The C7 Corvette body is done!!!

[XLR8]

It looks hideous.

I agree, ugly as freaking sin.

Paul, isn't this basically the same thing you've said in the past about the C6?

I'm just sayin'...

.....Those are P'shop "hacks".

I have to agree with Hib.

It reminds me of another imaginary vehicle, the Transformers Vette.

Jane Ann

[2VettesMike]

Cadivette!

or.....

Corillac?

[Intense]

I am extremely glad that I bought a 2008 ZO6.

What a mistake for GM to consider this V6.5 design.

If they go with this they are cutting their own throats.

My next car might just have to be German.

[Remo]

Come on people...if the C7 exterior was complete, you really think GM would take the car to a race track and let some web site photograph it?

Sheesh.

Those are P'shop "hacks".

Hib...give us Troglodytes a break. We don't have the "inside" track like you. It's winter and we need to vent. So it might as well be about this.

Remo

[Hib Halverson]

The "new" GM no longer communicates with small-time independent writers who cover Corvette, such as myself. I have no longer have any kind of "inside track" other than understanding a bit about the GM vehicle development process and how GM communicates (or doesn't communicate, as the case might be) with media.

GM is not going to give some two-bit web site exclusive access to the "C7" exterior design as it would have had to have done for those pictures to be legit. Additionally, there are aspects of the car in that image hack which was posted which would never work on a high-volume production automobile like a Corvette because they'd be too costly to manufacture and/or wouldn't meet MVSSes and/or... are just plain fugly.

As for "C6.5"...what's coming in the near future is actually called just that on the "inside". Yeah, we'll probably get a "freshen-up" of the car's appearance but probably not as extensive or as freakin' butt-ugly as is in those hacked images.

The big changes will be in the car's electrical system, it's telematics, its interior (we all pray for better seats) and its powertrain. I look for a 5.5L base V8 with direct injection, VVT and at least AFM on the automatic trans version and maybe even with the manual version. The car is going to have to be lighter and my guess is the way they'll do it is the aluminum frame on all cars along with some CF body parts and more use of magnesium.

Don't be surprised if the Z06 and the ZR1 go away 1) because they can't meet CAFE and 2) there may no longer be a need for hardcore Corvettes with most of the car's potential buyers being over 60 and having soft, fat asses.

Ok....on #2, I'm just polemicizing but, if there is going to be some kind of aggressive-performance Corvette, it's probably not going to have a 427 in it. Perhaps a supercharged version of the 5.5.

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[danc5]

Blech! All I can say is I'm keeping my C5 thank you.

[Fab Vette]

This is picture from an older article in MT. This "picture" of the C7 is actually an artist's rendering that MT commissioned.

[sub006]

The front end looks like one of the recent "aggresssive" little Asian sedans. The back end is as awkward as the new Camaro.

I thought we were at least gonna get some kind of split window on the coupe?

Check the gorgeous body on the new Jag concept car in AUTOWEEK, a four-turbine with electric hybrid. We need THAT kind of totally new, trend-setting design, equal in impact to the Sting Ray when it hit the streets in the fall of 1962.

[KANE]

It reminds me of another imaginary vehicle, the Transformers Vette.

Yeah- that is EXACTLY what I thought. But a convertible.

Must have been one of the cars sold after an accident on the set.

[Ray Stout]

I agree, GM knows better than to put such an ugly version on he road. This can't be final-Too much Cadillac, etc. I'll hold final opinion until "Official" version is released. What happened to the Split-Window concept. Oh yeah, s*** can the v6, don't care if it produces 400hp, Vettes deserve better!!!!!! Upgrade the LT5 to to current tech. and results will be MUCH BETTER!!!!

[Mike85mph]

I agree that this probably isn't a perfect rendering of the final Corvette body for the C6.5 or C7, whatever, but I think it could be close. Consider this, there was a lot of positive feedback to the Transformers version which had a lot of you (I don't particularly care for certain parts of it) went nuts over, including the split window. I'll never know why anyone likes that split window thing but to each his own. That being said, GM is likely to take numerous styling cues form the Transformers car and apply it to a freshening of the C6. This rendering appears to have done just that. That means that all the positive feedback has affected the next design - they worked it into the front end and rear of the car. If you don't like what you see, well, it's partly those that went ga ga over the Transformer car's fault.

[XLR8]

As an aside... one positive thing about it - it's stirred up a great discussion among everyone. There are currently 78 viewers looking at this thread - Troglodytes included I'm sure!

Jane Ann

[blkbrd]

I doubt this is the final form. The front-end is really unappealing. From what I can see, the rest of the body is little changed from the C6. The C5 has smooth, aerodynamic lines and that's what caused me to buy the 2004 that I will keep.

[Strodder]

My friends say the difference between the C-5 and C-6 are as much as the C-4 to the C-5. I haven't driven one yet. Is it that big a change? I like the look of my 01 better than the C-6's, but the little things bother me. Like warning lights coming on for no reason, is one of them.