C7 Finally Rears Its Ugliness
 

A rice burner if I ever saw one...Cant the General get anything right?

The more I look at it, the better a Ford Shelby Cobra is looking right now and for less money too than this POS...

Heck, I'm not expecting to be in the market to buy one of these, so I could go either way about how it appears to me. Generally I like it, but it's not at all what I would consider as a perfect "upgrade". And if history is any guide, you probably don't want to be the first on your block with ANY new design. I would NEVER want to buy the first year's production of any new generation. Basically all of those buyers and drivers are the beta testers for the new design.

One thing I am curious about, though, is if the paint job done on the car in the above video is a custom special job, or if GM finally got the kinks worked out of their standard paint jobs to eliminate that blasted orange peel texture.

I guess it will take a couple of years of owner's driving them before the kinks and wrinkles become public knowledge.

Well, here's my take on the C7. Very beautiful car from the front and side. From the rear, I think...."if I wanted a Camaro I would have bought one".

Interior is much improved, and the specs all sound good. According to Motor Trend magazine, (below), the price for the new "Base" car, which is comparable to the Grand Sport, will be $59,000. The $3,000 increase will probably be acceptable to most folks given the improvements.

I'm still waiting for delivery of my new C6 so purchasing a C7 is a non-starter for me, and I'd never purchase a totally new design in it's first year of production anyway.

I guess the bottom line is simple. I'll see where I'm at in the Spring of 2015. If the new C7 is a "gotta have" 'vette, I'll take a loss on my 18 month old C6, and buy a C7. If not, I'll keep the C6 forever.

Yeah......I was talking to a buddy and I told him it looked like one of those
"transformer" cars. He said "Yep, when you push the brakes it transforms into a
Camaro." It DOES look like a 2 seat Camaro, and the General should be ashamed
for using the Stingray nameplate on this "visually challenged" (read NOT GOOD
LOOKING) continuation of the Corvette line. Oh well.......there's ALWAYS the C8!
Andy :wavey:

They probably said the same thing about the 61 Vette's round tailights. "Looks like a damn Bel Air".
I imagine they'll grow on you. Of course this just opens a door of opportunity for someone to come up with a custom piece that features round lights to replace the new "Camaro" lights....sales down to less than 15000 last year. Hmmm. Yeah, time to change something.

What I don't care for is;

1. the side glass area behind the B-Pillar. Make it look like there is a back seat.
2. The rear end although not really a Camaro rear, I think it is more of a modified Concept/Transformer style rear end.
3. The rear hatch glass rear. It appears that there will be some bad blind spots.
4. the sorry looking Stingray on the front fender. Spell it out if you really want to go back to the Stingray.

Here,....I found a photo of an old AMC Marlin. See the similarity in the roof line, sail panels, and rear glass?

Visibility in that Marlin was terrible, that's why I'm wondering about the wisdom of using this same design in the C7.

Man, I dunno, but looking underneath the hood, looks like you better hope you don't want to change out the spark plugs yourself. :ack2:

Made in Japan?