I'm appalled at the lack of craftsmanship on this yet to be produced vehicle!

 

ok, having owned numerous leather interiors, including Mercedes, and currently two Lexus vehicles, along with my 2008 Z06, I looked again at them. I doubt you can find a leather interior that is perfectly done. My Mercedes wear was worse than my three Corvettes I've owned, and cracked just as badly, even though I know it was higher quality leather. My Lexus cars are better than the Mercedes, but even they have some leather issues and stitching issues. My understanding with the C7 seats is that the same manufacturer that does the seats for Porsche is doing the Corvette seats. If you don't buy the car because it only has double helix stitching instead of triple helix, well, that's your loss IMO, but hey, if it's that important to you then more power to you. All of us Corvette people need to understand (and most do) that you can't build a sports car for the price of a Corvette that will be the equal in every quality to a $150,000 to $2 Million dollar sports car. The seats are definitely better than ever, and I am very pleased at GM's efforts to upgrade the interior without a lot of price increase. If you like the car buy it. If you don't, and you already own a Corvette, keep the one you have. If you don't own a Corvette (Hmmm, take a look at the complainer) and you don't like the Corvette, what are you even doing on here, even if you aren't a hater or troll?

 

By the time your done ROTTING, the C8 will be out.

 

What? You can put any car in the world under a microscope and find flaws.

This is getting ridiculous!

 

 

LMAO! I hope you are being sarcastic. If anything could be steamed at 30C (86F) or 42C (108F) you better get ready for a new generation of steam power and start buying shares in any company that sells water that will boil those temps.

 

Agreed, but I'm sure there are different price points that Lear charges for a certain level of quality. GM may have chosen 1 step down from a Porsche seat. JMO.

 

Oh my, I think I saw an area where one of the stitches didn't look quite straight. And it looks like a double helix! Now what do we do?

Sadly, now I can't buy this car.

 

Now Now don't go getting all the rose colored glasses crowd upset. gm can do no
wrong and the vette is a second coming

 

Well said...it might help to remember:

A ) For around $60k no other sports car offers this level of content and performance.

B ) We wonder how they do it at this price point

C ) Yet some people here feel the features and performance still aren't enough, they want every last detail to equal those cars costing tens of thousands more, but still at the low price point


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Mercedes, the best or nothing. Porsche, xcellence was expected.

Corvette, meh, good enough, the customers don't know the difference. If they do, let um bring it back, maybe we can fix it. (My Z06, i bought new, leaks water on the drivers side. Had it *fixed* 3 times, still leaks water) Should have lemoned lawed it. Along with leaking axles, broke valve spring

I put up with the crap, because I loved the power. But GM quality control is ****.

 

Wake me when this thread is over................

 

Agree. A prototype is not a "show car". That car very likely has been a test mule as well and has been rode hard and put up wet more than once.

 

From Ike with 15 posts in how long?

 

Remember when we saw them sewing the interior before the introduction. It was in black and white, now they have to figure out how to accomplish it in color. Must be a challenge.

 

LOL - this is the funniest part of this thread. Yes, the guys in here are super keyed up...shoot, they're wound so tight they....well, I won't go there... You'd think some of you would have clued in at the "30C steam".

The OP does have a point though, in that the stitching is clearly uneven. Given the poor quality pic, I would expect this is more obvious in person. I would also expect GM to put their best foot forward on a show car, which this is not. So that is a bit concerning.

On the other hand - some of you are stone cold nuts. It is ridiculous and delusional to expect (1) the same level of quality out of a $60,000 mass-produced car that you would out of a $300,000 car (2) expect that the C7 will miraculously be this giant leap forward in materials and assembly quality over the prior cars. The workers are the same, the suppliers are the same, the production budget is the same, so one should expect more of... the same. C6 materials were a bit better than C5, and I would expect modest improvements in C7. But this will not be a Bentley interior. I personally think that the Corvette interiors are fine given the cheap price of the car. Honestly, I like that they are not so nice that I am concerned about carefully maintaining them. The only thing we really needed was better lateral support, and GM has responded to this as far as I can tell.

 

The OP is correct. Look at the seat back. It is riddled with holes! Holes I tell you. You would think for this price they would be able to get a solid piece of leather and not one compromised with holes. There are so many it almost looks intentional.

 

 

Thanks for one of the best posts I've read in a long time.