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It's a bona fide American icon, on par with hamburgers, New York, Mickey Mouse, and Elvis...
It's the Corvette, to be clear, and frankly, the design of the 6th generation 'vette has passed its hey-day; it's getting a bit bland compared to what's on offer in today's sports car scene. Just give a glance to the latest generation of sports cars from the top players; the 458 Italia, McLaren MP4-12C, sharp Lamborghinis, soon-to-come fresh Lotuses, and you realise that the Corvette badly needs some re-imagining.
Enter the C7 (7th generation) Corvette, a visualization of the future of the 'Vette, rendered by a student automotive designer by the name of James Robbins. The renderings look stunning, worthy of a successor to the legendary icon. Hints and bits of homologated sections of the Italia come into notice, especially when viewing the shoulder-line of the car, and also the front air intake. Not to say that it's a design rip-off of the 458 Italia's Italian perfection... this is making use of the best elements of automotive design of present, and reinventing it in a whole new way, with American flare embedded into it. Innovation, they call it; a common practice in the automotive industry...
If this is the future, then bring it on. This is a good way of bringing an American icon into the new decade. Hope the real production C7 Corvette will not run too far astray from James Robbin's rendering.
What a long way the Corvette has come, from the 1953 little C1 convertible, to today's 7-litre menace that is the ZR1...the icon lives on;
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