Lutz has already said the C7 will be hear sooner since the C6 is LH drive only and GMs goal is the sell more Vettes over seas. If the C6 steering wheel could be on either side, that generation would be around a few years longer IMO.

C7 = 2010?

 

If the interview I posted a little while ago with Mr. Wallace tolds true.... it sounds like C7's target date was MY 2011... I'd imagine that is a pretty "floating" target at this point, though.

http://web.camaross.com/forums/showthread.php?t=448092

 

This may have been where I read it, but I had thought the C7 could be here as early as 2010 as a MY2011.

Congrats on the 10,000 posts! Now put the keyboard down and go get a life!

 

 

There's this stuff called "technology" that is really changing the world, including the way we design cars. I'd recommend checking into it.

One of the biggest advantages I see to shortened model cycles is that it allows a platform to steadily evolve, as opposed to coming out with an entirely new vehicle that leapfrogs everything on the market, languishes for a decade, and eventually falls so far behind that there's no choice but to re-invent everything at once. If we look at the big picture, I'm positive that shorter model cycles allow an automaker to make more money, if properly managed.

All that being said, it would seem a bit premature to start holding one's breath in anticipation of the C7.

 

While lurking on the corvetteforum board, it seems there will be very few changes in the '07--a new atomic orange paint, steering wheel radio controls, two-tone optional seats, and the like. It was rumored that the '08 will have a 425 HP LS2, though.

 

C1: 1953-1962: 10 years
C2: 1963-1967: 5 years
C3: 1968-1982: 15 years
C4: 1983-1996: 14 years
C5: 1997-2004: 8 years

To me, that doesn't look consistent enough to draw any kind of conclusion about the lifecycle tendencies.

 

The C2 was never really considered a 100% redesign anyway from the C1. It was what, today, would be more likely considered a "mid cycle refresh". It was done because the market for the Vette had become very clear. What was in the beginning just a fun family roadster, GM wanted to transform into a class-leading beast of a muscle car. C2 was the stop-gap measure for that.

So if you think about it in that sense it'd be more like 15, 15, 14, 8. I'll put money on 6 or 7 years this time around.

 

??? C2 was a COMPLETELY new car. New frame, body, interior....C3 used the C2 chassis, maybe you meant C3?

 

Yep.

 

I've heard time and time again that C2 was more of a 'refresh'. Maybe I heard wrong or remember what I heard wrong.

Was it the C1 that shared its chassis with an already existing vehicle, thus the C2 was the first unique Vette.

 

The C2 was the first clean-sheet design . . . the chassis was carried on essentially unchanged in the C3, with the exception of how the rear frame rails were configured.

 

The Z06 has 475 ft/lb TQ. Do we need any more low end punch?

 

C1 was kind of a 50's version of what the Solstice did. It used a unique chassis, but lots of off the shelf parts for the cars systems. The C2 was completely new. Had what was at the time a very sophisticated chassis, the first IRS in the Corvette, first 4 wheel disc brakes (in 1965) and the first coupe, all previous Corvettes were verts. C3 used the C2 chassis and suspension w/ a few minor tweaks, and carryover powertrains, save for the automatic transmission. C3 had a new body and interior. C4 and C5 were radicaly new. C6, in terms of new content, is pretty radically changed from C5 too, but instead of something revolutionary like the birdcage C4, and the backbone C5, the C6 took the basic C5 concept and refined it, using mostly new parts.

 

Peak torque of an electric motor occurs at 0 rpm.