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I also hope what you have drawn is wrong and way off.
This is the least desirable interpretation of what the mid engine will look like thatanyone has posted.
So I pray your way off with this design. I expect that GM will knock our socks off.
Your sketch does not come close to anything I would like to see.
I see some c2 line on fender and 1/4 panel and a overall resemblance to a Mitsubishi 3000 gt from the mid 90's.
I not knocking your efforts I am just saying I hope your dead wrong as that is one ugly and outdated sketch.
I agree that 1st vette soon has posted some really excellent ideas and renders that I personally find to be very attractive.
Unfortunately we will have it looks to be 12 more months of guess work before we know hat we going to get.
I will be suprised if GM does not blow us away with a beautiful and clean design that will carry the Corvette forward as one of the most beautiful cars available.
I hope to see something clean and clean similar to a Ferrari 458 or 488 and something not as angry looking as the Lamborghini Hurcan.
I like both but find the Hurcan as overly done in an attempt to be futuristic. Where the 458 and 488 are just timeless design that will age far better tan the Lamborghini hard edge look.
So I hope to see less C7 design cues and more rounded exotic look that age well .
Just one man opinion for what it worth.
Your opinion is good as anybodies. I traced this photo and added the details according to my interpretation of the spy material. I've modified the lambo photo also because I think Vettes should look like Sharks like this car does. Good post, thanks.
The front may not be a frightening as you think. The lights are not too far off from the c7 position, but I feel they will be highly sculpted and more angular. I did not exactly align the c7 overlay but you can see it is pretty close.
Seems the red circles show the extremity of the lamp and a line I don't see. Artistic licence I guess.
BTW, take a look at this shot. I have been wondering if there is some eng. reason for the feature.
Note the sill plate about mid door. There is a dark "groove" a few inches wide and traveling toward the bottom of the scoop...maybe?
Also some other observations and questions...interesting stuff.
i see confirmation of shaka's drawings, and am pretty sure the car's design will follow the theme of the bugatti; the front half of the car will look like the back end is added on/built around the front half.
i also think the dark patch might be part of the side skirt that is either covered by a part of the black canvas or part of the camouflage paint has scrapped of. i don't see it on other photos on the right side of the car. on photos that show the right side of the car, it looks like that area is a channel to catch water and channel it out through an opening in the back side just before it enters the air intake opening.
BTW, take a look at this shot. I have been wondering if there is some eng. reason for the feature.
Note the sill plate about mid door. There is a dark "groove" a few inches wide and traveling toward the bottom of the scoop...maybe?
Also some other observations and questions...interesting stuff.
It is a very unattractive section that could have been nice with little extra effort. A little piece of the camo looks like it came off. Ferrari always does it nice. However, a closer look suggests the profile changes there which could be the beginning of the intake for the side scoop.
Here are some variations on a Ferrari 458 side splitter.
...the dark groove area appears on all the images on both sides. "maybe" a future piece of trim will be added there for the side scoop, as you suggest.
The CAD shows an interesting angular transition for the side sill area.
Also suggests that the scoop area will "bulge" and then slim down in front of the rear wheels.
Last edited by firstvettesoon; 01-10-2018 at 03:42 PM.
The level of 'expertise' and debate in this thread is entertaining and saddening at the same time. Plenty of people seem ready to step forward and criticize the original post that started all this, but then fail to bring their own rendering to the party or they devolve into I don't like it, or it looks like a Ferrari, or it looks like a Lamborghini. Same crap, different generation.
There's a lot of truth in the lines that have been revealed. At this point if someone takes the time to put together an entire 3D rendering, we have basically everything except the new logo, headlight shape, and taillight shape. The rest of it is there.
We've all seen these photos, but they are real and they are completely uncovered portions of the C8.
For my money, I think it's a good thing that the C8 has some Ferrariesque/Lamborghiniesque cues in the styling. Those are very pretty cars. The C7 was a flaming turd of a design and can't go away fast enough (no offense). I'm hopeful that this new car causes GM to have the gumption to move it's car designs into modern world.
Anyway, I digress. We have the car, it is there in the photos, just assemble the puzzle. GM doesn't put filler panes under the covering, quite frankly they aren't that smart. Proof? They let Pontiac die. So does anyone want to create a nice image from the dozens of spy photos and pics of the actual front and rear bumpers? (Yes, they are actual parts of the car, its from inside the Corvette Plant and insiders have confirmed such). That'd be great, thanks.
...the dark groove area appears on all the images on both sides. "maybe" a future piece of trim will be added there for the side scoop, as you suggest.
The CAD shows an interesting angular transition for the side sill area.
Also suggests that the scoop area will "bulge" and then slim down in front of the rear wheels.
I also see the air intake that appears to bulge out and then tapper off to the rear wheel well area.
I wonder if that point to the air intake starting on the door and then channeling the air flow back into the intake on the 1/4 panel.
Some of the spy shot show that there is duct work on the door.
I originally discounted that as just GM trying to hide the true design as I think it would be a problem for the door to have a air intake sticking out at the rear of the door?
Who know but I do think that the general shape of the 1/4 panel air intake is shown to be less rounded than in Sanka drawings and more angular if that is the right way to describe it?
The level of 'expertise' and debate in this thread is entertaining and saddening at the same time. Plenty of people seem ready to step forward and criticize the original post that started all this, but then fail to bring their own rendering to the party or they devolve into I don't like it, or it looks like a Ferrari, or it looks like a Lamborghini. Same crap, different generation.
There's a lot of truth in the lines that have been revealed. At this point if someone takes the time to put together an entire 3D rendering, we have basically everything except the new logo, headlight shape, and taillight shape. The rest of it is there.
We've all seen these photos, but they are real and they are completely uncovered portions of the C8.
For my money, I think it's a good thing that the C8 has some Ferrariesque/Lamborghiniesque cues in the styling. Those are very pretty cars. The C7 was a flaming turd of a design and can't go away fast enough (no offense). I'm hopeful that this new car causes GM to have the gumption to move it's car designs into modern world.
Anyway, I digress. We have the car, it is there in the photos, just assemble the puzzle. GM doesn't put filler panes under the covering, quite frankly they aren't that smart. Proof? They let Pontiac die. So does anyone want to create a nice image from the dozens of spy photos and pics of the actual front and rear bumpers? (Yes, they are actual parts of the car, its from inside the Corvette Plant and insiders have confirmed such). That'd be great, thanks.
If Jan. '19 is the reveal date for this car, the next year is going to be pretty entertaining while we all wait to see it.
This guy calls everybody in the thread an idiot, and then asks them for help.
Any guesses for what is sitting under the rhombus on the front hood? It seems like a false structure to hide whatever is there.
You are prob right that is is just a false structure. No reason to have the hood vent like that...unless it really IS a FE and there is a blower under there...
01-10-2018, 08:30 AM
