BADBOYVETTES.COM - C7 Equipped with LightningRod?

Whats wrong with going euro/younger? Wasn't the C1 brought over for young GI's back from Europe looking for a fun sports car?

--- Jon from unknown on 03.13.10 at 10:26am

I think this is a great idea. The typical person thinks the corvette is for balding men going through a midlife crisis. I am in my early 20's, bought a C5, and absolutely love the performance. My friends would rather buy imports that cost just as much but miss out on the performance. What's wrong? The image. GM needs to market the corvette has a HALO car for all generations. I honestly think that if it wasnt for Corvette Racing, I wouldnt have bought a corvette. Unfortunately, GM doesnt play up the winning traditions of Corvette Racing as much as they should.

--- Brice from CA on 03.13.10 at 11:42am

Agree with both of the above sentiments. The Corvette needs to go global but like Porsche's 911, the front-engined V8, RWD configuration should never change. It's winning races all over the world.

--- SYF from Las Vegas, NV on 03.13.10 at 1:36am

GoDug said it at the mid-ohio race, both ferrari and porsche have the engines in the rear and corvette keeps winning with a front engine rear wheel drive so what is the better set up. I do think that the brand should go global but with a unquily american design and if the stuck up prudes of europe don't like the way it looks or handles well feel free to eat our dust as we drive away in to the sunset.

--- fireball111 from unknown on 03.13.10 at 3:08pm

I'm a young guy, corvette is already attractive to me, just make C7 look cool and you've got that part. If they really want it back with the very young 20s crowd, they'd have to make it easily customizable like the riceburners and cheaper so the younger guys can afford it. I don't see that happening.

If they just do a evolution of C6 with perhaps a more adjustable suspension (no more transverse leaf springs maybe?) and a MUCH better interior, I think they'll do great with it.

--- CK from Spartanburg SC on 03.13.10 at 7:43pm

Im 21 and have been a Corvette fan for all my life. I think that thanks to the success of Corvette Racing and the power, performance and handling of the Z06 and ZR1 make Corvette's appeal to a young market better than they ever have I also think the 6th Generation vette has been the most successful in appealing to european markets. I think the C6's nailed it, it was only the interior that has been complained about, so I can imagine the C7 will push Corvette to newer levels.

--- Hunt_19 from United Kingdom on 03.14.10 at 4:54pm

My Top ten reason why corvette sales are slumping bad: #10) Employee pricing was decent for all brands except for Corvette and Saturn...What happen to the latter brand again?...#9) Who said a fuel gauge sending unit is important?...#8) GM Canada advertising for Corvette (TV, News Papers, Radio)...$0 for has long I can remenber (C3 gen)...#7) CIA reports claim Taliban forces infiltrated electrical circuit suppliers for the Corvettes to power by remote control Microwave communication to and from Yemen, draining's the cars batteries... #6) GM Canada: " who's Ron Fellows?...#5) Who knew the Corvettes interior was made from recycled plastic?...#4) Corvette need to be 4WD to be elligible for the Flex fuel (E85) option (GM Detroit)...#3) If Porsche can do a 2+2 with 911 at 3300 pounds why can't Chevrolet do it with corvette?...#2) When corvette crosses north of the border, its retail value hikes 25%...even when CAN$ is at parity with USD$... WOW that was a good NAFTA aggreement from the '80s... And I forgot to add shipping charges to the 25%...#1) GM found a replacement for Corvette, It's the camaro LOL...

--- Zonker from Montreal on 03.15.10 at 8:14am

Oops #8 Advertising budget..

--- Zonker from Montreal on 03.15.10 at 8:22am

Agreed with the article...but still don't like the split window. Seems to cheapen the mystique of the '63 (kind of like going from Sting Ray to Stingray)

--- Ripon Guy from unknown on 03.16.10 at 8:25am

to appeal to younger buyers the car will need to be able to win over European journalists who still have the misguided ill informed view that the Corvette is a ill handling gas guzzler. For example Evo magazine voted the ZR1 the biggest disappointment in 2009 because fo the "poor handling".

--- vetteheadracer from UK on 03.16.10 at 2:02pm

The Corvette has progressed through the years just fine. The Corvette needs two things more than anything else.
1. It needs four wheel drive to keep up performance wise badly.
2. The interior needs to come to the standards of the rest of the car.
The rest will take care of itself.

--- asowash from work on 03.17.10 at 9:52am

The AWD talk can just stop now! Audi can keep they're understeer for all I care, I'm in my early 20's and had a C3, loved it to death!! The body style of the C6 looks down right sexy, the only problem I have is the interior looks like it belongs in a minivan or the Malibu! Save for the leather. Keep the RWD and if, IF the C7 does go all-wheel I hope they put a differential in it or make it 80% rear and 20% front.

--- Justin from Livermore, CA on 03.17.10 at 12:44pm

I don't mind the Corvette being $50K and up, but what can GM do to trickle down the fun factor to (ahem) the folks who can afford one of them Japanese two-seat convertible doohickeys?

Besides, I should get crackin' and read the book about Zora Arkus-Duntov. Anybody who has a hand in the future of Corvette and GM should too.

--- Kit Lo from Tucson, Arizona on 03.18.10 at 1:01pm

The Corvette should continue to be what it always has been - A RWD V8 American Sportscar. I think it's positioned perfectly. It's just exotic enough to keep a mystique about it, but it is affordable to many. GM should focus on sales for Corvette, but not necessarily sales growth, in my opinion. It's not a car for everyone, but many people want one. Take me, for example. I am in my early 30s, love Corvettes and have a C4 that I will keep forever. But, when I had to buy a new car recently I bought a slightly used Mustang GT (please don't judge me). I had strict critera - American, V8, manual transmission, affordable and 4 seats. I couldn't afford a new vette (C6), and I have a baby on the way, so I need more space. I love the GT, BUT I still have a burning desire to have a new Vette someday. It will just have to wait until I am a little older (plus, I still have the C4 to play with on the weekends). Which is my point - we will all get older, and our lifestyles and needs change with age. And that's when people have for disposable income. Don't make the Vette something it isn't (4 seats, hybrid, less expensive, etc) because then it will lose it's mystique. The Camaro (which is a cool car too) has the 4 seats and a lower price tag. And, it's selling well. But, last I heard Corvette is the most profitable car GM sells. I'll take profit and mystique (Corvette racing program, advertising, etc) over sales volume any day. And someday I will have a new Vette right off the showroom floor - it's a promise I made to myself when I turned 16.

--- 92LT1 from Texas on 03.18.10 at 1:30am

I think that the minds behind Corvette have a pretty good track record for keeping it a Corvette...that being said I hope that the car will continue to evolve in the same way as the Porsche 911. I think that the Vette will likely continue on the evolutionary path we have seen with the C5 and C6 and avoid revolutionary changes. I really don't think the article implies anything that they haven't been doing already.

--- Anonymous from unknown on 03.18.10 at 3:51pm