The Spirit of Detroit: 1967 Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray 427 vs. 2015 ... - Car and Driver (blog)
A 1967 Corvette Sting Ray is our time machine for visiting the era when America and Car and Driver came of age. After a Pontiac Tempest GTO “beat” a Ferrari 250GTO in our March 1964 “comparison test,” the bar fights advanced to DEFCON 3. Fifty years ago, GM was king. Accountants fudged prices to ensure that market share didn’t top 50 percent, thereby avoiding trustbusters, while GM’s designers and engineers created everything from $2000 Chevy Corvairs to $11,000 Cadillac Fleetwoods. Engineers and designers were free to dream from within GM’s breathtaking, Eero Saarinen–designed Tech Center in Warren, Michigan. With no import worries or fear that Chrysler or Ford might catch up, GM played intramural scrimmage among its six divisions. Setting aside Sam’s house of Chinese-made recyclables, the apple of every consumer’s eye is, well, Apple, two slots above GM in the pecking order. Possibly as a result of subliminal mind control, Apple has succeeded GM as the purveyor of toys and tools essential to modern life. Today, we’re staging one 1967 Corvette 427 and one 2015 Corvette Z06 on the Motor City’s main drag, Woodward Avenue, for the street race of the ages. Source: www.caranddriver.com
