Very cool but I wish they had kept the scale correct. I don't know about all of them but the C6 appears to have a longer wheel base than the C7 based on that gif.

 

Yeah, if the scale is off, what's the point?

 

fail

 

C7 has such a nice profile

 

At least the cars look like an evolution of style, instead of something that looks exactly the same (i.e. 911, Aston Martin).

 

I somewhat agree with that, but if you park a C7 and a C1 next to each other, no one would have any clue that they're the same car. Do that with a 911 and anyone could tell that they're the same car, in my opinion.

 

I think the C1 is a bit of it's own thing. This also applies mechanically as it seemed that GM wasn't quite sure if the C1 would be about cornering, MG sort of light and fun, or drag racing speed. In chassis design it was certainly following the MG thinking with a simple chassis that looked like a scaled down version of the sedans of the time. The C2 was the first time GM showed something really interesting in the chassis (we can argue that the mouse motor and the Rochester fuel injection seen in the C1 was interesting). The C2 was the first time the car was meant to be something other than a GM roadster. The C2 started having that "Vette" shape and a few years later the C3 hammered that shape home. So I would argue the Vette's basic styling and looks started in 1964 or one year after the 911 was released. I think the link from the C2 onward is quite strong.

 

not needed IMO, but it is one more reason why people identify with the Porsche Brand so well.

I vaguely remember watching something that said the corvette was first built to be a sporty cruiser for the everyday drive, not a championship winning racecar. It was a first for a fiberglass bodied production car though. I think they new it'd never beat the Porsches of Europe but they really didn't have to at the time. European cars were just a good benchmark. However, the Ford T-birds were built with racing in mind as they wanted to be faster than the competition (of course) for their 55 model. Henry Ford was a racer thru and thru.

https://media.ford.com/content/fordm...d-history.html

 

I think when the Corvette was new Porsche wasn't really on the radar of GM. GM was huge, Porsche had the 550 and the speedster. I think both would be lost to history were it not for the much better Porsche cars that came later.