[DVR ALERT] The C7 Corvette Stingray to Appear on BBC’s Top Gear TV Show

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[DVR ALERT] The C7 Corvette Stingray to Appear on BBC's Top Gear TV Show

The latest trailer for the BBC’s Top Gear dropped this week and it shows that a C7 Corvette Stingray will finally get some screen time on the widely popular automotive show featuring hosts Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James Mays.

Given the show’s previous use of Corvettes for mockery and mayhem, I would normally caution Corvette fans that it might be a mixed bag in terms of how the Corvette will be featured, but judging from the trailer, it looks like the Velocity Yellow Corvette Stingray will be shown in a straight-up comparison test against a Porsche Cayman.

The Chevrolet Corvette has come along way from its previous Top Gear days of chasing a Ford inside a mall or having a helicopter outfitted with mini-guns to blow up a C4 in the desert. These are the types of shenanigans Corvettes used to have to endure on the show. But a lot has changed in the last couple of years. These days, Top Gear’s hosts and their website Top Gear have been quite enamored with the C7 Corvettes.

Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson named the C7 Corvette Stingray as his 2014 Car of the Year and he called it “a masterpiece” while proclaiming is styling as comparable to the Jaguar F-Type, Ferrari, 458 Italia and the Lamborghini Aventador: “…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.”

The Top Gear website also showed some love to the C7 Corvette by naming the 2015 Corvette Z06 as its “Muscle Car of the Year.”

Even the Stig’s wife has gotten in on the Corvette appreciation when she recently posed with a Torch Red Corvette Z06 at a drag strip in Texas.

The trailer for Season 22 Episode 5 shows the Corvette Stingray getting sideways on the track with Richard Hammond behind the wheel. Right behind him is a blue Porsche Cayman GTS. Hammond says “you put your foot down…and stuff happens!”.

Check out the latest episode trailer and make sure you set your DVRs for Monday, February 23 at 8:30 PM ET for BBC America’s Top Gear.


Source:
bbcamerica.com

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