Big Lebowski

I like them as-is, and now believe that round lights would look very odd on this car. Change is not always easy, but can be for the better.

RazorPig

I love the round tail lights, but I don't think they would look good on the C7, the lights on the C7 are just perfect. If you look at some you tubes of the tail light evolution on the Vette, you'll see that this is not the first tail light squabble, or the first time people thought they looked allot like other cars........

lt4obsesses

Those lights look simple enough that you could make them a simple plug and play, which would be vital to their success.

I would guess that you could sell a fair amount of them as well, as many enthusiasts like to do whatever they can to personalize their cars. The folks at Eckler's and Mid America have made a pretty good living over the years.

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Zymurgy

a. NO
b. NO

-CM-

Glenmcp

No, no.

Let's move on.

Zotic

Thank you for the kind wishes. Capital isn’t a problem insomuch appropriately positioning the idea to those with an receptive understanding, and appreciation thereafter whether it's the magazine, lights, or exhaust for life's never short of naysayer to just about any idea.

Short story: Nephew, a trader on the exchange, exits the pit and ventures to open of all things a restaurant in Chicago no less, imagine that! The vast majority of people he presents the idea with inquiry for investment considered him insane and to go away, fast forward; "Alinea" still continues to be quite the success …and now nobody is saying a thing.

A Personally favorite…
"Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and under the lurid glare of obloquy upset our moral complaisance, or shock us with unaccustomed conduct, but from those, the mass of us, who take their virtues and tastes, like their shirts and their furniture, from the limited patterns which the market offers." – P. 34, The Preservation of Personality (1927).

Zotic

Precisely the premise on which the idea was conceived. Thanks.

Zotic

No argument to the fact.

Racerdj

I was totally against the new tail lights. That is until I saw them in person. I am totally behind the new design.

Zotic

Thanks. It's much the same as when the C7 first debuted, some see and appreciate the worth and change in design immediately, some thru time after some reasonable study, while other refuse and never do. It's all comes to be a matter of personal taste, nothing more.

KingMotley

Not a bad design, but, no and no.

arcticblast

Those look almost as good as round taillights.
(joking guys, just joking).
Seriously, I think they look good.

Snorman

a. No.
b. No.

Mecholova

I like the original tail lights more but still believe there's a better design waiting to be thought of.

As for the exhaust tips, I like the trapazoidal approach to keep the symmetry with the lights but think it may be better if it were broken up into 4 rather than 2 large tips

Weasel

I love everything about my new Corvette and wouldn't change a thing.

Larry/car

I am happy with the C7 design, loved it from the start.

Zotic

Not sure whether those opposed to the proposed taillight realize it's of the original design less the divide.

The two-part exhaust outlet variation was chosen over the four-part configuration because it cleans up the complexity of the rear.

Mecholova

I guess that is where I think I personally am having a hard time reconciling the redesigns in my minds eye(Yours and others proposed)

Its the complexity of the car that makes the original design appealing to me in my mind. The lines of the car suggest tension, strength, potential energy.

The lines and facets created by the shapes of the tail lights adds to the feeling of anxiety of the piece. Every ridge draws the eye into a different crease creating a rise and fall visually. In my opinion, removing that complexity detracts from the excitement of the organic-mechanical relationship like buying a faceted gemstone then trying to polish it into a sphere.