When ever I talk about the greatness of corvettes with other people they always shoot me down saying that american sports cars are garbage. Comparing corvette to lamborghini and honda. Why are corvettes and american ccars in general hated so much? I just dont understand.
I think a lot of it has to do with quality as compared to the competition and automotive journalist reviews over the previous generations. I also think a lot of it has to do with some of the previous GM models that were absolute garbage like the Chevy Vega and a lot of the trash that came out of Detroit in the 1980s.
That stigma has never worn off and once it sets in, and it's reinforced in the media, it's damn near impossible to extinguish no matter how good the current or future products are.
Even though Corvette performance has always been impressive against the competition (with maybe the exception of the late 1970s Corvettes), the quality hasn't always been that great in comparison to the Corvette's competition.
In many ways, it's unfair to compare a Corvette to a Lamborghini as the Lamborghini has always been a coach-built automobile costing hundreds of thousands of dollars more than a Corvette.
When it comes to Honda - the Asian automotive manufacturers really got a strong foot hold over Detroit, when Detroit started churning out absolute rubbish.
The Asians learned from Detroit's mistakes, mastered them, and flooded the market in a way that Detroit has barely ever been able to overcome in terms of market share.
What Detroit did in the 1980s has cost them dearly...
GM has always been about mass producing "units" in order to achieve profitability and for decades, quality took a back seat. It wasn't until the competition started introducing their high quality, comparably priced products that GM and the rest of Detroit started to wake up.
Now, GM and Detroit will always be trying to play catch-up. They finally recognize the value of quality, but their still willing to sacrifice it to make a profit and the investors happy.
In some ways, I wish the Corvette was more of a limited production automobile. Stop trying to undercut the competition with price and start trying to introduce a level of quality that exceeds the competition that's competitively priced.