Can Corvette survive another generation as the quintessential redneck sports car after the current C7 fiasco?

Redneck sports car sounds like a textbook oxymoron but unfortunately, this is exactly what Corvette has been ever since pushrod V8 found its way under its bonnet, only to be followed by leaf springs. 

As the world around has changed, Corvette became more and more archaic and obsolete and the current, seventh generation of this car shows that any further insistence on the status quo is a fully developed DEAD END.

Unfortunately for Corvette, its obsolete qualities and traits did not evolve into a timeless classic a la Morgan or 911.  The longer this car stays faithful recipe, the more obsolete it becomes.  The reason?  Unlike Morgan and 911, Corvette maintains its configuration due to financial constraints imposed by its corporate parent, +General Motors .  The usual story goes along the lines of maintaining it as a "bargain sports car".  The reality however is that real sports car has no place in GM line up, the company is just not interested in actual development of a fully fledged and evolved sports car, capable of coexisting with other cars in this segment. 

While excitement and passion can be associated with other cars, including the upcoming 2016 Mazda Miata, STALE and MOTHBALLS are the words that can be immediately associated with Corvette.

What is really embarrassing are the futile attempts to slap more lipstick on the obsolete pig called Corvette, loading it with gadgets and technologies that by all accounts should not be needed or deemed necessary should the Corvette follow a path of real progress and evolution.

+Tadge Juechter is not the first Corvette team "leader" who apparently suffers from complete disconnect with reality.  What Juechter and his predecessors fail to understand is the fact that even though a steam engine powered locomotive can be made to go real fast, the world has changed enough where the changing times demand actual technologies to keep up with times, regardless of how fast a car can be made to go.  Of course the matter of speed does not even apply to Corvette any longer since due to its lack of development, any improvements never add up to a full suite of improvements justifying Corvette's existence.  Thus, the latest Corvette lacks a full disclosure of its performance figures and track accomplishments.  These days are gone and will never return.

The most obvious sign of lack of development of the car is its growing weight and amount of self defeating fuel efficiency measures that would never come to play had the car been really updated along the lines of modern sports car evolution.

So what is in store for Corvette?  Bleak days actually and unavoidable dead end.  The redneck buyer pool has been shrinking steadily over the years, the economy has changed, imposing different employment patterns for USA.  Long gone are the days of hard working but uneducated blue collar masses that typically made Corvette their ultimate vehicle.  As the masses of already retired blue collar masses start dying off, the buyer group shrinks permanently. 

If Corvette and its curators do not realize what takes place, Corvette will be out the way Pontiac disappeared, with absolutely nobody missing it.  The times, they changed but Corvette continues to stand still, or STALE?