The Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Proves There's Hope Yet - Automobile
Crisply downshifting into a classic Michigan left turn, I noticed a carload of kids across the median gesticulating wildly in the direction of the killer white-on-black Corvette Stingray I was piloting along 8 Mile. As the flash went off, I noticed they had the window up, so best guess is they got a blown-out shot of the inside of their car. It was the same everywhere I went around metro Detroit in the Chevrolet Corvette Stingray. During my 15 years or so driving press cars, there have been a few I’ve driven that have elicited something similar to this sort of reaction. The first new-generation Mini comes to mind, the return of the third-gen Challenger, the new Jaguar F-Type—but nothing even close to the barrage of attention I received over the Corvette. Part of it no doubt has to do with this car’s wicked package, with black rims and other black accents dynamically contrasting with the tidy whitey livery. We hear so much these days about the End of Days for cars as we know them. That today’s kids would rather be playing video games (hopefully driving games at least) and texting on their smartphones than dreaming about supercars and driver’s licenses. That they’re more interested in the hybrid tech and connectivity options the car has than, you know, actually driving it. Then there’s. Source: www.automobilemag.com
