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JimFlat6 said:
The Z06 cost and pricing isnt a great mystery.
The other engineering bits like the magnesium engine cradle,
carbon fiber body parts, the bigger brakes, R/D time, etc.. arent that expensive for a GM engineering team to design, source and test when you consider the cars PR halo effect.
You've come to the same conclusion I did, Jim.
The Z06 is being sold by GM as a "loss-leader", for the sake of its PR halo effect on standard Corvettes, and maybe on other GM products. GM is currently losing billions/annum anyway, so not making any money on the Z06s is not exactly going to be a remarkable situation.
What surprises me is that nobody has yet remarked on what the Z06 tells you about how GM thinks of the technical "competence" of the standard Corvette. When they decided to build a real show-case sportscar to try to "compete" with the benchmarks at the Nürburgring, they even had to go so far as - among many other changes - to tool up a completely new frame under the skin of the Corvette to try to achieve that aim, making the Z06 a "silouette" version of the original.
Not that it matters. It'll stíll fool enough guys who lust after a standard bread-and-butter Corvette 'cos they think it'll help them pick up that Dolly Parton lookalike-wannabe who serves their breakfast at the local IHOP, after whom they lust much more than after a sporting (four-wheeled) ride.