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2014 Corvette Sting Ray... it looks an awful lot like the 2013 Ferrari Berlinetta.

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I thought the new corvette was pretty good looking for about 3 days. Now all I see is a trashy teenager driving whenever I look at one.


That rear end. Blech.
 
New vette looks ugly as sin in my opinion. It looks like they designed it using legos. I love the rear end of that ferrari though.
 
SpatiallyAware said:
I thought the new corvette was pretty good looking for about 3 days. Now all I see is a trashy teenager driving whenever I look at one.


That rear end. Blech.
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The design is growing on me. I liked it when I first saw it and I like it even more now. It still looks Transformer like from the rear but little less so now.

I always thought C5 borrowed from the NSX and C6 borrowed from F360.
 
Pariah said:
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Is anyone else besides me thinking the Corvette is going to have really really bad rear visibility?
 
Abe Froman said:
There is a slight resemblance to the 2013 Ferrari Berlinetta.

Is Chevy trying to appeal to the Foreign car fans or did they not think that people would make comparisons?

A lack of creativity isn't going to help them to become the profitable business that they once were.

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They both stole the idea from Aston Martin... everyone knows this.
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It's cab forward design yo!
 
You're in denial if you can't see that the two share an almost identical profile from most if not all angles.

...but that's really not saying much. All car design is pretty much a copy of a copy of a copy anymore. I think a lot of it has to do with just using what works. In this case, both Ferrari and GM want certain characteristics that are seen as 'sporty' and 'modern' while optimizing things like drag and weight distribution.
 
I like the styling of the original Stingray better. It had class. This thing is like implants on a supermodel. Poser car. But I get it, they are targeting a group of consumers who are cross shopping expensive brands. They went overboard on white washing the brand. What a waste.
 
disappoint said:
Is anyone else besides me thinking the Corvette is going to have really really bad rear visibility?
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No; the angle looks worse than it is. Many new cars look like they will be bad but usually are not.

My 1973 looks awful but is not to bad. No its no minivan with all the seats down open but I can drivesafely. So I doubt the new Corvette will be any worse than other cars on the road.
 
Thank you Adam. I have completed the game and my grandfathers a mechanic, i help all of my friends on their bikes along with my dad on our car, at least im not the kind of person that thinks horsepower is how many horses ypu can fit in a car 😀
 
Pedroc1999 said:
Thank you Adam. I have completed the game and my grandfathers a mechanic, i help all of my friends on their bikes along with my dad on our car, at least im not the kind of person that thinks horsepower is how many horses ypu can fit in a car 😀
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Well you didn't mention you COMPLETED the game. Now that's a different story. I've also driven a HIGHLY modified Supra and have taken it WELL over 200 mph....in Need for Speed: Most Wanted. Didn't beat it though. 😛
 
disappoint said:
Is anyone else besides me thinking the Corvette is going to have really really bad rear visibility?
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no it won't, you can clearly see glass where the camaro has sheet metal. The new camaro will have the same type of design from what i hear too
 
There are, without question, a lot of design elements on these cars which are more similar than what would necessarily flow from both being RWD sports cars (e.g., the angle of the front fender cut line, the shape of the C pillar and rear window frame, and the angle of the rear end accent lines). In aggregate, they don't look especially similar to me, mostly because the rounder lines of the Ferrari have been replaced by very straight, squared-off elements on the Corvette. Personally I think the Corvette looks a little garish, but to each his own.
 
phucheneh said:
You're in denial if you can't see that the two share an almost identical profile from most if not all angles.

...but that's really not saying much. All car design is pretty much a copy of a copy of a copy anymore. I think a lot of it has to do with just using what works. In this case, both Ferrari and GM want certain characteristics that are seen as 'sporty' and 'modern' while optimizing things like drag and weight distribution.
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That's just how sports cars are shaped. It's like saying a Honda Accord and a BMW 3 series share the same shape because they're both sedans. Or that a Jeep Wrangler and a VW Passat share the same profile because they're both wagons. It's not even a copy of a copy or anything like that, it's just that they're both front engined, RWD cars, with 2 doors
 
Throckmorton said:
That's just how sports cars are shaped. It's like saying a Honda Accord and a BMW 3 series share the same shape because they're both sedans. Or that a Jeep Wrangler and a VW Passat share the same profile because they're both wagons. It's not even a copy of a copy or anything like that, it's just that they're both front engined, RWD cars, with 2 doors
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Jeep Wranglers are wagons?
 
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