We'll see. Personally, the way things are at GM right now, I'd be surprised if GM went so far out of the way to glue a fake piece on the door like that. Besides, in the video of the C8 driving through NY when he opened the door to let Ma out, the door switch was under the "winglet"...
The guy is right, many just don't like change and will reject anything new first off. The sad thing is I can see the unveiling of a mid-engine Vette 50 years in the making, and this will probably turn into the CT5 unveiling, just replace CT5 and C-pillar kink with C7 and side scoop and we will have the same thread, totally skipping the awesomeness of the new C7.
Wherever this out of focus picture came from, it looks like it's been retouched or manipulated. Also looking at the scoop, it looks perhaps like it actually starts behind the door, rather than on it, but because the picture is so bad it's hard to say for sure.
I think GM is being clever with these leaks and the cladding on the prototypes. Remember how carefully that guy opened the door in NY? They could have rigged a way to open it with cladding. Both the rear pic, which seems genuine, and the front pic, which is really grainy and the car really kind of plain, are not telling the whole tale I don't think. I mean, I could be totally wrong, but I just have a hard time believing they kept the thing under wraps, just to have half-assed cladding that gave away the shape. And these two accidental leaks less than two weeks out? This is trickery. I hope, anyway, because so far I don't like it.
Wasn't the Vette eating Ferrari since the C6 Z06....? This will be on a whole new level of course, but I've been reading about the Vette ****-stomping exotics since about 2006.
The guy in video complains about the license plate recess is huge or big, but in reality it isn’t a lot bigger than the recess on the C6. He also mentions that he messed with the photo so that where it was shot wouldn’t be revealed, and his belief that there were some missing pieces like the splitter.
Looking at the latest spy shots at the Nürburgring, the C8 lower bumper area seems to have a lot more going on than is shown in that picture. It might be a picture of the real car but it appears to have had a heck of a lot fiddling with it, in order to make it look fit for general consumption.
The picture is IMO definitely not representative of what the actual car will look like when revealed. The prototypes have confident and menacing stance about them, and somehow this craptacular picture has removed pretty much any vestige of that.
These are some of the best pictures that show how the finished car is going to look from a proportion/stance aspect. Disregard the winglet though lol.
The black lines are really helpful in illustrating how shapely the C8 really is. It has much more flavor than that crummy picture of the blue C8 front view conveys.
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