The 2020 Corvette Stingray is the first mid-engine version of the all-American sports car. Fox News Autos Editor Gary Gastelu found out if it it has what it takes to compete with the world s best.
The mid-engine Chevrolet Corvette Stingray is a powerful sports car capable of acellerating to 60 mph in under 3.0 seconds and hitting a top speed of 194 mph, but not when it s new.
Like many cars, Chevy advises that you take it easy during a 500-mile break-in period, but the Corvette makes sure that you do. (Fox News Autos)
Mike Kociba, the assistant chief engineer for the Stingray s 6.2-liter V8, revealed to the Detroit Free Press that the car s compupter has been programmed to limit power until the 500 mile mark has been reached.
It may have been easy money, but it still took a little work.
A Georgia Lottery player who won a Corvette and Cash scratch-off game has found a car to buy with his winnings after running into some trouble claiming the prize.
Dennis Kahler won the game in December after playing one ticket and was surprised to find there weren’t any Corvettes ready to go for it, just enough money allotted for him to buy one on top of an additional $250,000 cash prize.
The issue was that the all-new Corvette Stingray is one of the hottest cars on the market, and many dealers either don’t have them or are marking them up for tens of thousands of dollars over list price.
This year is one everyone will want to forget, including the auto industry.
Production and sales were both immensely harmed by measures aimed at preventing the spread of the coronavirus and it looks like it’s going to be a while before things are back to anything close to normal.
But the march of progress continued, if not entirely unabated, and there were some excellent and important new entries to the automotive landscape.
But even though all of those models more than met expectations, the one car that impressed me more than any of them was the Chevrolet Corvette Stingray, because it exceeded them.