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A weekend freeway cruise turns tense fast when a Hennessey-tuned C7 Corvette Stingray, pushing roughly 600 horsepower through an ECS supercharger, spots a patrol car mid-pull at triple-digit speed. The comment section has turned into a swap meet of near-miss stories from viewers who’ve had their own close calls at similar speeds. Watch to see how close this particular encounter came to going a very different way.
Compare a 1972 Corvette’s spec sheet to a 1971 model and the horsepower numbers look like they took a hit overnight, but nothing changed under the hood. Chevrolet switched from gross to net horsepower ratings that year, the same year the Corvette wore its last full chrome bumpers before federal rules forced a redesign. Read on to see what the base 350, the LT1, and the 454 big-block actually delivered.
In 1965, Chevrolet offered Corvette buyers a fuel-injected small-block that cost nearly double the price of the brand-new 396 big-block, and made fewer horsepower on paper. Only 771 people took that bet, and the option disappeared entirely the following year, not returning to a Corvette for another seventeen years. Read on to see why buyers paid the premium, and how this particular ’65 Sting Ray proved it decades later at Drag Week 2015.
This 1969 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray wears one of ten factory colors offered that year, and most people could not name it with the car in front of them. Behind the paint question sits a more interesting one: 1969 was the best-selling Shark-bodied Corvette to that point, and it offered an engine option that exactly two customers in America ever bought. Read on for the production figures, the color chart, and the ZL1 story.
The 2014 Corvette Stingray and Z51 came in six trims spanning a $56,000 to $67,000 price range, but the real story is what GM packed into every one of them: a reworked interior with no visible plastic, a driver mode dial that changes the steering itself, and a Z51 version quick enough to worry cars costing twice as much. Read on to find out which spec sheet actually tells the truth about this generation.
The 2014 Corvette Stingray spent seven years and three delayed launch dates becoming GM’s answer to a demographic problem nobody wanted to say out loud. Carbon fiber panels, a 455-horsepower LT1 V8, and a completely redesigned cabin were only part of the plan — the rest played out in a video game and at Indianapolis. Read on to find out how a seventh-generation Corvette tried to out-argue its own reputation.