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Several Ferraris and the Ford GT have amazing round tail lights. I don't hate the C8 tail lights, but of all the design cues this is one I think they should have kept.
I was driving down a very dark, very rainy freeway this morning and saw round taillights way up ahead. As I gained on the car, I thought “I’d be exercising caution with a Vette in this monsoon, too”. As I neared closer, I realized it was an early 2000’s Impala. At that point I upped my caffeine intake and chuckled, thanking the designers for not going back to round taillights.
Last edited by ZeroDark30; Oct 31, 2019 at 10:11 PM.
I'm a Grandpa who owns a C5, C6, and a C7. I like the round taillights on the first two, as well as the updated lights on the C7. IMO, the round tail lights on the C5 / C6 would not work on the C7, nor would the non-round C7-style work on the prior two generations. The engineers got it right on each car, and they continue to get it right on the C8.
They’re fine, but... the lighting element shape bears some similarity to VW and Audi and Kia, which doesn’t have the same panache as would being similar to Ferrari and the Ford GT.
Not a big deal, because it’s still low and wide and attached to a Corvette
(As for the 2000 Impala, everyone has that family member we don’t talk about.)
The red lit up area looks like the side intakes rotated around. It kind of ties it all together. Now if you hate the air intakes, you'll probably hate the tail lights too.
The red lit up area looks like the side intakes rotated around. It kind of ties it all together. Now if you hate the air intakes, you'll probably hate the tail lights too.
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Tail light design
