The XLR never stood a chance. Now the Allante was "uninspired"? Yet back in the day MW said it was a serious contender. I liked the Allante better looks wise for it's time period, but of course it was another GM flop.
I have some theories. GM wants to keeping the Corvette as the performance car star. Assuming Cadillac buyers want a Cadillac specific engine. Calculating sales taken away from the C6 Corvette,which I assume was expensive to develop. Just a guess here without looking into it. I guess the Corvette may have went through more design test in the pursuit of performance vs the XLR. I would imagine if this is the case,GM may have feared buyers weighing out Cadillac or another luxury sports car brand and overshadowing the Corvette. May have left a stain on reputation if the case of style over performance. A tried and true breadwinner name. I don't know if any of this is true,just uneducated guesses. Either way,would have been neat to have a Corvette power train introduced.
@@veilcrowe Your hypotheseseseses are sound and make perfect sense. 🧐 I just miss the days when an auto manufacturer would just say, “What the heck..let’s just do it!”. 🤷🏻
@@a.person7825 Same here. It seems like wasted opportunity. I question why GM didn't use the Grand National turbo V6 in the Corvette in the 80's as well. Guessing GM didn't think Corvette buyers would accept a V6. It would have made the Corvette one of the quickest cars of the era.
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XLR taillights are going for $1500-2000 these days.
I'd guess that 3D printers have to be changing that somehow but maybe not
It's a Corvette with a nice interior.
The XLR never stood a chance. Now the Allante was "uninspired"? Yet back in the day MW said it was a serious contender. I liked the Allante better looks wise for it's time period, but of course it was another GM flop.
Allante was a hard sale at the time, because the Mercedes SL was a better car in every metric.
@@2steaksandwiches665Absolutely.
Why no Corvette V8?
I have some theories. GM wants to keeping the Corvette as the performance car star. Assuming Cadillac buyers want a Cadillac specific engine. Calculating sales taken away from the C6 Corvette,which I assume was expensive to develop. Just a guess here without looking into it. I guess the Corvette may have went through more design test in the pursuit of performance vs the XLR. I would imagine if this is the case,GM may have feared buyers weighing out Cadillac or another luxury sports car brand and overshadowing the Corvette. May have left a stain on reputation if the case of style over performance. A tried and true breadwinner name. I don't know if any of this is true,just uneducated guesses. Either way,would have been neat to have a Corvette power train introduced.
@@veilcrowe Your hypotheseseseses are sound and make perfect sense. 🧐 I just miss the days when an auto manufacturer would just say, “What the heck..let’s just do it!”. 🤷🏻
@@a.person7825 Same here. It seems like wasted opportunity. I question why GM didn't use the Grand National turbo V6 in the Corvette in the 80's as well. Guessing GM didn't think Corvette buyers would accept a V6. It would have made the Corvette one of the quickest cars of the era.
@@veilcrowe It’s our mindset, form over function…when it should be function over form. 😎
It was a bad mistake and is rooted in the thinking that the push rod engine isn’t “sophisticated” enough!
All they had to do was put the LS under the hood and put that stupid engine cover over it to make all the idiots that needed a northstar happy.
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