Corvette ZR1X | Apex Predator (Savagegeese)

> The Wolf drove an NSX in the 90s, he'd drive a ZR1X today. As a teen, I adored the scene where the Wolf pulled up in the silver NSX. I disagree that he'd drive a ZR1X today. He didn't drive a C4 ZR1 then, which was every bit "the people's" supercar of the era. The Wolf requires (slightly) understated sophistication that the Corvette does not provide. While the C8, particularly the flat-plane crank variants, can make a colorable claim to sophisticated *engineering*, it's far from subtle. Fifteen years ago, the Wolf would have driven an LFA. Today's more difficult to say. Perhaps a Jag F Type or even a Maserati (if he could rely on it to work). The Corvette has always democratized performance, the C8 flat-plane crank variants staggeringly so. That is, and always has been, a blessing and a curse. Whenever anyone trots out the "why would you spend far more for a European car less performant than a Vette," I wonder if the person is naive or deliberately obtuse. Objective performance has always been one of several components that make the sports/enthusiast car experience. Styling, rarity, prestige, feel, performance -- all shape the experience. If objective performance were the predominant reason to buy sports cars, the market value of a 30-year-old Ferrari would be about the same as ten-year-old V6 Camry. Cool cars are cool because they're cool. To preempt criticism, I think the C8 is fantastic as is Corvette's decades of bringing top-tier performance to the (merely affluent) masses.