rothchilds

Someone legitimately asked me if it had a back seat

xtroms

I've been asked how much gas does it use. You should see their face when I tell them "every bit I put in it".

Just the other day I was asked how I could afford a "Vette". Marry a rich women!!!!

Like most I get a lot of good comments and just this morning while I was gassing up, 2 young men walked over in pouring rain mixed with snow to take a look and say how much they liked it.

juanvaldez

Little kid looks at the exhaust of the C7, "It has four engines?"

FLEXjs

That's a good one. I need some better comeback lines for questions like that Couple years ago I was fuelling up my SRT and some old dude at the next pump asked me about mileage. When I told him he started laughing and mocking me; "I get better mileage than that in my truck!". I was like WTF **** off old man. Didn't know how to respond so I just got in my car and drove off. LMAO.

gtam85

I get this often when its dark or night time: "nice viper!" / "is that a viper?"

redman76

I've had a couple of people ask me if it was a Ferrari, but my favorite was yesterday when I was heading to track event with numbers on the sides. A little 5-6 year old boy got very excited, jumping up and down, pointing "look it's a race car, look it's a race car". I rev'd the motor a little, to his surprise. Maybe a future Corvette owner . . .

Avanti

"Now, will you sell me your C5?" "No."

Rayland

FLEXjs


My one anecdotal, pulling into my lane for gas, at Costco (Covington WA.) behind a clean white Z51 C7 , the station attendant proclaimed he likes the look of the C7 in black much better!

"My wife and I smiled, and she agreed, and thanked him."

Many thanks,

Ray

Ken_4fun

I recently had a very (very) older gentleman get very close to me and walked around the car.

He said, "That is as beautiful as a naked 19 year old woman!" I couldn't help but laugh and I told him, "Thanks"

I had to go home and tell my 54 year old wife what he said. She just shook her head....

Some things you just cant make up.

Best compliment I have ever heard on my Corvette.

Ken

direct007

I was going through the drive-thru at my local McDonald's. The girl at the drive-thru register said "Wow, I really like your car! What kind is it?" I replied back "Thanks, It's a Corvette". The girl had no idea that it was a Corvette! I'm thinking while us aficionados are comparing base Stingrays, 1LT, 2LT, 3LT, Grand Sport, Z06, etc...the average person doesn't even know what kind of car it is. lol

BMF82

So true. We are the only ones that notice those differences. To me I’ve never seen two Vettes that are the same, and can appreciate the fine details that set each car apart. We know where to look and what to look for. I have car guys in my family and nobody knows there are 4 versions of the C7 Corvette except us Corvette owners, and I imagine some noob just counted to 4 on their fingers.

Carvin

I got this one for the 1st time a few weeks ago.

The amount of reactions to this car are way above what I got in the C6. I can't think of a single negative comment.
Back in the C6 days I took a proactive approach with the neighbors. As they approached me I announced "the midlife crisis is on!".

LuisZ51

So true! I've been trying to teach the wife the differences. She comes to me in the garage Sunday after taking the kids out for ice cream and says we saw a Corvette just like yours. I said really where? She says up on a trailer headed to the racetrack. She shows me the picture and it's a freaking ZR1 on a trailer. I laughed and said I wish!

Xtreme849

The day I bought mine I had someone at the gas pump ask me if we were filming a movie or something? Apparently they don't see too many C7 corvette's in their neighborhood.

Parcival

20-yo waitress: “These Ferrari’s never lose their value do they?”

to another poster, I’d let her wash my car!

Carvin

I have what is now embarrassing first hand experience with this. Corvette Coral at Road America had a C7 back at the 2013 IMSA race.
At the time I can recall thinking it doesn't look much different that the C6!!! (bought my 1st Vette a year later)

eseibel67

Although there are 200,000 C7s in existence, most are hidden indoors. Combined with the very distinctive body shape of a C7, its understandable that the average person recognizes it as special yet doesn't know what it is. Especially in the northern latitudes.

FLEXjs

You're probably right about that. Most people that own Corvettes up here in Canada probably only drive them in the summer, and even then only on weekends and/or nice days.

I've been driving mine daily since I took it out of storage over a month ago. Guy at work last week said "I can't believe you drove your Corvette today in the rain." I said "It's not made of sugar. Rain won't hurt it. I bought it to drive it." And he said "If I owned that car it would only see sunshine."

Hopper12

When we got our first C7 ('15 Z51) we headed out on our first long road trip (we always take a few during the year, and the longest ones - usually 3-4k miles during the fall). We left our home about 50 miles south of SLC and we were into Idaho. Conversation goes like this:
* Wife: "we better stop for gas".
* Me: "why?"
* Wife: "we've been driving for a while and we must be getting low"
* Me: "we have over 1/2 a tank"
* Wife: " you do not, no way". She looks over at the gauge and says "how did you do that??"
* Me: I flip it over to the last 50 miles mpg and said "look at that" (as I remember it was mid-high 30's mpg for the last 50)
* Wife: "how does it do that?"
* Me: " forgot to tell you it's also an economy car!"
* Wife: just laughs

We really enjoy our C7s for road trips - so much fun and you can pack a lot of stuff in them!

Dundon929

"Wow! what a car (as I backed into a restaurant-front spot by the curb)...does that have a V-12 in it!" I responded, "No, its got a V-8 and that's plenty"

Also last night waiting in line at a gas station to pay for an energy drink...one of the guys says to another behind me, "checking out that car?" other replies, "Yeah, that's badass" 1st guy says, "It is....his license plate says SUBMIT too...that's badass."

I find myself stopping to fill up only when I'm at a half tank because I love the comments...my wife calls me an "Attention Wh*re."