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    4 days ago

    I think I know that digital gauge design. Is that a Corvette C7?

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        4 days ago

        Nice!

        The C7 was the last good Corvette IMO

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          I like it a lot. Until the Grand Sport X I wasn’t really a fan of the C8. But I might consider getting one at half the price they are now.

          I drove a few C8s. At the limit they’re superior to the C7 but as a daily driver they’re like a nice sedan. Not having a manual really demolished how special they felt to me. So I bought the C7.

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            I think the C8 just looks wrong; partly because it’s mid-engined. I never had the opportunity to drive either of them though.

            Corvettes always felt to me like simple and affordable sports cars for the masses; the C7 felt more like an evolution in that sense. The C8 is too fancy and sophisticated if that makes sense.

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              Lots of people agree with you. Particularly in the corvette forums.

              Personally from form alone I think a C6 Z06 with updated head and tail lights is peak corvette. Every time I see one I swoon.

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                I love the C5 myself; might just be nostalgia from playing Ford vs. Chevy back in the day. It still looks really slick, though.

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                  A clean C5 is amazing looking and arguably the best fun to dollar you can get.

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        Some did, there was a specific factory iirc that kept causing issues with the first cylinder for whatever reason, something like that. I didn’t have one of those.

        Or diesel, it was a 2.4L I4, and it still purrs. Transmission was starting to slip though, and then the linkage broke, which is actually not too bad of a repair just the shift cable bushing most likely. Not worth it with the existing issues though, but it may get bought by one of the guys at the shop I like to use for him to repair on his own time. So it’ll see the streets again, just not from me :)

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      4 days ago

      My Hardbody made it to 273k. And then the speedometer broke. Truck is still chugging along fine 10 years later.

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      Just changed the timing belt and water pump in my tundra at 260k. Still runs great