Saw my first C7 today
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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/
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/
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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!
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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.
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R u sure it wasn't a Camero?
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Originally Posted by GMAC03:10878480
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
I grew up wanting a 911 not a corvette P E R I O D
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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.
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"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.
"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.