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Old 07-24-2013, 06:05 PM
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great pics!
Old 07-24-2013, 06:13 PM
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"Juechter says that on the street in Eco mode, his best twenty-five-mile drive averaged 37.2 mpg"

I normally dont care about fuel economy, but that is just plain awesome.
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Just read the article - Wow again!!!! And for the third time
after reading the Motor Trend and Car and Driver articles
I am so glad I ordered one and cannot wait until I get it!
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God I cant wait to get one of these cars. I will take the penalty of having a car payment. It will make an awesome daily driver.
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When reading these reviews, its hard not to feel like this

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Wow!
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Originally Posted by stingray23
great pics!

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So much better looking than my C5's rear end and lights.
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Originally Posted by JustinStrife
So much better looking than my C5's rear end and lights.
Shhh! Blasphemy!
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You can see in above pic why they blacked out the lower fascia on the C7...it has an even bigger butt than the C5 , which at the time of its release was criticized for that and the label never wore off.
So those who will paint to match that area on the C7 , esp on light colored cars, should take that into consideration.
I think the designers should have penned a 1/3 2/3 split , not the more extreme 50/50 , to mute the slabbiness of the back clip, but the license plate and especially the ginormous exhaust tips right below it forced their hand for using the higher horizontal crease.

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All of these testers at Milford are coming out with the same conclusions: the Corvette guys did a great job with the C7, a vast improvement over the C6.

The C6 is still a great car, but it's going to be hard to resist the new vette.

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