STINGRAY   is   back        

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  NOW yer talkin!! Best lookin "new" Corvette since 1968, imho.


Oh yeah...that photo has just become my new desktop background!

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Joel Adams
C3VR Lifetime Member #56    
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"Money can't buy happiness -- but somehow it's more comforting to cry in a CORVETTE than in a Kia"

I love it, I gotta get me one

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Lifetime Member #36

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This one is going to take me some time. Right now, I think it's overdone and rather ugly. Time will tell. Dissapointed they're calling it a Stingray.

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I'm in the LOVE IT crowd, too.  First time a new 'Vette has ever been on my "lottery list" (cars I'd go out and buy if I won).  Love that color, too.  

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I can see me in one of these in a few years for sure.

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Yahoo has posted a series of pix of the new C7 Corvette that shows a lot of close-ups of the interior and exterior.  It looks like they finally got back to the coke bottle style body side panels like the C3 had, for the new Stingray.  About time!!  You can check them out here by clicking on the C7 picture.   

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I like it overall - though to me the rear end is a tale of two rears.... I love the hatch design, but the rear bumper, and especially the taillights, do nothing for me - looks like a Camaro. I'm assuming they were going for commonality, but for me it doesn't work. Maybe it will grow on me. I'm also thinking the A pillars should be red, but I'm not 100% on that. The interior looks good - need to see it in person and feel the materials. Overall, very well done. Maybe someone will make aftermarket tail lights...

It has gone totally European in style as far as I'm concerned. In my opinion it has completely lost the look of Motor City Muscle. It may be my age, but as I see it all of the newer produced muscle cars such as the Camero, Charger, Mustang, etc. have all still kept that American body style look. With that said, as far as European style cars go its one bad-azz ride!! Should compete very well with the Ferrari, Porsche and so on. The only thing I would have liked to see is round tail lights as opposed to using the Camero look.

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Click on images for Before and After pics!

Thanks, Larry!

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I aggree.............tail lights.............too Camaro!

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I'm in the love it crowd, I can get over the tail lites, but as Larry said looks like the coke bottle is back and love the fast back. Really need to see one and touch it. Then 2nd mortg the house.......

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Been studying it some more. The overall shape is good. I like how the front fenders rise up C3 style. Ditch the hood vent; it looks stupid. I know it has a purpose but it still looks stupid. The side vents are twice the size they should have been. I don't like the rear quarter windows; probably useless anyway for lane changes. I like the rear window. But that backend is way too busy...too many contours. And the tail lights should have been round.

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And so it begins....the all-too familiar tradition of nit-pickin the heck out of the latest/greatest Corvette. It started with the '56, and carries on today. 
I agree that the butt-end is a bit too busy, BUT(no pun intended), I believe that in different colors, the effect will be much mo pleasing. Even the side 1/4 window looks much mo betta on the silver car than the red one.
I wanna get ahold of one up close and personal, and see how the inside fits my backside, since that is what I absolutely HATE about the C5/6 cars...I just don't fit in them.
Overall, I think GM did the Corvette community proud on this one. I dint get excited over the C5, and the C6 was only marginally better. THIS one, however, makes me all giddy....


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Joel Adams
C3VR Lifetime Member #56    
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"Money can't buy happiness -- but somehow it's more comforting to cry in a CORVETTE than in a Kia"

Many mo pics

http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2014-chevrolet-corvette-stingray-detroit-2013/#photo-5570516/

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The more I look at the rear .... the better I like it !!!

I like the looks.
Anybody have any idea of the starting Price?


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Steve, Lifetime Member #129

74 coupe 4 speed 350, 54K actual miles,
all original; paint, interior, engine,
split  bumper. #'s match. 2nd owner, no stress cracks.

 

 

 

 

2014 Chevrolet Corvette: The Stingray is back - Autoweek http://www.autoweek.com/article/20130113/DETROIT/130119927 http://www.autoweek.com/article/20130113/DETROIT/130119927

 

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I'm wid you on that one! The new flags might make a nice tatoo......

