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2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray is cause for celebration
By Warren Brown, Special To The Washington Post
Posted Aug. 31, 2013, at 8:16 a.m
MONTEREY COUNTY, Calif. — My need for speed has been slowed by collisions with reality.
Over four decades of driving, averaging 32,000 miles annually by my conservative estimate, I have accumulated enough traffic fines and penalties to pay for a full year at a good state college.
Mentally, I have succumbed to the weight of the law and have yielded to the sobering knowledge that stupidity behind the wheel can lead to death or other serious injury. I have witnessed many traffic fatalities worldwide. Thankfully, I was involved in none of them.
I have, at 65 years of age, matured. But I still indulge my fascination with speed whenever safely and legally possible, which is why this week’s column is personal cause for celebration.
Welcome the 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Coupe, now officially the “Corvette Stingray,” the Stingray name resurrected from the 1963-68 era of the C2 Corvette Stingray automobile.
In attitude and performance, it is an appropriate reuse of nomenclature. But anyone who has been brutalized by the C2 Corvette Stingray, especially driving over less-than-perfect roads, will not confuse the new car with its predecessor. By comparison, the 2014 Corvette Stingray has a sophistication and finesse once thought exclusively resident in cars European and prohibitively expensive.
That is not hyperbole.
Full Story: https://bangordailynews.com/2013/08...et-corvette-stingray-is-cause-for-celebration
By Warren Brown, Special To The Washington Post
Posted Aug. 31, 2013, at 8:16 a.m
MONTEREY COUNTY, Calif. — My need for speed has been slowed by collisions with reality.
Over four decades of driving, averaging 32,000 miles annually by my conservative estimate, I have accumulated enough traffic fines and penalties to pay for a full year at a good state college.
Mentally, I have succumbed to the weight of the law and have yielded to the sobering knowledge that stupidity behind the wheel can lead to death or other serious injury. I have witnessed many traffic fatalities worldwide. Thankfully, I was involved in none of them.
I have, at 65 years of age, matured. But I still indulge my fascination with speed whenever safely and legally possible, which is why this week’s column is personal cause for celebration.
Welcome the 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Coupe, now officially the “Corvette Stingray,” the Stingray name resurrected from the 1963-68 era of the C2 Corvette Stingray automobile.
In attitude and performance, it is an appropriate reuse of nomenclature. But anyone who has been brutalized by the C2 Corvette Stingray, especially driving over less-than-perfect roads, will not confuse the new car with its predecessor. By comparison, the 2014 Corvette Stingray has a sophistication and finesse once thought exclusively resident in cars European and prohibitively expensive.
That is not hyperbole.
Full Story: https://bangordailynews.com/2013/08...et-corvette-stingray-is-cause-for-celebration
