Just for reference:
Z06 Vette $47,500 (can't remember if this includes dest.)
996 (911) $65,590 (w/a few fun options, & dest. $68,xxx)
Boxster S $49,xxx (options & dest. $52,xxx)
Matt Murray
mattm@optonline.net
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Seriously though, the Corvette doesn't really bother me. If the ZO6 becomes
the car to have, I can accept that. For some reason, though, I get hung up
on the Viper. In my mind the Viper is an exotic...something reasonably
beyond the limits of cost of a "stock car" in what is about the ultimate in
grass roots motorsports.
Yeah, I know, this cost thing is a real slippery slope. There are already
cars in SS that cost more than the Viper, like the NSX and Lotus Esprit
Turbo. . .
. . . I also know that cars in the ultimate stock
class aren't going to be cheap. However, I think there has to be a line
drawn somewhere to separate the "high end sports cars" (phrase from the SCAC
memo) that are Super Stock and the exotic cars that go straight to SP or
higher. I think that drawing that line above the Viper is too high.
Steve Wynveen
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