[BonzoHansen]

It's not really GM's job to over-engineer the car for the 1% of the owners that want more than stock performance. They need to sell to the other 99% at a profitable rate. The aftermarket has to pick up the torch. Llook at all the cool stuff the aftermarket had ready to go for the 2010 boatmobile, that is how it should be. Even at $35k it is still $20-30k cheaper than a vette, where more engineering goes and whose ownership base has higher expectations.

FWIW, they really didn't start making SFCs for 3rd gens until way later in the run. Or headers. Or anything else of great use. Or you only had fairly expensive options like SLP. The aftermarket was quite slow to address 3rd gens. They didn't know how to deal with EFI or the chassis. Looking at current options, the main players now were not in the game in the late 80s. The older companies did not adapt well and the 3rd gen market was quite under-served and IMO it is a main reason why 3rd gens get a bad wrap. Today that story is different.

Just my opinion growing up through that time. I couldn't get SFCs for my 82 until right before I sold it. I used to call competition engineering every 6 months about SFCs and ask 'when' and they kept saying 'you can't'.