Review: Top Gear Magazine: First Drive: the new Corvette Stingray

[Rob]

First Drive: the new Corvette Stingray

"What the Vette team has managed to achieve with the C7 is nothing short of astonishing..."

Pat Devereux
19 August 2013
Top Gear Magazine

Is that the new Corvette?

Yep, but it's not called the Corvette anymore. For 2014 it's now the Corvette Stingray.

What, so it's got two names?

Yes again. But that's not an entirely new thing. Chevrolet has used the Stingray name before on previous versions of the ‘Vette. If you want to win the pub quiz with this one, it was known as the Corvette Sting Ray from '63-67 - the C2 version - and as the Corvette Stingray from '69-'76 - the middle of the C3 version - and now again in 2014.

What's all this C2 and C3 business about?

The C denotes the generation of the Corvette. A bit like Dr Who (without the Daleks and Cybermen), the car has been through six rebirths since it was launched in 1953, so there are six generations. The launch of this new car is the seventh iteration of the Vette, so it's known as the C7.

Full Story: First Drive: the new Corvette Stingray - BBC Top Gear

 

[catbert]

That's amazing. Top Gear generally discounts the Vette as fast but primitive and crude.

 

[LLC5]

That's amazing. Top Gear generally discounts the Vette as fast but primitive and crude.

I think that maybe it used to be compared to the C7....

Time will tell, but if you can believe 1/2 of what you read (that might be a stretch) I think that most of the journalists complaints may have been suppressed.

 

[ltmax]

I think that maybe it used to be compared to the C7....

Time will tell, but if you can believe 1/2 of what you read (that might be a stretch) I think that most of the journalists complaints may have been suppressed.

'Suppressed' - heh, heh! I like that otfl As in, Stifle yourself, Edith!

 

[Mac]

It will be fun to see how fast the Stig can push the Stingray around the TopGear track!!

Mac