Top Gear’s Jeremy Clarkson Picks the Corvette Stingray as his Car of the Year

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Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson Picks the Corvette Stingray as his Car of the Year

Jeremy Clarkson, one of the co-hosts of the BBC’s Top Gear auto show, has turned in his choice for the 2014 Car of the Year and it’s none other than the 2014 Corvette Stingray. We’ve come along way from the days when America’s Sports Car was nothing but a punching bag (or a literal target) for the British auto critic. The choice for the 2014 Car of the Year was announced in the magazine version of Top Gear in their annual awards issue which is out now.

Earlier this year, Clarkson was given a 2014 Corvette Stingray Convertible to test and while it’s not surprising that Jeremy would enjoy the car, we were more than surprised when he proclaimed it “a masterpiece’. In fact, words like “excellent,” “tremendous,” “a greatest-hits album,” and “fun” were all used to describe the new Stingray in his review.

Jeremy compared the Stingray to the Lamborghini Aventador, Ferrari 458 Italia and the Jaguar F-type, saying the Corvette “looks as good as any of them. Better, in fact, from some angles. It’s one of the most beautifully proportioned cars I’ve seen.”

On the Top Gear website which lists the Car of the Year Awards, Jeremy says, “They’ve skimped on the trim to keep the costs down – Amstrad would have rejected the head-up display graphics for being too old-fashioned. In 1985. But they’ve gone the extra mile with the bits that matter. So we get a properly fast car that’s lovely to drive, for about half what we were expecting to pay.”

So what did the other hosts of Top Gear pick for their Car of the Year? James May picked the Ferrari LaFerrari, a limited production sports car costing more an $1.69 million dollars while Richard Hammond’s Car of the Year was the Porsche 918 which MSRP’s here in the States for $845,000.

And despite the fact that the all new Corvette Z06 has yet to make it across the pond for testing on those seemingly skinny British roads, the American super car made the list of the magazine’s best cars by being named the Muscle Car of the Year. The magazine states, “Go to the outer edge of your personal comfort zone, and the Z06 will meet you there. It’ll trade blows with the best that AMG, BMW, Ferrari or Porsche has to offer, on the trickiest tracks in the world. It’ll make you feel like a million dollars, but costs a fraction of that. America has a new hero.”


Source:
Top Gear Magazine

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