2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray - Is This How It Ends? - Automobile
We wanted the final road trip in our Four Seasons 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray to be a romp through some of the country’s best back roads. Instead, the Corvette is sitting in a dealership service bay not 10 miles from where it rolled off the assembly line one year ago. Our destination some 500 miles south is notable for the excellent driving roads that AUTOMOBILE editors mapped out in the days of David E. Davis Jr. , which is probably why they pass by a few whiskey distilleries. This is my fifth long-distance road trip in the Corvette, and we’ve become good friends. I have the power-adjustable competition-type seat set just so, and I know exactly the amount of effort needed to guide the shift lever of the seven-speed manual transmission through its gates. Driving previous-generation Corvettes felt like wearing one of my father’s suits: nice, but too big, and not quite my style. We pulled off the highway north of Louisville, Kentucky, so that videographer Sandon Voelker could affix GoPro cameras to the Stingray and hook up a microphone to record its baritone exhaust note. I’d stepped on the throttle in second gear to chase the F-Type back onto the highway and, instead of bounding forward, the. Source: www.automobilemag.com
