FullThrottle64

Mine cost me a new kitchen...

golftime

Agreed. I think with all the focus on the tail lights, which although not my preferred look, the grossly overdone look of the 4 trumpet exhausts has been ignored.

new GT3

My dealer told me that someone should open a kitchen cabinet store next door to his place, because almost every time he sells a car someone sells a new kitchen. Also I saw a C7 today for the first time on the road; my Mother always told me if you can't say anything nice don't say anything...

JohnnyBahamas

That's a lot of painted plastic. Shiny black plastic. Red painted plastic. Just Plastic.

Wait, ah, maybe that's the reason for the ridiculous quad exhaust! The exhaust tips are the ONLY non-plastic surfaces visible on the rear end so there has to be a lot of them to balance out all of the plastic.

They're the "token" metal surface.

rocklegend

Porsche guys against Vette guys the classic battle. The C7 was named 2014 COTY by automobile magazine. It's a winner maybe not in the face of die hard 911 enthusiasts but in the eye of the general public it will turn heads over a 991 any day.

FullThrottle64

Read the current issue of Motor Trend - they picked the 911 over the C7 as the top driver's car. Ferrari F12 came in 3rd......

chuck911

Yes but never forget it was the general public who got us the C7 in the first place, when they decided we all had to stop spanking and start praising the fridge scribbler.

handful

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!! and more to the point, let's not forget that 10th place is also rewarded with a trophy. When my son came home with a trophy after his grade school soccer team came in last, we had had a long coversation about fiction vs. reality.

handful

The racing yellow C2S pictured above attracted quite a few folks that were present at the tuning of the C7. The owner of the C7 commented that the fit and finish and quality of materials of his brand new C7 was average. Then he asked if he could sit in my car. R&T stated that the C7 closed the gap in terms of fit and finish. Based on what we both saw that assertion is false.

CaliforniaZombie

It'll turn heads no doubt - screaming look at me, look at me, I have no taste to speak of, but look at me anyway dammit! If that doesn't do it, fill it with furry dice,get a low-rider "bounce" suspension, and five or six gold teeth and try again. It's easy to turn heads man. I mean a 500 lb woman in micro-mini skirt will turn a lot of heads too

LexVan

They are all mini skirts on a 500 pound women.

chuck911

Its the reason the C7 and so many other lesser cars have designs with lots of extra angles, planes and edges: edges attract attention. Edges are exciting. The eye is drawn to them.

Look at the rear of the C7 above. Just one brake light has 12 edges, plus 6 more for the big black goofy looking frame around them, plus 5 more for whatever they call the horizontal dealie bobbers just outboard of each light. That's 23 edges! And they are all raised, up and down, a miss-mash of contours that serves no aerodynamic or aesthetic purpose. They do however serve the purpose of distracting the first time viewer, giving him so much to see it creates the illusion of complexity enough to keep the mind busy long enough to not have time to think about what a mess it really is.

Problem is, this works about one time, after which people lose interest. They will say it is dated or whatever. In reality it was dated costume jewelry from conception.

Now for contrast consider the 991 brake light. Two edges- one nearly straight arc across the top joined by a more curved one below. The top edge is framed by the natural edge of the rear lid, fender and bumper. Not an edge really but we will go ahead and count it. Below is what Porsche calls the precision edge, where they curve the body panel just sharply enough to create the appearance of an edge. We'll count that one as well. That's 4 edges. All of which by the way sit flush, or nearly so, with the body.

We're talking one tiny little brake light and already its clear the C7 is a crime in design. Honestly, it makes my eyes ache. No, more of a stabbing pain. Like being caught in the shower at the Bates Motel only Norman's going at your skull with an ice pick.

CaliforniaZombie

Agree with you 100% on every word. The GM "designers" must have all just been trained on how to use their kindergarten issue straightedge or something prior to coming up with this abomination. If some people like it, good for them. Seeing something like the C7 makes me appreciate even more every gentle curve on my 991.

Hammer911

So Chuck...is it fair to say the C7 is "edgy?"

chuck911

Well it certainly puts me on edge.