New 2014 Corvette Stingray (all new C7)

[onewhippedpuppy]

Originally Posted by kaisen

All vents are real and functional. They serve a real purpose.

Transmission is a 7 speed 3-pedal manual with rev-match

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

[oldE]

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

[BReif61]

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

[strupgolf]

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

[techweenie]

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

[Jim Richards]

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.

[Scott R]

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

[Jim Bremner]

Originally Posted by strupgolf

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

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

[kaisen]

Originally Posted by Don Ro

Is it as heavy as previous models?

Originally Posted by Jim Bremner

Early C6 was 3,160 later ones 3,240

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

[sammyg2]

Overheard at a GM board room meeting a few years ago:

Hey, I got an idea:
how about we completely redesign the corvette?
We can throw in a whole bunch of unwanted sharp body lines swept up from the Cadillac design room floor.
We can steal that weird looking rear window form the POS Chrysler crossfire mistake, we can try to make it look more like a camaro to justify all the money we spend on that and missed and to make everything behind the driver one huge blind spot.
And if we bolt on enough plastic bits and pieces we're a shoe-in for the next transformers sequel!

Yeah, it'll be great. All we gotta do now is stick an extension cord under the hood to make it seem like it has something in common with the volt and we're done!
Except for getting the sheeple taxpayers to pay for the whole thing of course ..........

[McLovin]

Needs less cowbell.

[MotoSook]

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.

[mikeferg75]

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.

[mikeferg75]

20 second paint to fill in top panel, much better IMO
New


Old

[Sarc]

Originally Posted by Scott R

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

I thought the same thing at first glance.



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...

[Targa Me]

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

[kaisen]

Functional hood vent to decrease lift and increase cooling




All-aluminum frame saved 99 pounds over C6




Brembo brakes. Standard.

[VINMAN]

Schweeeeeeeeet!!!

[RWebb]

Originally Posted by kaisen

Standard aluminum frame...

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

[kaisen]

Originally Posted by RWebb

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....