IMO, GM as effed up the vette for some years now...

[snide]

Originally Posted by 04 commemorative

I think the design has gone downhill after the C5 and........the 63 Split Window in my opinion is the best looking vette ever.

The split window coupe was the sexiest car ever built, by any automaker, period.

The C5 is a timeless design, has all the curves in all the right places. This car will look good 50 years from now.

The regular C6 is meh, at best. The Z06 and Grand Sport variants are a huge improvement, looks wise.

The C7 design is already dated.

The C8 is an incredible design, but will it stand the test of time, in the looks department? I believe it will.

[Torqaholic]

Originally Posted by 04 commemorative

I think the design has gone downhill after the C5 and........

Some hillbilly at the gas station tonight went out of his way to tell me his daughter was turned around in her seat staring at my car. Think maybe he was trying to hook me up?

[snide]

Originally Posted by Torqaholic

Some hillbilly at the gas station tonight went out of his way to tell me his daughter was turned around in her seat staring at my car. Think maybe he was trying to hook me up?

Did he offer a dowry?

[DJ_Critterus]

Originally Posted by Torqaholic

Some hillbilly at the gas station tonight went out of his way to tell me his daughter was turned around in her seat staring at my car. Think maybe he was trying to hook me up?

Pics of the daughter if she's over 18?

[BayouCountry]

Originally Posted by snide

The split window coupe was the sexiest car ever built, by any automaker, period.

The C5 is a timeless design, has all the curves in all the right places. This car will look good 50 years from now.

The regular C6 is meh, at best. The Z06 and Grand Sport variants are a huge improvement, looks wise.

The C7 design is already dated.

The C8 is an incredible design, but will it stand the test of time, in the looks department? I believe it will.

You almost got in trouble. Watch it!

Agree! The C8 is one beautiful machine!

[Norm]

Sorry Gene, I don't believe the Corvette moniker will ever die, just too much of a following. I know of one well known Corvette salesman that has a 1,100 name stand-by list for the C8 Z06.

[dvarapala]

Originally Posted by mrvette

They not making/shipping BE CAUSE of chips, like the rest of the auto industry here.....cHINA is why.......

No, corporate greed is why. Corporate CEOs saw that they could produce and/or purchase chips made by slave labor in Chinese factories for less money, so they closed down all the American manufacturing and made us completely dependent on China. And somehow we are surprised when China acts in its own self-interest when it comes to supplying products to the rest of the world.

Make no mistake: we have nobody to blame but ourselves.

[mrvette]

Originally Posted by dvarapala

No, corporate greed is why. Corporate CEOs saw that they could produce and/or purchase chips made by slave labor in Chinese factories for less money, so they closed down all the American manufacturing and made us completely dependent on China. And somehow we are surprised when China acts in its own self-interest when it comes to supplying products to the rest of the world.

Make no mistake: we have nobody to blame but ourselves.

OLD ET here, so a few decades ago, a chip costs maybe 5 bux to the Dealer/svc dept, and so to exchange the entire car computer for maybe 200 bux........and that WAS all made here.....I have four GM 1227730 speed density computers for my home made injection on my '72 350 vette.....I change them out every few months to keep the electronics alive.....chips/modules are by guys like Alvin Anderson/etc.....

[Torqaholic]

Originally Posted by DJ_Critterus

Pics of the daughter if she's over 18?

Heck if I know. Only gave his vehicle a split second glance to see if there was a person in it (there was). Not taking my eyes off of that guy any longer than that... I was hearing banjo music.

[RED-85-Z51]

The late C4s are nice, early C3s are nice, C1 and C2 go without saying. The C5 has aged well, the sleek curves are simple, elegant...its very slippery. The C6 base is...forgettable, you saw them everywhere for so long, the GS/Z was a healthy improvement. C7 is bland in looks, and the LT isnt aging well. C8...its not my taste in looks, too msny sharp edges and vents, its too busy.

[LisaJohn]

Guess I’ll keep my little ol’ c5.

[Steve_R]

Gene drives this but says GM has ****ed up the Corvette.
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[Norm]

Oops..........

[Rodnok1]

Originally Posted by Steve_R

Gene drives this but says GM has ****ed up the Corvette.
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Only taillights worse than a C7...

[dvarapala]

Originally Posted by Steve_R

Gene drives this but says GM has ****ed up the Corvette.
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[ZipZap]

Originally Posted by snide

The split window coupe was the sexiest car ever built, by any automaker, period.
The C5 is a timeless design, has all the curves in all the right places. This car will look good 50 years from now.

Nope. Sharky and C6. Had a C8 at the HoA picnic today, but it was in white, so no comment. Guy didn't bring his red/white 60, but it is pretty cool.

[mrvette]

Originally Posted by Rodnok1

Only taillights worse than a C7...

NOT by me, previous owner from it's DC region show car daze back in the 70=80's......car used to be burgundy and had some great artwork I had MackAir do here in Florida......but when it's a DD you know some idiots just can't drive in a parking lot......first thing I was on a date and a damn deer shot out from in front of a minivan ~45 mph into the headlights, so went fixed lights and masked off the front with some gray paint plenty of gray in the hood art, then a few years later some Verizon truck backs his fugly hitch into left frot bumper......1700 bux later that was fixed.......then about 4 years ago a jacked up pickup backs over the nose in the bank parking lot that was the end for the burgundy paint.....that's when I went krazy and block off the stupid vents front and rear, and removed the key door locks, WHY wood anyone LOCK a CONVERTIBLE??? So the local Macco turned it GREEN for 550 bux......

[DJ_Critterus]

Originally Posted by mrvette

NOT by me, previous owner from it's DC region show car daze back in the 70=80's......car used to be burgundy and had some great artwork I had MackAir do here in Florida......but when it's a DD you know some idiots just can't drive in a parking lot......first thing I was on a date and a damn deer shot out from in front of a minivan ~45 mph into the headlights, so went fixed lights and masked off the front with some gray paint plenty of gray in the hood art, then a few years later some Verizon truck backs his fugly hitch into left frot bumper......1700 bux later that was fixed.......then about 4 years ago a jacked up pickup backs over the nose in the bank parking lot that was the end for the burgundy paint.....that's when I went krazy and block off the stupid vents front and rear, and removed the key door locks, WHY wood anyone LOCK a CONVERTIBLE??? So the local Macco turned it GREEN for 550 bux......

I've seen Frankenvette in person and it was longer than 4 years ago. J.R. remembered it being green, too, but definitely a Macco job

Time to bury that and go for a C8, or would you rather we turn back the clocks and discuss this over a party line?

[bsmith]

Originally Posted by Steve_R

Gene drives this but says GM has ****ed up the Corvette.
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That was my first thought, but couldn't bring myself to say it.

[Bill]

Originally Posted by Steve_R

Gene drives this but says GM has ****ed up the Corvette.
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Somewhere out there, a baby NCRS judge is softly weeping.





Having said that, don't feel bad, Gene. I committed unpardonable sin once, too. I had an Olds that came new with hubcaps, and I bought a set of take off factory honeycombs for it, like this (not my car):



Of course, they were correct for the year and model, so there's that. We did the same thing with a couple of work trucks.....bought correct factory take offs of the top line wheels to replace the stock steel wheels.