Corvette C7 Z06 versus base Corvette C7 Stingray-same quality at twice of the price?

Corvette has always been a mass market product-going fast while keeping cost down, at the expense of sophistication and quality.  Hastily put together, disregarding considerations for fit and finish and adding horsepower to justify higher costs of higher models, assembled on the same exact line as all other versions of the car.

The +General Motors recipe for charging more is quite simple, more power, wider tires and body panels that retain the exact same shape of the car while allowing for more traction.

Even though there is more performance, these more expensive versions suffer from a serious case of identity crisis, failing to carve out their own niche and recognition, outside of the most committed ranks of enthusiasts.   In other words, the general public has always had a serious difficulty telling any of the versions of Corvette apart, outside of coupe and convertible body styles.

This lack of identity and visual distinction was the major factor in sales failures of C4 Corvette ZR-1, C5 Z06 and most recently, Corvette C6 Z06 and ZR1.  Ironically enough, +General Motors  undermined its all profitability of the top models of the sixth generation of Corvette by producing the Grand Sport version, ZR1 and Z06 look alike, catering to the visual aspirations of Corvette buyers who wanted to own a car that looked expensive, without spending the money and not caring about extra weight and lack of power gains.  Needless to say, both Z06 and ZR1 failed miserably in sales, while Grand Sport thrived.

To further compound the sales problems, the more expensive Z06 and ZR1 had the same exact build quality, with shoddy paint, flimsy and warped plastic and fiberglass panels and poorly fitting interior pieces.

As it is, the so called "bargain" base Stingray has not distanced itself from the predecessors with regards to poor quality and cheapness.  If fact, the car is worse than the predecessors and the only distinction it gained was in the quality INCONSISTENCY, indicating that quality control concept has been permanently removed from Bowling Green assembly line.

In fact, the inconsistency is so bad that picking a decent plastic fantastic sight unseen redefines the stupidity these days.

Now, since the bottom of the Stingray food chain can be had for right around 50k and with the upcoming Z06 starting at 80k and fully loaded easily exceeding 100k, to say the Z06 will cost twice as much as the base C7 is being factual.

The question here is, given the cost of the Z06 being twice as much as the base car, will the quality of the product be twice as good and quality control twice as stringent?  Unfortunately, this is a purely rhetorical question since the initial examples of Z06 clearly indicate that twice of the price still buys the same shitty quality as the car costing half of Z06.

How much of a bargain will the Z06 really be then?  Not much of a bargain at all and the only real question will be if the new Z06 will be faster on the track or dropping body parts and interior trim.

To see +Tadge Juechter claiming Z06 to be a valid competitor to Porsche or Ferrari is truly laughable.  This clown really does not understand that with Porsche, the quality of the lowest priced model trickles down from the highest priced models, unlike with Corvette where the exact opposite applies.

The bottom line is that no matter how much is anyone going to pay for Z06, the car will come with the quality of the 50k car and this alone makes it a complete failure as a performance bargain-the car is not fast enough to justify quality compromises.  Not even 100k will assure the body panels fit or that there is no rattle can style  orange peel on the 100k car.  In fact, the shitty quality will make the new Z06 a horrible 100k buy.  Get a clue Tadge.