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Old 05-06-2012, 08:07 PM
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Any idea if the front bumper overhang is going to be any shorter for the c7 vette as compared to the c6 vette? *It seems like it should be shorter for practical purposes. *Since the car sits low the front bumper is more likely to scrape an incline due to the somewhat long overhead on the c6....
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Agreed.
Some of those camouflaged spy photos (and even the Jalopnik renderings) kind of give the impression of a longer front overhang (I sure hope it's just an illusion) but again it's just too soon to know for sure.
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Originally Posted by LS1LT1
Agreed.
Some of those camouflaged spy photos (and even the Jalopnik renderings) kind of give the impression of a longer front overhang (I sure hope it's just an illusion) but again it's just too soon to know for sure.


Yeah, some of the angles give the appearance of a long schnozz. I hope that is just an illusion/not the case. A longer front overhang is not an improvement over current.
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Seems the C6 took that better than the C5 with the longer wheelbase and the shorter body. My C5Z scrapes the under spoiler a lot, but doesn't scrape the bumper. I may have scraped the actual bumper once in 2 years, but it's not common since I take all driveways at an angle. The girl I was recently seeing last month drove my car because I wasn't sober and I forced her to drive it. She went down a somewhat steep driveway straight on and it was a nasty sound, but still just the under spoiler (thankfully). That'll teach me not to do anything stupid when I drove. LOL

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