My E-Ray has been nothing but awesome. I had, and my wife has a Stingray. We love them both. Even my Corvette club brothers Z06's are true beast. I've driven them all. It's so nice that we as Corvette Enthusiasts has those choices so far
@longisland5161 From the start you feel the propulsion in the E-Ray. No lag at all. It definitely gets the jump on the Z06. The E-Ray has a more tame feel, while the the Z06 has a much more POWERFUL feel. Truth be told, you have to get the E-Ray up in speed to REALLY enjoy it's max performance. The Z06 is again a beast with "Unrelenting Power". Quick=E-Ray / Fast= Z06. Hopefully that helps
The market never plummeted. The market is exactly where it should be and should have been. The high price market was an indirect result of impatience and greed by scalpers trying to flip the cars and people dying to be the first one to get one and drive it at launch just to lose 35k in a 2 year period the only cars to lose that much money are mercedes, bmw and other foreigns. Alot of people made a ton of money on these cars and alot of impatient people lost a ton of money on the car as well. But it drove up production and it kept the prices high. But where the market is at right now is what it should have been at launch. Paying 120k for a 70k car is insane unless you are talking top trim levels.
As someone who's been in the car business 30 years I concur. This is a car correction. It's a cycle. It always works that way. I've been doing this for decades and I knew it was going to correct itself. 3.19 million cars sit on car lots. The car price is a price. 50 too high pricing out your core buyers. If the lantis is about to do 35% across the board cut in a few days, my insider gave me that also. TK will confirm that a TK's garage a friend of mine I hell from New York. I'm telling you what I know. I agree with your account. Housing is next. Realtor says 1997. I'm telling you what I know people on the inside are telling me it's about to come down. I already know it is Happy New Year to you as well. Said derrick
@ronaldwhite4223 a market for anything will always be high for now on. Covid was a test for business owners. Raise the prices on everything and see how it effects the purchase of products. People with a ton of money got scared and bought up more food than they can account for. The whole world saw that happen. So why lower the prices on things when people are going to buy them anyways and not fight back right ? So of course the housing will always be up along with other things. Cars are no exception. Look at how the playstation 5 launched. 600 bucks in the store and people who are impatient bought gaming systems priced at 1000 bucks or more. If people had more common sense than they do money this wouldnt happen and scalpers would be forced to resell their purchases way less maybe 100 bucks more than the store price just to get them off. But too many people have access to money that lack patience and or common sense and that drives up the prices for everyone. Unfortunately that will never change. It will just get worse and worse every year. Anything thats hot right now is priced at nearly double the value especially housing. But what people need to understand is that one day there is a big possibility that all these things and the markets that they are in will eventually correct its depending on events. But greed and impatience will never die down.
Lucky for me im patient, i purchase by value and sale price. The c8s are fantastic but i wouldnt pay that price for one just to say yea i got one. When they come back down to their sticker price then yea i might buy one. I dont have to have the newest most sought after vehicle or product thats severely overpriced. I will buy something else and let others take that financial hit. I dont have millions in the bank to throw away money just to be one of the first to have something off of bragging rights. Thats a rich mans game
Speaking from painful experience, the first time you hit a pot hole or other similar road hazard at normal speed with carbon fiber wheels, you’ll learn the definition of brittle. With only an inch and half of rubber between the pavement and wheel, there’s zero cushion.
I got my comp yellow E-ray 10 days ago and love it. They need to fix the head light gap, but its a monster and I am still in the break in area. As for the wheels your on point that not many are going to want to pay the 11K extra. I was going to order them until they raised the cost once again. I did get some after market wheels that are close to CF but mono block alum. Taking 30lbs extra off rotating mass makes a difference and hopefully stronger then the Cf. After years of high inflation, GM raised the damn price of both z06 and E-ray in 2025 which didnt help.. then loan rates are still high.. it was just a matter of time before people see the effects.
I have an alum/alloy and when i got tires they gouged 2 or 3 of them with one being damn near half the wheel. The only reason it wasn't a hassle is because I had warranty on them and had no reason to make it up plus it was a nice clean line all the way around where it was damaged as opposed to chunks if I had hit something. I wouldn't trust anyone working on anything exotic unless you know they know.
For the Riptide Blue... Yes on Black forged wheels (or maybe polished). Yes on carbon flash mirrors. Yes on engine lights. Yes on red engine cover to go with the red valve covers. Change the carbon pieces beside engine to Paragon BLACK Billet Strut Tower Support Bars. No on blue seatbelts (black seatbelts and stealth pack). No on red calippers (make them black or gray). No on exposed carbon fiber ground effects. Just ad more carbon flash and the riptide blue itself will pop the whole car.
I would have put the blue and black interior with that color car. Also a higher level carbon fiber inside. Hate the plain white stitching, do blue, red or yellow. Need blue calipers
Patience is gold. Would I like a C8, of course! Would I pay $100-200k for somthing only worth half, noooo! Pretty soon, I will pick up a loaded z06 on the cheap.
