Rx 7 mini c5
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Rx 7 mini c5
After Reading the book All corvettes are red I could not believe how the design team working on 97 was so in love with Rx 7 and Nsx.It was almost like these cars influenced them more then the stingrays and C4?It almost made me sick any one else notice that the styling are so close.
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Aside from both cars having pop up lamps and fender vents the cars are VERY different. If you look at a C4 and a C5, you will clearly see how the styling is evolution off that car not an import.
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Remember that while the RX7, NSX, Supra, etc all died due to slow sales, the C4 and C5 kept selling. Certainly, the styling had something to do with that. In all honesty, I think the RX7 and NSX were great-looking cars.
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After Reading the book All corvettes are red I could not believe how the design team working on 97 was so in love with Rx 7 and Nsx.It was almost like these cars influenced them more then the stingrays and C4?It almost made me sick any one else notice that the styling are so close.
Stylists are always being influenced. 1956 Corvette front was heavily influenced by the Mercedes 300SL, and the C4 was heavily influenced by the Ferrari 308.
Hardly worth getting sick about...
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After Reading the book All corvettes are red I could not believe how the design team working on 97 was so in love with Rx 7 and Nsx.It was almost like these cars influenced them more then the stingrays and C4?It almost made me sick any one else notice that the styling are so close.
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Even if the C5 was influenced by those two cars, that's not so bad. At least they are decent cars - could have been something like the Aztek. 
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I think the C5 looks very similar to an RX7 and I'm not complaining. Of the period performance cars that came out of Japan, the RX7 & NSX were the top 2 in design IMO. Nothing wrong with emulating those 2 cars.
and not the others