Comments on: Anteros to show rebodied ‘Vettes at SEMA

By: Fasterbater

Fasterbater — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:25:14 +0000

sexy on the outside, still has a fugly steering wheel and shifter tho, which seems to have become the unchangeable staple of vettes these days. I would’ve bought a Z06 had it not been tarnished by the nasty outdated interior. Aside from that, the new Z06 is probably one of the best sports cars ever built.

By: mblommel

mblommel — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:27:20 +0000

^^^^^ what he said.

By: 1c3d0g

1c3d0g — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:15:18 +0000

FUGLY!

By: Sharif

Sharif — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:27:57 +0000

550-650 horsepower and it still gets 28 MPG thats remarkable.

By: davebo

davebo — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:25:19 +0000

To me it just looks like an amalgam of European cars. If the factory C6 looked like this, then they released the actual C6 as a SEMA concept car, we’d all be here saying how great that one is and how it should have been the factory design from the get-go. I know the current C6 isn’t all that different from from the C5 and you all see way too many of them on the road for it to be “exotic” but at least you know its a Corvette. I can’t tell what this thing is.

By: Saud

Saud — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:16:08 +0000

Beautiful

By: Sharif

Sharif — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:14:51 +0000

I love it aside from the large gaps and the rear end it looks good. They should make the back look somewhat like the back of the Ford GT

By: Piablo

Piablo — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 12:50:25 +0000

Overall, it looks like a kit. The nose is pretty nice, but otherwise it just looks like a kit. The whole design is forced. Instead of looking for a platform that would suit their body style, it appears they picked a body style and platform independantly. I guess their designers skipped that day in design school when they dicussed “form follows function”.

By: Carnut4ever

Carnut4ever — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:24:30 +0000

Love the looks unfortunately there is still too much Corvette interior bits. They should have gone for a major renovation inside as well. The additional cowl and woodgrain bits look cheesy and tacked on with double sided tapes!

By: BIGJAMESBO

BIGJAMESBO — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 08:23:10 +0000

YEAH, THEY MAKE A 6SPEED AUTO CORVETTE. THE NOSE REMINDS ME OF THE OLD XJ6′S OF YESTERYEAR. THEY TAIL LOOKS LAME!

By: Hyperion

Hyperion — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 04:04:52 +0000

I love the nose. It reminds me of the old Ferrari 250GT.

By: MyGodBeatsYourGod

MyGodBeatsYourGod — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 03:29:25 +0000

And the inner front quarter and headlamp unit under the clamshell hood is pretty trick.

Ass-end needs work.

By: MyGodBeatsYourGod

MyGodBeatsYourGod — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 03:27:26 +0000

I sure like the new wave of rebodies of cool but over-produced cars…

But starting with a MB or 6 series is one thing, a clunky, darty C6 is something else. And this particuliar example is too ‘Ferrari Kit Car’ for my taste. The dressed-up interior is refined and not overdone… they kept it from looking like a ‘Pimp My Ride’ episode.

By: Renton

Renton — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 02:27:50 +0000

I agree, the rear is bad, especially in the convertible.

By: Z

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 02:16:36 +0000

It’s very possible the shifter could have been redesigned into a forward/back motion for quicker shifting.

I think it looks stunning, all over. But that’s all depending on taste.

By: VDuv Kux Klan

VDuv Kux Klan — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 02:08:54 +0000

This shows how you cxan improve a cheap-ass car into an exotic car

By: youngm7

youngm7 — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 02:06:39 +0000

Do they make an automatic Z06? Blasphemy if so, but that shifter is clearly for an automatic.

By: SR

SR — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:14:06 +0000

Welcome to Fuglyville, your car is waiting.

By: Jaguar Sovereign

Jaguar Sovereign — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:08:15 +0000

beautiful front section, nice interior and upon further inspection it looks to be an automatic transmission, the rear is attrocious reminds me of a wiesmann roadster.

By: Tim_s

Tim_s — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:50:46 +0000

I’m not a big fan of the C6 body style, but this is atrocious. I’ll take an undefiled Z06 any day over this pathetic attempt at this retro look!

By: A4

A4 — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 00:10:32 +0000

price??? looks like a cross between a panoz and a zagato with an odd rear end.

By: somedriver

somedriver — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 23:00:02 +0000

Well, the interior looks nice. I will leave it there.

By: Asher

Asher — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 22:39:38 +0000

Still, I like it way more than how the current C6/Z06 looks…

By: meanpants555

meanpants555 — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 21:35:26 +0000

Superb idea, taking a Z06 Corvette and giving it a new look, but the design is amateurish. Also, the split rims are at odds with it. Is the logo a flying bull?

By: Ricardo Head

Ricardo Head — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 21:18:38 +0000

Brewtle.

By: nowei

nowei — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 21:15:20 +0000

Aren’t the regular Corvette and Corvette Z06 essentially built on the same platform? isn’t most of the ride difference a side effect of different suspension set-ups? I mean, I know the two cars are vastly different, but they do use the same basic archietecture, right?

/no

By: doublearon21

doublearon21 — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 21:14:31 +0000

Mertzen they chose the Z06 chassis because its all aluminum, not steel like the regular vette, not because of it ride quality.

By: bepsf

bepsf — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 21:09:14 +0000

I like the nose – very Classic Ferrari – and the interior is rather nice. Also like the rear-roof of the Targa (very 70’s Corvette)

…but the panel gaps between the doors and the hood are huge, inset tailpanel is crap, and the accent creases along the sides and the rear of the convertible is just too “Penelope Pittstop”

By: leviathan18

leviathan18 — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:55:31 +0000

the front is very DB9 or maseratti the back is awful wast of plataform LOL

By: mertzen

mertzen — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:54:07 +0000

With the Z06 platform not being the best in the ride department one wonders why they didn’t use the regular Corvette platform.

By: AdamT

AdamT — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:50:12 +0000

I don’t like it’s butt.

By: Renton

Renton — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:45:13 +0000

Not bad.

The late 50’s through the 60s Italian cars are the ones to copy.

By: Jim in LA

Jim in LA — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 20:44:00 +0000

ferrarific.