RE: New Corvette revealed at last!

[CrispyMK]

Not keen on the quad exhaust, just looks a bit silly. I love design of the interior though. It looks like its been designed to fit around the driver. Get ready for cheap plastic comments in 3....2......1.....

[George29]

I've never really been a fan of Corvettes, but this one looks truly awful. Way too much going on, angles and creases everywhere instead of the much nicer, more flowing design of the C6.

I don't see the point of a 7 speed manual either.

[Big Raff]

edo said:

love child of the last 'vette and a gtr.

I was going to say the same, that rear quarter is very GTR

[LuS1fer]

One of the overall principles of the Vette has always been low cost maintenance linked with supercar performance. As a consequence, just about anyone can afford to maintain and run one. there are no huge servicing costs or surprises.

As someone who has had to have three coil springs replaced on my last 3 cars, the last one jutting out and shaving the tread off the tyre, it seems to me that coil springs are possibly what need re-thinking.

[benzpassion]

E38Ross said:

OK - we'll see what sells more over here then shall we.

Hip, incredible value for money Corvette to lame, overweight GT pretending to be a sports car, aimed at Palm Beach retirement set Jag, erm, ~ 20:1 sales ratio? Wanna bet?

e38ross said:

the jag isn't going to be slusher only either,

yeah right. That's what Hallmark(Gaydon marketing)'s PR team always are saying. Like Jag's perennially promised 'BMW 3-series fighter', get back to me when they actually do it, rather than lead sap punters up the garden path just talking about it, okay?

e38ross said:

keep up with the times. you're also forgetting import tax on the vette.

you need to keep up with the times/market awareness. The F-type's overwhelming main target market is the States, not backwater UK. If the F-type doesn't succeed in the US, it's pretty much gameover for Jag as a brand; this new, surprising, rather wonderful Corvette is the final nail in Jag's already emaciated body: BMW sold more 5-series in the US alone in 2012, >50,000, than Jag's total worldwide 2012 sales, as an illustration of how precarious the true position of Jag is, compared to the Gaydon PR regurgitated almost daily in the sycophantic UK media.

The main point is, the new Corvette Stingray just smashed the F-Type. It's like an extinction event - pre Stingray, post Stingray. PS, post-Stingray, big, lumbering, morbidly obese, massively over price-tagged species, like the big cat Jaguar, were killed off at a stoke, by lean, mean, powerful killers like the new Stingray... .

[E38Ross]

George29 said:

I don't see the point of a 7 speed manual either.

do you see the point between a 4 speed and a 5 speed? if yes, what about a 5 speed and a 6 speed? if you do to both of those, i suspect you do in fact see the point. the differences, however, will be less pronounced going from 6 to 7 as from 5 to 6, but they'll still be there.

[George29]

E38Ross said:

do you see the point between a 4 speed and a 5 speed? if yes, what about a 5 speed and a 6 speed? if you do to both of those, i suspect you do in fact see the point. the differences, however, will be less pronounced going from 6 to 7 as from 5 to 6, but they'll still be there.

6 speed manual is fine. 7 speed is too many, you will end up changing gear all the time needlessly. If it ain't broke don't fix it, and that's exactly what they're doing. The solution to a question no one asked.

[Monty Python]

365daytonafan said:

Looks nice but someone explain why Chevrolet persist with transverse leaf springs on the Vette?

I don't think this one does - the blurb on the website says it uses all-round wishbones with third-generation magnetic dampers.

[RemaL]

I like that a lot

[LuS1fer]

George29 said:

6 speed manual is fine. 7 speed is too many, you will end up changing gear all the time needlessly. If it ain't broke don't fix it, and that's exactly what they're doing. The solution to a question no one asked.

Every extra gear potentially raises the potential for increasing the car's "headline" top speed without having to wide-space the lower ones though?

[seefarr]

I like the 599 as well guys, but come on!

[Mr Whippy]

Nice, right until you get any where you can see the back.

Oh dear.

Dave

[Justayellowbadge]

Shame they didn't keep that concept's arse.

[E38Ross]

LuS1fer said:

George29 said:

6 speed manual is fine. 7 speed is too many, you will end up changing gear all the time needlessly. If it ain't broke don't fix it, and that's exactly what they're doing. The solution to a question no one asked.

Every extra gear potentially raises the potential for increasing the car's "headline" top speed without having to wide-space the lower ones though?

agree.

[em177]

Love it. That is all.

More normally Aspirated V8, RWD cars with a manual box is what we need

[George29]

LuS1fer said:

Every extra gear potentially raises the potential for increasing the car's "headline" top speed without having to wide-space the lower ones though?

More likely it's just a cruising gear used to try and help the economy figures.

[J4CKO]

Big Raff said:

edo said:

love child of the last 'vette and a gtr.

I was going to say the same, that rear quarter is very GTR

Ditto, I was thinking GTR, looks pretty good.

[xto]

Another typical american design.

Can anyone advise me apart from the name, how does this new car look anything like the classic stingray?

To me the new car looks like a photoship mash up of:

Front: F12 Ferrari
Side: BMW Z4/ nissan 370
back quater: Nissan GTR
rear: Ferrari had 3 pipes, lets put a fourth!

[Monty Python]

xto said:

Another typical american design.

Can anyone advise me apart from the name, how does this new car look anything like the classic stingray?

To me the new car looks like a photoship mash up of:

Front: F12 Ferrari
Side: BMW Z4/ nissan 370
back quater: Nissan GTR
rear: Ferrari had 3 pipes, lets put a fourth!

Hasn't the Corvette (at least the recent ones) always had 4 exhaust pipes?

[LuS1fer]

xto said:

Another typical american design.

Can anyone advise me apart from the name, how does this new car look anything like the classic stingray?

To me the new car looks like a photoship mash up of:

Front: F12 Ferrari
Side: BMW Z4/ nissan 370
back quater: Nissan GTR
rear: Ferrari had 3 pipes, lets put a fourth!

Better looking than all of them though.
4 exhausts have been a Vette trademark for a long time. Had 2 either side on my 85 C4 and my 02 C5 Z06 had four central pipes.
Thank the lord they kept them in a straight line and didn't try do do a Zonda.

Arguing about who styled what elements first is going to be a very long argument given the GTR only recently became a fastback with the R35 and using 4 round rear lights eons after the Vette.