Hello,
I had a choice of buying a 2014 C7 Corvette with 42k miles and an automatic transmission for 26k or a 2013 C6 Corvette with 57k miles with a stick shift for 23k and I chose the C6.

* Last updated by: skewedTotheLeft on 12/11/2019 @ 9:33 AM *

Nice color. Had two and biting at the bit for the mid-engine. Marketing says I fit right in with that median age targeted for the vette... 68yrs and above. Picked up a set of OEM wipers and walked the lot. Then, for more entertainment I took a tour in the showroom and there it was. Top of the line, last year's front engine with all the checkoffs from the build sheet. 140k. Really? And the ?445hp mid-e almost smokes it at the line for half the price? Then the meat puppet meter when 'shewing' when they mentioned a 700hp mid-e for 2021. I'm that far from the door handle.

You took a 10k hit between years is the guess?

Wanted to get a little auto experience so I worked at a chevy dealer for a few years. Threw me in 'heavy line' where you rebuild rear ends, transmissions, swap engines, intake manifolds... Ready?... I had my share of changing out corvette's throw away front and rear wheel bearing housings called, "center HUBs".

That's why this 'sports car' is so responsive handling wise. This is not what you think is a ripoff, but it's better known as an 'up-sell'. Safety wise, I'm changing out oil on the vettes, intake manifold leaks, and then zero in on the center hubs while the car is up in the air. More up-sell is looking for oil leaks, belt, hoses, anything related to making money via this incentive. So those up-sell phone calls are for your safety. Plus you have someone looking over the car so it's a good thing all around. Because they go out of spec after awhile, change them as pairs all around. The other one is about to go anyway so why not do it all at once.

Lift wheel off ground, place hands at the X-Y locations. Hands at 9-3, push-pull, hands at 12-6, push-pull. Do this to all wheels. Any movement... Hub it. Rebuilds? Here's my deal. OEM warranty maybe 90 days. Rebuilds, maybe 30-60 days plus labor again for warranty. Now say rebuilds cost a hundred a pop. OEM cost a buck fifty. So, around the car it cost six hundred new. Used or rebuilt, four hundred. All four rebuilds fail, you are out four hundred plus labor. Now you learned your lesson and spent a grand on parts alone. If you stayed OEM and paid once for new... always throw OE at it or it bites you later.

Signed,
NOLTT

My one and only Corvette was a '73 with 454 and automatic. It was so heavily restricted with smog stuff it seemed slow compared to the Suzuki GS1100 I had at the same time. From what I read in the car rags the newer Vettes are dramatically better than what I had. I guess Chev has learned a whole lot in the 46 years since mine was built.