Nope, I live in a classy neighborhood of Boca Raton, Florida, the Barnes and Noble here expressly provides tables for you to browse their magazines (or even books) while you are sipping your starbucks latte and having your coffee cake or whatever your poison. And everyone does it, it is the style and practice of this particular store and few others in south Florida . Nope, did not read the entire magazine, only the article on the C7, only upon the insistence of my Corvette buddy. I pay/subscribe for my two corvette magazines, what they write about usually interests me. I guess it will take some time for civilization to arrive in your parts.

Man, lot of people are missing my point entirely.

I eat my burritos at the dinner table!

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My guess is that if the "all others" don't buy the C7, GM will lose a ton of money on the car.

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Sometimes you need to be careful of what you ask for...

Oh my gosh! That last fart was bad. Honey, bring the Lysol!:ack:

The C7 will be purchased by more taco and burrito eating types than by the supposed "beautiful people". The beautiful people look down their noses at Corvettes and consider them to be cars for gear heads, beer belly slobs and others of that ilk! The beautiful people buy Porshe, Audi, Mercedes and the like. Owning a Corvette does NOT mean that you have "arrived".

the point of his post, I think, was that the mags need to get their heads extracated from down below, and show some love for the vettes accomplishments.

Yes, but like a liberal and the NRA, they'll never get it.

Do you think that there might just be a chance that the European cars are actually better in the subjective assessment areas?

what's a burrito?

Kind of hard to get any context with just one sentence.

I just read the article in its entirety online and have a completely different take on it than you do.

I found the article to be informative overall [but would concede that the paragraph you refer to wasn't very well written]. To me, the author was referring to the relentless, uninformed internet commentators who post meaningless drivel regarding the corvette. I don't think he was attacking the "boomers" referred to in the previous sentence. He seemed to be lauding GM's willingness to go beyond the status quo.

I was quite encouraged by what he wrote. He compared the vette favorably from a value perspective to the much pricier 911 [..."a compelling value edge" to the vette], he used adjectives like "lusty" to describe the V8, and even criticized the folks who think european cars are better due to their sophistication: "Europhiles will titter over the quaint pushrods and two valves per cylinder, as they always have. Yet, the small-block remains a compact powder keg, four inches shorter and 40 pounds lighter than BMW's similarly potent 4.4-liter twin-turbo V-8."

Everyone interprets things differently, but when the title of the article about the new vette is "Magnificent 7," I'm heartened by it. :flag:

Like the general populace, many Corvette owners have poor reading comprehension skills, are insecure, and take offense easily; this is simply a sign of our times.

The problem with all the magazines it has to be German.I bought my 2007 c6 for 32k drove it for four years and sold it for 30k.then I bought a 2013 c6 and love it.put that in blown muffler magazine.

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My 38 year old daughter just happened to stop by at the time the reveal was just starting. I have driven corvettes since I was 17 and have owned all 6 generations so my 3 kids have grown up around them and all of them like corvettes.

She owns a very successful business and would definitely qualify as the target group they say they are now going after. She is actively shopping for a new car and has been looking at BMW and Audi so she was very interested in seeing the new vettes. Her first comment after it rolled out on the stage was she thought the wheels looked cheap and was left cold by the car in general and disappointed. Her comment to me when it was over was keep your C6 convert.

My son who is 43 also watched it and when I talked to him the next day had pretty much the same comments as my daughter had.

If they end up turning off the average 58 year old new vette buyers who have been the corvettes main buyer group for many years they will never hit GM's stated target of 30k C7's sold a year.

It is sad for me but if they cannot sell 2-3 times what they have been selling since 2009 I think that the C7 will be the last vette generation. 1984 was the biggest sales ever with over 50k sold followed by 2007 with over 40k but the last few years they have struggled to sell 10k. The Porsche Boxter model alone which is about the same price as the vette sold nearly as many of just that one Porsche model in 2012 as all 4 corvette models combined sold so obviously people are still buying expensive sports cars.

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The article's author didn't do his homework very well either.

"The base 2014 model will be known as the Corvette Stingray - one word, as used from 1969 to 1977."

There were no Stingray badges on the 1977. Those badges were last seen on the 1976 model.

As for the other comment, there has been a lot of internet hate spewed towards the new C7.