2014 C7 Chevrolet Corvette

[Gixxersixxerman]

Originally Posted by Zadkiel

I thought I was the only one who didn't like the styling anymore. Great when new, not even 2 years later it looked tired. I personally like the Mustang's styling over the Camaro and the retro-rape that is the Challenger.

While I like the C7's styling, I think a refresh would be needed after 3 years. Will that happen? No. Just look how much they haven't changed the Camaro.

Also, never said about it handling well. This one is just rediculously heavy.

Nope I agree 100% it got old quick.. I like the mustang the best.. I think the challenger should've been the charger.. All cars are going the way of over weight if you ask me

[ichitaka05]

When I saw the Live Reveal, first thing I thought was "That front fang things reminds me of FR-S/BRZ (more towards BRZ)..." lol

[Dimman]

Originally Posted by ichitaka05

When I saw the Live Reveal, first thing I thought was "That front fang things reminds me of FR-S/BRZ (more towards BRZ)..." lol

Kind of a Ferrari 599/BRZ cross to me.

[ichitaka05]

Originally Posted by Dimman

Kind of a Ferrari 599/BRZ cross to me.

So if 599 & BRZ had a baby, it'll be C7? LMAO

[Dimman]

Originally Posted by ichitaka05

So if 599 & BRZ had a baby, it'll be C7? LMAO

The front a bit. Rear not so much.

[ichitaka05]

Originally Posted by Dimman

The front a bit. Rear not so much.

True, rear is totally Camaro

[reni]

Don't get me wrong, I think it will be very fast and perhaps the best cost/performance value, but as far as the design goes the whole thing just looks incredibly tacky to me. If I didn't know this was the official C7 I would think it was just some body kit/tuner version of a C6.

[seven]

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[kanundrum]

Driver Oriented Dash Idea taken from other cars (meh) i wonder if the rear is still a plastic hollow bendable piece.

Other than that looks good

[LSxJunkie]

Originally Posted by Burrcold

Very nice. Love everything other than the rear Camero type lights, and all the vents seem a bit overdone. Great evolution though.

Vents are all functional. However, the rear fender top vents didn't need to be black. That was a bit much for me.

Originally Posted by Bristecom

I agree. The rear end looks too much like a Camaro. And the grouped quad exhaust looks strange. And I wonder what the vents in the rear are for? Brake cooling? Transmission/differential cooling? Other than that, it looks good!

Trans (for the automatic) and diff heat exchangers are tucked into the rear fenders.

Originally Posted by kanundrum

Driver Oriented Dash Idea taken from other cars (meh) i wonder if the rear is still a plastic hollow bendable piece.

Other than that looks good

Driver oriented dash isn't just an idea cribbed from other cars, it's a functional layout for a car you intend to use as something other than an appliance.

[MotoChris98]

Love it. If driving feel has greatly improved like they're claiming, might trade the Boss for C7 Z51 torch red.

[serialk11r]

I really dislike the exterior, but they deserve compliments on the drivetrain and chassis. The bars in the gigantic front grille are flat out ugly (anyone else think they look like braces on teeth?), and the rear is extremely ugly as well.

Opening those vents for transmission cooling is a very clever adaptation to the upward slanting body at the rear (good to see they're not trying to use it for brake cooling like the Viper, because using 2 90 degree turns with a submerged inlet like they do on the Viper means you don't get airflow for crap), but ideally for aero they should be using soft edges, not those sharp ones.

Still, DI, VCM, intake cam phasing, 2 stage oil pump, 7 speed manual gearbox is pretty much as good as it gets. They'll need to eventually add start-stop in a refresh if they want that 17mpg city figure to go up, a 6.2L engine just burns through too much fuel while idle. If it were up to me to decide the engine's targets, I'd care less about the torque and drop the displacement a little and put the power up higher in the rev range, to make only 450hp from a direct injected 6.2L engine is a little pathetic. This is a light sports car, not a truck.

[serialk11r]

Originally Posted by ZDan

Too scowly, entirely too close to the Viper front end.
Not bad, though. It looks like the Corvette and the Viper manage to keep the front end reasonably low. Are they just not selling them in Europe where uber-ridiculous "pedestrian impact" laws are forcing cars to have high, bluff front ends?

Nah, I think the engine sits 3 inches or whatever the requirement is below the hood. It looks like the hood starts slanting downward right after the engine block, so it ends up with a nice low nose. Or, put another way, there is a bulge in the hood where the engine is, and the hood is otherwise low. Meanwhile, Aston Martin is having some styling problems because their V12 models are longer and taller so they can't do the same thing to the hood as the engine is poking too far out ahead of the front axle.

Thankfully, I'm more attracted to mid engine car proportions, and those aren't affected by those retarded European laws since there's no engine in front

[DIG1992]

i like the new look would change things here and there..

here are all its colors... got the color and rim selector from here http://www.chevrolet.com/new-2014-corvette/ you guys want to play around with it.