Try as I might, I just cannot get behind the looks of the C7..

"ssm-one" (ssm-one) 01/13/2015 at 13:06 • Filed to: None

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And believe me I have tried. I want to love this car in all of its cheap performance glory, but it looks like a bag of ass. It looks like an origami project with wheels. The lines just don't flow well, and intersect at some very questionable points.

The front half isn't bad, with the exception of the oddly angled vents behind the front wheels. It is the back half that makes me scratch my head - particularly the rear end/tail light treatment.

What compounds this is that most of the C7's I see are fitted with some of the worst factory wheels I have laid my eyes on, especially in chrome. Nothing looks cheaper than chrome on wheels, and chrome on a flat, generic looking five-spoke is just terrible. The wheel wells aren't filled out as you'd expect to boot.

While the C7 is no doubt a fantastic car in the performance sense, I still much prefer the look of the wide-bodied C6's (Z-06/GS). The non-chrome Spyder wheels looked dynamite and filled the wells nicely. The lines flowed softly yet aggressively and it looked like a Vette rather than a Transformer.

At what point do you go for the performance bargain even when it is handicapped in the looks department? Like the Toyobaru twins. Great little performers, but looks only a mother can and would love. At what point do aesthetics take a back seat?

StingrayJake > ssm-one 01/13/2015 at 13:07

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I disagree

Sir_Stig: and toxic masculinity ruins the party again. > ssm-one 01/13/2015 at 13:10

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Good god the stock FR-S/BRZ wheels are terrible, steelies would (and do!) look better.

Tuned-Port-Injected-Rage > ssm-one 01/13/2015 at 13:12

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I used to not like it. But, now, I must disagree.

Chuck 2(O=[][]=O)2 > ssm-one 01/13/2015 at 13:21

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This one has braces, wheels from 2003, and stupid bits of plastic all over.

I think it's ugly as all else. And the zo6 is even uglier. Why anyone would buy it over a viper is beyond me.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > Chuck 2(O=[][]=O)2 01/13/2015 at 13:25

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YOU DON'T LIKE YOU'RE CORVETTE'S WITH LANDSCAPE EDGING AND MORE EXPOSED FASTENERS? BUT "650HP" BRO! Loses in a straight line to a car that weighs a half a ton more bro! That only has 50 more hp bro!

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > ssm-one 01/13/2015 at 13:26

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At least the stock C7 doesn't come with this on it:

and 100 more > ssm-one 01/13/2015 at 13:35

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"Origami project with wheels"

Yes. I could not have found a better way to describe the look of the C7. You nailed it.

I hate it too.

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > ssm-one 01/13/2015 at 16:39

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Don't forget all the Pep Boys bling vents that GM slapped everywhere.