View Poll Results: what do you think?
really clean, nice looking Vette....
174
31.46%
a very different Vette but we'll sure as hell take it.
165
29.84%
i'll be ordering one soon.......
98
17.72%
No thank you
116
20.98%
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Thoughts on the new corvette?
07-17-2019, 09:53 PM
#226
Team Owner
Agree. I've had my 911 for three years this week. Put on like 13,000 miles and 7 k of those the first year. Seems like settling into like 3k a year now. The new F150 Bought in early November just got oil change #2 today; 12,300 miles. Tend not to take the P car out unless I know I will get it up to temp and hit red line a time or two. The pickup is not so picky. However, looks like might have a couple of Lister buddies moving to the hill country so P car road trips.
07-17-2019, 10:03 PM
#227
Team Owner
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There is some personal preference in play here though. For the record, I don't like small BMWs either, but I have enjoyed two 5series cars. I didn't like BMW interiors in the 80s either, but some models are pretty nice now. And the sports seats are real comfy for road trips.
So could GM make an interior I like in the future? Sure. Anything is possible. The pics that Bill put up looked nice, but there is still a touch and feel thing that is personal preference.
07-18-2019, 12:36 AM
#228
@1Carnut you are one lucky fellow! I would be surprised if you didn't buy the C8, rather than the other way around. Good luck. You're a young man at heart, ready to take on a new version. The Wall Street Journal had an article today where old time owner's were proclaiming the C8 is not a Corvette. So familiar. Resistance to change is a common affliction (damn T4! damn water cooled!)
07-18-2019, 05:45 AM
#229
https://media.chevrolet.com/nextgenCorvette
https://www.chevrolet.com/upcoming-v...ation-corvette
Links for the Reveal of the 2020 C8 Corvette DCT, mid-engine battle against a 2020 Cayman 718 GT4 PDK.
https://www.chevrolet.com/upcoming-v...ation-corvette
Links for the Reveal of the 2020 C8 Corvette DCT, mid-engine battle against a 2020 Cayman 718 GT4 PDK.
07-18-2019, 07:30 AM
#230
Change is not easy for most people, and I was one of those who was upset when Ferrari & Lamborghini stopped making 3 pedal cars, but I have now come to understand that sometimes new technology (though I will never understand the tweeting thing, nor will I ever do it), can make driving better. I would not have wanted a manual in my 4C, but could not imagine an Evora 400 without one. I have two 718's (one gearshift one PDK) and two 911's my 997S gearshift, my winter 911 and 991C4S PDK, all of them (except the PDK 718S my girlfriend drives) modified.. I have not been told anything about the car other than there are new colors for it. I hope they do come out with a gearshift but I am not sure that they will. There is a certain feeling that you get from a V8 that you just cannot duplicate, I have a Maserati GranTurismo MC, and that engine is what makes that car, and I am hoping the C8 will have that same type of V8 magic. If not I will just keep making changes to it, till it does.
07-18-2019, 10:36 AM
#231
https://media.chevrolet.com/nextgenCorvette
https://www.chevrolet.com/upcoming-v...ation-corvette
Links for the Reveal of the 2020 C8 Corvette DCT, mid-engine battle against a 2020 Cayman 718 GT4 PDK.
https://www.chevrolet.com/upcoming-v...ation-corvette
Links for the Reveal of the 2020 C8 Corvette DCT, mid-engine battle against a 2020 Cayman 718 GT4 PDK.
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07-18-2019, 10:42 AM
#232
Rennlist Member
07-18-2019, 11:00 AM
#233
Team Owner
Ok, so where are the pictures?
07-18-2019, 12:44 PM
#237
Team Owner
Like we say, no pictures or it didn't happen. 
07-18-2019, 02:46 PM
#239
Intermediate
Corvette ME reveal tonight!
Will anyone here be watching the reveal out of Cali tonight at 11PM?
I would imagine there are a few "bi-polar" P-car/C-car appreciators out there (I am one of them).
I will stop back here tomorrow. There will no doubt be some rants and raves....so sharpen those spears and/or wring out the cryin' towels!
JS
I would imagine there are a few "bi-polar" P-car/C-car appreciators out there (I am one of them).
I will stop back here tomorrow. There will no doubt be some rants and raves....so sharpen those spears and/or wring out the cryin' towels!
JS
07-18-2019, 03:27 PM
#240
You would have to be sure of what you want the car for. If it is a mostly a track toy, I'm sure the C8 would be phenomenal. But if it is going to look anything like the rendering above, I would feel pretty foolish driving to work in it. And as much as like the torque and acceleration of my 991.2 GTS (and what I normally drive to work), it isn't the best for smaller back road twisties.
I was on a great spirited drive through a mountain gap road (Smuggler's notch) and was having a great time in my Boxster, until I got behind a Corvette (C7, or C6?) . It was huge in width and looked like a fish (or whale) out of water on that narrow road with blind hairpin turns and rock ledge jutting to the edge of the road. Perfect for a Boxster or Cayman, though.
I was on a great spirited drive through a mountain gap road (Smuggler's notch) and was having a great time in my Boxster, until I got behind a Corvette (C7, or C6?) . It was huge in width and looked like a fish (or whale) out of water on that narrow road with blind hairpin turns and rock ledge jutting to the edge of the road. Perfect for a Boxster or Cayman, though.