Fixed it! Photochop
 

I went into photoshop and removed the things that bug me about the C7. This would be a car I would love to drive around.

I did a little custom glass work - removing the venting from the hood and rear quarters, and minimizing the gill vent in the front quarter. If a hood vent is necessary for the upgraded version, I'd add in an minimal intake vent similar to the C6.

In the rear, I dropped in a light kit that removes the camaro taillights. Such minor changes, and such a better looking car.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-D...0/original.jpg

https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Z.../s800/rear.jpg

The C6 hood 'vent' isn't an air extractor, it's an intake. Functionally, the two are very different

Not according to everything I have seen. It is a vent to extract hot air from the engine bay and exhaust it up over the roof and alongside the windows.

I like it. Looks really mean - much more so than the stock lamps. Can you do a chop without the full length spoiler (just the ducktail over the CHMSL). I think that may be one of the successful areas of the rear and the spoiler just wrecks that.

Glad you like it, I will take the real C7 over your FANTASY car. :cheers:

Looks good but I still prefer what GM has going into production.

Oh, and I think your taillights look dated and ridiculous on the photo. :yesnod:
Looks like an Impala.

To me, those taillights look MORE like a Camaro's.

I like this! I like both however, you have done a good job here

Not necessarily. My phantasy car is a matter of swapping out the stock lamps and popping in a set that looks like the above. The check spoiler delete on the RPO box, and I have what I want. I guarantee you someone is already working on a tail light kit for this car and it's probably under discussion in GM design as well for a mid-year refresh. Just imagine that RACER, they go back to round taillights and everyone will look at your car and say - there goes an older C7 - guess the guy never stepped up to the newer model. Then you'll be the one shopping for round tail-light kits :rock:

Round tail lights do not fit the design of the car and the ones you shop in make it look like a GTR or Impala.

Round lights are old news, get over it, guys.

Ferrari doesn't seem to think so.

The stingray emblem is SO cheesy! :ack:

Other than that I like 3/4 of the car, but will hold out to see it in person. Pics never seem the same once it's in front of your own eyes.

loquinho. Great pictures :thumbs:

I can not make it myself but can you use this picture and make the parts i have marked in with a yellow color as the color car?

The vents on the side must be kept in black also keep the new taillights as they are

It would be fun to see how the car looks with most of the rear end in the same color as the car

Funny, I was thinking the same. That area in body color will look much better I think.

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The hood vent is an air extractor for the radiator.

It's not an extractor from the engine bay. The radiator is tilted forward so that cold air from the bumper goes though it and then over the hood reducing lift.

Also, if the OP is removing all of the functional vents and heat extractors, then they also need to remove them from around the tail lights.

I absolutely love what GM has done with the car.

All your renderings accomplished was to make the C7 less aggressive and more pedestrian.

The Corvette has almost always been marketed and understood to be a race car for the street by its owners. All of the vents/intakes you deleted would simply make the car perform worse due to less downforce and more high-speed lift and due to less efficient cooling of some of the key mechanical components.

Basically you are trying to make a very racy car into a Grand Tourer. If that is really what you desire, then you are obviously looking at the WRONG car.

Those of us who have taken our cars to the roadcourse know how important all of the items are that you want to see removed are, and have paid dearly to incorporate some of those things on our current cars (mine being a 2004 CTS-V with an aftermarket carbon fiber heat extractor hood).

images from here:http://www.gtplanet.net/2014-corvett...ideo-released/

http://www.gtpla.net/wp-content/uplo...3rear_Gray.jpg

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Glad you don't work for GM.

Read his post...he's talking about the one on the C6; which is an intake!

Found this on the "net"..... Looks good in the matching color.

I know that there are many that are all wound up about the tail lights. IMO they are not bad just backwards. If the left lights were placed in the right side opening and the right lights were placed in the left opening it would look better. Part of the problem is the slope of the lights are not aligned with the slope of the sides of the car. The car is not rounded so I am ok with an edgy sloped tail lights. Also if the round exhaust was sloped and edgy like the tail lights, then that would tie it together. My 2c

I like this :thumbs: The tail lights is okay to

Good luck with that, it ain't gonna happen.

I like what you've done.

You could or should leave the vents as they are functional, but maybe make them body color?

Surprised people aren't complaining about the chevy truck vents!

Round tails look good on what you've done... I think the square tails would look fine, if they were smaller, care to tackle that too?

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I really like the rear end when it have the same color as the car down to "under the license plate"

Your photochop = IMPROVED

Can you please chop the C7 in laguna blue with silver wheels? I know there's the option on the chevy website but for some reason it's hard to really know what the car will look like since the Chevy site has them on a white background and they aren't real photos and have weird reflections. But with this shot on the road with various colours helps see what it will actually look like.

Nice. I like it but would like the hood vent added back in. Otherwise two thumbs up.

