MR Corvette C8 - General Discussion
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Silver Arrows
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That centre console is just so, so weird.
It'll look more natural in the C8.R though.
It'll look more natural in the C8.R though.
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Somebody at Car & Driver please leak the dang thing already.
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It seems a bit claustrophobic.
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Chevy: We know you don't want to talk to your passenger anyways.
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I think from the layout and interior design of this car, it’s painfully obvious that the GTE car is taking priority in development over the road car here. I’m all for a street-legal race car, but I feel this might alienate the core Corvette market of 60-year old retired men looking for a Sunday ride.
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It almost seems like most of the design decisions for the C8 were made to explicitly exclude aging boomers as buyers. No room for the golf clubs, no big penile-replacement nose, passive leggy-trophy-passenger view obstruction measures. This might just be the most anti-vette vette ever. I KNOW my uncle (Boomer C6 owner) won't like it.
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It looks quite good and retains much of the Corvette characteristics looks wise that we've seen over the last two gens. It will be interesting to see what the C8R looks like
I don't think they made this to be Anti Vette maybe a departure from the stereotypical Vette owner/casual, but I don't see anything that hasn't been seen in the Vette lineage other than the engine placement. I think they made many of their decisions more so around chasing competition and for the racing platform that gets built along side the car and has been built along side for quite some time. Seems all to interesting that at a time everyone they race in either a global or national stage is mid engine (well other than Aston, BMW is dust after this year LM wise).
I don't think they made this to be Anti Vette maybe a departure from the stereotypical Vette owner/casual, but I don't see anything that hasn't been seen in the Vette lineage other than the engine placement. I think they made many of their decisions more so around chasing competition and for the racing platform that gets built along side the car and has been built along side for quite some time. Seems all to interesting that at a time everyone they race in either a global or national stage is mid engine (well other than Aston, BMW is dust after this year LM wise).
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Chikane_GTR
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Looks like a Chinese Ferrari knockoff now
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It's actually not as bad as I thought it might be. Is it still going to start around $60k? That's a lot of exoticness for $60k.
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With the C7 base price at about $56,000, I’m assuming this’ll step up closer to the $70-80,000 range.
Chikane_GTR
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It looks decent, hopefully they will have one on display at Road America during IMSA weekend so I can see it in the flesh.
You came in here with a Simpson's gif and the good old "chinese knockoff" joke (both of which predate any joke about the GTR by about 1000 years), what did you expect as a response?
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It looks like a Chinese Ferrari cheap knock off
Simple
And please stop with the gtr come back its starting to get old now or is it that you got nothing new?
You came in here with a Simpson's gif and the good old "chinese knockoff" joke (both of which predate any joke about the GTR by about 1000 years), what did you expect as a response?
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Damnit, I was just about to make a joke about how unoriginal it is to say something looks like it came from GTA5. (Which basically means nothing because cars in GTA5 are parodies of real life cars, not to mention it discredits the work the actual designers and aerodynamicists put into the car)
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Yeah, it looks to me like a stretched C7 or a Corvette Daytona Prototype. Those headlights for some reason make me think of the Viper.
To be fair, I recall some people saying the C7 Stingray looked a bit like the F12 at launch.
Actually, I can kinda see the Ferrariness of the design. The roofline plus how high the back looks makes me think of the 458.
To be fair, I recall some people saying the C7 Stingray looked a bit like the F12 at launch.
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That screen, it's like, "Would like a boy or girl toy with that Happy Meal?".
The car reminds me of a pointy Pagani Hyuara. Hyauara? Huyuara.
Edit: Know what? I'm going to give it a chance. I can see it as a nice used car. There aren't enough MR2s in the world. That was probably the only inexpensive, decent sized MR car available. The Evora, I'm not so sure with its limited numbers. Hopefully, these sell well and make for a cool aftermarket and C8 enthusiast's market.
