For their own reasons, automakers have their preferences in the media and like to give select magazines and websites (keep an eye on a certain auto blog's 12:01am, 12:02am Ford group postings, for example) press photos and releases well before they distribute them to the rest of the media world.
General Motors is one of many automakers that adheres to these unwritten rules, which is why you're seeing a snapshot of the yet-to-be revealed 2014 Chevrolet Corvette C7 posing on the cover of Automobile Magazine's next issue.
Unless one of those people or entities who have access to the press material breaks their promise over the weekend, we will have to wait until Sunday, January 13, at 7 p.m. EST (4 p.m. PST) for the full reveal.
Photo Credits: Jalopnik & CorvetteForum , Hat tip to Automonthly
Update 1: Road&Track magazine's cover featuring the front end of the C7 Corvette has also made its way online. We're going to assume Car&Driver is next...Update 2: Another set of scanned photos of the 2014 Corvette C7 including the first of the interior were leaked online, this time from Holland
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28 Comments:
For some odd reason I want to say "Luke I am your father!"
Never been a Corvette fan however I've been tracking the development of the next generation C7/ZR1 for years and it has a strong chance of being my next sports car. The NSX is my only other choice - grew up lusting after the first generation. I'll be on this site this weekend with fingers crossed that GM performed to my liking as it would be nice to buy a home built legend.
Car and Driver has already revealed the car. By the way, what I'm seeing screams Viper, GT-R and camaro all mixed into one steaming soup of unoriginality .
Looks just like the Viper from the front, with very slight differences. Let's just hope they at least sort out the interior (on the last Corvette it was f***ing disgusting to put it mildly) and replace those cheap panels from the back of the old one with something you can't push in with your thumb. One thing everyone can be sure of is that this will be bloody quick.
I like the front, the headlights and gaping maw look pretty good, but the taillights are too much like the Camaro, which aren't very good to begin with. Why would Corvette designers be told to emulate the Camaro? I smell upper management screwing around with design parameters. Let's hope it has real performance and ride improvements.
how can chevrolet design the whole damn thing and not realize it looks remarkably similar to a car from a company thats from the same COUNTRY
The slits on the hood looks menacing, especially with the contours of the hood, and its relationship to those angular headlights. I love the look! I can't wait to see the side profile.
I am sure a lot of vette fans will totally overlook the fact the front looks like a Viper...infact..6mos from now Aaron Brown will indicate the Viper looks like the Vette ...implying the Viper copied Vette...
It looks brilliant - fantastic even - but it still doesn't look as good as the Stingray concept of which it's based. A pity.
Yeah you're right, if you swap the emblems it could as well be a Viper front, but what the hell. This thing looks awesome, the interior spys are extremely promising and so far I haven't heard of a technical disappointment either.
This Vette is still on track of becoming a pretty much perfect sports car!!
I think the whole car was printed in Newsweek magazine or Consumer report, the reason for saying this is because I saw it on TV, and I was so mesmerized by the Vette's look and forgot which magazine it was featured in, and yeah, I think it looks great, it looks more like a Ferrari California rather than a Viper
The back has a DeLorean feel to me...wish it was more Corvette like but starting to get over this...it is just starting to become acceptable to this kid of the 80s. Did John
DeLorean ever have any ties to the Corvette? Going to look it up...may be a tribute to him.
That grille harkens back to the '53-57 C1 car, with a dash of the 1957 SS racer thrown in.
I kind of like it, but it's svelte and organic while the back end is architectural. I guess we'll find out if they work together in about 32 hours.
I had 3 Corvettes when I was a kid and I have to say that I am really "excited" by this introduction! To me the Viper is a kitcar by comparison, I never cared for it's look and the "new" one is a derivative of past models! Chevrolet is accomplishing what it set out to do and that's create interest and attention to GM regardless which GM product you like.
I think GM has done an explanatory job in the presentation of this new Corvette, and let's all hope it lives up to all the hype!
Have a beer and chill out ya party pooper.
I will reserve my judgement for another 12 hours. For some reason, I think this is not it... we'll see....
From your prior blogs you dislike everything, even yourself, or you would stop making ben nibohs a simpleton.
Is RGT a short form for regurgitate?
yeah...by copying the viper
Nissan GTR copy a la american
This looks promising..
Rear is disgustuing. I like Corvette but C6 have much better looks than this.
did i mention that i thought this car was ugly? i think it looks fantastic, the only thing i complained was that it looks remarkably similar to the viper,
(which OBVIOUSLY no hardcore chevy fanboy is going to admit)
and yes the recent posts features some extremely ugly cars and ill stand by that, i dont know what's your problem but obviously you have one.
That big wide square butt is a miss IMHO.
No problem......I just call them as I see them. We don't need another aaronbbrown and his lame comments.
Viper or Vette? Both all-new and still the same, but the C7 looks like over-styled C6, no sting-ray at all for me.
Yeep, exactly man!
i think this is an amazing redesign and truly love the exterior. extremely well done, but cant help but think how the interior still looks somewhat dated, knocked off of a srt viper and still not as high quality looking. not saying it isn't high quality, but nowhere near its proposed rival the 911
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