I like it. GM should hire you. The less the car looks boy racer the better it looks. I also like what you did with the rear.:thumbs:

On the C6? Re-read my post

Thanks dome!

what happens to said hot air when you take the roof off... or worse yet when you put the top down on the convert? I'm guessing some of it circulates right into the cabin.... sounds pleasant

I think you did a great job. The round lights look so much better on a rear that I can only think Aztek! I too questioned the scoops on the rear fender flanks and I like what you did.

Looks sooooo much better like that!

Should be a option to get it painted the same as the car.

It will be, If I buy one ... right in the dealers body shop before I take delivery!

I see this pictures here is on some European Corvette forums as well

I agree, if they were going to copy the ferrari body lines, they might as well have done the rear too. It looks like a ferrari got rear ended by a camaro and the tail lights tilted.
At this point it is like beating a dead horse. I'm waiting for more 4matic AMG's to come out and I'll probably vote with my feet.

It's like dating, if you saw a girl with a crooked nose and the opposite color eyes you thought were pleasant, you wouldn't date her. Looks aren't everything, but you don't spend time (or money) with something you don't find appealing.

Time to keep what I have or move on.
I hope that within the next few months people stop making new threads about this. GM listened to almost all of our complaints, but they are changing their image to the younger generation so they can maybe buy new, or hopefully buy used c7's in the near future. They want to get rid of that "old mans car" stigma.

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Someone driving a 1974 C3 and being critical of the C7 just lost all credibilty in my mind. No offense but really?

:eek: Oh? What if we said that anyone who drives a pimped out C4 race car has no credibility. I mean, where does it end. No offense, but really? ;)

I could also call you a hater but I won't go there...

I do like the idea of painted A-pillars. Can somebody do that too:D

No, take a look at the unveil. It explains how it works. It is used as a vent to exhaust hot air from engine and radiator. Also, aids in down force through aerodynamics.

Edit; just noticed op said C6. Sorry

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c6 guys...c6.

:iagree: Much better!

That car has a mean look to it.. The Blue calipers look good on that color.

You're dreaming if you think GM is going to go back to the round tail lights for any year of the C7.

Just like you were dreaming when you thought GM wouldn't go with this rear end. Face it. You were wrong then, and you'll be wrong in the future, with that aspect.

I don't mind the first picture. Car looks sweet. The second one though, looks worse than what GM has come up with.

You would not have an issue with heat entering the cabin. Heat rises so sitting still you would not feel anything in the cabin. Actually it may be a little cooler if it helps with engine heat entering through the firewall/drivetrain tunnel. And when you are moving the air circulation would disperse the heat. If you felt any at all it would be very negligible. My guess is you would not feel anything adverse at all.

..or Fiero

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The cyber gray looks better with the rear the body color
I'll take that exact car about this time next year :thumbs:

In case no one remembers the Corvette had square'ish tail lights in the 90's on the C4

Can you put the rear vents back in on the gray car with the same body color and one with the vents black?

Thanks!

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It's amazing how , when the more you look at something, it grows on you. When I first saw the Jalopnik drawings last year, I thought, "No Way... Never Happen. GM would never make a Corvette look like a disturbed HotWheels Toy designer contest car gone overboard with more air vents than a viral studies room at the CDC and enough rear end eye mascara to keep Mabeline in business for the next century."
Then, when it turns out that the Jalopnik drawings were exactly right when we saw the unveil, I again was wrought with sickness and dispair when the vulgar realities of madmen turned loose on an American Icon were brought to fruition.
Now, I sit and stare at pictures with eyes welled up and a bottle of Xanax held tightly in one hand and a bottle of purified water in the other, trying to convince myself that the new C7 design is all good.
Now, things seem to be getting better every day as I add various other prescription medications to the cocktail , while replacing the water with Jack Daniels and a small frig filled with Budweiser chasers.
I've come to realize that in the same way Brittney Spears looks a whole lot better with the shadowy eyeliner and pushup bras, as opposed to the mom shopping at Target image with a couple of kids in tow, I must.... absolutely must, ... realize that I'm livin' in the USA - but it ain't the end of the innocence anymore. It's the beginning of a whole new Nightmare. I've been welcomed to it. :eek:

Here's my certificate of acceptance into the eye makeup club of America. Funny thing is, I'm not coordinated enough to be able to hit golf balls right. But that's such a "stiff" pastime anyway so I could care less....
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I would take your first fantasy car... That's the way GM should have done the rear.

I have to laugh at the idea that the back should be mostly " the Body Color "... and if that was the case. people would want to mod it and paint it black like they did with the C5... And everyone here would say WOW nice improvement.

wrecked it. especially the rear end. Took an old rear end and put it on a more modern sharper edged car. Looks bad.

damn right that looks good. Especially the rear.

yeah... modern rear ends are sooooo coooool........
Baby Got Black in Back too....
http://media.caranddriver.com/images...s-1280x782.jpg
We just needed a little more black in back and even more of a set of lights that look like they suffer from chronic migraines.:ack:

like the c7 as is, reeeally enjoy the painted rear, much classier! if ever I buy one I will check with the body shop to find out what it would cost to get it painted like the rendering. Good work!

