Edmonds Rear View Rendering
12-21-2012, 08:03 PM
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I'm not feeling the love on the harsh chiseled angles from what we're assuming is the new C7. Corvette, for most of it's life, has been a curvy car. No rendering I've seen thus far would look better than the C6 widebody when parked next to it. I really want to like the C7, I really do especially given the specs seen thus far. But if it doesn't simply look better than the currently model I'll stick w/ my grandsport and see what they do with the C8.
12-22-2012, 12:27 AM
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12-22-2012, 12:28 AM
#63
Burning Brakes
I'm not feeling the love on the harsh chiseled angles from what we're assuming is the new C7. Corvette, for most of it's life, has been a curvy car. No rendering I've seen thus far would look better than the C6 widebody when parked next to it. I really want to like the C7, I really do especially given the specs seen thus far. But if it doesn't simply look better than the currently model I'll stick w/ my grandsport and see what they do with the C8.
You mean the first mid-engine Vette?
12-22-2012, 12:47 AM
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Drifting
12-22-2012, 04:48 PM
#69
Melting Slicks
Plastic components are easily changed. . . If there is enough consumer resistance to the corporate design language, i.e Camaro rear end, it will be modified.
I never buy the first year of a GM product, anyway. Well, I did once, and that was enough.
12-23-2012, 05:05 PM
#70
Melting Slicks
I hope GM's doin' a great job keeping the C7's looks a secret. All the sneak shots I've seen look terrible. I could never drive a car that ugly! And trust me, they'd never style the tail lights after a Camaro design that's been out for so many years already.
12-23-2012, 05:08 PM
#71
Melting Slicks
I sincerely hope you're correct.
However . . . In the event GM decides to emulate a lesser vehicle, and the market rejects the styling, it can be changed fairly quickly and inexpensively.
12-23-2012, 06:04 PM
#73
Le Mans Master
Funny you should reference the '57 & '58 Chevys, as I was just thinking about them the other day. My thought however, was does GM still have the capability to quickly change directions if needed the way they did after the '58 model? The '58 model was all new, but only lasted ONE YEAR! The '59 & '60 were a total breakaway from that one '58 year model.
If the taillights on the C7 prove to be a disaster, CAN/WILL GM hurriedly produce a new tail light rear bumper cover, or just make you swallow the medicine and like it?
Beyond Corvette, how many times in the last two decades has GM restyled the rear fascia and changed the taillights on a car? After one model year?
.Jinx
12-23-2012, 06:27 PM
#74
Melting Slicks
The 59s were well on their way before the 58s hit the street. Maybe the round-lensed 2015 rear fascia is well on the way already, but I doubt it.
It won't be nearly so clear as "a disaster." Some will love it, some will get used to it, some will think it's not so bad, some won't think it's a dealbreaker. It will take a lot of harsh criticism and softening sales before GM will change the taillights. Maybe, maybe a mid-cycle styling refresh will happen after three or four years, but I doubt it. There hasn't been a mid-model styling change in almost twenty years, and that was just the fender vents.
Beyond Corvette, how many times in the last two decades has GM restyled the rear fascia and changed the taillights on a car? After one model year?
.Jinx
It won't be nearly so clear as "a disaster." Some will love it, some will get used to it, some will think it's not so bad, some won't think it's a dealbreaker. It will take a lot of harsh criticism and softening sales before GM will change the taillights. Maybe, maybe a mid-cycle styling refresh will happen after three or four years, but I doubt it. There hasn't been a mid-model styling change in almost twenty years, and that was just the fender vents.
Beyond Corvette, how many times in the last two decades has GM restyled the rear fascia and changed the taillights on a car? After one model year?
.Jinx
12-23-2012, 06:30 PM
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12-23-2012, 10:06 PM
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The 59s were well on their way before the 58s hit the street. Maybe the round-lensed 2015 rear fascia is well on the way already, but I doubt it.
It won't be nearly so clear as "a disaster." Some will love it, some will get used to it, some will think it's not so bad, some won't think it's a dealbreaker. It will take a lot of harsh criticism and softening sales before GM will change the taillights. Maybe, maybe a mid-cycle styling refresh will happen after three or four years, but I doubt it. There hasn't been a mid-model styling change in almost twenty years, and that was just the fender vents.
Beyond Corvette, how many times in the last two decades has GM restyled the rear fascia and changed the taillights on a car? After one model year?
.Jinx
It won't be nearly so clear as "a disaster." Some will love it, some will get used to it, some will think it's not so bad, some won't think it's a dealbreaker. It will take a lot of harsh criticism and softening sales before GM will change the taillights. Maybe, maybe a mid-cycle styling refresh will happen after three or four years, but I doubt it. There hasn't been a mid-model styling change in almost twenty years, and that was just the fender vents.
Beyond Corvette, how many times in the last two decades has GM restyled the rear fascia and changed the taillights on a car? After one model year?
.Jinx
Then the C5 had the fixed roof coupe that was a styling change from the first two years of the C5.