With all the feverish excitement surrounding the Corvette Z06 and the absurdly powerful Corvette ZR1, you'd almost believe that the standard Corvette had virtually ceased to exist.
Indeed, it has not. And the 2008 Chevrolet Corvette we've just tested proves that while the standard Vette might sit in the shadow cast by its more publicity-friendly brethren, it has received something more valuable than media attention: performance.
We're going to run as many stories as we can about those two crazy-fast Corvette specials once they appear. But this page is devoted to the decidedly less sexy world of continuous improvement — the year-to-year ministrations that keep the Corvette viable. After all, there would be no Z06 and certainly no ZR1 without the standard car.
And considering that Chevy sells roughly one Corvette for every 10 Accords that Honda sells (and 10 times the number of S-Types that Jaguar sells), we're talking about a pretty impressive automobile.
Indeed, it has not. And the 2008 Chevrolet Corvette we've just tested proves that while the standard Vette might sit in the shadow cast by its more publicity-friendly brethren, it has received something more valuable than media attention: performance.
We're going to run as many stories as we can about those two crazy-fast Corvette specials once they appear. But this page is devoted to the decidedly less sexy world of continuous improvement — the year-to-year ministrations that keep the Corvette viable. After all, there would be no Z06 and certainly no ZR1 without the standard car.
And considering that Chevy sells roughly one Corvette for every 10 Accords that Honda sells (and 10 times the number of S-Types that Jaguar sells), we're talking about a pretty impressive automobile.
