Corvette C7 Design
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Corvette C7 Fostel Design
I love designing cars so I tried to imagine what the C7 should look like. I love collecting design suggestions from Corvette fans to pick up the most important styling clues you would like to see in the future C7 Vette design. So I designed several C7 corvettes, some of them look very modern and some go back to a more nostalgic styling. I’ll be pleased to design a special corvette for this forum taking into consideration your ideas and hints.
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The first thing i do when I start a design is a quick hand sketch of what I want the car to look like. This is quite fast to do (it took me 30 minutes for this example). It is not an accurate design, it only shows the general lines of the car. Wheels are often over sized and as the design goes further (towards industrial process …Alias 3D modelling … etc … ) proportions get more realistic and closer to serial models.
Here is the very first quick sketch of the C7 that I made…I will show you the final result later on.
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Here is the very first quick sketch of the C7 that I made…I will show you the final result later on.
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Because of the future fuel economy and emissions laws, GM might focus financial efforts on engine/transmission solutions rather than fundamentally modifying the actual C6 structure. So I also tried restyling a C6 in several manners.
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Nice effort, but I really dont like any of those.
I love seeing artists concepts though! Nice work!
I love seeing artists concepts though! Nice work!
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Here are two other designs. The first one is a kind of C6 super Vette (full carbon fibre body) that I designed way before the ZR1 came out. The second one is another view of the C7.
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The side view of the silver one is awesome. I'm not sure what the 2 black lines are behind the front wheel, but I think it would look better without those - it takes away from the lines and the way the front quarter flows. Nice Job on that one!
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The side view of the silver one is awesome. I'm not sure what the 2 black lines are behind the front wheel, but I think it would look better without those - it takes away from the lines and the way the front quarter flows. Nice Job on that one!
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This one is not a C7 design but an old design that I did few years ago. I wanted to give Corvettes a strong visual identity front face (because C3/4/5 had pop up lights they lost much of their front face identity) and a cosy (classy) look.
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P.S. Sorry if I make English mistakes since I’m French so obviously my English is not as good as yours.
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This is a more exotic European styling of the C7. These are low resolution images because I don’t like to show crystal clear images (Lines can be scanned) on forums. I am looking for a Job at GM so I’ll be more than pleased to send clear images to GM.
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I design all types of cars, not only Vettes but my dream is to work for GM (not necessarily in the design field) because I love GM (in general) and Corvettes. I sent my CV several times to GM human resources but I’m sure that it is not getting to the right person (so if any one here works for GM and can help me ???). I also have other GM designs such as Pontiac but this is a Corvette forum so I will not post them here.
This is typical US styling and this is exaclty how i would have designed the C7 Vette if had the chance to do it for GM. Very Agressive design ....
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This is typical US styling and this is exaclty how i would have designed the C7 Vette if had the chance to do it for GM. Very Agressive design ....
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GM is stupid not to hire you..but yes unfortunate over the last 35 years GM has done some
very..very stupid things....
Here in the US so many of our cars have this muscular blocky like
look. The Chrysler 300..Dodge Charger..and Ford Mustang. But I
think the corvette can take this blocky look (as you show above)
as the overall shape and look of the car is so long and lean looking.
Still..yes....most US corvette people we like abit of the
european design look added to the corvette. It upgrades the car
since the corvette needs to be different from the typical US muscle car.
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