Corvette C7 failure makes for a valuable lesson in humility for Tadge Juechter and last laugh for Corvette C6 owners

First Alexander the Great, then Napoleon, then Adolf Hitler and now +Tadge Juechter .  What do they all have in common?  A blind ambition to conquer the world and the big failure crowning their plans.

+Tadge Juechter had a great ambition to conquer the automotive world, making Corvette C7 a global sports car, if one believed his bullshit, the latest Corvette would have to be the best thing in the sports cars world, regardless of price.  Not only conquering the world had Juechter in mind but also setting himself apart from other Corvette program chiefs, creating a car that make a big leap in Corvette design and development.   Juechter even made a point of describing the previous generation of Corvette as obsolete, when compared to his own Stingray baby.

Now, all of this fell apart, the reality is setting in, and defective body panel material and associated fiasco related to awful paint and fit of the car adds the final nail to the coffin of the car already plagued by numerous mechanical and electronic defects and failures. 

By now, it is already a very undeniable fact that the only thing the newest generation of Corvette will be associated with is its already infamous truly shitty paint quality and gobs of epoxy UAW heroes in Bowling Green plant use to handle brittle new SMC material.

There is certainly great poetic justice here, the new is worse than the old and in more than one way.
Not only the new material cannot be painted consistently but it also is so brittle that the assembly techniques used on the previous generation of Corvette no longer work.  Sloppy and inconsistent bumpers made by suppliers no longer can be corrected visually through panel adjustment and the newest Corvette leaves the factory with not just shitty paint jobs but misaligned panels that become more misaligned with time due to inability to exert force necessary to fully secure them.

Juechter certainly got his lesson for not testing everything that goes into the new car carefully.  There are so many other problems this new already has but this part, the appearance is the most visible one, something that makes this car a total joke, even when considered as a bargain, assuming that anything costing over 50k can be considered any kind of a bargain.

The ride of glory is over for Juechter, what he has done to Corvette is truly shameful.  The real insult is the fact that the new Corvette is a real porker, in any of its versions and the defective SMC and shitty paint did not contribute to making this car a better one than the previous generation

Juechter was an errand boy during C6 development, there is no doubt he wanted to show his superiority and talent and leadership and instead, he ended up as a complete ass and living joke. 

One cannot help but wonder if there is someone with more brains than he has, and he has none, among his corporate handlers to finally let him go.  The upcoming Z06 will share all of the problems that the Stingray has and quite a few more, maybe then finally, someone at +General Motors will show Juechter the door?

As it is, the previous Corvette generation is as good as it gets regarding paint quality and finish, and these were not all that good then, pretty funny to see the mediocre quality of the C6 became the unobtainable benchmark for the current Corvette.  Life can be very cruel if one is not familiar with the value of humility.