Good. I still think they look tacked on, but at least they aren't poser vents like many cars.

With the caveat that I am not in the market for a new Vette:

I like it. Someone said the proportions were all wrong. The side profile made me think of Pete Brock's racing 240Zs. Not a bad thing in my mind.
I agree, the rear end looks like a committee job, but once you see it in a 3/4 view, it works better, ditto the rear spoiler.

Just as the C6 was an improvement over the wide-arsed C5, this design is working with some very promising themes. I don't think it will age as well as the C6, but it is dramatic and looks fast. Isn't that why we (most of us) like them.

As for the comments about number of camshafts and vents and scoops, I think it can be distilled down to this:
It's there because it works.

Well done.
Les

My only gripe is the tailpipes. They look too close together for their size.

I love it. It finally looks like the $100,000 price tag it has. Love the front and back, wish I could get one.

For me, the 'envelope' looks good. The details appear to have come from a scavenger hunt. Headlights: Ferrari; tail lights: Tokyo Auto Show

I'm not on board with the looks of the C7. A bit too much stuff going on. Maybe once I see a few on the street.

It's like a camaro and a viper had a love child.

I'm pretty sure it will be in the 60k range

The goal for C7 was 3,000 pounds....no official announcement yet. Standard aluminum frame, carbon composite floor, carbon fiber hood and roof. The frame alone dropped 99 pounds. They saved 32 pounds in the suspension links. The CF hood and roof saved 15 pounds. Supposedly, they saved over 150 pounds total.

For comparison, the new 991S just a little heavier at about 3,100 pounds

Needs less cowbell.

A Camaro rearended a Ferrari and pushed it into an early Boxter...voila! C7


Can't afford it and wouldn't buy it if I could...but I may buy a C6 after the prices go down partly due to the C7 release.

I'll wait till I see it in person before I pass judgment on the rear end.

Two small things that stand out that I do not like:

1. Body colored roof panel between rear window and lift off roof panel. Why body color?? Black would flow much much nicer IMO.

2. Door handles, they had enough space up top on door to do something similar to the old C3, as they sit, they really disrupt the side body line. :(

20 second paint to fill in top panel, much better IMO
New
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1358186788.jpg

Old
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1358186843.jpg

I thought the same thing at first glance.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1358186870.jpg

Nice proportions, but a little too much surfacing for my tastes. Appears to contain an abundance of today's design trends (cliches), that places a definite time stamp on its creation.
A bit like the Nickleback of car designs; mediocre and boring to some, greatest evar to many others. I'm sure it will sell well...

I don't care for the looks. Too busy.

Functional hood vent to decrease lift and increase cooling

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1358191725.jpg


All-aluminum frame saved 99 pounds over C6

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1358191763.jpg


Brembo brakes. Standard.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1358191802.jpg


http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1358191837.jpg

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1358191863.jpg

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1358191880.jpg

Schweeeeeeeeet!!!:cool:

I thought the frame "rails" were going to be hydroformed Al, with carbon for the rest of the "unit body" or whatever we should be calling the body structure these days

The rails are indeed hydroformed aluminum. The bulkhead, windshield frame, central backbone, and roof hoop are also aluminum. The aluminum structures are clearly seen in photo above.

The floors are Carbon-Nano-Composite.....they used to be balsa wood (no kidding)

The body is a mix of SMC (Sheet Molded Composite) and Carbon Fiber.

The suspension sub-assemblies (photos above) are aluminum intensive

Still has carbon composite leaf springs

Still has pushrods too....