The car will be over sold, massively. Your forgetting the kind of people who buy these special cars, a lot of them just park them in the garage and look at them, my view is just buy a decent model of the car and put it in a display cabinet, its far cheaper lol.
Even the people who will drive them will only do like a couple thousand miles per annum, probably less, so even if fuel is like £2.50 a litre they won't care, they can afford to buy the car, they can afford to run it and they will have what could be considered the best V8 engine ever made.
Its main market USA will go mental for it, but the fact for the first time ever you can get a Corvette in RHD will see extremely strong sales in those markets too. When Ford launched Mustang in RHD format, their sale volumes were beyond expectations and the other surprising element was that the majority were for V8 manuals, whereas Ford thought the UK would want Ecoboost, but how wrong they were as majority went V8.
First time you can get a Corvette in RHD, including special models, its only weakness in RHD is its an expensive car at 80k plus, whereas the Mustang was a 35k car at launch, it is now circa 45-50k and of course that initial excitement and demand has worn off but they still move plenty of them. There is a huge Corvette community in the UK and just a lot of people who will want what is in essence a cheap Ferrari, because make no doubt of it Corvette are brilliant driving cars and at half the price of a Ferrari it will appeal to a lot of none Corvette fans who just want that performance without the cost to buy or the running cost and it will be different.
I really hope they can supply decent volume and I hope it does well, be great to see them on the road getting used, problem with most Ferrari's and other exotics is they don't get used enough so you rarely see them out and about which is shame.
