Here are a couple of photos of the new prototype Corvette which was at the Amelia Island Concours recently.

 

Been posted a few times, and I'll just add my same comment.

If GM takes the corvette retro, prioritizing styling before performance, then my likeness of Corvettes will stop with the C6 and resume when they extract their heads from their asses.

I've heard interviews with David Hill and he has spoken of the near fear they have for upsetting enthusiasts with wild changes. They had fears just because the C6 went to the exposed headlights. If that made them scared, then I can never see the Corvette taking on some radical change like that.

That car will be a concept and a concept only. You may see a TINY influence from that car to the new one...but it'll be small.

The retro sh*t is ridiculous...please stop.

 

I guess I'll wait and see...I'm sure my C6 can last 10-15 years more if I take care of it just in case the C7
1) sucks
2) costs more than I can afford new (likely).

without zero percent interest deals and large year end discounts, the vette is just a bit too much for me. There is always used I guess (but then there are used Porsches too).

 

Lots of pics in Autoweek this week. I like it. I have no problem with mid-engine, but they need to stay with a V8 not turbo 6.

 

That is the Transformers car. It has already been officially put out that it was a one-off for the movie only. Think about it this way... GM isn't going to release something like that if it was even remotely close to what the C7 will be.

 

I don't think that's the final product either

 

I think it's a drop dead sexy sports/GT car but it isn't a Corvette. I had a Porsche 928 that was a great GT car but it wasn't a sports car like my old 911S. Whoever designed that to be a Corvette has a serious case of cranial rectitus.

 

Autoweek said the C7 would be a traditional front engine, more of a makeover. That silver car would be the 2016 C8.

 

Kinda of a C 5.75?

 

GM won't make that big a leap in design for the C7 and they don't have the money now to develop a new mid engine low volume car.

 

you can go back to the magazine articles of the 70's, 80's, 90's and they were always showing some kind of conceptual mid engined vette- possibly as a counterintelligence smoke screen or engineering dream..not sure. The one thing that always happened was that the thing never came to fruition.

 

^exactly

They've talked about turbo'd V6's for years as well...never happened.

 

Saw it up close at Bowling Green last Labor day weekend.

 

Was it a complete car with carpet, console, dash, etc. like a normal car? Or was it basically just a shell on a chassis?

I always wondered on those one-off cars if they took the time to make it a complete car, or more like a movie prop.

 

I think what might happen is we will get a 5.5l V8 because that is the engine being developed for the new racing regulations.... Smaller V8 but more power...

 

I read an interesting article about this in one of the car magazines (dont remember which one).

The author of the article was a purist corvette fan and was strongly against all these retro styled cars were seeing now like the Camaro and the Mustang.

He also feels the reasoning behind doing a radical change is GM feels their customer base (the people that actually buy corvettes-not the teenagers that drool over them) is getting smaller every year. GM is concerned that the younger generations (people under 30 now) haven't warmed up to the 'vette simply because is has a stigma of "being the car only my dad would drive" much like Lincoln or Cadillac has a stigma of being a "Grandpa/Grandma" car.

In the article, he mentioned, "25 year olds" don't want Corvettes. I disagree. The reason 25 year old's don't buy that is because a new welL equipped Corvette costs 60-****ing-thousand dollars by the time you add in TT&L!!! Only maybe 1 in 100 25 year olds can afford to buy a Corvette. The plus the fact that the Corvette is so impractical to where whoever owns one almost needs another more practical car. I mean think about it, pretty much everyone I know that owns a Corvette, new or old, has mutiple vehicles. Sure, I do think the Corvette does have a stigma as being your "father's car", but that's maybe only a VERY small % of the reason the younger generation hasn't warmed up to 'vettes. I am 27 years old, masters degree educated, have a real professional job. I probably make more money than 75% of other people my age. I am single, no kids, wife, etc. Even with all that going for me, I COULD NOT EVEN SNIFF A NEW CORVETTE FINANCIALLY.

And then there's always the GM quality issue. GM is definitely making efforts to improve if they haven't already matched Toyota/Honda, etc. They may even be better for all I know. Quality is kinda a subjective. But a reputation of quality takes YEARS to build. It took Toyota 2-3 decades the build that reputation of qualtiy (which certainly has been tarnished recently). If GM ever get's back to making a car that literally "feels as well built" as a Lexus, they'll win over younger generations again.

That's my 2 cents.

 

Don't bother me, I will never buy one. I'll stick to a c4 until I get a cobra replica or something.

 

That CTS in the background looks KILLER!

 

100% complete. Running and driving car.

 

Good thinking