The Corvette C7 Stingray (2/1/13)
You may or may not know, but, Chevrolet has recently released pictures and specs of
their new Corvette, The C7 Stingray. I could bore you endlessly with a bunch of
specs for the car, like how its new V8 churns out more horsepower @450
estimated, but has the same displacement as the current 6.2L. How it gets 30 mpg
highway by using Chevy’s AFM (Active Fuel Management) to shut down half of the
cylinders to make the 6.2L LT1 V8 into a 3.1L V4.
I could also tell you what everyone else thinks, “In terms of design, technology,
and performance, this car is second to none.” – (Twitter-sphere) Mark Reuss “We
set out to define Modern performance. We scanned the world for technology. But
we didn’t make changes just to be different. It had to enhance the driving
experience.” – (Corvette Chief Engineer) Tadge
Juechter
I could let you know how hard General Motors has worked on this car from as early
as 2009. Something you can tell just from seeing and hearing what GM has said
and made, that this car has lived up to the name: Stingray. The name hasn’t been
used for more than 25 years, but with the car GM released, WOW, what a
comeback!
No I say, I won’t bore with things like that, instead I am going to tell
how I am personally so excited for the new Corvette. I can already hear its V8
hum and growl through its four intimidating exhaust pipes, and haven’t even
heard it yet. I can already smell and feel the hand-stitched leather trim.
Clearly, I can see this Goddess of the Road already bent with fury and might
ready to make sure that the only thing everyone sees is her sexy tail-lights.
This is the car every little boy will have pinned up on their wall,
laying there, dreaming of the day they will have the chance to be one with this
road-going mechanical monster. But we all know, every little boy and gearhead
everywhere, that this car is more than just metal, it has a soul, and you can
hear it howl all the way down route 66.
I can barely express in words how much this car makes me want to grab the
nearest lady and take her on the ride of her life… oh, that’s a little
suggestive isn’t it… in the car of course, jeez. We’ll be taking this car from
east to west and back again, burning so much fuel there will be
environmentalists galore on my case. “But it’s okay Keebler Elf’s, she
gets 30 miles to the gallon” I’ll say. But if these tree-loving friends of mine
knew anything about me and my car, they would know that not one of those
precious Michelin Pilot Super Sport ZP tires would set foot on some boring
highway. Oh no, they would know, I would be taking every mountain road and
valley pass everywhere I go, and not once would I let this asphalt hungry animal
kick down from a glorious V8 to a gas sipping
V4.
This lovely creation made by men that knew if they wanted to make a great
machine they would have to lend their creation some of their grease-covered
souls. I know even before I sit in this amazing harmony of man and machine, oh
yea, I just sat in a metaphor, because that’s when you know that this car was
made for guys with gears in their heads and petrol in their veins. Someday, like
the little boy with the pin-up of his four wheeled hero, I’m going to drive this
car!
- Joe Chaves
their new Corvette, The C7 Stingray. I could bore you endlessly with a bunch of
specs for the car, like how its new V8 churns out more horsepower @450
estimated, but has the same displacement as the current 6.2L. How it gets 30 mpg
highway by using Chevy’s AFM (Active Fuel Management) to shut down half of the
cylinders to make the 6.2L LT1 V8 into a 3.1L V4.
I could also tell you what everyone else thinks, “In terms of design, technology,
and performance, this car is second to none.” – (Twitter-sphere) Mark Reuss “We
set out to define Modern performance. We scanned the world for technology. But
we didn’t make changes just to be different. It had to enhance the driving
experience.” – (Corvette Chief Engineer) Tadge
Juechter
I could let you know how hard General Motors has worked on this car from as early
as 2009. Something you can tell just from seeing and hearing what GM has said
and made, that this car has lived up to the name: Stingray. The name hasn’t been
used for more than 25 years, but with the car GM released, WOW, what a
comeback!
No I say, I won’t bore with things like that, instead I am going to tell
how I am personally so excited for the new Corvette. I can already hear its V8
hum and growl through its four intimidating exhaust pipes, and haven’t even
heard it yet. I can already smell and feel the hand-stitched leather trim.
Clearly, I can see this Goddess of the Road already bent with fury and might
ready to make sure that the only thing everyone sees is her sexy tail-lights.
This is the car every little boy will have pinned up on their wall,
laying there, dreaming of the day they will have the chance to be one with this
road-going mechanical monster. But we all know, every little boy and gearhead
everywhere, that this car is more than just metal, it has a soul, and you can
hear it howl all the way down route 66.
I can barely express in words how much this car makes me want to grab the
nearest lady and take her on the ride of her life… oh, that’s a little
suggestive isn’t it… in the car of course, jeez. We’ll be taking this car from
east to west and back again, burning so much fuel there will be
environmentalists galore on my case. “But it’s okay Keebler Elf’s, she
gets 30 miles to the gallon” I’ll say. But if these tree-loving friends of mine
knew anything about me and my car, they would know that not one of those
precious Michelin Pilot Super Sport ZP tires would set foot on some boring
highway. Oh no, they would know, I would be taking every mountain road and
valley pass everywhere I go, and not once would I let this asphalt hungry animal
kick down from a glorious V8 to a gas sipping
V4.
This lovely creation made by men that knew if they wanted to make a great
machine they would have to lend their creation some of their grease-covered
souls. I know even before I sit in this amazing harmony of man and machine, oh
yea, I just sat in a metaphor, because that’s when you know that this car was
made for guys with gears in their heads and petrol in their veins. Someday, like
the little boy with the pin-up of his four wheeled hero, I’m going to drive this
car!
- Joe Chaves