Trailer 4 Creation
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For all I could see, this video could easily have been from C6 production. Didn't see a thing that told me what the C7 will be like. So, 1-13-13 still looms as the date we will actually learn anything worthwhile.
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You sure won't find the double-crease of that front fender on any C6.
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Well after looking again maybe not. Will be there Sunday and can see
what it looks like without camera angles.
Last edited by plasboy; Jan 10, 2013 at 11:23 AM. Reason: second look
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Nice job breaking it down Bill 
They aren't giving away too much. We'll see Sunday night 
They aren't giving away too much. We'll see Sunday night
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Thanks for posting the video so quickly and for the grabs from it. Without the stills (which GM knows we will be doing), it would be WAY more difficult to know what we are looking at. To me the most fundamental take away from this is confirmation of the all aluminum and composite frame and underpinnings--- like it says, every gram has to earn its way onto the car.
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The frame looks like it's much lower mass than the old frame. It looks like there was a very significant effort to reduce the weight and lower the CoG.
Sunday is going to be very interesting!
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I can see how many think this is the rear deck lid. That would have to be a really narrow rear window, but entirely possible.
Mostly, I think it's a frickin riot that GM would publish an image and we can't even tell if it's the front of the car or the back...
Mostly, I think it's a frickin riot that GM would publish an image and we can't even tell if it's the front of the car or the back...
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I hate black snap in parts. They look cheap. The first thing I did with my C6 Z06 was to paint the rear spoiler and the door handles Cyber Gray(body color).
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I believe the opening we are seeing is the vent opening in the hood. It apears that the actual vent might be a snap in plastic grille(most likely molded in black, like the black snap in plastic parts used in the nose scoop and rear fender brake vents on the GS/Z06/ZR1 and the rear sopiler and door handles on the C6).
I hate black snap in parts. They look cheap. The first thing I did with my C6 Z06 was to paint the rear spoiler and the door handles Cyber Gray(body color).
I hate black snap in parts. They look cheap. The first thing I did with my C6 Z06 was to paint the rear spoiler and the door handles Cyber Gray(body color).
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The 2nd view I feel is of the Rear Hatch seal if viewing directly from the Rear on the Driver side, or, possibly viewing from the Rear standing on the Passenger side
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Aother reason I think it's the rear. In the second picture above you see the "7682" written in chalk. If you look at the first pic it is marked "7682L" I think the L would mean "Left" so that eliminates it from being the front right fender if indeed this was a front fender without the nose clip. I don't think that could be a hood vent in the first picture because the angles are wrong and that does not explain the continued "dark area" that expands from the so called hood vents.
just my opinion...
just my opinion...
Last edited by BeaZt; Jan 10, 2013 at 01:36 PM.