Black plastic console by shifter looks cheap
 

For a few extra dollars GM should have extended the carbon fiber material over the console instead of the cheap black plastic they used. This would have given the interior a real touch of class. I really like the look of the new interior but this would have been a real nice extra. The less black plastic the better.

black shifter ?

Yea I wonder why they only put carbon fiber on the dash and not by the shifter area too. It is weird. They should have an option for carbon fiber on the door handles too instead of alumnium. Even on audi they offer that on their small TT sports cars. They also now offer carbon fiber mirrors though I know GM has never made that so they probably don't want to spend money on that.

I hope APR steps up and makes lots of carbon fiber parts for this car along with katech.

Agreed. Maybe on purpose to leave room for improvement on higher-end models, as well as a great opportunity for the aftermarket.

Stunningly beautiful. GM hit a home run with the black plastic shifter surround.

Stunningly better than the even cheaper Z06 black plastic shifter surround which was a wild success.:rofl:

Z06 surround(which is also used across the board in newer C6's) is not nearly as stunning as the silver painted surround found on a 2005 base C6 convertible though.

I never pay as much attention to the interior as some of you guys.

Many of us just enjoy the performance of corvettes. I'll be sure to buy the 1lt interior. I am sure the higher designation interiors will meet most enthusiasts desires and if not the aftermarket can go a step or two higher.

I prefer a z51 MRC with competition seats.

I will agree with you about that.

I'll give you a million dollars for your steering wheel. It's also stunningly beautiful with it's jewel like eloquence.

I like it. No Malibu steering wheel for me. :thumbs:

Wait, aren't you going to whine about the new C7's steering wheel? It's one of the few things you haven't complained about on the C7 yet.

No need to complain about the steering wheel (even though I really hate it) caravaggio will fix that.

Oh no. The C7's 14.2" diameter is an engineering marvel as opposed to my crappy Z06's 14.6" diameter wheel. GM should be proud of that accomplishment. No way will I be able to keep up with a C7 around Talladega while having to man handle my huge steering wheel.

I love the C7's steering wheel as it corrects all the problems every C6 owner was complaining about with their steering wheels.

Drop a valve, hug your steering wheel.

:rofl:

Without a doubt this is the best comment you've made in C7 General

Again, I haven't seen it, but hope it's not the same plastic console material as in my CTS-V. It scratches VERY easily and looks very bad in months!

GM pull your head out of your ASS. It seems that they never really finish any products, just take it so fair and figure well that's good enough. WELL it's not! :hide:

I suggest that you wait and sit in the competition seats before you order them, that is unless you plan on doing more tracking then cruising. Tom Hall from GM made the statement at the NCRS winter meet, that those seats are really designed for the track and not for normal street driving. That leads me to believe that there is not a lot of padding in them.

Yea, if you cover things with carbon fiber, it just screams "classy."
http://www.deftracing.com/carbon_fib...98_civic_1.jpg

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go and look at a Boss 302 seats. They are very similar to the
2014 vette. so with the plastic looking console and copied
mustang seats, hard to see all this greatness

seat pics
http://www.automobilemag.com/reviews...2/viewall.html

The seats are where I have to give GM a Gold Medal. Some C6 owners wanted a seat that was better on the track and GM has delivered. They did the right thing by keeping a base set that was good for the majority of Corvette owners, and making the track seat an extra cost option.

Ill see your sarcasm and raise you real world experience

http://www.seriouswheels.com/pics-20...r-1280x960.jpg

the whole interior looks cheap...
corvette is a 370z rival, but not more/

reread post. No mention of black shifter.

Fanboy in the house, its ok precious some people still like Ferraris.

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I was just letting him know that the competition seats are just that competition and not designed for comfort and in DD or long trips.

Remember, this is not yet a finished product. I'm sure there will be other iterations available on other models. Also as an option.

This is still a fluid design. GM has told us, they are still tweaking some aspects of the car.

Not sure why you joined the forum.

Obviously you would be better served with another car! :yesnod:

A slower car at that, at least he'll get a good look of the tail lights

Almost worthy of a permanent signature line. :D

I hope so. I eagerly await the actual numbers and when a c7z06 comes out so I can finally pull the trigger on my first corvette.

Hey genius, Car and Driver 2011 Lighting Lap, 350Z Track 3:12.5, ZR1 2:49.8 which was a tie with the $400K Mosler Photon. Really, get a grip....

LMAO! Yeah cause the 370 interior is tits. Whatever.

The dashboard looks like the 1990 vette dashboard.

we have not seen a production car yet, minor things like console finish could change. If you watch the Jay Leno Garage video you will see the quality that most photos don't capture.

That zonda looks nice. I wonder why now on super cars the carbon fiber weave looks like that now as oppose to on say the current corvette, or audi, etc.

Companies like pagani, koneseigg etc are now all doing their weaves that way.

It's another market opportunity for the accessory companies. :)

Asthetics. Sorta like the Wasp myself

http://www.fibreglast.com/product/wa...rbon_fiber_all

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And that is a good thing.

:worthlessnopics:

Why couldn't they use black velour?

Black Naugahyde would be bitchin!
http://hypebeast.com/image/2010/11/n...xclusive-0.jpg

He can't afford one anyway. :cheers:

You know how many naugas they need to kill to do that? A lot.

Aren't they a protected species ? :willy:

this is a first year base car folks...how many times did they make "little improvements" to the C6 during its life cycle?

The interior material quality is much improved IMO. However, like the C6 interior which was praised at launch, I am sure that once the newness of the C7 interior runs its course, the boo birds will once again find fault in it (its already starting). At this point, it's almost a no win situation for team corvette.

I've concluded that people simply want an interior reminiscent of $200,000 car in the base $55,000 corvette. Go spend some money on a Bentley.

Who is bashing the interior? I saw when the SRT Viper game out people were drooling over the GTS interior...when the reviews came out they said it was the cheapest you can find in a 100k car....lame

Caravaggio will fix that for another 20k. No need to buy the bentley.

What review did you read that said that? The interior is by the same company that ferrari uses. The only thing the mags complained about with the interior is that it is extremely small and the seats are rock hard. The seat problem was fixed for the production cars and as far as a cramped interior, that has nothing to do with the quality of the materials.

I would like to see a leopard skin console with neon lighting ...

Change the price to 55,100 for the base and kill the cheap black plastic.