Interior question...
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Interior question...
So we have heard over and over that if it looks like aluminum then it is aluminum etc... So the steering wheel and the center console by the driver mode select switch look like aluminum to me. It may sound silly but are they? If so that would feel really nice to the touch!
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When I messed around with the new car a few weeks back, I was investigating the same sort of thing.
Yes, to answer your question Aubaub787, those areas are definitely metal.
Now as to whether or not they are actually some kinda nonferrous alloy...? Nah, that's just me being silly.
Yes, to answer your question Aubaub787, those areas are definitely metal.
Now as to whether or not they are actually some kinda nonferrous alloy...? Nah, that's just me being silly.
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Yeah I'm not trying to start an all inclusive interior quality debate..I love the interior..and I am glad to get real metal inside even if it did way a couple pounds more.. It still does 0-60 in 3.8...lol
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Like maybe -- Corvette should have made a bunch of early 2014s and sent them around the country to the middle to large dealers for them to house on the dealership floor only -- to show, sit in, and talk about just how this new design looks and feels.
Most of us are ordering the car and extras (or not) on images in the media and words or writers.
Most of us are ordering the car and extras (or not) on images in the media and words or writers.
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Agreed on being okay with the plastic dash trim. I honestly would pick a C6 interior over the C7 interior if it saves 10-15 lbs and reduces further the already low MSRP. Or, if they had kept the C6 interior and spent extra for an additional 20 hp instead of on improving the interior and kept the price as it is. Corvettes are meant to perform and have great styling, not to please the feminine "I like how the leather feels and the stiching looks" crowd. I understand GM didn't have much choice and had to go this way to try to get Porsche buyers.
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I don't understand it. The $1K carbon fiber panel only covers that top portion of the dash, but doesn't cover below the radio all the way to the center console. What's the point? It just looks like an add-on at that point. To me, it looks aftermarket.
I think if they made it go all the way to the center console, I would have ordered it. But for just one piece, especially throughout the entire interior, it just doesn't seem to go with anything else.
I think if they made it go all the way to the center console, I would have ordered it. But for just one piece, especially throughout the entire interior, it just doesn't seem to go with anything else.