stingray concept

[JEFFTATE]

The front view , hood , canopy, and side view are beautiful.
The rear needs some visible , nostalgia inspired taillight lenses ..

[Mr. Anderson]

The side profile, top shot, and roofline look great. But I hate the front and rear ends. Not to mention, Corvette's have round tail lights. I see a little '63 influence on the tail end, but they lost me with the scoops.

[JJEH]

Where do I have to sign?

I love it...

[Daren]

The side profile, top shot, and roofline look great. But I hate the front and rear ends....

Yes. Why must it look like it's grinning at me with an old S-10 grill while simultaneously staring at the ceiling? Love the rest of the car though.

[absintheisfun]

The side profile, top shot, and roofline look great. But I hate the front and rear ends. Not to mention, Corvette's have round tail lights. I see a little '63 influence on the tail end, but they lost me with the scoops.

this concept does have two round tail lights on each side...you can see them when you are looking at the vehicle from the rear. The exhuast ports on the concept I saw in person were slits (like the first pic) not round like the ones below.

[Mr. Anderson]

Half-round lights behind expanded metal that you can only see when they are on, while inside an opening that looks like a long-billed goose's head don't count. The slotted exhaust is a far better idea than the round ones though.

[Derek69SS]

Derek, you didn't make it over to the GM truck at Car Craft last summer?? you must have been living at the autocross track..

Yes I was. I spent the whole weekend either autocrossing or hanging out with friends from the Chevelle club.

[hdesign]

Ugly as it gets....not even worth elaborating on. The front and rear remind me of that retractable second mouth on the alien in all the Alien movies...terrible.

[Daren]

What type of camaro is that on the projector screen to the right of the vett?

[absintheisfun]

Ugly as it gets....not even worth elaborating on. The front and rear remind me of that retractable second mouth on the alien in all the Alien movies...terrible.

Have you seen it in person? I understand how you feel--I hated the pictures I saw as well, and I understand that you have an eye for car design...but I think that if you saw it in person and saw it as a car not a profile you might have a better opinion of it.

[hdesign]

I can appreciate a bold design and something outside the box, I shoot for that whenever possible. However, seeing that car in person won't change my mind. It looks like George Barris and James Cameron got together to create a "movie prop" and that's essentially what it is. I have no idea where it was designed (GM or external) but it looks like some Lambo designer defected and decided that a Vette should look less like a Vette and more like a Lambo. The issues I have with the styling are so fundamental (mostly those awkward scoops, Barris-like exhaust and the oddly proportioned rear window divider) that I'd just start over again. It just doesn't say Corvette to me, at all. I hate to be so blunt about it but it really doesn't have any redeeming qualities.

[93Polo]

I can appreciate a bold design and something outside the box, I shoot for that whenever possible. However, seeing that car in person won't change my mind. It looks like George Barris and James Cameron got together to create a "movie prop" and that's essentially what it is. I have no idea where it was designed (GM or external) but it looks like some Lambo designer defected and decided that a Vette should look less like a Vette and more like a Lambo. The issues I have with the styling are so fundamental (mostly those awkward scoops, Barris-like exhaust and the oddly proportioned rear window divider) that I'd just start over again. It just doesn't say Corvette to me, at all. I hate to be so blunt about it but it really doesn't have any redeeming qualities.

I don't see the Lambo other than the doors but I do see the exagerated Barris like lines.

However it does remind me of the 5th Gen Camaro as it has elements from multiple generations with no real flow. The hood and grill have some 78-79 C3, grill also has a bit of a C1 look to it, fender arches of the C3 Mako sharkish, 63 Split window, all hung the overall lines of the Aerovette concept of the 70s.