The 2014 Corvette?

[Roger U]

http://jalopnik.com/5935616/2014-chevy-corvette-first-video?utm_source=Jalopnik+Newsletter&utm_campaign=7388a4f786-UA-142218-9&utm_medium=email

[Bill Eh?]

If the rendering is accurate, I bet opinions about the new Corvette are going to be quite polarized.

[mistermodel]

Im sure people went WTF back in late 62 about the new 63 or the new 68.In my day the C4 was a radical new thing.No difference here.I kinda see an Aston Martin in it

[MyBradKeselowski]

If this is going to be the 2014 Corvette, I definetly don't like it. I think it is very ugly...

[RodneyBad]

Looks like a bigger Scion Fr-S to me.

[moparmagiclives]

I think they are running out of American target buyers and will be trying to go over seas, they have a lot to compete with. Same with the viper.

Edited August 21, 2012 by moparmagiclives

[Joe Handley]

Looks like it's got too much Camaro in the rear of it. Not a big fan of the way they line the LED's like that either, kinda prefer the light tube set up Chrysler used on the 200's like mine.

Edited August 21, 2012 by Joe Handley

[zenrat]

Looks japanese to me.

[charlie8575]

Not sure of the front, but I like the profile. The taillights are nice, too.

Wonder how it'll work as a convertible?

Charlie Larkin

[martinfan5]

I will wait to make up my mind tell I see it the final design thats going to be made

No one see that it's almost a direct copy of the new Ferrari F12 ?

Edited August 21, 2012 by martinfan5

[blunc]

Looks like something designed for the Cadillac line but got grabbed by Chevy so Vette sales wouldn't suffer.

[slusher]

l have to agree with some statements said, back looks like the camaro and the rest looks japanese ... They are moving to far away from the present style.

[Dr. Cranky]

Oh yeah, WILL NOT be buying one of these any time soon. It looks like the same design team that brought you the BMW, GMC, LEXUS, NISSAN, TOYOTA, MERCEDES. They all have one designer left and his name is SQUARE B. UGLY.

[Harry P.]

I like it! Could do without the Camaro rear end (give me the "trademark" Corvette round taillights that make a Corvette a Corvette), and a couple of silly parts like the dopey LEDs around the headlights and the weird vertical side marker lights, but all in all a cool design.

[Junkman]

I think they are running out of American target buyers and will be trying to go over seas, they have a lot to compete with. Same with the viper.

The Corvette always was a strong seller in Europe, but for being a Corvette, i.e. for being genuinely American. Not for being some europeanised marketing excercise. There are enough European sports cars to chose from. If they make the Corvette too Euro, it will fail in this market. Big mistake.

Edited August 21, 2012 by Junkman

[Jantrix]

Looks to me that they took too many styling cues from the recent Camaro. So many sharp edges. Corvettes should be curvy and smooth in my oh-so-humble opinion.

[Junkman]

It looks too 'Nissan' for my taste.

[george 53]

The roofline got me. TOO Ferrari/Camaro lookin to me. I don't think this is even a close rendering.

[uncle potts]

Square tail lights? Too many sharp edges, I don't care for it at all.

[blueoval92]

would ferrari and Chevrolet please claim their child and lock it back in its basement.

[Skydime]

It looks more like a Skyline R38 to me

[Joe Handley]

Square tail lights? Too many sharp edges, I don't care for it at all.

Same here, those tail lights remind me of the ones on a co-worker's rustbucket '76 Nova.

[Danno]

I like it! Could do without the Camaro rear end (give me the "trademark" Corvette round taillights that make a Corvette a Corvette), and a couple of silly parts like the dopey LEDs around the headlights and the weird vertical side marker lights, but all in all a cool design.

Agree on all counts.

What is with this trend ~ or, more accurately "fad" ~ of making cars look like 18-wheeler chicken trucks with all the inspector-gadget little LED rope-light gimmicks?

Does anybody really find that attractive? It always reminds me of the guy who never takes the Christmas lights off his house. Or the first step toward those Japanese gundam vans.

Yikes! Now, our Corvette? Bah, humbug.

[darquewanderer]

The Corvette over the last several generations has gotten too big and too heavy. In it's hayday it was a factory stock street killer. Light in weight, heavy in performance.

Now days they have to put in a big block just to get it away from the curb. And yes, I know it's got a 180-200 mph top end, but it still needs to get rolling first.

Added to the excessive weight, is that, this styling is so heavy handed that it truely horrible, but having said that, it still looks better than the last prototype that had the new ugly Camaro grille along with the new ugly Camaro taillights.

Chevy needs to go back to it's roots to find the real Corvette again. The last design by the late Larry Shinoda for a newer, lighter Stingray was by far better than this thing.

[Harry P.]

What is with this trend ~ or, more accurately "fad" ~ of making cars look like 18-wheeler chicken trucks with all the inspector-gadget little LED rope-light gimmicks?

That "circle the headlights with a string of LEDS" thing has got to be the goofiest styling gimmick to come along in a long time. I mean, yeah, fins were goofy, but at least there was an explanation/origin (stylists (and all the rest of us) were into rockets and space travel in the '50s and a lot of rocket/jet powered styling motifs like fins were popular then)... but what possible explanation is there for this dopey "ring around the headlights" thing?