Some good points between the two of you, but I think I can elaborate a bit on costs... etc.
Let me begin...
To anyone who has sat in an '07 vette and or gt500.
compare it to... an infiniti G35.
My point is that performance is a piece of the puzzle. A vital piece, but you're not catching the whole picture. The reason why some cars are SO expensive, is because of materials... it's not cheap to use good quality materials in a car.
Why is the vette, the gt500, the solstice so cheap? Because anyone who has sat in these cars will know, even if they don't want to admit it or not, is not as luxurious, sexy, and quality made than a G35, a Cayman S, an Audi R8.
The Audi R8 is a v8, 400 hp sex machine. It would get SPANKED by most high end cars today... the gt500, vette, viper... to name only a few, but it costs $140,000 to buy. All the cars I listed cost HALF that, or less!
These cars are designed for a market, for the elite, and most of the companies base their markets around it.
Ford/Chevy don't have it. They never will. They build some pretty high end machinery, and they can compete with the best of them, a-la Ford GT... amazing piece of engineering... but they won't bother with the finesse...
they can't bother with the finesse... that's not a "FORD" or "CHEVY" market.
Although I wish Ford would make the Mustang, add a bit more luxury expensive sex appeal, that's just not their market.
Never was.