C8 round tail light conversion.
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Not my cup of tea. Of course, I recognize that this offering is designed to appeal to old Corvette purists who continue to reject the taillight design of the C7 and now the C8.
I’m not bothered by the “Camaro-looking” taillights. Round lights simply look out of place on this car and the previous generation Corvette.
I’m not bothered by the “Camaro-looking” taillights. Round lights simply look out of place on this car and the previous generation Corvette.
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Not a fan of the round taillight look for the C8. I think what they have on the car now looks just fine.
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Probably the same reason one of our supporting vendors prototyped a round tail light rear end for the C7 and never went into production with it. There simply wasn't enough demand for it to be able to offset their tooling/development/productionization costs.
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I’m not as well read on these things as you, but I suspected lack of demand. I know I wouldn’t even consider converting to round taillights. Same category as vertical hinges on a Corvette. A cheap modification that doesn’t belong.
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I thought the taillights were integrated into the bumper, at least that's what I saw on some video when they were assembling C8s. Maybe these round tailights are just covers on top of the existing taillights instead of being replacements. They do look good on the car because they maintain some of the angular look to match the overall style of the vette but if they are just covers they won't be desirable. Like others said, there has not been any updates on availability of these on the vendor website.
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Not my cup of tea. Of course, I recognize that this offering is designed to appeal to old Corvette purists who continue to reject the taillight design of the C7 and now the C8.
I’m not bothered by the “Camaro-looking” taillights. Round lights simply look out of place on this car and the previous generation Corvette.
I’m not bothered by the “Camaro-looking” taillights. Round lights simply look out of place on this car and the previous generation Corvette.
Agree I like the C8 taillights. Would never want round taillights on an C8 that has an edge design.
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Shorten up the rear. Great now we’ve redesign half the car. Would have looked great. But we good.