So an "F" for this thread?

 

Agreed. We honestly don't know what the true public feeling is until the car hits showrooms and customers are able to purchase. Then we will see. What would be really interesting (although doubt it is possible) would be to have Chevy dealers make C7 buyers fill out a quick check list regarding if someone is a previous vette owner, or is coming from another type of sports car, etc. yes I know it's highly unlikely this will be done but it would awesome intel to see then at the end of 1 year production how gm did with hitting new customers.

 

If you're not listening how do you know some are still complaining.....?

 

That might make the lighter colors more appealing to some, me included.

 

Ok, new guy first post.
I have never been a Corvette person, but when I saw this unveiling (over the internet) from Detroit I was blown away.
Saw the Cyber Gray in Toronto and hope to see the red coupe in NY in a couple of weeks.
So, I ordered a Red coupe from Criswell.
Definitely an A!

 

A....................................... .......

 

B+ Interior
B- Front view
C+ Side view & roof line
C- Rear frenzied look, not original, cheesy

Overall score C+

 

Coupe A+
Vert C = boring

 

A strong 'A' . I have liked this car from the git go. There is not one thing that I would change. I am going for BLACK with a red interior and red calipers. Can't wait.

 

No, I don't think so. Most of those that have not cared for the car have gotten sick of all the dislike threads getting locked and have gone to other sections or forums to do other things.

As for me on grade?

All the new features and coolness of new tech....an A, would have gotten an A+ with extra credit if it had come with a DCT

A generous C for styling.
It failed to WOW me, and I'm not pleased at having to warm up to it's looks.
I do not care for the back 1/3 of the car at all, and it has 100% nothing to do with the tail lights.
On the other hand the Vert does away with a lot of what I don't care for, so that ups it to a B from a side view angle.
The rear view gets a D

 

This without doubt IMHO rates an A++. Not sure if I will ever own one, but I will damned sure try.

 

Exterior Front/profile - A+
Exterior Rear - B+
Interior - A

So overall about a good A

 

They get an "A" from me.

 

So, here's my amateur grading of the C7's exterior appearance:

The design is, to me, a warmed over C6. It's a good warm-over, but it's not the risqué new look I had hoped for. Comparing the silhouettes, the two cars are too similar. I understand and appreciate that form follows function, but look at the European exotics, or even the un-exotics (i.e. Mercedes): they still perform and they don't consistently follow the form of their preceding generations. I think the reality is that they had to cut costs somewhere, and reusing existing designs and experience was it. Why fix what isn't broken, right?

From the side, it's very back heavy. I don't think they left enough space between the rear edge and where the back glass meets the deck; it's too much of a "fastback" where C3, C4, C5, and C6 look more like fighter cockpits. On that note, I'm also not too keen with the change from a bubble hatch to regular ol' quarter windows. It looks nice, but the bubble has sort of become one of the defining characteristics of the Corvette over the last 30 years. To note, I'm not docking any points for the quarter windows. I also don't like how the tail end angles outward, and then inward; it's too shallow to work and they did the same thing on the C5; I thought it looked awful there, too. It makes the back end look pudgy and unfinished. To be fair, the C6 tail also looks unfinished, but at least it lends itself to the "go-fast" look with its inward slope toward the wheels. And speaking of the wheels, the car looks tubby between the arches and the top of the fender, partly due to the lack of an appreciable deck and partly due to the slab-sidedness of that particular section. I really like what they did with merging the front and rear fenders using the side cove, though; I can readily visualize the air stream moving over that section and imparting down force as it gets deflected up, with the shallow curve back minimizing the drag losses. Pretty clever, though it's just a more pronounced version of what they've been doing since the C4.

From the front, it's aggressive, sure, but also mundane. Been there, done that, seen that look on cars thousands of times over. I do like that they are trying to bring some glitz back; chrome has been absent for too long on today's cars, and I think it needs to reappear to brighten up the boring, mono-coloured soap-bars people call automobiles today. I do feel like chrome on the C7 was an afterthought; it appears nowhere else on the car except as what I'm henceforth going to refer to as the car's "brace-face," unless you want to count the Stingray emblems and "CORVETTE" logo (both of which I have no problem with). For that reason, they really ought to have left the chrome off. I like the running lights, I'm glad they didn't go with point-LEDs, those always look tacky. Diffuse light bars are always better in appearance.

From the rear, it looks lazy. They did what Chevrolet design teams always seem to do these days and ran out of inspiration when they got to the back. It looks like somebody took a guillotine, chopped off the excess overhang, and then plugged the cross-section with something that took 10 minutes to come up with. I have no attachment to circular tail lights, and I actually think it looks better with the darker bottom section than a body coloured one, but that tail is a bad idea. The top and bottom don't mate together nicely; it looks like a lid that's too large for a given jar and is just sitting over the opening. They could have alleviated this by wrapping some section of the top down (perhaps the license plate framing), but they didn't. And those indents under the lights are in poor taste with their sharp creases; the rest of the car is a combination of both angles and curves, so this section ought to have been concave, not impressed with a straight-edge. On the other hand, the lights themselves are too blunted-looking. I also do not like the direction the opening is facing; pointing inwards would have a more premium look, as you'd be able to split the tail on both the x- and y-axes with better symmetry along the lights' horizontal center-line. And then there's the spoiler...glass it into the body, and we can start talking. Even the tail on the upcoming Porsche GT3 looks less tacked on, and they had to build an extension to the duck tail to make it happen...

Now, a few miscellaneous points: I love the contrasting vents. As I mentioned earlier, the whole monochromatic look has gotten stale. In general, I would like auto manufacturers to bring back chrome and swoopy-ness, bring back the black belt-line or side-rub mouldings, and use panel gap in a constrictive way to provide a pleasing contrast on the car; I don't want to drive a bathtub. The C7 is a step in the right direction. Where it lets me down here is in paint options: this car is SCREAMING for a bright orange or a bright green with those Carbon Flash vents. However, I suspect the small number of paint options is due to them updating and retooling their paint process, and I expect more colour options to become available as the C7 generation matures.

So let me recap:

Pros:
+Chiselled, functional look for the side coves
+Contrasting colour scheme
+Aggressive looks from the front
+C7 looks like an edgier C6

Cons:
-There's too much visual rear-bias
-Tail end is ungainly and unfinished
-Front-end is uninspired
-"Brace face"
-C7 looks like an edgier C6

In the end, it's still a better-looking vehicle than 90% of the others on the road and in showrooms, which is actually mind-boggling. I give the car a solid:

B-

 

Solid A from me.

 

Lots of positive, a modicum of negative, still an under current of ambivalence. But the needle seems to be moving in a much more favorable light for the C7 at the 3 month mark per this sample.

I truly don't believe the naysayers have all but left the forum, but I do give merit to the fact that they might be discouraged in surfacing their opinions based on all the closed out posts/threads for bashing.

 

A+++

This is the first car that Iam actually having trouble on deciding what color to go with. It looks stunning in every color I think...and the looks are so versatile i think it will also be the most customizable vette ever as well

 

A+

The only Corvette that has gotten me excited to own one... inside and out.

 

Giving the car a poor rating in a thread on grading and then moving on isn't bashing and no one should discourage that. You could also argue the folks who love the car don't bother responding as this discussion is getting tiring... for BOTH side

 

It's my opinion that some of the naysayers have more than one account on this forum.