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I really enjoy the looks the car gets when it goes down the road, but I think the best critics are the kids playing hockey and skateboarding. When I drive up the street the kids just stop to look at the car as it goes by. They know a nice car when they see one!
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I took my 12 year old son with me to Corvette's of Houston Friday to pick up some Lloyd's mats and a few other things. On the way back we stopped to eat and when we returned to the car there was a car load of teenage girls stopped in front of the car all waving while one was taking pictures. You should have seen the grin on my son's face. PRICELESS
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Originally Posted by hotrodder
I really enjoy the looks the car gets when it goes down the road, but I think the best critics are the kids playing hockey and skateboarding. When I drive up the street the kids just stop to look at the car as it goes by. They know a nice car when they see one!
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Good stories but, drive the car for the performance it provides or its place in automotive history, not what other think about it. If you drive a car because you want everyone want to give compliments drive a german or italian make. Frankly, the more creature comforts, the closer this car is to being the next cadillac, and the farther off pace it is from being a performance vehicle, but I guess whatever sells car is the primary goal. Navigation in a vette, for **** sakes, do you need navigation to get around a track correctly??? 
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Originally Posted by Jimwood
Navigation in a vette, do you need navigation to get around a track correctly???
But honestly, one of the reasons that I bought the C6 was how beautiful I thought it was. Let's face it, who wants to drive an ugly car? If other people appreciate it, so be it. I could perhaps stand to have a little LESS attention, but that's just me.
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No doubt the car looks good. But, sometimes I think vette owners need to track the car to apperciate the performance aspects. First and foremost the car is a performance vehicle. Yes, this is idealistic as anything, but I fear most vette owners have an appreciation of straight line running but have no true clue what the car will do at its limits. Learn the limits of the car thats what its made for! Take her to the track.
Edit: Track= 2+ mile course, not 1/4 mile track.
Edit: Track= 2+ mile course, not 1/4 mile track.
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Originally Posted by Jimwood
No doubt the car looks good. But, sometimes I think vette owners need to track the car to apperciate the performance aspects. First and foremost the car is a performance vehicle. Yes, this is idealistic as anything, but I fear most vette owners have an appreciation of straight line running but have no true clue what the car will do at its limits. Learn the limits of the car thats what its made for! Take her to the track.
Edit: Track= 2+ mile course, not 1/4 mile track.
Edit: Track= 2+ mile course, not 1/4 mile track.
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Originally Posted by Jimwood
Good stories but, drive the car for the performance it provides or its place in automotive history, not what other think about it. If you drive a car because you want everyone want to give compliments drive a german or italian make. Frankly, the more creature comforts, the closer this car is to being the next cadillac, and the farther off pace it is from being a performance vehicle, but I guess whatever sells car is the primary goal. Navigation in a vette,you need navigation to get around a track correctly???
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Many things to many of us. All part of having C-6 in its first year.
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Yeah, I've gotten a few thumbs ups from the local teenagers...most have been in some sort of American muscle car. A few ricers even gave a wave and a "nice car." But you're right about the neighborhood kids...they just stop and stare with jaws open. I remember being there.
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Originally Posted by hotrodder
I really enjoy the looks the car gets when it goes down the road, but I think the best critics are the kids playing hockey and skateboarding. When I drive up the street the kids just stop to look at the car as it goes by. They know a nice car when they see one!
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From: Niwot CO
Originally Posted by Corvette Junkie
What's great about Corvette is it can be many things for many different people. I don't plan to use mine on the track. It's for exploring all the twisties in the back roads of America I can find.
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Some of the biggest droolers I have encountered admiring my C6 are RICERS. They might talk S%#t after they leave but I have yet to hear one bad comment from one person looking at the car.
Except for some other model year Corvette owners about the headlights.
Except for some other model year Corvette owners about the headlights.
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Originally Posted by hotrodder
I really enjoy the looks the car gets...the best critics are the kids....kids just stop to look at the car as it goes by. They know a nice car when they see one!
Drove past a school bus last week. Some kid in the rear alerted his friends. Next, I saw 10 heads by the window with thumbs-up. In a I-95 rest area yesterday a 70 yr old guy walked by and said while giving me a salute, “Nice car guy.” 
The Vette sure turns heads.
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Originally Posted by Corvette Junkie
What's great about Corvette is it can be many things for many different people. I don't plan to use mine on the track. It's for exploring all the twisties in the back roads of America I can find.
