New Corvette...
01-14-2013, 10:13 AM
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01-14-2013, 10:27 AM
#48
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Design seems busy - too many derivative themes going on for my taste and not feeling the Camaro tail lights. But I trust it will look better in the flesh and no doubt a lot of car for the money.
01-14-2013, 11:45 AM
#49
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I agree a little over blown, but understand how a cheap interior can ruin the experience. True, 911's and boxters share 80% of interior, but the boxter is still a 50K car.
Issue here is a 50k is sharing the same razor thin cheap plastic as a Chevy Sonic. It's awful. Hopefully the production version will be great....
Issue here is a 50k is sharing the same razor thin cheap plastic as a Chevy Sonic. It's awful. Hopefully the production version will be great....
01-14-2013, 12:16 PM
#51
Feels like the exterior design team either took 10 years off- or hired the nearest 10 year old kid to come by the studio- add some vents, aero pieces, and camaro tai lights- and call it a new design. Here's to hoping it looks better in person.
01-14-2013, 12:40 PM
#52
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The back of the car looks Camaro'ish.
01-14-2013, 12:43 PM
#53
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01-14-2013, 01:05 PM
#54
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Am I the only one that sees the interior as a cheap knock off of the Audi R8, the seats as a rip off of Ferrari and the exterior a mishmash of Ferrari 458 headlights, Ferrari 599 GTO body/style with over the top vents etc.
The interior materials look like fake/cheap versions of everything. "Oh the Audi R8 has a carbon console wrap around the driver so we'll clone that and make our carbon look like a 3M Di-Noc sticker." "Let’s have cheap carpet all the way up the center console and use the same switches and plastic quality from our $20k models."
You can tell just by looking at it, you don't even have to touch it to know what the quality of the "leather," plastic, switches and "carbon" feels like. It be fast for the $ I have no doubt but they had a chance to really change things and they didn't.
I was excited for their "nothing will be the same" ad campaign, yet it is exactly the same as Corvette has been for years. Low price, great performance, no style and horrible interior design and quality. When will they recapture the style the Vette had from the 50s to the 70s? The cheese wedge shape with styling borrowed from other cars is nothing like the voluptuous shapes the Corvette once had. And I don't see the 70s stingray in this car at all.
My father had many Corvettes, all different models from the 50s to the 70s, often several at the same time when I was growing up. He had a small hobby business called "Coupe Accoustics" where he and his friend made custom matched leather wrapped speaker enclosures (with or without head unit) that would fit the rear windows/shelf of the 60s coupes as well as selling hundreds of corvette parts at car meets/shows and collecting TONS of toy cars, posters and promo cars. I grew up coloring side profiles of every single corvette up to the 80s in custom made Corvette coloring books he gave out at shows. BOTH of us should be Corvette owners, yet he's had a 1984 911 for many many years now and I've had 4 911s and a Cayenne. There is no substitute!
The interior materials look like fake/cheap versions of everything. "Oh the Audi R8 has a carbon console wrap around the driver so we'll clone that and make our carbon look like a 3M Di-Noc sticker." "Let’s have cheap carpet all the way up the center console and use the same switches and plastic quality from our $20k models."
You can tell just by looking at it, you don't even have to touch it to know what the quality of the "leather," plastic, switches and "carbon" feels like. It be fast for the $ I have no doubt but they had a chance to really change things and they didn't.
I was excited for their "nothing will be the same" ad campaign, yet it is exactly the same as Corvette has been for years. Low price, great performance, no style and horrible interior design and quality. When will they recapture the style the Vette had from the 50s to the 70s? The cheese wedge shape with styling borrowed from other cars is nothing like the voluptuous shapes the Corvette once had. And I don't see the 70s stingray in this car at all.
My father had many Corvettes, all different models from the 50s to the 70s, often several at the same time when I was growing up. He had a small hobby business called "Coupe Accoustics" where he and his friend made custom matched leather wrapped speaker enclosures (with or without head unit) that would fit the rear windows/shelf of the 60s coupes as well as selling hundreds of corvette parts at car meets/shows and collecting TONS of toy cars, posters and promo cars. I grew up coloring side profiles of every single corvette up to the 80s in custom made Corvette coloring books he gave out at shows. BOTH of us should be Corvette owners, yet he's had a 1984 911 for many many years now and I've had 4 911s and a Cayenne. There is no substitute!
01-14-2013, 01:16 PM
#55
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Even with high build quality it looks way to "Transformers" to me. I like the C6 better, overwrought design IMHO, kinda like Lambo's. I guess that is a good thing to some.
But hey, if it stays in one piece at Sebring, who cares?
But hey, if it stays in one piece at Sebring, who cares?
01-14-2013, 01:24 PM
#56
Burning Brakes
Post 13, 6th pic.. Maybe this is a mule, so WTF
At least Porsche knows how to do an interior whether or not it's Boxster or a 911
No one is poo pooing the car, just observations.
+1 I couldn't agree more.
