Star576

This may sound kinda lame but the exposed headlights is one of the main reasons that I own a C6. I used to never look twice at a corvette before the exposed headlights. Sure the hidden headlights are tradition but the exposed are wayyyy more sexy IMO.

The only car that I like hidden headlights on are a 67 or 68 RS Camaro with hideaways.

John George

I agree. The exposed headlights are far better. I had a C5 and as soon as the C6 design was out I decided to buy it. Popups are like installing air brakes.

HOMERLIKEBEER

Not as cool as the hidden lamps on C2, C3, C4 and C5s. Corvettes for 40 years have meant hidden headlingts. Peters screwed that up IMHO. C7 can fix it, they don't have to be popups or rollovers but discreet hidden headlights are a Corvette signature.[/QUOTE]



Those exposed headlights are one of the reasons I did NOT buy a C6. Call me old fashioned, the coolest thing on my C2 is the pop-up lights. People always comment "I didn't know they had those in 1965".

My C5/ZO6 pop-up's goes right with the "CORVETTE THEME" as well. Never felt like "air brakes" to me. I will dis-own Chevrolet and Corvette if the four tailights go away.

brentil

I personally like the change to the internal headlights. Pop-ups just remind me too much of the 80s. However I'm not a big fan of the body color under the plastic, it just seems so out of place. Black, chrome, blackened chrome, silver, etc would have been nice.

68roadster

Hoping for something quite different than C6

1985 Corvette

I'm an avid supporter of pop ups but I think they're gone for good. It's easier to just have fixed place lights that don't require mechanisms to raise them to exposed positions and lower again hundreds/thousands of times over the life of the car.


At least Corvette can take pride in being the last production car in the world to keep one of the coolest sports car design features alive until 2004.

ksvette74

I love the pop ups. Always have. They need to be there but prolly won't cause of the racing.

1Day

i hope the C7 lights follow 430 just like C6 did 360..

zdave83

Pop-ups or no pop-ups....... as long as the headlights don't look like something from the rice parts bin -- or from the Viper parts bin. Corvette deserves better than that.

04 commemorative

Then they should make them so you don't mistake them for a Viper...and many other cars on the road. My opinion

SlickShoes

It amuses me to see all these "purists" cry foul and complain that GM departed from the "trademark" pop up lights of the Corvette- and that the C6's exposed lights are blasphemous.

Apparently then, I guess that made Harley Earl a blasphemer as well. Considering the true "original" Corvette headlights were also exposed. And not in one iteration, but two of them. Both in original, and the later quad light arrangement.

Know your roots. Pop-up headlights were merely a prolonged design flaw that was finally remedied after 4 generations.

Young69Owner

How could you forget the '69 RS Camaro???

Zilla

Some of you mention that the pop up should return but that will never happen because of the European pedestrian crash regulations. As for the LED lights that a lot of the car now have again are there because of the European pedestrian crash regulations. The LED such as the the one on the AUDI R8 are used for the DRL.

daveprice74

Screw the European market. The Corvette is an American car, an American classic. Did we lose a war or something?

Let the Euros have them stuck in the "up" position, if they have to. I want my damn flip-ups.

Zilla

Gee with the way GM is going, GM is going to need the European market to sell as many cars any where in the world. ever since the US economy sank.

I maybe assembled in America but made with part from all over the world.

robvuk

And all the profits stay right here in this country.

JMash

Peters did a great job, in my opinion, because for the first time in 40 years, the Corvette got much more than a lukewarm reception from me -- Returning to the archaic is a guaranteed loss of a sale from me.

BubbaDuss

With the way technology is going, what would be really cool is a flush setup like the C6's. but instead of big bulby looking lights.. a hyper-bright LCD panel that can be customized via the DIC.
That way you just have a small panel up front and that panel can show amber, white or a crap load of white for brights. and in the DIC set 3-4 different options that makes the blinker show up on the different corners or areas. Because its an LCD, you could change the layout or where certain areas show certain colors.

this way, when the lights are off, you don't see any headlights at all, like the C5,C4,C3... figure they have 5 years to figure that out and thats being optimistic given the economy.

It may not be a great idea, or even possible, but its a new idea. just adding my flavor to the creation.

VetteSpeed-427

pop ups ...look nicer closed ...but when open they don't look that nice and are bad for wind flow

racebum

i like the R8 period