Mithras:

I can understand why some people might like them, patriotism, straight-line speed, power/money ratios, rarity in a market (europe), but I can't look at these things and see them as anything other than quick-to-fast pieces of crap with mostly cutting edge technology from 1935 (chassis) or 1965 (engines).

there is a reason that 80% of them won't be on the road in 15 years and that's because they are pieces of crap.

I've done a fair amount of tack work in a ZR1 and other fast corvettes. They are capable, fast, cheap and still, they are crap.

It will take a lot of time and numerous superlative, LASTING generations of these cars to make me thing anything else. 

95% of cars on the road are disposable, it's planned obsolescence. Companies want to sell you a car every 4-6 years and make as much money as they can in the process. I sat in a 130k Viper once and it felt like a K-car. I hate to sound overly nostalgic, but they don't make them like the used to.