Jim_Lammers

Dear Corvette Forum friends:

Thanks for helping get the word out about our animation. It was great to see our views climb over 300,000. There is a lot of interest in the next Corvette. Youtube statistics show that it is 95% male

I just posted a gallery of 20 images to:

http://www.myc7.us/gallery.html

They are all 3+ megapixels so you can view them pretty closely if you want to. Here are a few samples:







I used a Grand Sport for the C6 comparison. Why? Because that's what I'm driving right now

Also we did one in Cyber Green although traditionally GM has not offered Corvette in this color. Just for fun. I like the Gallardos and Camaros in that intense green.

Hope you like these, or at least enjoy looking at them.

Here's the video on YouTube, in case you have not seen it yet.


thanks

Jim

blackcorvette06

Lookin better!

millpond

Great work! Thanks

John T

It is like Christmas morning when I see stuff like this .

Also, interesting how the new roof line makes the car seem so much sleeker

Thanks, Jim

zland

Great job! No doubt the best job we have seen of transforming sketches of what we think is the C7 into a realistic C7.

I like it better than before but compared to a current grand sport it looks thick, clunky, lacking sex appeal. Ironically, the best angle to me on these C7 models appears to be the rear end and I think I made it clear how I think About it.

In the end, regardless if the C7 ends up being the best or worse vette ever made I will never own one. I plan to retire and move overseas and a sports car is not practical for my next car. Regardless, I do really want the C7 to be awesome. Maybe that is the problem, I am expected too much.

Thanks again for the great job and labor of love.

BlueOx

How dare they promote the C7 this early!! This will hurt C6 sales!!! Lots of folks will hold off on the C6 and wait to buy the C7! I know at at least one who would have anyway!










j/k

BlueOx

OK, is it just me or does the C7 look a lot smaller in this image?

Hey Jim - what scale are you using? How do you know the C7 compares in size to the C6, for example? Did you get CAD drawings with size measurements?

Hey, BTW, can you please do a LeMans Blue convertible version of the C7? Please?

shank0668

Ok I will admit.... The black one looks SEXY!

BlueOx

I am really curious how this hatch is going to work. Looks like the quarter window is attached to the hatch and will go up and down with it. Or maybe it will automatically lower before you can open the hatch and rise up once it is closed. Hmmm.

SCM_Crash

ORANGE!!!!!


If GM offers it in orange, it would be too hard to NOT get it in orange. AHHHHHH!!!!

BTW, with the shape of this new back-end, I think a deck-spoiler is going to look killer.

69L79

If that is the C7, I say GM hit a homerun. I can't wait to hear the performance numbers. It makes my GS look almost dated. With an upgraded interior, GM will sell a ton of those Cars. I love the roof line.

7LitreC5

Thanks for posting the additional pictures. It is really cool to see it in different colors.

Garrett W

GTR designed vents, the ugliest square rear window, pontiac/camaro tail lights. So annoying.

SCM_Crash

Sounds like SOMEONE is stuck in the 2000's.

elegant

The comparison rear views of the C6, C7, and the C5, showing the narrower C7 and it's smaller rear end, fits totally with GM's Chairperson 's direction, when he saw the original concept modeling of the C7, that the car was too big in its width and it's rear.

zland

If the current GTR was designed in the 1960s or tomorrow, it is still a car that lacks sex appeal. Great design is timeless, poor design has some appeal for the sort term at best. The Japanese have never lead in producing appealing an body design. Remember the target for the 240Z WA to make a cheaper Corvette. The fact that others would copy them is a good part of the reason there are so many goofy looking body styles.

zland

If the current GTR was designed in the 1960s or tomorrow, it is still a car that lacks sex appeal. Great design is timeless, poor design has some appeal for the sort term at best. The Japanese have never lead in producing appealing an body design. Remember the target for the 240Z was to make a cheaper Corvette. The fact that others would copy them is a good part of the reason there are so many goofy looking body styles.

BlueOx

Well, lots of people have very differing opinions. Lots of CFers hate the Camaro and yet it is selling just as well, if not better, than the Mustang.

Just remember that Goofy is in the eye of the beholder!

zland

I agree to a degree, I see what a lot of people marry. Regardless, there are principles for design such as the golden rectangle etc & the more you stray from them, the less likely the design will have long lasting appeal. I have taught design for over 30 years & know that a majority of students mastered lets say 80% of the material & their designs reflect that. My first impression of the sketches we are seeing is they look like they were made (the proportions etc) by someone lacking a mastery of design principles.

I believe most cars now have too high a belt line. A lot of it has to do with European pedestrian impact laws which force the hood to be higher which in turn forces the entire car to have a higher belt line. This in itself could be a reason the rear of the C7 renderings appear to heavy, tall etc.

Feel free to claim the C7 design looks great, best ever. This however does not change the fact that if something looks off, I might not like it. For the record, typically when something does not look right to me, it does not grow on me. If I dislike it it is because something about the design is weak. I am not afraid of change, I embrace it if it is an improvement. I do not embrace change for the sake of change. I embrace improvement.

shawnvettefan

Looking better and great work on the CGI. I wished I had that kind of talent!!

However the car still looks a little weird to me, can't point my fingers on it. Also, why does it sit so high? And the front LED's are too big and far apart (that's becoming old school). They will look better as one continuos look ala Jag F type, Numerous newer Audi's and the new Viper.