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C8 must return to ORIGINAL design. AT LEAST ZO6 deletes tacked-on scoop +Front bloat

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Old 01-08-2021, 03:20 PM
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Old 01-08-2021, 04:15 PM
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I love the design!!!
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Old 01-08-2021, 04:20 PM
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I'm sure GM has just been waiting to hear from ya!
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Old 01-09-2021, 09:44 AM
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Originally Posted by 22c8zo6
Tacked on black plastic, added as an afterthought, is not bold styling..
it's simply tacky plastic
As you said “ I’ll bet my life “. we are still waiting, please do the honorable thing, as most here like the side intake treatment. You do know what people that don’t pay their bets are called . If you can’t back up your bet, why would anyone continue to listen to you. All you have is BS.

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Originally Posted by 22c8zo6
Tacked on black plastic, added as an afterthought, is not bold styling..
it's simply tacky plastic

Tacky black scoops. Don't worry they'll be bigger on the z06. I'd suggest getting a McLaren or Ferrari and stop whining here.
Old 01-09-2021, 10:34 AM
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I think I and others already have mentioned that there's a factory option for the side spears and other trim to be body color: $995. There's also a grey option at the same price. Also, it would be pretty easy for any competent body shop to pop the spears off and respray only them in body color, probably for less cost.

You can see what this would look like on the Chevy web site in the configurator.

This seems to me like a tempest in a teapot.

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Originally Posted by Racer86
As you said “ I’ll bet my life “. we are still waiting, please do the honorable thing, as most here like the side intake treatment. You do know what people that don’t pay their bets are called . If you can’t back up your bet, why would anyone continue to listen to you. All you have is BS.
Maybe he's waiting for someone to take off a tacked on plastic scoop to impale himself on................no wait, that would be taken off a base car and he would NEVER settle for a base car part to commit harakiri on.
Old 01-12-2021, 08:58 AM
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Originally Posted by fsvoboda
I think I and others already have mentioned that there's a factory option for the side spears and other trim to be body color: $995. There's also a grey option at the same price. Also, it would be pretty easy for any competent body shop to pop the spears off and respray only them in body color, probably for less cost.

You can see what this would look like on the Chevy web site in the configurator.

This seems to me like a tempest in a teapot.

I would go with the body shop option. I don't mind the front and rear pieces being black. The sides, in my opinion, look better in body color.
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"Waaaahhhhhhh - nobody is agreeing with me!!!"

"WAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"

I have some advice for the OP:



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Old 01-13-2021, 03:58 PM
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Originally Posted by 22c8zo6
You're repeating what someone else already posted.
With that said, it is the only reasonable explanation for that cheap tacked on plastic.


Oh ya?
How many other mid engine car have side intakes exactly like the original design?
How many added cheap tacked on plastic to the intake, at a later date?
LOL. The person I'm repeating is me. And I'm repeating it because you still don't get it. Just like you still don't get that GM doesn't design cars for you, and you opinion doesn't matter to GM at all. You can cry in your beer all you want. GM isn't listening to you. Neither are the vast majority of C8 buyers.

Oh, and the "original design" is a clay buck. Not a real car. It doesn't have to do things like actually cool the engine bay, be manufactured at an affordable cost, stand up to real world use and abuse. Please, just grow up.

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Originally Posted by 22c8zo6
This is why everyone should have this guy on your ignore list.
Proves he's nothing more than a troll in every thread he infests.
I have a feeling you've gone onto far more ignore lists than "this guy."
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Old 01-13-2021, 04:40 PM
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Originally Posted by yz250fPilot
"Waaaahhhhhhh - nobody is agreeing with me!!!"

"WAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!"

I have some advice for the OP:

https://youtu.be/vJ7603kiQcY

Lmao
Old 01-17-2021, 11:46 PM
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Today while driving I got a BIG thumbs up from an awesome red C7. Then as we were driving, a car pulled up next to us and the driver started taking either pictures or a video.
If that isn't saying enough of what this car inspires I don't know what else to say.
We drive an LT3, non Z51, Elkhart Lake Blue. I believe the color has something to do with the attention.
BTW this thing is FAST.



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