$100,000 Corvette

By Lloyd Frazier

Remember when Dodge came out with the Viper, back in the early nineties? It was quite sometime before that, when US car makers were thinking about 'Muscle Cars'. Since that time, performance figures have steadily climbed for select models in the Big Three arena. Daimler Chrysler with the Magnum and Charger, Ford with the GT and Mustang, and GM with new souped up lineup of Cadillac screamers, the Pontiac GTO and of course, the Chevrolet Corvette. For the middle american income earners, the Corvette held promise for being parked in their garage. And they would even have some extra pocket change to do some aftermarket tuning. Well, as the character Ray Arnold from the movie Jurassic Park, played by Samuel L. Jackson, said "Hold on to your butts." GM has turned the team loose and they developed a 600hp Z06 dubbed the 'Blue Devil.' Most likely it will be officially released as the 'Stingray'. It comes with a hefty sticker of $100,000+. Coming to a dream in your future. Can you image a 600hp vette...from the factory? GM has upped the ante by venturing into the exotic sports car arena. This will catch the eyes of the elite car connoisseurs all over the globe. This puts GM and the other US car makers back in the limelight. You can't deny that the creativity and ingenuity is unmistakably All-American. Maybe the media, with a treasure trove full of bias in favor of all that is not American, will have to rethink how they can make GM, Ford and Chrysler look bad now. Look out peeps! The US Auto Industry is going to make a big comeback with or without your blessing.

Lloyd signing out.....