Car and Driver Names the Corvette Stingray to its 2015 10Best Cars List

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Car and Driver Names the Corvette Stingray to its 2015 10Best Cars List

The honors continue to roll in for the seventh-generation Corvette Stingray.

Car and Driver has just named the Stingray to its 2015 10Best Cars list and gushes on and on about the work that chief engineer Tadge Juechter and his crew have done with the car, almost to the point of being embarrassing.

“Even in this, its second year on our list, C7s hypnotize, the convertible and coupe equally. Sitting in the lot among the other contenders, they stand out as if rendered on a Retina display while others are appearing on a CRT,” Car and Driver writes.

The magazine notes that the Corvette has come a long way since its birth in 1953, primarily thanks to the V8 engines that have created countless amounts of horsepower since being introduced in 1955.

“Other engines may make more power or have more exotic designs, but there is no engine that feels closer to a living, breathing entity than the Corvette’s pushrod V-8,” C&D writes.

The new LT1 is no goody-two-shoes, though, as Car and Driver says “it reminds you constantly of its presence, just on the other side of the fire wall behind the axle centerline. At idle, the Corvette vibrates to its pulses, urging you to uncoil the tension in the p­edals and shifter.”

We love this quote about the car: “The steering wheel, brakes, and seat bottom tell you more about current events than CNN.”

The seven-speed transmission remains the magazine’s favorite, but they praise the eight-speed automatic new for 2015 as well as the Performance Data Recorder.

The interior also draws praise: “Criticisms of Corvettes past have been addressed: A modern cockpit and supportive and comfortable seats testify to the thoroughness of Chevrolet’s mission (accomplished) in remaking the car.”

While some might think that the new has worn off the Stingray’s design by now, Car and Driver begs to differ, saying the “Stingray looks transplanted from childhood fantasy, an interstellar dragon. We hear it roar, smell the heat of the LT1 cooking its own polymer skin, and the Corvette turns such imaginings into reality.”

In short, Car and Driver reports, “the C7 is the best-ever Corvette.”


Source:
caranddriver.com

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