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LIFETIME MEMBER 151

Now, you're starting to scare me...

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Well, 

I wouldn't kick my C3 out of the garage.... But the Explorer would be out in the Desert.

It is kinda fun from the front and down right evil from the rear... I like it.


Keith


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Nobody ever waves when I'm driving the Explorer.
K Woody

Mo Stuff!   

http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-autos-detroit-corvette-20130112,0,7902422.story

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Lots of good pics and info here:

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-Adam Wartell
NCM Lifetime Member #1222
Founder: C3 Vette Registry 
C4 Vette Registry, C6 Vette Registry

My first Vette, now owned by JB79:

Thanks.............I of course..............like the BLUE one!

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Gotta agree with Larry, I like the BLUE one best too.   

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Should I buy this or a motorhome?   Something to ponder for a while.

The new Singray is the best looking Camero or Pontiac Aztec to date.

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John D. Grant "Corvette; Cure for the common mid-life crisis!"

Ahhhh change... I used to like change.....then I changed.

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I think the main reason the generation(s) younger than the Baby Boomers don't buy new Vettes is because they can't afford them!  At $60k, that's out of the reach of MANY people!  I would love a C7! Can I afford one, hell no! Can I afford a C6? Maybe a well used 2005.

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-Adam Wartell
NCM Lifetime Member #1222
Founder: C3 Vette Registry 
C4 Vette Registry, C6 Vette Registry

My first Vette, now owned by JB79:

Bingo! You nailed it, that's what I did - always wanted a new Vette, so when the tuition bills stopped, I bought one. Will I ever buy another new one? Probably not, but a nice used C7 is currently in my plans when I hit 70! (5 years, 3 months and 27 days, but who's counting?)

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Well before I say which way I feel about this "new Vette", let me say 7 years ago I was not a fan of any vette and now I feel I cant go a day without looking at pics of them or sitting in one. I am a fan of them up thru the c3's but then not a fan of the c4's. The C5's and 6's i am starting to like more every day. Now as for this new C7, the charcoal or gray looks better to me then the red (sorry Joel). But even that color doesnt make me feel good about the new design. It looks like a "batmobile" to me just as the camaros do. The interior is to busy with stuff. I am sure that sitting in it might change my mind about the interior, but it just looks like to much happening in it. In all fairness, change is a good thing, but it usually takes a while until it grows on us old timers. As for now I think I'm going to go sit in my C3, lean back in the seat, close my eyes and thank the good lord for allowing me to own one of the best generations of corvettes on the earth!

Rodney

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Just watched Rick Hendricks buy the 1st 2014 corvette  at the barret jackson auction paid 1,100,000.00 car business most be good.

Ebo, that image is is messing with my thoughts...........YIKES

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He figured it would be worth way more than that............one day. Unfortunately not in his life time. He's got propably the largest collection of Vettes.

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Ebo, you are right on. I had a 64 fastback, a 65 396/425 vert, and a 66 427/450 vert. When the 68 came out I hated it. Everyone would ask me my thoughts, do to me being a freak on C2's, what I said was "too much extra weight all in the front, losing handling characteristics, too goodied up just to attract doctors and lawyers and they look like C2's that were left in the sun too long, and got distorted." I felt that Chevy was trying to turn a sports car into a personal luxury car for the  professional market. That's sort of what happened and the "waves" disappeared. A whole different breed of owners.
Then in 74 with the no bumper front and rear......I fell in love with the C3

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http://www.amosauto.com/Articles/Corvette/Features/corvette-celebration

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I just watched that video from CBS and they interviewed Hendricks.  He has the second largest Corvette collection at over 150.  I...do not

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Dave C..........My mantra: I can not be bought!!      Long and short term leases available.

Man, he better get with the program............only second largest, sheesh......he needs mo!

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General Motors hopes to prove its new, seventh-generation Chevrolet Corvette has international appeal as it drops the top on the so-called “C7” by introducing the convertible edition at the coming week’s Geneva Motor Show.

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