No other performance car made this jump. Current times is a shit excuse. There's zero justification for the significant price increase.
I think you're looking for a direct comparison, but it's the market in general... We now live in a world where a top-of-the-line Rogue, along with its competitors can cross the $40k threshold, and a popularly equipped Altima is $32-34k with a 4-cyl/turbo-4... prices have been creeping up over the years. It's just a shocker because the last new Z was released in a completely different era. You also can't find many examples where a manufacturer took 10+ years to redesign a car that was actively on sale all those years (look no further than Nissan).
That's where I keep landing, too, and I don't *want* to cast aspersions on Nissan but this feels like a deliberate move.
You're *definitely* right about most vehicles steadily increasing in price over the years. Most sports cars do have relatively long generational cycles, though.
Exactly right. I've noticed this, as well. Some reviews I've been reading mention it but only as a very brief aside. As if to say "that's not the one you're going to purchase, come on, now." ?
Yeah but what will it be in 2022 with covid effected issues?
It's already been dealing with effects of COVID.
Price given was for the 2019 and then 2020 …covid didn’t start until end of 2020….and then there is the two year wait…if your lucky
Looking at the Corvette's price increase pattern this is completely normal. It almost always goes up by a little every year, something like a few hundred to about a grand.
$60,900 is the current 2022 MSRP (US). It's barely gone up since the C8 went on sale and is barely more than the last year C7.
The COVID-19 pandemic began in late 2019. The C8 Corvette entered the market as a 2020 model with an MSRP of *just* under $60,000 ($59,995) and has only increased in price to $60,900 as of the 2022 model year. This car has always been a product of the pandemic environment.