You're absolutely right, and while I loved the C6, I always thought their design budget ended right before the interior was taken care of. We will have to see if this one is better, but the pics posted in this thread are promising. My only point was that a turn signal stalk is no barometer of judging a car IMO, and poo pooing this new car for its turn signal & switch gear is ridiculous. In fact, that is uses the same as I have in my tow vehicle is good, because it is sturdy & functional & very easy to use, IMO. Also IMO, that fact thhat a Boxster is 50k is not necessarily a barometer of quality...only price.
Am I the only one that sees the interior as a cheap knock off of the Audi R8, the seats as a rip off of Ferrari and the exterior a mishmash of Ferrari 458 headlights, Ferrari 599 GTO body/style with over the top vents etc.
The interior materials look like fake/cheap versions of everything. "Oh the Audi R8 has a carbon console wrap around the driver so we'll clone that and make our carbon look like a 3M Di-Noc sticker." "Let’s have cheap carpet all the way up the center console and use the same switches and plastic quality from our $20k models."
You can tell just by looking at it, you don't even have to touch it to know what the quality of the "leather," plastic, switches and "carbon" feels like. It be fast for the $ I have no doubt but they had a chance to really change things and they didn't.
AMEN Bro..
I was excited for their "nothing will be the same" ad campaign, yet it is exactly the same as Corvette has been for years. Low price, great performance, no style and horrible interior design and quality. When will they recapture the style the Vette had from the 50s to the 70s? The cheese wedge shape with styling borrowed from other cars is nothing like the voluptuous shapes the Corvette once had. And I don't see the 70s stingray in this car at all.
My father had many Corvettes, all different models from the 50s to the 70s, often several at the same time when I was growing up. He had a small hobby business called "Coupe Accoustics" where he and his friend made custom matched leather wrapped speaker enclosures (with or without head unit) that would fit the rear windows/shelf of the 60s coupes as well as selling hundreds of corvette parts at car meets/shows and collecting TONS of toy cars, posters and promo cars. I grew up coloring side profiles of every single corvette up to the 80s in custom made Corvette coloring books he gave out at shows. BOTH of us should be Corvette owners, yet he's had a 1984 911 for many many years now and I've had 4 911s and a Cayenne. There is no substitute!
The interior materials look like fake/cheap versions of everything. "Oh the Audi R8 has a carbon console wrap around the driver so we'll clone that and make our carbon look like a 3M Di-Noc sticker." "Let’s have cheap carpet all the way up the center console and use the same switches and plastic quality from our $20k models."
You can tell just by looking at it, you don't even have to touch it to know what the quality of the "leather," plastic, switches and "carbon" feels like. It be fast for the $ I have no doubt but they had a chance to really change things and they didn't.
AMEN Bro..
I was excited for their "nothing will be the same" ad campaign, yet it is exactly the same as Corvette has been for years. Low price, great performance, no style and horrible interior design and quality. When will they recapture the style the Vette had from the 50s to the 70s? The cheese wedge shape with styling borrowed from other cars is nothing like the voluptuous shapes the Corvette once had. And I don't see the 70s stingray in this car at all.
My father had many Corvettes, all different models from the 50s to the 70s, often several at the same time when I was growing up. He had a small hobby business called "Coupe Accoustics" where he and his friend made custom matched leather wrapped speaker enclosures (with or without head unit) that would fit the rear windows/shelf of the 60s coupes as well as selling hundreds of corvette parts at car meets/shows and collecting TONS of toy cars, posters and promo cars. I grew up coloring side profiles of every single corvette up to the 80s in custom made Corvette coloring books he gave out at shows. BOTH of us should be Corvette owners, yet he's had a 1984 911 for many many years now and I've had 4 911s and a Cayenne. There is no substitute!
01-14-2013, 01:31 PM
#58
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I agree a little over blown, but understand how a cheap interior can ruin the experience. True, 911's and boxters share 80% of interior, but the boxter is still a 50K car.
Issue here is a 50k is sharing the same razor thin cheap plastic as a Chevy Sonic. It's awful. Hopefully the production version will be great....
Issue here is a 50k is sharing the same razor thin cheap plastic as a Chevy Sonic. It's awful. Hopefully the production version will be great....
You're absolutely right, and while I loved the C6, I always thought their design budget ended right before the interior was taken care of. We will have to see if this one is better, but the pics posted in this thread are promising. My only point was that a turn signal stalk is no barometer of judging a car IMO, and poo pooing this new car for its turn signal & switch gear is ridiculous. In fact, that is uses the same as I have in my tow vehicle is good, because it is sturdy & functional & very easy to use, IMO. Also IMO, that fact thhat a Boxster is 50k is not necessarily a barometer of quality...only price.
I am merely saying I would hope for more... but maybe that is the point... they do not have to put in "more" because they will still sell and out perform the competition at half the price.
I suspect they are doing the best they can with the budget allowed to hit specific performance markers and profit levels. GM knows the interior is the main criticism and they improved it by offering at least a seat choice.
I would not pass on a vette for any of the issues mentioned but they can do better... It is my thought that bean counters and bureaucracy make doing what should be done impossible, otherwise it would be done.
I am a z06/zr1 fan despite my feelings about their about their switches etc. As I mentioned in my previous post that I have wood for a z06 carbon edition.
Love,
Snobby elitist mfer
