The first C6 in the UK??
Discussion
For the last two months I have been talking with the dealer in Bowing Green and we finally have a production date and delivery date for a fully loaded C6 rag top in LeMans blue with saddle interior. The car should be in the dealer by mid-August and in the UK by the end of September. Only problem is I don't own it, its for a customer, boo hoo!!!!
:shagga said:
Now where would you put the stirrups?
....next to the horse's arse? (or C6 as it is better known!)
Can't wait to see where the front number plate is gonna go!
As you might have guessed I am not a fan. I have seen the car twice so far and both times it has left me cold. I hate the front grille, it looks like a wide mouth frog and the grey plastic bits on the back look, well, grey and plastic.
Maybe in a different colour from that aweful dark red might make it look better, but I will just have to see.
Got this off Gixer's posting on the club site.....if u haven't already seen it,looks like a lot of sleepless nights were had by the GM design team over how to attach the number plate, I reckon my 3 year old daughter could have done a better job!!!!
www.corvettemuseum.com/c5bash/2004/sat-7.shtml
www.corvettemuseum.com/c5bash/2004/sat-7.shtml
97BlackC5 said:
Got this off Gixer's posting on the club site.....if u haven't already seen it,looks like a lot of sleepless nights were had by the GM design team over how to attach the number plate, I reckon my 3 year old daughter could have done a better job!!!!
www.corvettemuseum.com/c5bash/2004/sat-7.shtml
vetteheadracer said:
Looks great doesn't it! Lets stick a plastic lego brick on the front of the car with the number plate! Makes you wonder why they bothered.......
Ok OK
This is something I noticed ages ago. If you need a front plate and you have to attach that crap brick to the front of the car then you are going to follow through by putting the numberplate on it as well. Then why the hell have they embossd 'Corvette' into the lego brick? Do the really think somebody that dont need a front plate will fix the brick to the front anyway - just so they can have a 'cool' looking brick with the words Corvette on it?
On the C6, is the air-flow ducted in a different way to the C5?
The C5 uses the air-dam under the car as a duct - does the C6 use it's "open mouth grille"? If not (and my suggestion for "not" comes from the fact that the C5 front vents do nothing), you could just mount a standard UK plate in the vent.
That would look miles better than the lego brick, IMHO...
Mind you, I'll wait for the first body revision before I even think about buying one. Unless I can suddenly afford a "blue devil"....
The C5 uses the air-dam under the car as a duct - does the C6 use it's "open mouth grille"? If not (and my suggestion for "not" comes from the fact that the C5 front vents do nothing), you could just mount a standard UK plate in the vent.
That would look miles better than the lego brick, IMHO...
Mind you, I'll wait for the first body revision before I even think about buying one. Unless I can suddenly afford a "blue devil"....
Stick-on plates don't comply with the law any more, at least for cars registered after 2001.
There's been a bit of a serene smugness on some of the Corvette forums that the C6 antipathy is no worse than the C5 antipathy upon it's transition from C4. Tee hee, they all snigger, you all said this about the C5 and now you love it since you got used to it.
Well the 5 series BMW hasn't got any better looking and for the umpteenth viewing of this car, all I can say is Chris Bangle must have designed it and signed it off.
In any event, has any decision been made about whether the C6 is coming to the UK? If not, what is the point of giving one to Top Gear? Last I heard they were thinking of bastardising the Chevrolet nameplate by sticking it on a load of Daewoos.
Meantime I was a a show talking to some guy about how he'd gone to America to buy a Corvette and by chance, the US dealer had a Euro-spec C5 so he said "I'll have that" and there it was at the show, complete with Bauer Millett plates.... Interesting story I thought.
There's been a bit of a serene smugness on some of the Corvette forums that the C6 antipathy is no worse than the C5 antipathy upon it's transition from C4. Tee hee, they all snigger, you all said this about the C5 and now you love it since you got used to it.
Well the 5 series BMW hasn't got any better looking and for the umpteenth viewing of this car, all I can say is Chris Bangle must have designed it and signed it off.
In any event, has any decision been made about whether the C6 is coming to the UK? If not, what is the point of giving one to Top Gear? Last I heard they were thinking of bastardising the Chevrolet nameplate by sticking it on a load of Daewoos.
Meantime I was a a show talking to some guy about how he'd gone to America to buy a Corvette and by chance, the US dealer had a Euro-spec C5 so he said "I'll have that" and there it was at the show, complete with Bauer Millett plates.... Interesting story I thought.
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