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Old 12-28-2012, 02:25 PM
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My brother's neighbor has a friend whose uncle knows a guy that works at a trailer hitch manufacturing company. The C7 will have an optional towing package and, get this, an available passenger trailer. They have apparently been testing this concept for quite some time:

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The back seat "rumor" wins HANDS DOWN. If you can convince yourself of a backseat in the spy shots, keep looking closer, I think you might find a unicorn or two!
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That it's going to have Camaro taillights....














Old 12-28-2012, 02:40 PM
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Honestly, I'm nominating this thread ahead of time as the thread of the year, er, next year as well. It'll probably contain more logic then 95% of the threads created the last two months.
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Awd.
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That the base C7 was going to be a 6 banger! Hands down the winner!
Old 12-28-2012, 03:21 PM
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Dumbest rumor contest entry: The CAD renderings were a ploy by GM to distract us from it being.....mid-engine!
Old 12-28-2012, 03:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Aerovette
Awd.
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Although backseats seem to be the most popular one at the moment, I'd believe a C7 with tiny/useless rear shelves before I believe AWD.
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Originally Posted by Ryephile
Dumbest rumor contest entry: The CAD renderings were a ploy by GM to distract us from it being.....mid-engine!
When was that a valid rumor?
Old 12-28-2012, 03:25 PM
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Originally Posted by BlueOx
That the base C7 was going to be a 6 banger! Hands down the winner!
Awww!!! I was hoping for mid-engine 3 cyl diesel with 2-speed powerglide, white-wall tires and an external sun shade over the windshield (would double as a spoiler to hold the middle of the car up so there would have to be down force on both ends - right??). Drat!
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Since it is a contest, what do we win?
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Don't forget GM's new direct exhaust injection technology. . .
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Originally Posted by BlueOx
When was that a valid rumor?
It's been perennially floating around every new 'vette since the C4. You should know that.
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Originally Posted by Ryephile
It's been perennially floating around every new 'vette since the C4. You should know that.
Well, yeah the mid-engine part (every generation for sure) but the CAD-hiding-it part? Never heard it.
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Originally Posted by keeks2915
Since it is a contest, what do we win?
A V A L U A B L E prize*




*(to be determined later)
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A V6 engine would be a close second to the back seat.
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Originally Posted by rcallen484
A V A L U A B L E prize*




*(to be determined later)
You will need to pay shipping and handling charges of course.

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Old 12-28-2012, 03:44 PM
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You will need to pay shipping and handling charges of course.
Well of course delivery would be included! What kind of operation do you think I am running here
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AWD. No, wait...
Back seat. No, wait...
Despite Jalopnik and Omega Tooling, it'll have round taillights because the camouflaged cars do. No, wait...

Jalopnik and Omega Tooling and Keeks CADs and the service manual illustration and BlueOx's user manual illustrations are all a ploy by GM and the real C7 won't look anything like that.

Yes, the misdirection conspiracy theorists must be given the win -- nobody hung on to an unfounded assertion longer than they did.

Though honorable mention must go to the more affordable base model V6.

.Jinx
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Originally Posted by Jinx
AWD. No, wait...
Back seat. No, wait...
Despite Jalopnik and Omega Tooling, it'll have round taillights because the camouflaged cars do. No, wait...

Jalopnik and Omega Tooling and Keeks CADs and the service manual illustration and BlueOx's user manual illustrations are all a ploy by GM and the real C7 won't look anything like that.

Yes, the misdirection conspiracy theorists must be given the win -- nobody hung on to an unfounded assertion longer than they did.

Though honorable mention must go to the V6 people were insisting we could get as a more affordable base model.

.Jinx
And I fully admit that, until I saw the Omega mold, I thought the Jalopnik shots were a GM-directed misdirection! Guilty as charged!

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