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Make that a blue-collar supercar because the C8 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray does not have blue blood running through its veins but a well-done copy. And you know what happened to it, right? Yep, that would fire, lots of it.
This Chevy Corvette started life as a 2022 example, and at one point, it caught fire. The flames left permanent marks on all components, rendering it a piece of junk. But since almost everything sells these days, it too is trying to find a new home, though we have no idea the role it would serve given that it's beyond recognition and no one can breathe new life into it, no matter how much money they have in the bank and how skilled they are.
Listed for grabs on Copart, it has a certificate of destruction accompanying it, and at the time of writing, no one was willing to bid a single buck on it. There are still two days left in the online auction, and if you want to make it yours, then you're looking at a buy-it-now price of $4,900. For that kind of money, you could get a fully functioning vehicle to get you to and fro, albeit one with many miles under its belt and not in pristine condition.
Thus, we don't know why anyone sane would bid more than a couple of bucks on this wreckage. After all, it's not like you can do anything with it. And there's nothing worth saving, other than perhaps one or two wheels, as everything else was turned to ashes. Curious what was the cause of the fire? So are we, for that matter, but as you probably already know, such listings don't reveal anything about that, and this one wasn't going to make an exception.
A nice example of the modern-day Corvette Stingray will set you back in the region of $80,000 and slightly more in today's used car market. Should you settle for a base copy with no options whatsoever, then you're looking at $64,500, excluding destination and dealer fees. It has up to 495 hp produced by its 6.2-liter V8 when ordered with the performance exhaust system, takes only 2.9 seconds to hit 60 mph (97 kph), and has a top speed of 194 mph (312 kph).
The more track-focused variant, which trades the Stingray suffix for Z06, starts at $105,300 and brings 670 hp to the output fiesta, which makes it three-tenths quicker to sixty. As for the E-Ray, which is the electrified model with all-wheel drive, it will set you back at least $104,295. This version has a combined 655 hp, is one-tenth quicker to 60 than the Z06, and can deal with the quarter mile in 10.5 seconds.
Listed for grabs on Copart, it has a certificate of destruction accompanying it, and at the time of writing, no one was willing to bid a single buck on it. There are still two days left in the online auction, and if you want to make it yours, then you're looking at a buy-it-now price of $4,900. For that kind of money, you could get a fully functioning vehicle to get you to and fro, albeit one with many miles under its belt and not in pristine condition.
Thus, we don't know why anyone sane would bid more than a couple of bucks on this wreckage. After all, it's not like you can do anything with it. And there's nothing worth saving, other than perhaps one or two wheels, as everything else was turned to ashes. Curious what was the cause of the fire? So are we, for that matter, but as you probably already know, such listings don't reveal anything about that, and this one wasn't going to make an exception.
A nice example of the modern-day Corvette Stingray will set you back in the region of $80,000 and slightly more in today's used car market. Should you settle for a base copy with no options whatsoever, then you're looking at $64,500, excluding destination and dealer fees. It has up to 495 hp produced by its 6.2-liter V8 when ordered with the performance exhaust system, takes only 2.9 seconds to hit 60 mph (97 kph), and has a top speed of 194 mph (312 kph).
The more track-focused variant, which trades the Stingray suffix for Z06, starts at $105,300 and brings 670 hp to the output fiesta, which makes it three-tenths quicker to sixty. As for the E-Ray, which is the electrified model with all-wheel drive, it will set you back at least $104,295. This version has a combined 655 hp, is one-tenth quicker to 60 than the Z06, and can deal with the quarter mile in 10.5 seconds.
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