You're right about CF wheels on the e-ray, they don't make sense, the car's a straight-line demon. The CF wheels maybe make sense on a z06. Our area also has an e-ray with CF wheels they discounted $7K, can't sell it.
On one hand you down Chevy for not putting an engine appearance packing for a car show, then you say they shouldn’t have put the carbon fiber wheels. Which one do you want. I think they are just showing different options and only have so many cars to display. I think carbon fiber wheels was a good choice for the auto show. Whether or not you order them is up to the buyer.
@rlstrad2059 sounds awful in my mind with the wine of electric motor and when you start it but you go ahead . . I have zero evidence . Just commin sense . I know my 21 C8 headlights were 1500 apiece and when the electric components or battery needs replacing I would guess not getting at NAPPA
I like the sound of mine. lol As for the Battery it has an 8 year warranty. After that Im sure the price for a whopping 1.9Kwh batt will be 2K or under.
@joem7755 to be honest really dont care that much. I have dealt with GM on their warranty on my 21 C8 for leaky headlights after 1 year . A lot of fun but you do you.
Is any electric car a keeper? Just like the BMW, Audi, Mercedes- they are 5 year 100k cars and then you dump them and someone else buys them for pennies in a dollar that knows how to repair them. Definitely not the dealers.😅
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A C8 E-ray is a very overpriced C8 Stingray. It's got the same motor. That's why the C8 Z06 has a flat plane crank and sounds different. That difference is enough to justify it has a different character.
Lol what was that all about? Nothing on market value or current and nothing about c8 z06 having trouble selling when people are still waiting and I don't care what anyone says the exposed carbon areo with the z07 package cars will hold value more than any of the c8s only 2200 or so z07 package bulit for all of 2024 and for the 2025 good luck on getting the carbon areo extremely hard to find and order
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My E-Ray has been nothing but awesome. I had, and my wife has a Stingray. We love them both. Even my Corvette club brothers Z06's are true beast. I've driven them all. It's so nice that we as Corvette Enthusiasts has those choices so far
I got my eray almost 2 weeks ago.. its stiff as hell. I cant imagine how bad the z06 is.. lol
@mikejones3096 do the E-ray feel quicker then the z06 ? What’s the difference in driving both them
@longisland5161 From the start you feel the propulsion in the E-Ray. No lag at all. It definitely gets the jump on the Z06. The E-Ray has a more tame feel, while the the Z06 has a much more POWERFUL feel. Truth be told, you have to get the E-Ray up in speed to REALLY enjoy it's max performance. The Z06 is again a beast with "Unrelenting Power". Quick=E-Ray / Fast= Z06. Hopefully that helps
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The market never plummeted. The market is exactly where it should be and should have been. The high price market was an indirect result of impatience and greed by scalpers trying to flip the cars and people dying to be the first one to get one and drive it at launch just to lose 35k in a 2 year period the only cars to lose that much money are mercedes, bmw and other foreigns. Alot of people made a ton of money on these cars and alot of impatient people lost a ton of money on the car as well. But it drove up production and it kept the prices high. But where the market is at right now is what it should have been at launch. Paying 120k for a 70k car is insane unless you are talking top trim levels.
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As someone who's been in the car business 30 years I concur. This is a car correction. It's a cycle. It always works that way. I've been doing this for decades and I knew it was going to correct itself. 3.19 million cars sit on car lots. The car price is a price. 50 too high pricing out your core buyers. If the lantis is about to do 35% across the board cut in a few days, my insider gave me that also. TK will confirm that a TK's garage a friend of mine I hell from New York. I'm telling you what I know. I agree with your account. Housing is next. Realtor says 1997. I'm telling you what I know people on the inside are telling me it's about to come down. I already know it is Happy New Year to you as well. Said derrick
@ronaldwhite4223 a market for anything will always be high for now on. Covid was a test for business owners. Raise the prices on everything and see how it effects the purchase of products. People with a ton of money got scared and bought up more food than they can account for. The whole world saw that happen. So why lower the prices on things when people are going to buy them anyways and not fight back right ? So of course the housing will always be up along with other things. Cars are no exception. Look at how the playstation 5 launched. 600 bucks in the store and people who are impatient bought gaming systems priced at 1000 bucks or more. If people had more common sense than they do money this wouldnt happen and scalpers would be forced to resell their purchases way less maybe 100 bucks more than the store price just to get them off. But too many people have access to money that lack patience and or common sense and that drives up the prices for everyone. Unfortunately that will never change. It will just get worse and worse every year. Anything thats hot right now is priced at nearly double the value especially housing. But what people need to understand is that one day there is a big possibility that all these things and the markets that they are in will eventually correct its depending on events. But greed and impatience will never die down.
Lucky for me im patient, i purchase by value and sale price. The c8s are fantastic but i wouldnt pay that price for one just to say yea i got one. When they come back down to their sticker price then yea i might buy one. I dont have to have the newest most sought after vehicle or product thats severely overpriced. I will buy something else and let others take that financial hit. I dont have millions in the bank to throw away money just to be one of the first to have something off of bragging rights. Thats a rich mans game
Speaking from painful experience, the first time you hit a pot hole or other similar road hazard at normal speed with carbon fiber wheels, you’ll learn the definition of brittle. With only an inch and half of rubber between the pavement and wheel, there’s zero cushion.
