Just driving back from the gym and there it was.

Got out and took some pics. Met the owner who loves the car (of course).

Not sure I love it yet. Can definitely see the Ferrari influence.

Enjoy!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/2241969...7637275267674/

 

It's very attractive. Easy to see why some people will prefer the looks to a 991. Are front license plates not required in NY state?

 

To be honest I saw a yellow 599 from a distance the other day and thought it was a new C7.

I'm still not a Corvette buyer but cool.

 

Sorry guys, not getting it. What I see in the C7 is a miss-mash of edges, swoops, cutouts, intakes, kind of thing kids would sketch on pee-chees back when kids still used pee-chees. I mean it is almost comical. No, scratch that, it IS comical! Just the hood alone has panels going in SIX different directions, PLUS a great big ugly vent, with a couple extra angles thrown in around it for whatever reason. GM obviously still hasn't figured out what pappy Porsche said half a century ago, that when a surface is angled you see it a couple different ways, that's it. But when a surface is curved the vantages and views are endless, you are fascinated and never tire of looking at it. Unlike the C7, which is already giving me a headache!

 

Here, let Michael Mauer show you how its done....

 

I saw 3 today at Caffeine & Octane in Alpharetta, GA. Fawking Sweet'

 

I saw a red one in San Diego county 2 days ago. The black plastic on the rear end detracts from the design even if one were appreciative of the look. I think it looks like a Transformer Robot waiting to turn into an Autobot. But I see why the Vette folks are excited about it. One of my former colleagues who makes a very healthy living (he could afford the 991S Cab) has always been a self described Corvette fanboy. He is finishing up a lease on a Mercedes E550 convertible and will get the Vette convertible when the Mercedes lease is up.

 

Not sure why there is so much ink on a Porsche forum about a corvette.

I grew up wanting a 911 not a corvette P E R I O D

 

R u sure it wasn't a Camero?

 

That makes two of us !
But wait, shouldn't that be backwards, autobot transforming into transf. Robot ?

 

Probably because the C7 finally can match up to the 911 now, and not everyone is oblivious of the outside world. GM sold nearly 4,000 new (both model years) Corvettes last month, talking about it puts pressure on Porsche to deliver more.

 

meh.

 

I'm a former Corvette owner and life long enthusiast, but I feel there's just too much going on in the design. I agree it looks cartoon-ish. They should have stuck with the C6 design and evolved it, rather than blowing it up altogether.

 

I like it a little less every time I see it.

 

"Just too much going on... agree it looks cartoonish." And that's from a life-long Corvette enthusiast!

"A Transformer robot." BINGO!

The car is a joke. In my wildest most over the top rant I couldn't begin to come close to conveying what a joke they have in the C7. Imagine, if you can, or better yet fantasize, that instead of a monster engine with monster tires the C7 was a true drivers car of unsurpassed refinement. In other words, pretend it drives like a 911. Would you still want one? Would you really? When everyone- well not everyone really just everyone done with being a teenager - is looking at it expecting to see an endless stream of circus clowns emerge from the impossibly tiny cockpit every time the door opens? I mean I am pretty good and try my best but the C7 just sits there mocking me, knowing no matter what I say it will always be in the real world infinitely, impossibly, more absurd.