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Team Owner
Joined: Jul 1999
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From: Buy USA products! Check the label! Employ Americans
Drifting
Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 1,355
Likes: 1
From: East Northport NY
some don't like new and some don't like because they don't have the newest. Car is a bigger step forward than C5 to C6 by far. Better than 26 mpg too.
Friend has ZO6 C6 and says it looks like a C6 not radical enough
Would making it look like a VW bettle be enough change
Friend has ZO6 C6 and says it looks like a C6 not radical enough
Would making it look like a VW bettle be enough change
Race Director
Joined: Sep 2003
Posts: 18,369
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From: For the strength of the pack is the wolf . . . . . . and the strength of the wolf is the pack.
If you study the lines of each car, you'll see that the C6 actually has lines.
As for the C7 - I don't hate it. I don't love it, but I don't hate it.
There are some strange features that I am going to have to get used to.
Supporting Tuner
Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 51,896
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From: ================== Houston, Texas www.englandgreen.com ================== Necessary Evil™ __________
CI 6-7-8-9-10 Veteran
St. Jude Donor '05-'06-'07-'08-'09-'10-'11-'12-'13-'14
I like everything about it except for the tail. The Camaro lights... no.
Team Owner
Joined: Aug 1999
Posts: 69,020
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From: Bagpipes put the "fun" in "funeral"
I think the C7 is the best looking vette since the chrome-bumpered C3.
Don't like the rear end? Will it sucks to be you because that's the angle you're gonna be seeing the most.
Le Mans Master
Joined: Dec 2006
Posts: 5,139
Likes: 482
From: H-Town Texas
Horsepower is only one element in performance. This car will run circles around that LS7 Camaro in any event you want to match them up. Whatever the path to finish line, this Vette will get there first and the driver have time to grab a coke before the Camaro gets there. ...and there's an LT4 lurking around the corner? maybe?
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Joined: Mar 2006
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From: San Diego
Melting Slicks
Joined: May 2007
Posts: 3,269
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From: Simi Valley Ca
The logic of some people defies reason. Seriously.
Last edited by slief; Jan 13, 2013 at 11:18 PM.
Melting Slicks
Joined: Aug 2005
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No it's not except for 0-60 times. You don't have much of any evidence of any other performance metrics. This car would most likely pummel a C5Z on a road course.
Team Owner
Joined: Jul 1999
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From: Buy USA products! Check the label! Employ Americans
Burning Brakes
Joined: Apr 2010
Posts: 1,075
Likes: 4
From: Asheville NC
I'm not saying better. The C7 is leaps and bounds better but I just wished GM would have give the car at least 500 hp like how they gave 400 hp to the base C6 when it came out after the C5Z. The new C7 will only be marginally faster or quicker compared to a C5Z, C6, Grandsport.
Instructor
Joined: Nov 2010
Posts: 170
Likes: 1
From: Orlando FL
most (if not all) of the haters I've interacted with are stuck in the past...the same kind of folks who've hated every Vette since 1964 when the split window went bye-bye. Nothing will make them like anything that doesn't look like a C2. That said, I'm keeping my 2008, it'll become my DD when I add the C7 to my garage