:thumbs:

 

I'm with you, LongTimer.

You can really tell when it's a slow news day around here. We start talking about this kind of stuff - again and again.

Why can't people just accept the fact that it's GM's product, and GM gets to decide what to call it? Not us. They also call it the GMX-245, don't they? Why aren't people complaining about that? ("Oh no - I think it's the GMX-244! I can't believe they are calling it the GMX-245.")

The silliest part of all this talk is that there won't be a C6 badge anywhere on the car.

A lot of people don't even realize that there will be a bigger difference between the C5 and the C6 than there is between the C2 and the C3.

Who cares what they call it? It's the newest member of the Corvette family.

I want to drive it.


[Modified by RPOZ25, 2:30 AM 12/4/2003]

 

Doesn't matter anyway, GM doesn't care if you or I call it a C6, C5.1, or Simon & Garfunkle - they call it GMX-245, the next Corvette. :yesnod:

 

Geez, get a life! C3 was a new body over the C2 chassis (well, they did change the rear strut rod bracket to lower the rear roll center) and '68 engines were all carryovers from '67.

C6 is a whole new body and interior and new engines. There are chassis changes too, but it remains to be seen how much is new and how much carries over from C5.

It's definitely a "C6".

You're never going to see car as radical as the '63 Corvette was for it's time because the Corvette design is no longer controlled by one person who knows nothing about and has little regard for aerodynamics.

Duke

 

Sorry, Duke but I care to disagree. Somebody on the design team could come up with some design that was more original than this. Look at the Ferrari 360, you can see the heritage, but I don't see it as a warmed over rehash of an earlier model. This C6 looks too similar to pre existing models from other mfgs. I see a miata, a viper, a C5.....not a new CORVETTE. The C4 was a break from the shark, and I expected a break from what I consider a lame design to start with. The C5 is TECHNICALLY a superior car, but a let down as far as cutting edge design. The C6 follows in these footsteps. Don't agree? That's the purpose of this forum. To exchange ideas. Mine are just more right than anyone else's. :lol: C2's rule. We know it, you know it, live with it.


[Modified by 67ratrag, 9:28 PM 12/3/2003]

 

"There is no spoon."

 

:lolg: :lolg: :lolg:

 

They make it, we buy it. How simple is that? :lol:

 

And those that can - Drive ! :auto: :auto: :auto: :auto: :auto:

 

Speaking of Ferraris, the 355's design was barely any different than the 348, but clearly an improvement over the earlier car.

Personally, I prefer the looks of the 355 over the new (4 years ago) and different Ferrari 360 design. And I think that the 355's style would still stand up well today, if it had the 360's upgraded mechanicals underneath.

And if Ferrari had put the Enzo's 660HP engine, and upgraded chassis underneath the shapely 355 body, it would have been an even MORE appealing car to me than the wild looking, and obviously different, Enzo design.

Different is not always better. :smash:

 

:rolleyes: Not hardly...and I'm by no means desperate for a C6. This is the real deal and I can accept it. :leaving:

 

:skep: :skep: :skep: :skep:

 

Thank goodness the design team's primary purpose was not to make their mark and radically change the appearance of the Corvette just for the sake of change. The C5 was/is one of the most popular designs ever. They tweaked a sweet design and made it even sweeter. Confucious say: "If it don't need fix'in, don't F_ _ K with it :yesnod:

 

Corvette generations are delineated by the men who made them what they were-
C1 - Harley Earl
C2 - Zora Arkus Duntov
C3 - Duntov, Shinoda & Delorean
C4 - Dave McLellan
C5 - Dave Hill
C6 - Troy Roberts

That or a change in the food service supplier to the Corvette staff cafeteria. There's also a rumor that it has had something to do with phases of the moon.

 

:lolg: :lolg:

Bill Michell is turning over in his grave - he didn't even get an honorable mention for the C2.

 

So...wait :nopity

 

Yeah, a few of you need an education on how GM works, both in the past and today. Up until the very late seventies, a car's "design" - the way it looked was totally controlled by the GM design staff, and the Corvette was the personal toy of Bill Mitchell. He designed the C2, then gave it to Duntov to build a chassis for it. Duntov was incensed by the split rear window that somewhat blocked visibility to the rear (though not that much IMO). Duntov wanted it removed. Mitchell said it stayed, and that was it. Duntov had to fight design constantly over the poor aerodynamic performance of the C2 and C3 and the C3's poor cooling, but Mitchell didn't care about Duntov's problems. "This is the way the car is going to look guys - make if work" was Mitchells MO.

It wasn't until the C4 design was started that an actual feedback loop was developed between design and engineering to deal with issues such as aerodynamics and cooling. The design guys finally got savvy on aero issues during the C4 design era, and there was good communciations and feedback between design and engineering, so the entire car was better integrated. Same with the C5 and certainly the C6.

That's why you will never, ever see a Corvette design that looks like a cartoon car drawn by a high school kid, even though some who post here seem to want such a car. The "design" of the car has to meet various aero criteria to include lift, drag, and cooling plus plenty of input from the marketing folks.

The Earl/Mitchell era, when one executive could completely control the design - the way the car looks - are long gone, which is why you will NEVER see a new Corvette as radically changed as the C2 was relative to C1.

Duke

 

Follow the white c6, free your mind. You must open your eyes, the c6 is everywhere, it is all around you. You are a slave born into bondage, GM has us all; a computer simulated world so they can turn us all into c6 slaves. Only you can set us free from the grip of the fake c5.2 called the c6! Neo, it is up to you.


[Modified by obmar, 5:29 AM 12/5/2003]


[Modified by obmar, 5:29 AM 12/5/2003]

 

Whoa....

I know Kung-Fu?

 

:lurk: