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Yes, he's filled with poo. Elegant is correct: MSRC is only available in combination with Z51, at least initially...

Auto Week now gives a firm date of January for the first performance model to appear...

You would typically want your entry-level engine to be cheaper to produce than the engine that it's replacing. In this case, there's a good chance that that's not true. This engine may be missing two cylinders, but it has all of the same tech as the LT1, plus lots of extra cams, valves, turbos...

Oh, absolutely. Their current convertible pricing policy has created an artificial, but compelling, incentive to purchase a coupe rather than a convertible...even among folks who would really rather have a convertible. Last year, when I was seriously considering the purchase of a new C6 GS, even...

Not Porsche. Comparing their two all-new 2013 981s, they charge $2,200 more for their Cayman (not even a targa, mind you, but a simpler fixed-roof coupe) than they do for the convertible version Boxster. This is because, like the C5/C6/C7 Corvettes, they are two different versions of the same...

But see, my last point was that their gouge pricing is what causes fewer convertible sales. They don't need to charge that much...and if they didn't, then there would be a lot more convertible sales. This might be especially true with the C7, as this time around they have made a point of making...

That $5,000 premium used to be applied to cover the cost of modifying an existing coupe to produce a new convertible. That's just not the case with the C7. GM has proudly announced that there is no "additional engineering" in the convertible (vs the coupe). For one thing, they've gone to great...

I don't care for the twisted-spoke wheels that are twisted the wrong way on the passenger side...especially galling since the coupe has such nice, symmetrical wheels. I sure hope those coupe wheels will be an option on the convertible... Apparently, the budget for wheel molds is not what it was...

Yes. Remember, nothing on or about the C7 can be photographed accurately...the car always wreaks havoc between the photons and the camera's lens/photo sensor. Everything C7 will always look better in person, even if it already looks great in the photos... :eyerole Sorry, Rob. I couldn't resist...

I forgot about that. You're right, of course...and thank goodness, too. The standard top is CF...they just paint it, which is cheaper than what they have to do to make exposed CF presentable. That's just one less thing that I'll have to pay to get painted if I ever buy one...though I'd probably...

This cost vs performance point is completely true, but only in the U.S. GM wants to get serious about selling Corvettes in Europe...where the Corvette's cost advantage is little or nothing. There, the Corvette will have to compete head to head with the 991/911 on performance and refinement. The...

Personally, I have no problem with the shape of the tail lights. It's the 3D effect that's a little too "Wurlitzer jukebox" for my taste. The rear, as a whole, is just too busy...but it does look way better in the few renditions I've seen where the only change was that the entire diffuser was...

I have no way of knowing which (or, if either) vent inlet configuration flows more air...and neither do you, unless you served on the C7 development team. An axiom in logic states that when two things are both equal to a third thing, then they must also be equal to each other. Since GM has...

The Z51 convertible has the same transmission and differential coolers as the Z51 coupe. No convertible (Z51 or otherwise) will get the fender-top inlet vents, as there is no room for them. The Z51 convertibles have their cooler inlet vents under the car. This has me wondering why, during the...

Just what the C7 needed...even more going on, visually. :eyerole

Porsche was selling a full-range lineup to a less-downturn-sensitive clientele than was GM with the C6. The 981s and 991s are also all new (though, amazingly, they manage to look very much like the cars that they replaced), with pent-up demand for those new models. I understand that this will...

JMO, but in the past, the further from stock that Callaway's designs got, the whackier they looked...

If GM was trying to sell the C7 in the same economic conditions that the C6 was dealing with, the C7 wouldn't sell any better than the C6 did...no matter how thrilled the "thumb-talkers" are with it... We may be looking at things from the backside here. Traditionally, the Corvette has had the...

I need to correct an error in the OP. I just finished carefully rereading the April C&D, before passing it on to my buddy. I originally posted that C&D had printed four C7-negative letters. I was mistaken...they actually printed five C7-negative letters. Sorry for the mistake...

While I have no idea what "props" are, I do commend GM for uncharacteristically sticking with the Volt. Apparently, for the first time in history, they're actually thinking long-term. Toyota isn't any "greener" than any other car company, but they have been dumping Prii for years now and look at...