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There’s no trophy involved, but the 2020 Corvette has just received another honor, this time from Fox News Autos Editor Gary Gastelu.
In a recent post, Gastelu proclaims that the new mid-engine Stingray was “the best car I drove this year.”
While he was impressed with the way the Tesla Model Y and Ford Mustang Mach-E, GM’s new full-size SUVs, the rebooted Land Rover Defender, and the first Ford F-150 hybrid MET his expectations, Gastelu says the one car that impressed him more than any was the C8 Corvette because it EXCEEDED his expectations.
“Chevrolet threw out over six decades of tradition to transform the Corvette from a front-engine to mid-engine design in an effort to better compete with exotic models,” he says. “It was an undertaking fraught with challenges to both engineering and identity that the Bowtie boys and girls pulled off perfectly.”
Perhaps the most interesting thing about the car is that nobody on the Corvette team had ever worked on a mid-engine vehicle before.
“They just made it up as they went along,” he says. “Not bad for winging it.”
He terms the Corvette’s performance as “simply outstanding,” especially at its starting price less than $60,000. “Its refinement, execution, and street cred,” he says, “embarrass some cars costing twice as much – not to mention the old Corvette.”
In fact, he opines, though the 2020 Stingray isn’t an electric or hybrid, its fans consider it to be innovative because it still has a trunk big enough for two golf bags despite the location of its 6.2-liter V8.
Gastelu also points out that if anyone was worried that American customers “would spurn such a foreign creation wearing one of America’s most iconic car names, they needn’t have.” The first year’s production, though limited because of all the challenges created by the pandemic, still managed to sell out as quickly as the car accelerates, and he believes Chevy will have no trouble “moving the metal … uh, fiberglass next year.”
Source:
FoxNews.com
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Got mine about 2 months ago. Totally lives up to the billing.
The 2019 Mercedes-Benz C300 includes lighted sill plates on its AMG-Line vehicles at no extra charge. And the lighting has different levels of lighting up. Apparently, this is not really expensive to make and really easy to install. Thanks, Corvette! This is a reason that Corvette should be spun off of Chevrolet. Bean counters! AF
I received my 2020 Corvette on labor day weekend after waiting 13 months it was worth the wait. I was able to take the car to several small car shows and by far it received the most attention of the couple hundred cars in the show. Almost all the comments where positive. Great job to the Corvette team.
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