What would you like to see added in the C7?

[Vet Guru]

As every model year passes I amazed how certain features are still not on the Corvette!
Silly options like parking sensors, But they are standard on the Cadillac XLR thats made on the same floorplan, Bluetooth is just become an option this year,
So what would you like added on the C7?

[GW65]

A robot arm to operate car park ticket barriers.

[v8yea]

Something chrome with a horn grip to fit the holster.

[car95]

a button to summon a service butler to scurry out, mend, fettle and polish, before retiring quietly with scarcely a mention of payment

[Tom74]

being serious for a second, perhaps a departure from the leaf suspension and the return of pop up lights!

but I like the holster filler idea too...

[Soop Dogg]

Hard-top convertible, anyone?

[555ST]

Right hand drive??? (Yeah right!)

Bluetooth should be standard on UK-spec cars.

For town drivers - optional electric folding mirrors & front and rear parking sensors.

Trickle charger/battery conditioner as part of standard equipment(!)

For JimexPL - TC/Stability Control that takes effect before the car has spun 180 degrees in the middle of Park Lane on a dry day...

[vetteheadracer]

I want a track day package I.e. Roll cage, decent sports seat that is manually adjustable, doesn't have seat airbags, doesn't have heated seats, does have a lot less sound deadening etc

In other words less of the necessary crap that just adds weight but does nothing for performance.

[chuntington101]

forged LS9 engine as startard (detuned for lesser models).
optional GT spec (basically same as the Katech or LG Motorsprots packages - big breaks, suspension, body mods...etc).
maybe super GT spec with light wait opptions.
4wd......

Chris.

[555ST]

Soop Dogg said:

Hard-top convertible, anyone?

Not a good idea - ever seen the boot of an XLR with the roof down? Room for 1 very small bag if you're lucky!

Just don't park the car outside (or without a cover) for long periods, and don't park in dodgy areas!

Bentley, Rolls Royce and Aston Martin don't have hard-top convertibles...

[mitch_]

If you're being deadly serious I think you have to get your head round the fact that lightweight is more the way to go. If the U.S. manufacturer's are going to manage to meet the target laid down by CAFE then all American cars are going to have to lose some weight. A GT3-esque model would be a good way to go, building on the Z06. Personally, I think everyone should stop using bluetooth as it's a terrible technology that went badly wrong for Nokia and Erikson, it's just way too unreliable. Electric folding mirrors would be good, but to give you an idea the mirror on my C5 racing car weighs more than the door it is fitted to, so electric fold just adds more weight. Pop up headlights were good but generate alot of drag when deployed.

[roughrider]

4wd...please noooooo! Another 250kg, & 10% power loss to the ground. It would have to be built in Germany!
I don't think anything needs changing, apart from the USA lardy-bum seats!!

Anybody fancy Silverstone GP on the 28th Oct [Goldtrack]?

[JimexPL]

A better steering wheel than one shared with half a dozen other GM products.
A choice of more supportive seats
Harness brackets as standard
Coilovers
A front air dam that doesn't catch quite so often on speed bumps
Some decent speakers to replace the woeful bose ones
Manually switchable exhaust
Less weight
Make RHD a £10k option - I'd still want the wheel on the left for all the Euro trips I'd do in a vette

[Le Man]

Pop-up headlights cause a serious pitch change and an increase in lift or a decrease in downforce acting on the nose of the car. Factor in some extra drag too and you can start to see why pop ups should never, ever make a comeback.

[G4HKS]

Pop-up lights? They look good down but TOTAL crap up. And two candles lit the road up better. The current C6 light covers look reasonable but they could be re-styled internally to look a lot better.

[555ST]

car95 said:

a button to summon a service butler to scurry out, mend, fettle and polish, before retiring quietly with scarcely a mention of payment

That sounds like something from Douglas Adams!

[Vet Guru]

The most important for me would be power folding mirrors! Standard on Cadillac XLR!!!

[mrobin33]

Less is more.

Remove sat-nav, satellite radio, voice activated anything, steering wheel buttons, anything with menus (unless for the take-away), keyless ignition (and all the extra mechanical back ups for the doors you need in case it goes wrong), the sound deadening in the later C6 Z06 (I prefer the noise in my C5 Z06), the mirror compass, the passenger airbag light, the cruise control, CD multiplayer. In all about 50Kg.

It might be fun to reduce the size of the tyres too (lower rolling resistance, increase er.. smoke)

And lets go back to titanium mufflers (silencers).

Add built in radar and laser detection and jamming (a pain to have it fitted after).

[Le Man]

A pricelist would be nice

[555ST]

Vet Guru said:

The most important for me would be power folding mirrors! Standard on Cadillac XLR!!!

If I recall correctly, the XLR has EVERYTHING as standard - except metallic paint!

Power folding mirrors would be good - but as an option. Not everyone wants to trade off convenience against the extra weight (as covered by previous posters).