I know everyone is excited right now, but I have to admit, I'm disappointed, I mean after all the hype about taking ques from super cars and completely redesigning for younger audience and it's gonna be like nothing you ever seen, and this is it?..... A fricken C6 with a body kit?

 

Wow. I think this says it all. Jalopnik got a lot of it right. I am getting excited!!

 

Aaaaaand that's the end of the thread.

 

It looks like allot of other stuff on the road. C6 nose with a
Camaro rear. Isn't gm creative these days. So far best
for someone to just pick up a great deal on the C6. A custom
vette shop could do some panels, have a unique car for allot
less then a C7

 

Best I could do in a hurry. I used my own car as overlay. May try a different color later and a better picture, but best as I can see (assuming the camo lines are close and the size of the cars are similar):

1. longer snout with more wedge and less fender flare
2. a-pillars similar
3. b-pillars angled backwards rather than straight up/down

Again, if the renderings are close and the camo isn't distorting the lines too much, overall, if this is in the final design stages, it's more evolution than revolution. The car's profile is virtually unchanged, although it appears boxier. Gone are the smooth curves.

But we won't really know until the mask comes off.

 

I absolutely love the fact that every word that all the these trolling haters say will be forever saved in this thread. When they all collectively change their minds and fall in love with the C7, I will quote their ridiculous posts and make fun of them.

 

^^^The renderings did nothing for me, the photos match it pretty well. I really hope I like it more then what I see now. I clearly remember them stating the rear end of the C6 was too big/wide & the pictures they are showing seem to be bigger. In addition, the wheelbase looks longer, another step in the wrong direction to me.

Yes, keep track of my comments, lets see if I change my mind. Honestly, I want to like it, just not feeling it right now. Maybe once it is fully revealed it will look better for me. If like the GT-R, the renderings of that car turned me off, the pictures turned me off, & when I saw it in person it did nothing for me. Over the years, nothing has changed. With that being said, if the same applies for the C7, looks like I will not like it.

It is OK for everyone to have different opinions. I know there is a number of people that think the C6 is a step back then the C5. Some people think the GT-R looks great.

 

I think that the rendering looks very busy, like someone above said a C6 with a body kit.

However when the car is here it will look more cohesive. The rendering has many different shades to illustrate the shape of the body. It will look cleaner when it is all one color.

 

QFT!! hasnt this happened every time a new generation comes out? Hell remember everyone crying that they "ruined" the C6 because it was going to be the first vette in years without pop-up headlights lol!


Where did you hear that this thing was going to be some revolutionary redesign? The same rumor mill thats been saying its going to be mid-engine, turbo V6, AWD, etc, for years now?

 

Did you not read them saying their taking styling ques from Ferrari, and gearing the design towards a younger audience, and it's gonna be a complete redesign. Maybe you should try reading some. So after that they put a body kit on a C6 and say perfect, our job is done.

What is with this Great relief your gonna get when some one buys the car when they didn't think it was redesigned enough. What do you care? I can see people that owned the C5 not liking the C6, it wasn't that big of a change for them either.

But when you get a company saying that they want to compete with Ferrari and Lamborghini with their next car, and then just looks like they popped a body kit on their old one, well.......

The car is not ugly, if I was a first time Corvette owner I would buy it, but for previous owners after all the hype, I'd say it's a let down. But hey maybe end result will change.

 

You dont see the ferrari in it? the first thing that popped in my head was a 599 when I saw the front end and headlights, that one is clearly lifted off ferrari,




as for the rest of it though, it looks like it was influenced much more by a gallardo with all the sharp, blocky creases. I can see how they feel this would appeal to a younger crowd. But yeah, I guess "redesign" is a pretty subjective term, like everytime they come out with a new 911 and claim "Theres not one single part thats the same as the last one!" but it still looks pretty much the same. As far as the trying to compete with the with Lambo and ferrari, dont they already? I guess it depends on how you define "compete". By that do you mean only make 1000 of them a year and sell them for $200K or are we talking performance? Again, a bit subjective term.

