German tuners are not very impressed with the design of the Stingray

"El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First!" (lightningzone) 01/15/2015 at 10:44 • Filed to: None

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So they mod. it a little.

Geiger Cars

Prior Design.

TheHondaBro > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 01/15/2015 at 10:45

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7, as in C7.

Party-vi > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 01/15/2015 at 10:46

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bodinej > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 01/15/2015 at 10:48

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That. Is. Hideous.

El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! > TheHondaBro 01/15/2015 at 10:49

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The Germans think in numbers, obviously.

nucciOMG > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 01/15/2015 at 10:50

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CalzoneGolem > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 01/15/2015 at 10:50

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Isn't that what tuners do ... by definition?

kanadanmajava1 > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 01/15/2015 at 10:51

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At least they painted the a pillars to match the body color with the first car.

WhiskeyGolf > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 01/15/2015 at 11:07

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Meatcoma > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 01/15/2015 at 11:08

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I like the two-tone colors, just not these colors.

472CID > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 01/15/2015 at 11:11

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Ich muss dein kinder essen

BoxerFanatic, troublesome iconoclast. > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 01/15/2015 at 11:53

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FINALLY

Someone has fixed those ridiculous blacked-out A-pillars.

Since C7's quarter windows and the detail across the sides of the roof panel don't have an easy seam to blackout the whole roof, like C4, 5, and 6 can... having the roof sides in body color, and ending at the top of the A-pillar, or the B-pillar isn't a resolved graphic, and it looks ridiculous.

I think it looks ridiculous on cars like Nissan GT-R, and the ridiculous looking Scion tC also, and the D-pillar on the back of the Jaguar XJ sedan, too. Floating roofs done wrong are screaming visual errors.

Chevy was obviously trying to build a 2WD, 2-seat sports car version of the Nissan GT-R with the C7... the blocky forms, slashing lines and vents, bulky aft section with a big flat tail panel, and that ridiculous floating A-pillar are all similar. They probably changed to rhombus/rectangular tail lights on the Corvette, after DECADES of round/oval tail light pairs, because it would be too obvious that Corvette is now a V8+2Seat+RWD copycat of R35 GT-R's styling.

C6 is the smoother, cleaner design, and I think it will prove to be more aesthetically timeless than the more fad-styled C7.

At least with some of the above visual modifications above, it resolves some of the issues... bit it is still and overly-aggressive, over-styled 'look-at-me' compensation for buyers to beg for attention with.

At least cars like the newly released Ford GT, Lotus Evora, Alfa 4C, Koeniggsegg, and others with hidden A-pillars have a smooth, almost seamless transition from the windscreen to the side windows in a continual graphic, and the roof has a resolved shape above that... not like a piece is missing due to being wrongly blacked out.

Jordan and the Slowrunner, Boomer Intensifies > El Relámpago(LZone) - Humanity First! 01/15/2015 at 14:06

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They got rid of or painted the landscape edging!