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 I HATE delivering to those apartments. Not that the apartments are bad, but their little "we'll give 2 buildings one address, 5 buildings another address, 1 building a different address, and oh hey this building over here gets an address that doesn't make any sense" poo poo gets old in a hurry.Not really creepy (okay maybe a little  ), just really surprising that someone nailed the intersection based on a bad photo of a shopping strip parking lot.I doubt I'll see the RR today, with the slushy roads and all. I'll try and grab a photo next time I see it.
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Yeah, I'm doubting the accuracy of that (I loving hope I'm right).
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Dec 26, 2012 21:06
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OK, what am I not getting out of that image?
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Dec 26, 2012 21:46
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It's supposedly the rear end-end of the new Corvette. We'll know for sure next month.
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Dec 26, 2012 21:49
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Seat Safety Switch posted:I was getting ready to laugh at this post and then go to another thread until I realized the car still has a plate and was not inside the junkyard. "$500 fine for impersonating a Ranchero/El Camino"
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Dec 26, 2012 22:50
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IOwnCalculus posted:It's supposedly the rear end-end of the new Corvette. We'll know for sure next month. 
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Dec 26, 2012 22:58
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Too much of this stuff floating around where I live.
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Dec 26, 2012 22:59
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IOwnCalculus posted:It's supposedly the rear end-end of the new Corvette. We'll know for sure next month. Is it...is it broken?
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Dec 26, 2012 23:17
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Looks pretty similar to the speculative renderings that showed up online last month.  I like the front 3/4 view, but I see a bit of Ferrari and GT-R in it, and a lot of the latest Viper. Maybe too much. I hate the rear end though. That bumper is way too big and there's way too much Camaro in the taillights.  I did a quick photoshop to black out the bottom half of the rear bumper that I think helps, but in no way fixes it.  I'm hoping it's one of those cars that looks better in person. DropShadow fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Dec 27, 2012 |
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Dec 27, 2012 00:21
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I'll post this here but it can go in a few other threads too... Chevrolet has a pretty interesting "1-13-13" video campaign about it on YouTube with sneak shots. Conception Calibration Craft They're putting a LOT of effort and hype into this, and I just really really hope it delivers, aside from the horrible looks.
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Dec 27, 2012 01:06
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Once again, a new Vette design where I see a front or 3/4 view and think "yeah....that's not bad. Maybe even pretty nice." and they go and gently caress up the back end AGAIN. It's like the designers go front to back on the car and are tired/bored/distracted by the time they get to the rear and just say "gently caress it, good enough".
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Dec 27, 2012 01:08
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I pretty much had the same reaction. "Looking good... looking good... what the gently caress!" That rear end is straight out of a 12 year old's sketchbook. I hope that 'speculative' rendering is pretty heavy on the speculation.
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Dec 27, 2012 01:14
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Guinness posted:That rear end is straight out of a 12 year old's sketchbook. I hope that 'speculative' rendering is pretty heavy on the speculation. Look at it above the deck. Block those horrible tail lights out and just look over it: the back of the cabin is dead sexy. If the angles were dropped a bit it would be very 911 with the "hips" is has going on. But then they went to the GM-design-parts-bin and used uglier than normal new-Camaro-design-language tail lights on it and totally didn't give a gently caress about anything else below that other than making sure it has 4 chrome poo shoots and that horrible Corvette logo prominently displayed on yet another flat panel on the back of yet another ruined Corvette.
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Dec 27, 2012 01:23
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Does it look like a Ferrari 599 GTO to anyone else?
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SierraEchoBravo posted:Does it look like a Ferrari 599 GTO to anyone else? Not the 599, the F12
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Motronic posted:Once again, a new Vette design where I see a front or 3/4 view and think "yeah....that's not bad. Maybe even pretty nice." and they go and gently caress up the back end AGAIN. It's like the designers go front to back on the car and are tired/bored/distracted by the time they get to the rear and just say "gently caress it, good enough". Chevrolet's been doing that a lot over the last several years. The Vette, the Cruze, the Malibu (both the new one and the last one), and the Cobalts with the quad round taillamps. All of them have bad rear end designs that mar otherwise decently-styled vehicles.
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Dec 27, 2012 06:45
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Oh come off it. That rear end looks amazing, what are you people seeing? If it looks anything like those renderings I'll move to the loving states and buy one. It looks like a proper car, not a wedge of plastic. The whole point of super cars is to look outrageous and go fast, it looks like the Corvette will deliver.
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Dec 27, 2012 07:11
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JaysonAych posted:Chevrolet's been doing that a lot over the last several years. The Vette, the Cruze, the Malibu (both the new one and the last one), and the Cobalts with the quad round taillamps. The entire Cruze just screams generic four door sedan - I don't know why you'd single out the rear end which is just as bland as the rest of the car.
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Dec 27, 2012 07:23
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Measly Twerp posted:Oh come off it. That rear end looks amazing, what are you people seeing? If it looks anything like those renderings I'll move to the loving states and buy one. It looks like a proper car, not a wedge of plastic. It's not a "proper" car (for me anyways) until Chevrolet gets off their stuck-in-the-past attitude about keeping the engine in the front. Make it rear-engine, shorten the front by a good bit and now we're talking.
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Dec 27, 2012 08:07
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Measly Twerp posted:Oh come off it. That rear end looks amazing, what are you people seeing? If it looks anything like those renderings I'll move to the loving states and buy one. It looks like a proper car, not a wedge of plastic. I'm not going to lie...if it wasn't for those taillamps I might actually like it. If they were some kind of oval/circle and there was just a little effort to make it work (ie, get rid of some of the sharp corners stamped into the rear cover), I think it would go a long way. Aside from that rear end, I think the rendering looks awesome. That design looks fine on the Camaro...I just wish Chevy would stop trying to force it on everything else.
