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Some assumptions here, but based on several factors, they could well become probabilities.
Prior to the C7’s ordering began, GM’s internally-forecasted that the take rate for the optional Comp Seats would be 8%, yet for the 2018 year the actual purchase rate for those seats was a little more than double of GM’s original projections, with 16.2% of 2018’s being ordered with the $1,995 Comp Seat option.
In the U.S., every single different seat offered must be separately tested for compliance with NHTSA safety standards. As Tadge noted during the early days of the C7, just separately testing to destruction six brand new C7’s with Comp Seats (as is required for all the NHTSA tests), cost $500,000 — but based on the nice take rate for those seats, it is a highly likely assumption that the ME would offer both the GT seats and the Comp ones — though they could be physically modified, with certainly a high probability as GM has done for all new Corvette generations, that the ME’s seats would look very different from the C7’s.
Another very popular interior option for the C7, has been the number of customers buying seats with suede (alcantara-like) inserts. For 2014 for example, 16.3% bought the suede option. So we should expect that suede option to continue. While the percentage has changed from year to year, suede seats are still a desired option by many buyers. Of course, traditional leather seats still are the overwhelming choice of Corvette buyers, so that option will obviously continue.
The following were comments forum member Stevera2 a personal friend who lives close to where I do, made to me at the end of the summer of 2017.
Clearly suede/alancata is becoming the in interior material for many exotics. Might we similarly expect the ME to similarly, like European exotics, have suede as its standard and primary dashboard, door card, seat insert, and console armrest, etc.?
I do not think so, but perhaps that could be the package offered in the top ME, “level 4” top interior.
Prior to the C7’s ordering began, GM’s internally-forecasted that the take rate for the optional Comp Seats would be 8%, yet for the 2018 year the actual purchase rate for those seats was a little more than double of GM’s original projections, with 16.2% of 2018’s being ordered with the $1,995 Comp Seat option.
In the U.S., every single different seat offered must be separately tested for compliance with NHTSA safety standards. As Tadge noted during the early days of the C7, just separately testing to destruction six brand new C7’s with Comp Seats (as is required for all the NHTSA tests), cost $500,000 — but based on the nice take rate for those seats, it is a highly likely assumption that the ME would offer both the GT seats and the Comp ones — though they could be physically modified, with certainly a high probability as GM has done for all new Corvette generations, that the ME’s seats would look very different from the C7’s.
Another very popular interior option for the C7, has been the number of customers buying seats with suede (alcantara-like) inserts. For 2014 for example, 16.3% bought the suede option. So we should expect that suede option to continue. While the percentage has changed from year to year, suede seats are still a desired option by many buyers. Of course, traditional leather seats still are the overwhelming choice of Corvette buyers, so that option will obviously continue.
The following were comments forum member Stevera2 a personal friend who lives close to where I do, made to me at the end of the summer of 2017.
Originally posted by Stevera2
I do not think so, but perhaps that could be the package offered in the top ME, “level 4” top interior.
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