versus what they bring today - 2007 Shelby GT500s, 1990 Corvette ZR1s, 2012 ZL1s, 2014 Z/28s, etc, etc - it happens every time. And you may even see that with the Hellcats - I am betting you will.
Maybe in 20-25 years the value will return some for those first run models but wow - their values have dropped enormously. Which is very common.
Like I said before, if you are buying a car and concerned about resale value, don't buy a new one - buy one a year or two off new. Let the first owner take the biggest depreciation hit.
To each his own!