Anyhow, wasnt trying to single you out, that statement was in reply to alot of other ones here that seem somehow disappointed by the C7 before knowing anything about it. I think it looks good and Im sure its going to be a better car in everyway than the last generation, as they have been.

Peace

 

Go for it. From the first moment I ever saw one, I thought that the C4 Corvette was a garish mess that I would never buy. Guess what-I never did, and I never will. The problem is that most of the hypothetical C7 target audience, the people it was supposed to be driven by, will be too busy driving their PDK 911 or Nissan GTR to worry about some ancient argument on an internet forum. The people laughing about "typical" complaining need to distinguish between two types of criticism: one is the typical novelty griping that the traditional Corvette buyers do every time a generation changes. They'll buy the car no mater what.

The other type is people who traditionally bought Mercs, BMW's and Porsches, who were drawn into the fold recently by the C6's world class performance, saying "We don't like this car; we're going somewhere else." Those people will go somewhere else, because they actually hate the idea that a car that was supposed to be revolutionary now looks like the Corvette equivalent of the Dodge Viper-they just stuck a ton of vents and plastic on the outside of the car and called it a day.

To be clear, from the very beginning (and you can go back to the old Jalopnik thread if you don't believe me), I said that the Jalopnik car might be very good, but not quite as good as that Stingray concept. I'm not upset because I think the C7 will be slow, or that it looks abominable, or anything else-it will probably be decent, and look sharp in an unassuming, middle of the road way. But it isn't the stingray. The stingray had shocking, iconic looks that would finally put the Corvette in the visual class its performance had suggested since the C5. Yeah, vets always look good, but their abilities always suggested that they deserved more than their appearance allowed. The car won't get that if it ships in the Jalopnik body.

As one person said when they were cell-phone filming the transformers car, "Get a good look at it now, because you know GM comes out with 'nothin cool."

Sage. This car is nice, but it definitely isn't "cool." It's essentially a subtly tweaked 15 year old design.

 

I would like to see Corvette do well. And, as one of those people (and one who loves the C6), the C7 better look more impressive in person.

You are also correct (IMO) about the latest design trends. Every version of the C6 since the original Coupe does look like they "they just stuck a ton of vents and plastic on the outside of the car and called it a day" (along with abysmal drag coefficients). The original car was a sleek design refined in a wind tunnel. Don't know if all the "JC Whitney" scoops and gills added recently says more about Corvette designers or more about Corvette buyers.

 

Wow... that is pretty... um... illustrative.

I'll say it again... maybe it'll look better in person. But this is hardly what I'd call a "redesign". There appears (with the caveat that we haven't actually seen the car yet) to be less different between the C6 and this car than between the C5 and C6. I fear for GM's future if this is the kind of thing that passes for creativity around there.

I'm thinking C6s are gonna be mighty popular in the used market.

 

I'd love to be that guy, but I don't see it happening. I thought the C6 was too narrow, to tall, and I disliked the nose. Overall, it's bland and the interior is garbage. 6 years later, I still think the same thing about the base car and I opted to keep my C5. The Z06 and ZR1 are more aggressive and I like 'em- that's how the base car should have looked from the very beginning.

The C7 looks pretty mean at the front, but it falls apart as you move aft. The rear is absolutely atrocious. If the Jalopnik rendering is accurate, I'll be keeping my C5.

 

Not that my .02c will matter but...

1: Its hard to overlay pictures and have them have the same dimensions because of the distance the pictures were taken, the type of lense/perspective etc. A photo of something taken from 10 feet with a 35mm and from 75 feet with a 200mm will be off quite a bit.

2: In the new spy photos of the mule being driven around, it has 2 of the exhaust pipes masked off. I cant help but wonder if this is indeed the new c7, why it has all 4 pipes. Also the new mule being tested with a c6 body on it appears to show a longer wheel base, and either slightly narrower or narrower tires.

 

^^This

 

I couldn't have said it better myself.

 

Did you or anyone else honestly think it would be anything but front-mid engine? Seriously?

And the rest of you guys.... There will be no AWD C7 option. Go buy a Porsche or GTR if you want AWD that badly.

 

I find it ironic you choose to call people "trolling haters" because they don't like the design of a car and then announce your plans to "make fun of them."

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