And not just any Impala, but the one that was the rental car poster boy for all that was wrong when GM was run by a bunch of former soap salesmen in the 90 s.
And I feel sorry for John Cafaro ( C5 lead ) for having to take the credit for its design, when it was the same people who mucked up Tom Peters ( C6 lead ) original interesting Aztec concept and turned it over to Tupperware to do the final bodywork .

Ummmm edited because I apparently can't read too gooder.

Bad ass car! :thumbs: :rock:

I am worried about the cup holders, please don't tell me they are round, that is so dated! :)

another moronic comment

im pretty sure he was being facetious.

First...your rear rendering is hideous...see johnny 5 from 1988...lol

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On the black one....you think you improved this car, when functionally you've destroyed it? So, you would remove the rear diff cooling system? You would remove the hood extractor also and gain front end lift, lose aerodynamic properties? You think you're improving this car?

They are visual improvements. All the flippant negativity is just par for the course on a Corvette forum. Corvette guys have never been top of the heap in the taste department, if you know what I mean.

Unfortunately, the rear of that C7 is bad for many reasons other than the yuck shape of its tail lights. The front may look like a large mouth bass with Downs Syndrome but the rear end isn't even that good. It simply does not match the front or even itself. Blocky, flat, awkward. And the entire bottom half is black plastic? Huh? It's going to look old so ****ing fast it'll make these dudes' gold chain wearing heads spin.

It's already old. The 80s wants their bumper cover back.

When will this Corvette be going on sale? :thumbs:

The first thing I'll be doing on the C7 is painting the rear entirely body color.

:iagree:.......complete blackout of the rear works well........:thumbs:

This looks awesome...

Wish it was a factory option to have it painted. but since it's not that would be my first mod when I get my c7.

Those are just soooooooooo much better! :rock:
In the first one you actually see the car and not all the surface noise, and in the changes to the tail lights are a great beginning to the back of the car, no more Cormaro. :thumbs:

:cheers:

Paul

Keep living in the past. :thumbs:

Overall I like the C7 as is, except maybe the exhaust... how about this (my Photoshop skill ain't great, I know)


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NICE!:thumbs:

That looks good, but I have no problem with the original. Might be an idea for an aftermarket company tho.........

This didn't make it. Time to start work on a mid-ship engined C8.

Love the photoshopped tailights...!!!!

Round is better

Ah,, NO

ditto

A lot of varying views on the C7, as we all have likes and dislikes about all most everything. The only design flaw that caught my eye is that the exhaust outlets are the only circular element on the entire back graphics. Wondering if two squared off exhaust would enhance the look? I really like what GM has done to improve the Interior.

OP can you make the black rear vents white on the white car with the factory shaped rear lights? The black vents on a light color car has a lot of contrast. Would love to see how the vents might blend in and not be so obvious. It looks like a bad Alice Cooper mascara job. Plus it draws attention to the rear lights.

Thanks

If the designers had moved the tail lights under the body chine (see arrow on pic) .. like on the C2 .. and perhaps lengthened the V on the rear decklid .. the rear would have been more C2 Stingray/tribute.. and had they would have had less Camaro complaints.

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You nailed it ... much better look.

this helps out the rear quite a bit :thumbs:

here's a fix for the rear and getting rid of that purposeful but hideous spoiler.

Also a bit cleaner and sexier I think. Added the vintage Stingray script for fun.

http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/4...teari2copy.jpg

Much much better...breaks up all the unused flat panels on the original.

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The C7 hood vent does not extract hot air from the engine compartment. Thats' the purpose of the fender vents. The hood vent extracts hot air that was used to cool the radiator and condenser. Air flows through the grille, through the condenser, through the radiator and then is ducted upward, out the hood vent.

There is no hood vent on any C6. There is an air inlet duct in the front bumper on the GS/Z06/ZR1 whose function is solely to supply "cold" air to the air breather.

Unbelievable how a simple change in the exhaust outlet location improves the rear end.

I would like to see what the rear end would look like without all the lines, divets, shapes, vents, etc.

Just the shape of the rear end looks fine to me without the busy transformer look. It is not JUST the taillights, but someone spent way too much time putting every line and shape they could come up with, which ruined the rear end completely.

We need to let folks like the gentleman who is a design graphic artist, just come up with a clean look, round taillights, and see if a carbon fiber version could maybe come to market.

I took a dark picture and just tried to obscure some of the lines to see what it would look like shape wise. I am a rookie using Photoshop as you can tell:

http://www.corvettelt1.net/rear2.jpg

I agree. His work surely does not improve on what GM has done.