These Corvette Visualizations Are Just Getting Lazy

"Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch" (bman76) 07/23/2015 at 12:31 • Filed to: None

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Literally a Huracan. The front and back images don’t even match. Story at !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! .

Cherry_man1 > Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch 07/23/2015 at 12:33

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Nice CTS-V Coupe.

Nibby > Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch 07/23/2015 at 12:35

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They should hire me.

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > Cherry_man1 07/23/2015 at 12:36

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Four speed mid-mounted front-drive diesel four rotor wankel confirmed.

Patrick Nichols > Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch 07/23/2015 at 12:47

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I think they should bring back Saturn and make everything about the Corvette as cheap as possible while still being as fast (if not faster) and semi-reliable. I’m talking cheap plastic interior and cheap looking trim. Get the cost down to 40k and troll the world...

Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch > Nibby 07/23/2015 at 15:47

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Anything would be better than this, especially you.

BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. > Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch 07/23/2015 at 16:17

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That is kind of funny.

Everybody wants a mid-engined Corvette... until it copies Lamborghini, instead of it currently trying to copy Nissan GTR as a 2-seat-fastback variant.

Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch > BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. 07/23/2015 at 16:20

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I don’t see the GT-R comparison, but I think this specific magazine visualization is horribly lazy.

BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. > Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch 07/23/2015 at 17:36

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Floating, blacked out A-pillar, check

Slash cut vent in the front fender, with a chrome badge, check

hard-edged body lines, and a brutal, not graceful profile... check.

Big, huge, high-waisted rear ends... double check.

Fixed quarter windows under C-pillars, double check, first for Corvette since the removable hardtop on C1. C2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 all had wrap-over rear glass, at least some of the time.

gaping maw grille, check, even if the corvette is slightly less gaping.

longitudinally swept back headlights, check.

Nissan GTR copying Corvette’s round pairs of tail lights... check.

Corvette abandoning round pairs of tail lights for pseudo-rectangular pairs of tail lights... check

Front-engined, rear transaxle chassis... double check.

some sort of holes in the hood... different from each other, but both have them.

Nissan GTR may be the big 2+2 TT-V6 with AWD, and Corvette may still be the atmo-V8 and Supercharged-V8 RWD 2-seater... but the C7 shares more aesthetic traits with GTR than it does with C6.

Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch > BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. 07/23/2015 at 17:49

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Aesthetically I think it’s mostly just the current styling trends. I see more 458 than GT-R. And the C7 is mostly mechanically the same as the C6.

BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. > Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch 07/23/2015 at 17:56

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Mechanically, I pointed out that they are different, but F458 is nowhere near as angular as C7 or GTR, and doesn’t share most of the aesthetic traits that I mentioned.

Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch > BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. 07/23/2015 at 18:08

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I just think the GT-R is fundamentally a different style, they do share various styling trends. Also, the GT-R tail lights come from the C110 (Kenmeri) Skylines. They’re both handsome cars although the GT-R is visually heavy (also physically).

BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. > Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch 07/23/2015 at 18:25

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I know that the tail lights come from C110 Kenmeri, it is one of my favorite vintage JDM cars, and I have a pair of hot wheels cars on the base of my monitor, as write this. Kenmeri is also obviously heavily influenced by the 1967-69 Plymouth Barracuda, with other Mopar and Muscle car traits salted in.

But C2 Corvette codified the two round pairs of tail lights a decade before Kenmeri had them, and that is not to say that others didn’t also. 1968 Charger had them. 1972 Barracuda had them. McLaren F1 had them. Camaro shared them for a while, and Impala had a pair of triplet round tail lights, to signify it being a premium line Chevy.

But Corvette held the tradition for much longer, longer even than Ferrari used two pairs.

And if you go back further, the Hakosuka had two pairs of rectangles. (actually one tail light, split by trim, to look like pairs.

So Skyline could be said to have gone from squares to rounds, and Corvette went from rounds, to square-ish on the C7.

Bman76 (no it doesn't need a WS6 hood) M. Arch > BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. 07/23/2015 at 19:17

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I agree with what you’re saying (I too have the Kenmeri HW), and I think that the GT-R is a bit of a throwback in a lot of ways to the C10 (window design) and C110. I would also remind you of the round-tangles of the C4 ZR1 & Grand Sport.

The reality is that round taillights would look odd on something as angular and edgy as the C7. All vehicles are inherently stylistically derivative and I find it extremely fun to look back at where all of these trends “started”.

Axial > BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. 07/24/2015 at 02:31

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Small details, maybe. Silhouette of the C7 is nearly identical to the C6, though, and nothing like the GT-R unless you’ve got serious astigmatism or advanced cataracts.