I am sitting in my Bonneville at a rest stop, eating a frozen yogurt when I look over and see a black vette parked next to me. The couple hops in the car, I roll down my window and say "hi, yeh I have 2 vettes myself how are you?" I am thinking it's a black C4 next to me.....they back out and it's a C6! I am going geez, miss "I have owned numerous vettes" girl here and I would have sworn when I looked over from inside my car that was a C4 back end parked by me.

C6 just isn't growing on me

 

I know.. The C6 back end is kind of reminiscent of the C4. I can see where you'd get them confused, especially with a black car that obscures some of the lines.

I like the back end fine, except for the goofy design of the back up lights. It looks like a mid 90's set of GMC truck fog lights to me. What were they thinking?

I like the headlights all right. I don't however like the nose and lower part of the grille. The grille and the fog/driving light area remind me of a Cavalier for some reason. I really hope that they fix this on the Z06.

I also don't like the lines of the hood. The lines remind me of the hood on the 80-82 C3 and I was never fond of that hood. It just doesn't look masculine enough to me. Once again, I hope that they fix this with the Z06.

To fix the C6 and make it the way I'd like it, GM would have to fix the hood, the nose piece, the lower rear end by the back up lights and then make it an FRC bodystyle. I don't like the hatch rear, especially with the shortened back end. It looks a little sawed off to me. Something just doesn't look right with the fastback glass.

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Z06-C5 RULES!!

-Bill.

 

Gazed at a C6 yesterday at the dealer while waiting on an oil change (yeah, yeah, I know, I know.) From a distance it looks good. Up close, it's bland and looks to me like something that Mitsubishi would have designed. The lines are all angled off (and rather odd at that.) It doesn't look fluid at all, more like rushed-to-production to me. The doors are flat, the vents are squared off, and it generally comes across as cheap to me from the outside. The inside, however, is quite nice. I say it looks ok from a distance (and yes I like the headlights) but I don't care for it up close. Darker colors seems to accentuate it better from what I've seen. Does not look as sleek and timeless as the C5 IMO. I'm glad I bought my 04. Would like to see a C6 lowered and on wheels, maybe I'll like it better. Hopefully the new Z06 will look better.

 

Reminds me of the Opel Cadett of yesteryear

 

Unless of course, GM reads these forums, I do not see them changing the frontend on the new Z06 to make it look different from the base C6. More power, bigger tires and emblems will be about it. We all may be waiting until the 2nd or 3rd year production of the new Z06(before they get it right) before trading in our prized C5 Z06...Look at what they did to the first year GTO, YUCK!

 

Don't you mean the Opel GT?



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Whoever came up with the exterior design should be 'released from their command' ASAP.
The car looks mentally challenged from the front, and the back... heh... looks like somebody just rear ended my C5 and all the stuff went upwards on the accident... the backup lights... with the plastic 'diffuser' makes the car look cheap, and what about the Y pipe for the fake twin tip mufflers? :-? what is that?? looks like yet another cheap ricer twin tip setup...(available at wal-mart for ~10 bucks) and GM should not mention the excuse it was to save weight... when it was actually save money (you know, drilling two holes is more expensive than drilling just one!!)

Besides, the C6 was actually designed back in 1997 and is really called C5.... and for that, you could say that the C6 (or C5.5a) is the pinnacle of 'maximun output with minimal input' They invested a few bucks on this one and it'll sell like hot pancakes: its a new Corvette and almost everybody wants to have the latest Corvette toy.
The good thing for GM is that this one sells for more than the previous C5 did and it costed them a lot less to make...

 

 

that MUST be the company car you were telling me about

I have seen many C6's. One was heading the other direction on the interstate the other day. I barely noticed it. However, anytime a C5 goes by, I get this huge smile on my face and watch it drive out of site, checking for any mods that might be visible..yea, I'm definintely a C5 bigot....

 

For those who don't remember.... the C5 got all the same comments when it was introduced. Everybody was expecting something a bit more radical but instead they got the bland, boring looking C5. The car magazines all panned it and the highest grade it got was a C+ for styling. Then after a couple of years it apparently started to grow on everybody. There are a few that still think the C5 rear end is too tall and plain looking below the tail lights. Too much blank space. And the front is too round and featureless. I must admit, I am one of them that was disappointed in the C5 only to find myself shelling out for a brand new one just a couple years later.

I think the C6 is probably what we should've got in 1997. Just a bit more radical than the C5. Crisp lines, more pronounced bulges in the right places. The thing that bothers me the most is that it looks like it's either slightly taller or slightly narrower. Doesn't quite have the same aspect ratio as the C5.

I agree there are a lot of points about the C6 that don't appeal to me at the moment but I'm sure that once I've been around them a bit more, it'll grow on me just like the C5 did. But then again, maybe not. Time will tell. Don't be too critical right now because you may end up eating your words later.

 

Actually I don't recall that reaction at all for the C5, in fact it was praised all over by the Corvette community and the media. People loved it from the early spy shots all the way to the day the last C5 rolled off the assembly line. The C6 has not received anywhere NEAR the amount of positive responses that the C5 did when it was introduced, most people dislike it very much and the few that seem to like it tell everyone else to wait and see if it grows on them. I loved the C5 from the first time I saw one, I didn't have to wait for it to grow on me, most others were the same way.

The C6 doesn't even compare to the C5 in terms of looks.

 

I can't wait to see how many of you end up loving the looks of YOUR C6. haha...

 

I agree with you.

I liked the C5 the very 1st time I saw one, back in 1997... The C6, well, I was hoping it was gonna be awesome, I really wanted to like it, but nothing, no spark, nada... instead, GM teached us a real good lesson on how to increase revenue by minimizing expenses.
The C6 is a C5 with tweaked internals and the ugliest of all generation bodies. Man, The C4 was the least favorite on my book, now we have a new winner...

As somebody said, the C6 should've been made instead of the C5, and I would've not minded that if the C6 would've been the C5 in terms of looks... I would've been drooling all over one at this very moment. But reality is, C5 is now history while the C6 just began making history (for good or for bad).

 

Problem there are alot of C6 owners out there who really get upset cause think the C6 is the ants pants which can woop a Z06 already!!!!
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I saw one on the street for the 1st time this week & It was the 1st time EVER I had to look twice to be sure it was a Vette! Any year. It just didn`t seem to stand out like a Vette is supposed to. IMO Maybe the C6 Z06 will do it?

 

 

I have to disagree. I've seen only one C6 on the street so far. Yes, yes- I'm currently on temp. duty in Alamogordo NM. The C6 looked absolutely stunning. Much more aggressive looking than my C5 was. Don't get me wrong- I LOVED my C5, but now they're all over the place and have become "normal" for me now.

The look of the C6 didn't have to grow on me- I loved it from the first second I saw it. Like I said- my opinion.


<Flamesuit on>

 

There is nothing on God's earth that anyone could do the C6 as it stands to make it grow on me except cover it in fertiliser and pray it's a vine.

 

One small detail to remember. 99% of everyone here who loves their vette, will eventually own a C6.