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Dec 27, 2012 08:32
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dissss posted:The entire Cruze just screams generic four door sedan - I don't know why you'd single out the rear end which is just as bland as the rest of the car. Generic it may be, but the front 4/5ths of the car at least has some cohesiveness to it. Sharp, clean, angular creases and linework on the front, hood, and sides. Then you get to the back with its blobby melty taillamp clusters with round lights forced into them, a huge gaudy chunk of chrome on the trunk lid, and a swoopy rounded bumper. It looks like the back of an entirely different car.
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Dec 27, 2012 08:34
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Devyl posted:It's not a "proper" car (for me anyways) until Chevrolet gets off their stuck-in-the-past attitude about keeping the engine in the front. Make it rear-engine, shorten the front by a good bit and now we're talking. But yeah, they should really build something more like a productionised Factory Five GTM. I also think the healthy approach would be to give the Camaro designers free reign to make the car as ball-out fast as they can in the top-performance version, and then tell the Corvette design team that they can do whatever they want as long as the end result is better in every way. They should have the Camaro as the tried-and-tested front-engine-RWD car, and push the Corvette further into supercar territory.
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Dec 27, 2012 11:26
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Devyl posted:It's not a "proper" car (for me anyways) until Chevrolet gets off their stuck-in-the-past attitude about keeping the engine in the front. Make it rear-engine, shorten the front by a good bit and now we're talking. It wouldn't be a penis extension for rednecks anymore if they did that.
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hay guyth I got bratheth And a new butt. 
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Climax, eh? Seems like someone had some drunk sex
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Dec 27, 2012 17:46
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It wouldn't be so bad if it didn't look like an old S2000 with lots of extra trim pieces thrown on. Get rid of 25% of the styling details and then well talk.
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SierraEchoBravo posted:It wouldn't be so bad if it didn't look like an old S2000 with lots of extra trim pieces thrown on. You missed the somewhat blurry S2000 decal in both photos?
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Dec 27, 2012 19:33
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SierraEchoBravo posted:Does it look like a Ferrari 599 GTO to anyone else? I was going to say, looks like they put the California through a cheap scanner.
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InitialDave posted:But yeah, they should really build something more like a productionised Factory Five GTM. I also think the healthy approach would be to give the Camaro designers free reign to make the car as ball-out fast as they can in the top-performance version, and then tell the Corvette design team that they can do whatever they want as long as the end result is better in every way. They should have the Camaro as the tried-and-tested front-engine-RWD car, and push the Corvette further into supercar territory. Except that the ZL1 Camaro pretty much already is using nearly every technology GM has in their playbook. I think the only things the ZR1 has that it doesn't are carbon brakes, carbon fiber bodywork, and the LS9 instead of the LSA. I'd argue that they could really just make the carbon brakes a $10k add-on if they really wanted to or if they thought anyone would actually buy them, carbon fiber wouldn't save enough weight to be worth it on a car that is still pretty goddamn heavy (you'd save more by having a factory rear seat delete), and the power difference between the LS9 and LSA is probably made up pretty quick with an exhaust and a tune. The only way to make the Camaro considerably faster (short of developing a powertrain for it that's more powerful than anything in the C6/C7) is going to be reducing the size and weight of the base platform, which GM is already supposedly doing. In spite of the 'flaws' in the C6's platform having the engine in front of the driver rather than behind (it is already behind the centerline of the front wheels) it still has a very neutral weight balance, and the ZR1 is still fast enough to play with supercars costing many times its price. It also sells reasonably well, in no small part thanks to that 'tradition' where it can be traced back as a continuous production run all the way to 1953.
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Next we're going to hear people saying that porsche should make the 911 mid engined instead of rear engined. If Chevy wanted to go all out on a supercar it would have to be a seperate car with a different name from the corvette. They aren't going to do that of course, but their also not making the vette mid engined.
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kill me now posted:Next we're going to hear people saying that porsche should make the 911 mid engined instead of rear engined. After 50 years, they could do something other than making a whole ton of cars that fail to be as worthwhile.
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kill me now posted:Next we're going to hear people saying that porsche should make the 911 mid engined instead of rear engined. Haven't some people been calling for this for quite a while now?
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kill me now posted:Next we're going to hear people saying that porsche should make the 911 mid engined instead of rear engined. They should, or at the very least quit hamstringing the Cayman.
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fknlo posted:Haven't some people been calling for this for quite a while now? Look at how much they improved in the 991. As long as GM can do the same with the C7 (say, comparable lap times to the C6Z and easier handling), then they can hew to tradition all they want. Ferrari has done wonders with the midengine package, but it's far from the only way to make a car that handles well.
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I think this definitely belongs in the terrible thread. http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=127617464065600
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Dec 28, 2012 02:17
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It's coming up saying it isn't available or whatever, at least on Android.
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Dec 28, 2012 02:22
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It's this video: "VW Touareg V10 TDI Vs. Chevy Duramax Bumper pull" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k62gW3Se5e0
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Dec 28, 2012 02:46
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Crap, this guy has money and lovely taste.
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MonkeyNutZ posted:It's this video: That video is particularly hilarious, has V10 TDI engine is rather powerful for its size, its got nearly the same torque as as 2010 Dodge Ram Cummins. Too bad the V10 bit the dust due to emissions.
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