Presto123

Not everyone wants to drive a two decade old heavily modified car. These are both modern machines with similar stock performance and one is half the price.

Mr.E.G.

That color (maybe just in that pic??) does a good job of bringing out the best in C7 design while mitigating the worst.

vader1

The performance value for the Vette is staggering, but I just can't get over the look.

The Car and Driver article points out that it has a profile really close to the F12 Berlinetta, which looks good to me, but I watched the Edmunds Inside Line video of the Vette against some other car and kept wanting to look away from the Vette.

It is not elephant man ugly, but it says neither "sleek" nor "sexy" nor "graceful" to me. It looks cartoony awkward.

But hey, you can't see the outside when you are driving it rapidly away from anything chasing you. Give me C7 performance and interior improvements and C6 looks. I know Chevy/GM has this corporate identity of angular, muscle-y, butch like styling as their image, but continuing in that direction is what is keeping me from liking it. Its a NASCAR image, and as a proud yuppie want nothing to do with it.

And since I am a middle aged, balding guy with lots of chest and knuckle hair, I am smack dab in the Vette target market.

waltk88

If I could afford it, I'd take the 991S over the C7. Car and Driver's opinion was that it beat out the 'Vette in every aspect of the driving experience. The 'Vette won on value and put in slightly better performance numbers. When considering long-term ownership experience vs. spending a weekend with a car, I care much more about how the car feels than a few tenths here and there.

There's another interesting comparison test in Motor Trend with the C7 taking on the 991 C4S and the Ferrari F12. Guess who wins?

Driven

because it eliminates the rear half of the car...which is laughably hideous. From this angle, it's a gorgeous car.

As long as reverse the car into parking spots and you never have to see the rear, it's a looker.

i_heart_my_DB8

If your design requires a specific color to look good, it's a shitty design.

Slithr

If your design requires a specific color to look good, it's a shitty design.
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Agree. Fortunately the C7 doesn't have that problem.

exb00st

I wasn't a fan of the flat 6's sound either but it's begun to grow on me.

TheDonEffect

Just saw it in person. Love it, styling translates better in person. The interior is a quantum leap from the c6, almost Germanic until you get to the quality of leather. Seriously, only hard plastic I found wa the speaker grille, rest was smooth like that in an audi. Car looks more chiseled and functional, I just wish they made it functional and graceful like the 458, But I loved it. Lots of details to digest and the interior made me look at the ftype and say so what (except for the larger quality).

closetgeek

Some concepts will never change. People just LOVE paying for a status symbol. No matter how much more refined an interior or drive train is.

However, there are always a select few out there who are completely secure and content with the brand model they drive.