i guess it's a good way to kill off the Corvette brand.
I would say it will enhance it, bring it into the future,+ make it more popular then ever.
It will just be 1 of a few diff motors available,nothing wrong with choices,a factory built high revving turbo v8 vette,with a warranty,sounds awesome to me.
i don't think they will ever do away with the big iconic n/a v8,i think that will always be there,as an option in a vette,especially because they can get pretty good gas mileage out of them now ,but things can't stay static forever,what if they said no we will never put dohc 32 valve motors in a mustang because they were always just a 16 valve pushrod motor in the past,there would be no n/a 444hp factory stangs available right now i would think.
One cool thing about the old muscle cars was the availability of a few diff motors in all the models,like 69 camaro,2 hp level 350's,i think 3 levels of 396,+ then copo 427, then the Cuda,340,340sixpack,383,440,440sixpack,hemi.+ on + on, that's what made them so collectible,people wanted to collect the rarer versions + the more powerful version ,but later came stuff like the fox mustangs,they were awesome,but everybody got the same,302,+ the camaro's+ firebirds,all got the same 350,vettes too,turbo regals too,(except for a limited run of gnx's at the end)imagine how cool it would have been if they offered diff hp levels,options of a twin turbo setup or a v8 turbo setup,or hp v8 set up.
Now the brands are starting to offer,multiple levels again,look at mustang,305 hp v6,412 hp v8,444hp v8,550hp v8,+ all those motors were designed + built with direct injection + forced induction in their future.
Vette's too 430 hp base,505hp z06,638hp zr1,(+ apparantly a turbo v8 shortly)dodge too going the multi level + diff engine route again thats great,+ i don't feel a turbo option on the vette is going to be it's demise,why would it, they just did a supercharged version(Also a first for a corvette),that is extremely popular,gets rave reviews everwhere,+ pretty much every vette fan would give their first born child for.
I say bring it on,+ turn it up.