For what it is worth, I saw my first ZR1 pulling out of a driveway today heading towards me, what a menacing stance !!!!!!I rolled down my window just in time to hear the exhaust tone - AWESOME !!!!![/align]

 

A coworker saw one here in San Diego a couple of weeks ago. Of course, an older guy was driving it. Who else can afford one? Back a year ago when the ZR1 was called Blue Devil, one of my neighbors told me he was planning to buy one. Recently, he bought a new Z06 for about half the cost of what the ZR1 would've been. I guess looking at six figures as a cost for a car was scarrier than he thought!

 

Cool, my sighting was in Huntington Beach, California.

 

Went to Road Atlanta for the Petite Lemans race, Brand new ZR1 in the corvette coral. Yellow

 

I think they run about $125K drive out. That's my take, talking to dealers, etc., who well, you don't know if you can trust what they tell you . . .
I'm not sure that GM dealers will sell all of them for that. There is a hard core of Corvette fanatics who will pay dearly for the ZR1 but I suspect GM is going to built a bunch more than that and eventually I would expect total drive out to drop to around $100-$105K The ZR1 is very limited in production but it is important to remember that in the $125K price range and above, you only get a handful sometimes only 400 or so, built.GM will build many more than that.
In that price range ($115-140K) you have the Porsche Turbo, Audi R8, Maserati GT, Aston Martin Vantage: heady competition the ZR1 is faster on the track but I can attest to the fact that that is completely irrelevant to buyers in this category been there/done that. Pull up to you favorite top-tier restaurant in a ZR1 and it's still a Corvette pull up in an Audi R8 and the average valet parking attendant has never seen one before . . . the Audi goes out in front, just down from the Ferrari 599sand Bentley Continentals, next to the Astons, and the Porsche Turbo. The 'vette goes in the parking lot. Facts of life, no offense meant . . .

 

This is quite true, although the two fastest times on the "ring" in Germany belong to a Viper and a Corvette - not Porsche, not Ferarri, Audi, Lamborghini, or Bugatti. That says alot about American sportscar engineering at prices that are often less than half of that of the competition.