anyone have a pic of the new corvette that is part 2003 and part 1953 i heard it looks sick

 

http://www.chazcone.com/50th/

It may not look good to some people in pictures (I was one of these people), but in person, this car is bad azz. Very good conversion for the princely some of $30k.

 

I saw one in O.C, Maryland on 4th of July weekend. It was FREAKIN AWESOME!!!

 

The only thing that looks bad in the photos is the protruding tail lights.

 

That car is very cool!

 

I know two folks that have those. They do look very nice in person.

Both of them have other C5's. One of them has a C5 'vert, 2 Z06's, an '98 Pace Car, and a recent Z16 added to his collection.

 

I saw one at the local shows here, I just wouldn't want to do that to my vette, if I one, which I don't, but to each its own I guess.

 

I think this is one of the best conversions I have ever seen... clean and smooth... I've always liked it since I first saw it.

Blends old and new very well.

I think it makes a great conversion or kit car.... but certainly not a mainstream production car.

 

I like them. I used to work at Magna, and the Magna-Styr division was part of our corp. Interestingly enough this C5-53 concept was used to showcase the divisions goals to build cars for OEM's under licence and thus UAW free work could undercut OEM costs.

 

That's intriguing. Though I don't suspect it'd be realistic with high volume cars, it may be a way to get small volume cars to market cheaply.

On the flip side of it, the good people who actually assemble Corvettes & Saturns have alot of personal pride in what they do. Not too sure it would be a good idea trading that in the name of saving money.

 

Well Magna-Styr has a factory in Brazil that makes Jeeps and its run and operated by Magna with Magna employees. But builds Jeeps. Obviously there are no union concerns there but the idea that Jeep didn't have to produce the vehicle and had only a limited number of employees there was attractive.

This division also has some maufacturing of major components in Europe. When I say major I mean whole unibodies, or interiors, or drivetrains. The idea there is to again cut costs by having Magna build a unibody, then have Ford (for instance) ship in these bodies to mate whole drivetrains and interiors to the vehicle. Thus the function of the final asm plant is less in that it assmebles less. Thus again cheaper.

When I worked at Magna they used to talk about there global ability and if all the divisions got together Magna could design, engineer, and build its own car(s). Save for the tires, a plant do build it and a marketing team to push it.

With the big 2.5 in trouble with pensions and healthcare any idea to shave off employees and thus overhead costs is attractive.