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my shop buys a lot of wholesale goodies from rick hendrick chevrolet in duluth, ga and i know the general sales manager. i stopped in to pick up some parts and he stopped me to notify me that the gm reps just stopped by with actual pictures of the new C7. He was not allowed to keep them (obviously) but he said the production version is almost an exact match to what jalopnik posted on the renderings. he compared the front end to a lamborghini. there are a few differences on the actual car versus the renderings. it looks like i might be trading up real soon!!! figured you guys might want to know! they did not specify powertrain options btw...
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Originally Posted by Jinx
Woo-hoo! I can't wait for the new round of complaints and prognostications of doom that this news will bring!
LOL
Wouldn't it be hilarious if the Jalopnik renderings and even these GM reps stopping in at Hendrick were all just a big smokescreen?
"Hey guys here's what we'll do. Let's let a couple of journalists in to see some older scrapped clay model design that we'd conjured up, let them leak the photos of it to the magazines/internet, then we'll visit a few suppliers/big dealerships and show some photos of that same model and then the WHOLE WORLD will think that's actually the new C7!
In the mean time we'll keep the REAL design well hidden/totally confidential until we're actually ready to drop the bombshell!"
Highly unlikly, the test mule running around in the snow already confirmed jalops renderings for most of us.
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Originally Posted by LS1LT1
LOL
Wouldn't it be hilarious if the Jalopnik renderings and even these GM reps stopping in at Hendrick were all just a big smokescreen?
"Hey guys here's what we'll do. Let's let a couple of journalists in to see some older scrapped clay model design that we'd conjured up, let them leak the photos of it to the magazines/internet, then we'll visit a few suppliers/big dealerships and show some photos of that same model and then the WHOLE WORLD will think that's actually the new C7!
In the mean time we'll keep the REAL design well hidden/totally confidential until we're actually ready to drop the bombshell!"
I think of New Coke, when people thought it was just a marketing move to reinvigorate sales of original-formula Coke. "We're not that smart."
GM is not that smart. Sure, they might fantasize about being able to do that, but it's a significant investment in subterfuge and only works if the real car is never spotted.
Occam's razor -- the simplest explanation is likely the correct one.
I'm pretty sure of one thing, and that is, "It will be better than C4, C5 and C6". That's all it matters to me.
I say this because that's how it's been from C4 on!
And for the money, reliability, easy to fix, you can't get anything else in the market. Go drive a Ferrari or Porsche and beat it like you do with your Vette, and you'll be in the shop every time.
1987 Mustang. 1999 Porsche 911. 2003 Viper. 2004 Corvette. 2004 Ferrari 612 Scaglietti. 2010 Mercedes CLS. Lots of people thought these looked worse than their predecessors.
Sorry you don't like the Jalopnik illustrations. It's far from the first time anyone has thought a halo car was messed up. And to be fair, you haven't really seen C7 yet.
Because they are jealous and want to make themselves feel better about the money they spent.
This dismisses the very real situation in which people prefer the styling, presence, or slant of the engineering choices made on an older version of the car.
This dismisses the very real situation in which people prefer the styling, presence, or slant of the engineering choices made on an older version of the car.
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well i got confirmation today from rick hendrick
