None of the aero features on the new Vette are fake - they’re all air in or air/pressure out - it’s a nicely engineered car (albeit heavy handed like most have commented). As long as it attracts my Dad, they did their job, but everyone I’ve talked with about this car mentions the same gripe - Camaro taillights…wtf? Even my GM friends in the RenCen and out in Warren don’t know what happened there. I’m not crazy about the forced differentiation between this C7 and the C6 - take the C pillar for instance; why force some Nissan GT-R into it, the glass hatch was useful space and the fastback look had brand cache.
Someone mentioned the obligatory comparison test between the new Vette and the Viper - there won’t be a new bodied ZR1 for a few years so they already tested the outgoing ZR1 against the new Viper and the ZR1 spanked the Chrysler Group’s best offering - but the Viper IS worlds better than the old Viper so it’ll sell just fine…it’s hard to beat a ZR1.