How many Corvette owners are there? As a GM shareholder should I be excited they made a car just for mid-life crises?

2015 was a banner year, nearly 35,000 sold in the USA. Only about 19,000 last year. Estimates from a number of years ago were of about $10,000 profit on each sale

So you're saying the Corvette is a flagship model that loses money for the parent company (unless their entire R&D is less than $20 million)

Perhaps that's what Apple sees in the Mac Pro as well.

Corvettes are good value when compared to the competition.

Because they’re sold at a loss?

Depends. In this analogy is GM’s only other offering a golf cart that requires an external engine to perform like a car?

There are a lot of Youtube stars who would jump at a Mac Pro if it meant they can turn around videos quicker. Time is definitely money in their industry as well.

Point is that "professional" is a lot broader than just a few big enterprises.

> Time is definitely money in their industry as well.

Paying $6k for what’s roughly $2k’s worth of regular consumer hardware is also money.

supporting the highest of the high end is beneficial for the platform overall. almost no one who needs this machine will sweat spending $15,000 on a configuration.