You guys can jump me too, you always do albeit from the safety of your keyboard!! LOL
Seriously though, the guy states he has owned 15 Vettes yet not one of you mention his loyalty to the brand, you'd all rather defend the almighty C7! You tell him to go back to Ford or Dodge, yet those aren't mentioned in his OP. You question his intellect from afar b/c face to face he'd probably bust yours! The real culprits when it comes to the C7 forum are the sad examples of members that talk brand loyalty and enthusiast crap all day long yet can't take someone else's opinion on the pinncale of all forums, THE ALMIGHTY C7.

Get it through your heads, the C7 is a car that has not rewritten anything and if people don't like it they have every right to express that here, if you don't like what they/we have to say than ignore the post and move on!

If some of you were able to decently engage in a conversation with those who don't like the car maybe this place wouldn't be so bad. It's what makes the world go round, not everyone likes the Yankees you know!! Personally I hate them, shall we argue that too? LOL

 

Hey he can dislike it but to then trash those that do is over the top. Opinions are fine, trash talk ain't. "What kind of person, actually LQQKS, at this (C7), Copy-Cat Corvette, and would waste (THEIR)-money on it?"
REALLY?
Oh, and here's a smilie or two for both of ya

 

I don't like the Yankees either!

 

 

Got to disagree here Dan. The OP comes to the C7 forum and writes an unintelligible post to complain about a car he doesn't like. Now that we have some independent views on the car and it is living up to hype, it would be nice for these threads to stop because they are useless. He came to stir up **** and that is getting old. No one is mandating loving the C7 because, as you correctly state, it isn't for all and that is absolutely fine. Maybe, just maybe, it is now time for those who do not like and will not buy a C7 to give it a rest and let those who DO like the car the opportunity to discuss it (and it's positive reception in independent tests) on the C7 Forum (not the C6, 911 or GT-R forums) in peace. At one point, it was annoying but now it's getting silly as a lot of the unknown stuff is known and proven to be positive. Anything else is subjective opinion and now it's time to let it go. IMO.

 

You may be missing the point that to a certain group of people who frequent this section purely to stir the pot, comments like this...
...are completely justified and appropriate. However, should one of "those people" respond in kind, they get accused by that same contingent of sh*t-stirrers of jumping on C4/C5/C6/whatever owners unjustly.
So basically, those of us buying the car just need to sit around, have our intelligence and buying acumen questioned and mocked, and if you say anything in return, you're wrong.
S.

 

What struck me as funny was that you went through a thought process before you posted that went something like this > I have an opinion > Will anyone care? > Yes > Then I'll post it.

The part you got wrong was where you thought anyone would care.

 

I love my C6, the new C7 looks great and im excited for it. However I have no plans on buying one. Nothing against those who do, and more power to them, cant wait to see the cars on the road and in person. ALL CORVETTES are awesome cars.

 

Why so many parentheses and quotation marks? Jeez, we get your point. The best thing is you don't have to buy the car.

 

Okay Heath, you know I respect and appreciate your opinions as I do your post.

Lets get a couple of things straight though, hype and expectation are worthless in the real world. Ask any sports team that at the beginning of the year was expected to win it all and ended up in the tank, i.e. this years Angels in baseball. The relentless over and over posts about how great the 7 is are looney tunes, the car does not have any history to go on, just a few rag articles and some exhaust notes that all here seem to get off on!

Secondly even if the car does become renowned due to its superior performance etc. I'd say it is fair to say it's supposed to. The car has been on the drawing board for years and truthfully (and this is subjective) it is not that far a departure in the big picture from its predecessor IMO.

And lastly as crazily written as the OP's post is his intellect does not need to be questioned nor should he be attacked. Hell not one mention of his 15 previous Vettes, big deal he doesn't like the 7 so don't answer him. As I've said, the 7 hasn't done a thing in the real world, God bless the supporters if the car falls flat on its face.

 

That's the thing... it isn't hype any longer. Watch the MT video review and listen to what he says. It is real that the car has performance to match the hype (well, reasonable hype anyway). The OP gets a reaction because, IMO, he wanted the reaction otherwise he wouldn't have made this post. I can promise I would not go to the C6 forum and spout off about what I don't like about the car... that would be idiotic... why is it any different in return?

 

Yet he questioned the intellect of anyone buying a C7.

In denial over the multiple mag reviews (real world, not GM hype).

 

Good thing the internet is an anonymous place because you've just embarrassed yourself.

 

Copycat...how so... Only two small parts from C6... From the ground up new engine, frame, aerodynamics, interior, instruments. ELSD... Vvt.. Cylinder deactivation...seems more like revolution than evolution to me

 

Let's get a few more things straight, shall we?

You want to dispense with the hype and enthusiastic internet opinions? Fine - let's talk facts:

1) The C7 is handily outperforming the base C6 and GS on the track at VIR. That's real world.

2) GM numbers show decent performance improvement by the C7 over the C6, and real world experience, from people who are employed to evaluate and test cars, are corroborating those numbers - even though (as usual) magazine times are a tad slower. All of this with even greater driver-customization ability and better gas mileage. (source: GM, Car and Driver, Motortrend, Edmunds, etc).

3) The thing that EVERY evaluator has absolutely swooned over, so far, is how completely different this car is from its predecessor - from driving experience to interior refinement, and driver customizability of the gauges and drive modes. That's real world stuff too.


So the conclusion here is that, although you don't like the C7 and will go to great lengths daily to explain that to everyone who does, you've elected to dispense with forum hype and personal opinions to instead go with the facts. The facts are that the C7 is simply a better car - before personal opinion gets in the way. If your personal opinion is that your 427 is nicer than the C7, knock yourself out. No one has even suggested that you get rid of your current car.

At some point, the naysaying ends on the enthusiast board -- right? Everyone here has noted that a few c6 owners don't like the c7's redesign. Frequently bringing this up, and all of this self-justification by just a few C6 owners is childish and completely unnecessary on a C7 enthusiast board.

 

Wow... The OP's post was a complete mess. If I were his parents, I would sue all of his English teachers...

 

1) A "Two-seat Camaro"? They have 4 seats, 2 up front and 2 more in the backseat. The ones in back only work for grocery bags but they're allegedly 'seats'.

2) WTF is an "intellectual sentence"? You certainly don't know what a coherent one is.

3) You don't like the C7. Wonderful! I'm very happy for you, please go away and allow those of us to do appreciate the C7 to discuss it appropriately.

 

...and.. Yes, I still (TRY) to be Friends, as per not only Corvette Owners, but, all people, until they can't place an intellectual sentence together...




Dude... How many cheap vodkas have you HAD today?

 

C7 4 Me

You refer to this forum as a C7 enthusiast board. You don't have to be an enthusiast to comment on the C7. It's an open forum. I don't care for the looks of the C6.5. Many improvements are claimed but production has not started nor have deliveries been made.
Build quality will reveal itself over the coming months. Remember it's still a Chevrolet which has never been called a premium brand. So make note that I am not a C7 enthusiast nor am I a Chevrolet dealer supporter. I have owned everything from a C1 thru C6. There won't be a C6.5