XtremeVette

ok so i spotted this picture....had me wondering if the C7 will share anything with the new 2013/2014 Cadillac? I know this is the ELR...but started the cogs turning in the my head. I mean after all history may repeat itself? If that is the case maybe we are being shown a few more cues or at least wheelbase for the new vette? Would seem about right too if you look at the rear window area. Very similar to the renderings we have all seen for the C7. I dunno...thoughts.

http://autos.yahoo.com/news/10-antic...4.html?page=10

I like the lower door facia treatment as well as "lamborghini" type of look as expressed by the writer.

Jinx

I would expect the Cadillac ELR to be built in the same Hammtramck plant as the Chevy Volt, since they share architecture.

(edit) in fact, it says so right there on the page you linked.

XtremeVette

Yep I did read that...still none the less can't help but notice some similarities. No public announcement from GM saying the new vette won't share any similarities with the Caddy or the Volt so hmmmm who knows right.

Jinx

No public announcement from GM saying the new vette won't fly, either.

Similarities are superficial, not structural. You'd be hard-pressed to choose two other GM cars that are more different than the ELR and the Corvette.

.Jinx

vetmts

I have always speculated that the reason for the expansion at Bowling Green would be for a Caddi model. I could not understand why they would expand for the C7 unless they expect sales to be out of control, which I doubt.

burtonbl103

the XLR use to be made at the Corvette bowling green facility. But now it is all corvette

XtremeVette

I have to agree with you there. I just can't see the expansion they paid for being necessary for one 1 type of car to be built. As pointed out the plant before it got it's expansion had 2 cars being built there.

Guess will know in a couple of months.

XtremeVette

true...no statement on the flying part...

As far as them being that radically different from one another...do you know something the rest of us don't know? You understand no actual photo of the 2014 vette exists right? Forget all the "renderings" or spy shots or test mules. I saw a clip/link on here from Taj saying about only half of those cars we have seen as spy shots were C7 test mules. The others were all C6's that were modified. He additionally said that those C7 test mules were not the 100% real deal either and that the only true C7 won't be released for the public to see until 1/13/13.

So yeh...guess it's as much anybody's guess right now as to what the new corvette is going to look like.

Jinx

Not the rest, just you, apparently.

What's more likely? That C7 has basically the same architecture as C6, or that despite all prior reports it's actually based on the Chevrolet Volt architecture?

Because the Cadillac ELR most definitely is without a shadow of a doubt built on the Volt.

"We don't know everything, therefore we can't say anything at all about anything at all!" Patently absurd, and yet the C7 Denial Society lives by it.

.Jinx

Bill Dearborn

We do know the Vette is still a body on frame car with plastic body panels. The Volt is based on the Cruze architecture and is a unibody car. Huge difference. Could they open another production line building a totally different car in the same plant if there was room? Possibly, but that could cause all sorts of issues since so few parts would be common.

Bill