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These are actually great options, it’s an obfuscated likert scale.
I think the design is great for a sub-$100k car. It’s absolutely breathtaking. But more exotic/expensive cars that the C8 competes with (911, R8, 458) have so much nuanced beauty. The C8 is world class, the 1%. But it’s competitors are the 0.1%.
These are actually great options, it’s an obfuscated likert scale.
I think the design is great for a sub-$100k car. It’s absolutely breathtaking. But more exotic/expensive cars that the C8 competes with (911, R8, 458) have so much nuanced beautiful. The C8 is world class, the 1%. But it’s competitors are the 0.1%.
Hmm, I agree with your C8 comment and the Ferrari 488 that is similar to the C8 but not burdened with a rear trunk! BUT the 911!??
Recall what my Dad said about my 1st car, a '41 Ford Coupe (I stuffed in an Olds engine.) He said it looked like and upside-down wheelbarrow! Have to admit he was right BUT so does a 911! Every time I see one I think of Pop! Getting slightly better with age but I would get a Boxster (if they would put in a more powerful engine!)
Now by far the best looking ME is a 1967/68 Ferrari 330P3/4, IMO. To bad it only had room for a driver! I have a few in my "Man Cave" with pcs as well, albeit small!
I'm option number 2, but still waiting for the z06. Almost willing to bet a months salary that the wide body will make the base look bland like it has done in the past.
I don't mind the outside but the inside passenger is god awful. I know it's a drivers car but if your wife owns it and you have to sit on that side , wow .
I'm option number 2, but still waiting for the z06. Almost willing to bet a months salary that the wide body will make the base look bland like it has done in the past.
It probably will look better! This is a sketch with info on the Hybrid recently "leaked." I too will prefer the wider tires and although not much extra power for the Grand Sport the added FWD traction will improve the 2.9 second 0 to 60 acceleration I'll have at least 2 years to enjoy! Like I did with my September 2013 built C7 Z51 bought the Grand Sport when it came out for 2017!
Expect the Z06 will have more power than the LT2 that was leaked will be used with this Hybid, my reason for saying it's a Grand Sport. They will look the same.
BTW, Ferrari CEO just said they expect to have 60% hybrids sold in 2022! They want to sell in California and European requirements are also getting very tight requiring a Hybrid or EV!
I don't mind the outside but the inside passenger is god awful. I know it's a drivers car but if your wife owns it and you have to sit on that side , wow .
Hmm, don't buy one if you don't want BUT that visibility statement has been debunked by folks who sat in a C8.
These are two pics that show you can see your wife if you're driving! Views are as you would see at eye level from either seat! If she's driving look out the window, hold on and tell her she's going to fast, watch out for that car etc etc!
I don't mind the outside but the inside passenger is god awful. I know it's a drivers car but if your wife owns it and you have to sit on that side , wow .
I wouldn't have admitted that on a public forum. I think your man card is in jeopardy
I think the C8 looks awesome and I'm buying with no hesitation but I would have preferred something a bit lower and wider and not quite as long... Say along the lines of the 05-06 FGT proportion. I don't play golf and the frunk would have been fine... The Z06 looks will probably be earth shattering... I vote looking forward to the widebody... I can't dislike the car the way it is now though.
I went to look at the C8 convertible yesterday. I liked it but did not get the “have to have it” feeling that I got when I saw the C7 vert. The front seems too pointy but I could live with it. I’m ok with the rear of the car. I would take the vert over the coupe, I think the visible engine will be a novelty.
I sat in both front seats and it felt a little tighter than mine (to me). I liked the computer screen or whatever you call it better than I thought I would. It did not look out of place to me when seeing it in person. I could do without the slope of buttons, too much going on there.
I guess it will have to grow on me. I’ll be on the sideline for awhile.
You really should have made this poll public so we could see who voted for which. We'd certainly see the usual list of detractors and supporters, but it would be interesting to see where the non-vocal members fall.
I selected "I am not crazy about the C8 styling" because I am not. However, that could change once I see the wide-body variant. Or not. Time will tell.
Seems a lot of people have posted about the C8's hood design being to Busy. Guess they must have a C7 with it much less busy hood, or may be they never looked at the C7's, even owners of them.
Dang if the C8, isn't lower height-wise than the C7, sort of makes the C8 look smaller than it.
Then looking into the side of C8 compared to C7's, C8 looks make the C7 look like $hit. C7 side view, also makes the C8 look like it's little brother, by a different mother. I'll take the C8's functional side scoop, over the C7's lower front fender after thought of we need to do something, but best we could come up with.
Rear end. You know the drill, C7 no styling features to speak of below, the real Camaro looking taillights. At least the C8's tailligts wrap around side, and serve as side marker lights as well.
I'd welcome any of you who think the trunk can be removed an that will shorten the rear of the C8. About the best you could do trying that, is create a tall off the ground step over the muffler, and rear crash bar. No need to use it's space for active aero, because it adds un-needed weight, and as with C8 having same base squared off rear as C7, active aero is not needed, like that of cars with rounded off rear rear-ends as they don't have wide deck surface to mount Spoiler or low high wing off of.
Could the overall length of the C8 coupe be Shortened. Yes, but not without having to make two different chassis, unless GM had gone with soft-top convertible. That extra length behind seats, was needed for the retractable Hardtop mechanism and top storage.
The C7 has never appealed to me, because of the lower front fender treatment.
I went with the C8 for my 1st new Corvette since 1969....LOL
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