Try buying a Ferrari, Porche, NSX, etc for the same price as a Corvette. They aren't even comparable. The corvette and the DCX viper both give some pretty awsome performance for the price tag. Personally, I would much rather sacrific a little fit and finish to put the car in a realistic price...
In response to the consumer reports top ten:
Journalists are not engineers
Politicians are not engineers
Consumer population isn’t educated enough to pick the best engineered car, but would rather rely on what their liberal arts educated friend told them, or how popular the car is within...