Corvmaro Styling Ignores/Disrespects Corvette Tradition & History
It's just like politics. The haters have infinite negative energy to bad mouth. They are probably the same guys that have bad mouthed it elsewhere.
I can't quite dismiss the disappointment with Camaro styling cues as 'infinite negative energy to badmouth' or deride others as 'losers' for wanting the C7 Corvette to actually look like a Corvette.
For whatever reason, the designers of the new Corvette (reminds me of the New Coke fiasco) didn't respect the tradition and history of the car. Maybe they came from Cadillac, or some other division, and just don't know and don't really car about the Corvette as an American Institution, as an icon as well as a car. Sure, the car needs to stay up with the times. But, a Corvette should never be suggestive of another, let alone lesser car. A Corvette should be immediately and uniquely recognizable as a Corvette from any angle in any lighting save total darkness.
And a Corvette always has four round tail lights, it is a major part of the iconography and identity of the car. Admittedly with some occasional excursions like ovals or rounded squares. But, even the C5 and 1991 - 1996 C4 tail lights were close enough to allow one to immediately know the car is a Corvette, even in the dark on the highway. A Corvette...Not a Corvmaro or Camaravette.
Thankfully, the C7 design staff at least had the good sense to keep a general C3 shape for the car, as did the designers of the C4, C5 and C6. At least from the front and side the C7 still says Corvette. That noted, I was sorry to see the loss of hide away headlights on the C6, and hoped those would return on the C7. Instead, we still have ugly exposed (and now angry looking) headlights, like millions of other cars with exposed headlights, and now the C7 has lost two iconographic characteristics. We now have a lack of hide away headlights combined with Camaro tail lights.
The Corvette is slowly dissolving into everysportscar, or at least becoming a Corvette in name only. And that's I think the real issue with the Camaro tail lights on the C7.
So it isn't hating or badmouthing by a bunch of losers. It is actually love for the car and its traditions and styling cues. It's uniqueness as America's Sportscar. I think a major worry Corvette lovers like me (I own four currently with plans to buy more, but not a C7) is that the iconography that makes the car uniquely Corvette is being diluted, disrespected, and deleted.
I understand GM's desire to have a family resemblance, but that line of thought diminishes Corvette. And comes to a decision to style a C7 with a Camaro design cues. What's next, a big Confederate flag across the C7 hood?
It's upsetting to see the Corvette being treated this way. By its own manufacturer.
I never thought I'd hope this, but perhaps if sales drop enough, GM will go back to designing and building Corvettes, not Corvmaros.
We can hope.
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