But I think that GM has gotten away with murder on the Corvette nameplate for the last 40 years. Untill the C6 came out this year, the Vette was just a fast, light, 2 seater....... not the premire sports car it was when Duntov put the 283 in it in '55. From 1955-1966, the Corvette really was widely renowned as a great touring car. They really did have the attention of the people at Ferrari, Porsche, and Lamborghini. Britains conceeded that the Corvette was far superior in handling, refinement, and panache than anything their own marques produced (Aston Martin, Jaguar) at the time. The 1963-67 models were the absolute finest roadsters on the market, and people in the States and even in Europe are willing to pay six figures for a Stingray 427. They were the best. But GM got lazy in the late '60s and the car became too corporatized to be a true pedigree. Even the biggest Corvette enthusiasts would agree that a 1980's Corvette was a sloppy luxury car, and not much more. They fixed some of those issues with the C5, but not untill the C6 this year was the Corvette nameplate truly worthy of being applied to the vehicle.