so, about that c7 vette...

[Jean]

Whoa...look at that fender gap! ALL THE WAY AROUND TOO!!!


;-)

Lol, but it will out-handle most herraflush cars out of the box ;)

[goarmy]

Holy hell there is a lot of hate here.

Yeah, there are design elements that are obviously sampled from Italian supercars. Since when is mimicking Ferrari a bad thing? Even still, look at the front of a C6. The C7 seems like a perfectly logical evolution attempting to perfect the aero.

It's too different from the current gen? It sucks.
It's too similar to the current gen? It sucks.
It's American? It sucks.
It's Italian inspired? It sucks.
It uses a manual transmission that ONE other car in the world still uses? It sucks.

Listen to you people. You can't appreciate the next in a lineage of best bang for your buck sports/super car on the market?

I dislike the "Its America? It sucks" This is your home respect it. Iam a desert storm vet and I just didnt like that. When people write negs about what this country produces, people around the world read it and our rep become more of a joke to them.

You guys may not think so but it starts in articles as small as this one.

[otto325e]

y they no put bigger rear wheels?

[iansane]

Because boasting about using brand new Technologies and saying they are cutting edge when in reality everything they mentioned has already been done by every other high end car manufacturer. New technologies to the Americans maybe.

I don't think you realize why they mention all that tech. GM isn't a high end car manufacturer. Now all those 'High end technologies' are mass produced and going to be seen in every town in America. They're not saying GM came up with them, just that it's been designed and adapted for this chassis. Marketing is there to sensationalize everything about the car.

[R3Z3N]

Lol, but it will out-handle most herraflush cars out of the box ;)

It comes in a box? Like a hot-wheels box? That's dope!



I wasn't talking about flush, just that 2-3in gap ALL the friggen way around the wheel. It looks sooo bad. You'd drop the car and it would still look bad unless you went up in wheel diameter 2-3in.

[Xat1cZ]

It comes in a box? Like a hot-wheels box? That's dope!



I wasn't talking about flush, just that 2-3in gap ALL the friggen way around the wheel. It looks sooo bad. You'd drop the car and it would still look bad unless you went up in wheel diameter 2-3in.

Just put an American of average weight in it and you'll fix the height issue :o



*runs away*

[R3Z3N]

^You still missed the point, despite the joke.

[lambo]

It comes in a box? Like a hot-wheels box? That's dope!



I wasn't talking about flush, just that 2-3in gap ALL the friggen way around the wheel. It looks sooo bad. You'd drop the car and it would still look bad unless you went up in wheel diameter 2-3in.

I would say keep the wheel diameter, go wider, and then add some thicker/wider tires.

[butters]

I dislike the "Its America? It sucks" This is your home respect it. Iam a desert storm vet and I just didnt like that. When people write negs about what this country produces, people around the world read it and our rep become more of a joke to them.

You guys may not think so but it starts in articles as small as this one.

Just because this is our home, we are not required to blindly praise whatever quality/junk it produces. You defended our freedom, as in freedom to question and judge based on personal opinion. It's as close to fact as anything that American cars seem to be handicapped when compared with European and Japanese counterparts. Deal with it.

The steering wheel is terribly ugly, I can't judge the red interior because it's obnoxious. IMO the car has become too much of a hodge-podge of popular exotic car style. I don't mind the side and rear actually, but the front is just too obvious to the point of being "meh".

Some have said that this is the "base" model... why is it being launched as the "Sting Ray"? I honestly don't know enough about Corvettes but I thought that the Sting Ray was a specialty model.

[lambo]

I dislike the "Its America? It sucks" This is your home respect it. Iam a desert storm vet and I just didnt like that. When people write negs about what this country produces, people around the world read it and our rep become more of a joke to them.

You guys may not think so but it starts in articles as small as this one.

Oh, so you're one of those people...

Look, if there wasn't a thing called CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM, nothing would ever be made better. My opinion of the steering wheel in a Corvette isn't going to make someone in Finland judge the whole of America as lesser...just Chevy.

[R3Z3N]

I would say keep the wheel diameter, go wider, and then add some thicker/wider tires.

Hehe, that still does not fix the wheel gap in front and behind the wheels.....lol.

[lambo]

Hehe, that still does not fix the wheel gap in front and behind the wheels.....lol.

A higher profile tire will add a slight amount to the total diameter which would reduce that gap. Also, going wider would make it look less "sunk-in" and the gap wouldn't look as bad.

[R3Z3N]

Ah you didn't mention going with a higher profile tire, or changing diameter.

I just see this ridiculously ugly trend on MANY cars to have a wheel well that is 2-5in too large, and it turns me off to the car completely.

In a way it's like my E30. I have filled that well as much as possible, and it looks good, but the problem with the E30 is now my car is fairly high, I can't go lower unless I get smaller diameter wheels/tires.

With the C7, the height of the wheel well allows a nice drop, but the well is still too open/large front to rear of the wheels.


I'll step off of my soapbox.

To the comments regarding the engine earlier on. I personally think the Vette Engines since the C4 days are damn amazing. Good economy, great torque all around, easy to work on, and are far more reliable than the high strung euro engines. Just my two pence. If you want to argue, go ahead. I am not looking to change someones opinion, just voicing mine.

[lambo]

Ah you didn't mention going with a higher profile tire, or changing diameter.

I just see this ridiculously ugly trend on MANY cars to have a wheel well that is 2-5in too large, and it turns me off to the car completely.

In a way it's like my E30. I have filled that well as much as possible, and it looks good, but the problem with the E30 is now my car is fairly high, I can't go lower unless I get smaller diameter tires.

With the C7, the height of the wheel well allows a nice drop, but the well is still too open/large front to rear of the wheels.

My bad! That's what I meant by "thicker".

I know what you mean, after looking at the arches on the C7, they're way too circular and would look like poop if you lowered it because then the wheel and fender wouldn't be concentric...

[JasonC]

Just because this is our home, we are not required to blindly praise whatever quality/junk it produces. You defended our freedom, as in freedom to question and judge based on personal opinion. It's as close to fact as anything that American cars seem to be handicapped when compared with European and Japanese counterparts. Deal with it.

The steering wheel is terribly ugly, I can't judge the red interior because it's obnoxious. IMO the car has become too much of a hodge-podge of popular exotic car style. I don't mind the side and rear actually, but the front is just too obvious to the point of being "meh".

Some have said that this is the "base" model... why is it being launched as the "Sting Ray"? I honestly don't know enough about Corvettes but I thought that the Sting Ray was a specialty model.

I'd like to see these facts, as it is all cars are just machines that have problems, Made in USA/Japan/Germany/England and so on...

Oh, so you're one of those people...

Look, if there wasn't a thing called CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM, nothing would ever be made better. My opinion of the steering wheel in a Corvette isn't going to make someone in Finland judge the whole of America as lesser...just Chevy.

I kind of know where the guy is coming from, being that i've been working in factorys since i got out of high school. I'm part of the American workforce and see comments that we make junk. It's like thanks a lot buddy. Glad i could be part of something that you're blind to! I'm pretty proud of my work, but on the other hand i do see crap get sent out the door by the company. And it's like really.... I thought we was serving the consumer with a good product. But yet you let this slide. It's nothing life threating, but quality of a part that would look bad over time. To where if it was done correctly in the first place and quality control didn't say to pass it. It would be an excellent, and will hold up to time.