Speed Phenoms buddy had hit GT350 CF rim explode on the 5 or some other POS interstate in SoCal.
I got my comp yellow E-ray 10 days ago and love it. They need to fix the head light gap, but its a monster and I am still in the break in area. As for the wheels your on point that not many are going to want to pay the 11K extra. I was going to order them until they raised the cost once again. I did get some after market wheels that are close to CF but mono block alum. Taking 30lbs extra off rotating mass makes a difference and hopefully stronger then the Cf. After years of high inflation, GM raised the damn price of both z06 and E-ray in 2025 which didnt help.. then loan rates are still high.. it was just a matter of time before people see the effects.
C8s are now a dime a dozen.
Market is over saturated. Used ones piling up at dealerships. They were hot for a minute.
I have an alum/alloy and when i got tires they gouged 2 or 3 of them with one being damn near half the wheel. The only reason it wasn't a hassle is because I had warranty on them and had no reason to make it up plus it was a nice clean line all the way around where it was damaged as opposed to chunks if I had hit something. I wouldn't trust anyone working on anything exotic unless you know they know.
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CCB brakes should have been an option too....NEW $135k++ Eray's are competing against used C8Z06 cars (which prices are falling)
For the Riptide Blue... Yes on Black forged wheels (or maybe polished). Yes on carbon flash mirrors. Yes on engine lights. Yes on red engine cover to go with the red valve covers. Change the carbon pieces beside engine to Paragon BLACK Billet Strut Tower Support Bars. No on blue seatbelts (black seatbelts and stealth pack). No on red calippers (make them black or gray). No on exposed carbon fiber ground effects. Just ad more carbon flash and the riptide blue itself will pop the whole car.
I would have put the blue and black interior with that color car. Also a higher level carbon fiber inside. Hate the plain white stitching, do blue, red or yellow. Need blue calipers
It’s called a price equilibrium. It’s still trying to find its place. Always changing though 🤷♂️
Patience is gold. Would I like a C8, of course! Would I pay $100-200k for somthing only worth half, noooo!
Pretty soon, I will pick up a loaded z06 on the cheap.
When is the ERay R coming out? I heard even more E power
You're right about CF wheels on the e-ray, they don't make sense, the car's a straight-line demon. The CF wheels maybe make sense on a z06. Our area also has an e-ray with CF wheels they discounted $7K, can't sell it.
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On one hand you down Chevy for not putting an engine appearance packing for a car show, then you say they shouldn’t have put the carbon fiber wheels. Which one do you want. I think they are just showing different options and only have so many cars to display. I think carbon fiber wheels was a good choice for the auto show. Whether or not you order them is up to the buyer.
If only corvettes were ALL WHEEL DRIVE, they wouldn’t have any problems whatsoever, it’s the future, what else not happening to corvette's
Wonder if it comes with carbon fiber valve cover as an option? Car look awesome.
CF rims is crazy high add on not needed
The Eray does not have a good sound and imagine repair costs batteries etc when out of warranty’s
E-Ray sounds incredible, and what EVIDENCE do you have about high repair costs?
@rlstrad2059 sounds awful in my mind with the wine of electric motor and when you start it but you go ahead . . I have zero evidence . Just commin sense . I know my 21 C8 headlights were 1500 apiece and when the electric components or battery needs replacing I would guess not getting at NAPPA
I like the sound of mine. lol As for the Battery it has an 8 year warranty. After that Im sure the price for a whopping 1.9Kwh batt will be 2K or under.
@joem7755 to be honest really dont care that much. I have dealt with GM on their warranty on my 21 C8 for leaky headlights after 1 year . A lot of fun but you do you.
Is any electric car a keeper? Just like the BMW, Audi, Mercedes- they are 5 year 100k cars and then you dump them and someone else buys them for pennies in a dollar that knows how to repair them. Definitely not the dealers.😅
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A C8 E-ray is a very overpriced C8 Stingray. It's got the same motor. That's why the C8 Z06 has a flat plane crank and sounds different. That difference is enough to justify it has a different character.
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Carbon fiber always looks like cheap plastic.
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My car in profile picture. 2lt z07 package with exposed carbon areo the price is right i will sell 1000 miles
ERay are cringe. I rather have a C8 stingray
Lol what was that all about? Nothing on market value or current and nothing about c8 z06 having trouble selling when people are still waiting and I don't care what anyone says the exposed carbon areo with the z07 package cars will hold value more than any of the c8s only 2200 or so z07 package bulit for all of 2024 and for the 2025 good luck on getting the carbon areo extremely hard to find and order
C8 are regular traffic! Shares switch gear with equinox. Garbage cars, Temu build quality with a cheapened exotic look...sincerely,Chevy hater 😂
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They are ugly if you ask me
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