- On CBS daytime game show The Price Is Right, contestants will be playing for cars all week starting on Monday, February 17. They call it “Dream Car Week.”
- If your dreams include a Porsche 911, a Maserati Ghibli, a Lexus LC, a Lincoln Navigator, or a last-gen Corvette Stingray, you’re in luck—or at least, the extremely enthusiastic people who play the game on TV are.
- Dream Car Week usually features a celebrity—last year it was Jay Leno—and on Friday, February 21, it will be NASCAR star Kurt Busch (pictured above), fresh from the Daytona 500, helping a contestant in the effort to win that Vette.
Free is always good. Free is even better when it’s a Porsche 911 Carrera cabriolet or a Maserati Ghibli.
Those are just two of the cars that will be featured during Dream Car Week beginning next Monday, February 17, on the long-running TV game show The Price Is Right. The show is broadcast weekdays at 11 a.m. ET on CBS (which also has a streaming service). All week, host Drew Carey will be having contestants spin the big wheel as part of the “showcase showdown” for a chance to win a Lexus LC500, a Lincoln Navigator, or a Chevrolet Corvette Stingray. (Spoiler alert: We already know how much they cost. After you read this, so will you.)
Dream Car Week first began in 2013, although the series dates all the way back to 1956 and, in its current form, has been around since 1972. Drew Carey replaced Bob Barker as host in 2007. In 2014, the show featured its most expensive car to date, a BMW i8 Protonic Red Edition, which retailed at $159,081.
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When the show kicks off on Monday, a Maserati Ghibli will be up for grabs. The Ghibli starts at $70,985 and features a 345-hp twin-turbo 3.0-liter V-6 with rear-wheel drive and a Nerissimo blackout package. If the show contestants are lucky, it’ll be an S performance version which bumps the horsepower number up to 424.
The only appropriate way to follow up the Ghibli would be with a 911; anything else would just be disappointing. Luckily, on Tuesday, contestants have the opportunity to win a Porsche 911 Carrera cabriolet in jet-black metallic, which will have the optional seven-speed automatic transmission. Photos show it’s a 991.2 generation, i.e., a 2019 model. In cabriolet form, that car starts at $104,450. The engine is a twin-turbo flat-six which in the base model cranks out 370 horsepower.
Hump day brings a 2020 Lexus LC500 coupe (pictured above), powered by a 5.0-liter V-8 that makes 471 horsepower and 398 lb-ft of torque. The LC starts at $93,975.
The following day, Thursday, the prize is scheduled to be a Lincoln Navigator. Under the SUV’s hood rests a 3.5-liter V-6 with 450 horsepower. The 2020 model starts at $77,120.
Dream Car Week wraps up with Busch and the Chevrolet Corvette Stingray 1LT. We can tell from the photos that it’s a C7, not a mid-engine C8, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t still look good. The coupe with its 455-hp 6.2-liter V-8 starts at $56,590, making it the least expensive car of the week—but it’s sure to be appreciated by the audience and contestants of The Price Is Right, who number in the millions.
Source: Motor - aranddriver.com
