Car and Driver's Latest 2014 C7 Corvette Renderings

[Rob]

Below is an artist's rendering of a revised rear view of the 2014 C7 Corvette. Compared to the infamous Jalopnik photos, it looks like the design has been brought back to reality.

What do you think?

Source: 2014 Chevrolet Corvette C7 (artist's rendering) photo

 

[Huskerman]

I'm not overwhelmed........

 

[Mac]

Very angular. I can't say the tail appeals to me at all.

-Mac

 

[67vet]

Why have the Camaro tail light look? Not good.

The eggcrate front inlet does not look good either.

 

[LLC5]

Just plain lazy and cheap styling attempts in my opinion. Who is going to buy or even want a Vette that borrows styling from a Camaro?

Corvette should lead the styling chase for GM, not follow it.

 

[Huskerman]

I hope the GM guys are smiling right now because they know that is not what the car looks like.........

 

[LLC5]

I hope the GM guys are smiling right now because they know that is not what the car looks like.........

Yeah, me too....

 

[JJS]

Looks like I'll be getting a C6.

 

[Evolution1980]

Guys, this is one of the worst "Artist impressions" I've ever seen. This has to be a joke as there's no way this is a professional visualization. This is a 10-second cut & paste that could've been done with MS-Paint. If you click on my attachment to see it bigger, you'll see what I'm talking about. There wasn't even any attempt at making body lines, lights, accents, nor paint match up. Nothing is blended nor rendered. Heck, you can see the straight lines they used to cut & paste the exhaust tips.

I believe the front shot could be accurate, but this rear end is so poorly done that it's got to be a joke, just like the original ZR-1 images where that company used black gaffer's tape to attach a cardboard box to the hood and had people believing it was a legit GM design for the hood scoop.

100% shenanigans!

Also, that rear shot...the front portion of the car is an actual picture. You can see the reflections of the pavement in the side body panels. Computer generated renderings wouldn't show that kind of detail. And here's a little more proof for you... The majority of that picture is the rear view of a Fisker Karma. The hack who made this pic cut out the background (hence all the white space above the car) and removed the passenger-side mirror to make it harder to identify. But a close inspection of the rims and the little bit of passenger-taillight showing give it away. At least that's what it looks like to me. (click on the pic for a closer look)

 

[Huskerman]

Good stuff Evo...... GM is thinking the uglier we think the C7 is going to be....the more we will want to order a new C6........

 

[Tuna]

Good stuff Evo...... GM is thinking the uglier we think the C7 is going to be....the more we will want to order a new C6........

You may have something there!

I don't think these "C7" photochops are that close. Then again, I'm not waiting on the C7 as I've got a tentative order in for a '13 C6.

 

[Evolution1980]

Good stuff Evo......

Kinda funny, because when I look at the 'edited' picture, I'm seeing even more hack & slash.
The original pic's drivers side rear quarter panel is showing to the left of the "cut & pasted" Camaro rear end.
And if you look closely at the "cut & pasted" exhaust section, you'll see a little white splotch on the top-right... That matches up exactly with the white sun glare lines right above it. In fact, remove the exhaust tips and that entire patch moves up and fits exactly.
The exhaust tips were also hastily added in, hence the white smears around them. That's where they tried to erase from the original picture layer instead of blending it.
This is 100% not a real artist's rendering. It's a wannabe who somehow managed to trick a few people that should know better. :eyerole

 

[67vet]

I'll bet my feeble try with a little "paint shop" is closer than the "Artists" rendering.

 

[jrose7004]

Just looks like a C6.5 warmed over and a Camaro rear.

 

[catbert]

My kindest opinion is - inelegant.

 

[Evolution1980]

Truth be told, I'll have ZERO problem if it looks like a Fisker Karma. I have a Fisker/Maserati dealership near me and those cars are pretty sweet looking! The base Fisker Karma MSRP's at $103K, so it's "slightly" out of my price range :L

 

[1analguy]

I don't understand where all the Fisker talk is coming from. The rear rendering looks like a Camaro rear end. If you look at the photograph of the actual car with the cover on it, you can plainly see round tail lights showing through...and the rest of the basic shape on the back has nothing in common with that Camaro rendering, either. As for the front rendering, it looks like an unfortunate attempt at updating the C3 front end (i.e.: way to "Jetsons") and is probably just as far off as the rear rendering is. We're getting all worked up over nothing...

 

[Evolution1980]

I don't understand where all the Fisker talk is coming from. The rear rendering looks like a Camaro rear end.

The 'Fisker talk' was specific to this particular picture, which is simply a Fisker Karma with a Camaro rear end and Corvette exhaust tips hastily stuck on there.

 

[89vetter]

Remember what happen when the C5 and the Firebird came out the vette people where pissed off on the similarity of the front clip. From a distance they looked the same. I hope GM did not make the same mistake.ad

 

[Low drag - High speed]

You guys are right ...

... that rear view especially is the sloppiest job of slap-and-tickle Photoshopping I've ever seen outside of Comicon.

Let's all desperately hope they are trying to pull the wool over our eyes and there really is a new, unseen Vettezilla waiting in the bushes around Bowling Green ...

... please, please, PLEEEAAAAAASSSE!