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Old 12-09-2003, 10:31 AM
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What was GM thinking....

I know this might be locked, but I'm sorry but I HAD to post this you guys. Look at what the GM butchers are up to now. Granted, this is only a CG image....but this is what the new Corvette is supposed to look like. *Cough*AcuraNSX*Cough*
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I've seen accualt pics of the C6 from a san fransico commercial shoot, and it looks nothing like that (look something like that) but the real car is a million times better.
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yeah thats just lame i have faith that chevy wont do that to us, wouldnt be surprised if they proved me wrong tho.
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According to the CG images too, they kept the C5 rear end. I hope that's not the case. They need a revision back there.....it's getting very boring.
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yeah thats just lame i have faith that chevy wont do that to us, wouldnt be surprised if they proved me wrong tho.

Yeah, and some of us actually thought they would not kill the Fbody!
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Yeah, and some of us actually thought they would not kill the Fbody!
obviously you were dead wrong, actually the sad thing about the f-body that im starting to realize is that a large portion of the reason it failed is because it didnt appeal to women enough! I'd say 1/3 of the mustangs i see if not more are v6's and being driven by women, unfortunatly it looks like gm would have to cater to the non car enthusiast market to even have a chance at competing with the stang.
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Sales SUCKED through the fourth generation. It's sad to think that all the 4th gen F-bodies manufactured for the ENTIRE WORLD were made in just one plant: St Therese, in Canada.
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the NSX already ripped off the vette look from the 80's and now it looks like acura and gm are just sharing engineers
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Originally posted by Nixon1
According to the CG images too, they kept the C5 rear end. I hope that's not the case. They need a revision back there.....it's getting very boring.
The rear is differant on the real car.

**click to see**
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VERY nice, maybe one day I'll have the money for one of them

I love that dark cherry color on that car too.
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C'mon, guys. You know that this is a third gen only board.

Nixon1,

Please refrain from posting non-third gen stuff.

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