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Corvette’s new ZR1
By John Griffiths
Financial Times
Published: October 10 2009 00:59 | Last updated: October 10 2009 00:59
A word of advice to owners, or prospective owners, of Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Porsches, Aston Martins, McLaren-Mercedes or any others among Europe’s luxury sports-car elite: do not even think about dismissing or patronising America’s latest take on the “supercar”, the ZR1 Corvette.
Over the years the car industry in the US has been really rather good at running over its own feet. While the European offshoots of Ford and General Motors have come up with some excellent, internationally competitive mainstream cars such as the Ford Focus and Vauxhall/Opel’s Astra, back in the US there is a long history of churning out hordes of indifferently designed and not very well-built cars of little interest to drivers anywhere outside north America or the Middle East.
As a result, there is a long-standing habit among the European automotive cognoscenti of deriding homegrown US products. And one must concede that the Corvette, even in its flagship ZR1 version, is not quite the last word in grace and beauty when measured against, say, Ferrari or Aston Martin. But there the disdain must end.
Full Story: FT.com / Columnists / Test drive - Corvette’s new ZR1
By John Griffiths
Financial Times
Published: October 10 2009 00:59 | Last updated: October 10 2009 00:59
A word of advice to owners, or prospective owners, of Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Porsches, Aston Martins, McLaren-Mercedes or any others among Europe’s luxury sports-car elite: do not even think about dismissing or patronising America’s latest take on the “supercar”, the ZR1 Corvette.
Over the years the car industry in the US has been really rather good at running over its own feet. While the European offshoots of Ford and General Motors have come up with some excellent, internationally competitive mainstream cars such as the Ford Focus and Vauxhall/Opel’s Astra, back in the US there is a long history of churning out hordes of indifferently designed and not very well-built cars of little interest to drivers anywhere outside north America or the Middle East.
As a result, there is a long-standing habit among the European automotive cognoscenti of deriding homegrown US products. And one must concede that the Corvette, even in its flagship ZR1 version, is not quite the last word in grace and beauty when measured against, say, Ferrari or Aston Martin. But there the disdain must end.
Full Story: FT.com / Columnists / Test drive - Corvette’s new ZR1
