THEN VS NEW: 1954 CHEVROLET CORVETTE 2015 CHEVROLET CORVETTE STINGRAY

摘要

There are two kinds of Corvette. On the one hand, there's the fire-breathing, hairy-chested sports car. It often graces the pages of this magazine wearing extra codes like Z51, Z06, and Zr1. The transmission is almost always a manual. But there's also that other Corvette - the garage-kept, low-miles car piloted by a gray-haired gentleman who keeps a California Duster in the trunk. The transmission is usually a smooth-shifting automatic. It's true that many sports cars suffer from such a split personality. Porsche would have you believe that the 911 belongs at the Nurburgring with Walter Rohrl at the wheel, even if you're more likely to see one being driven by a urologist in L.A. on the 405. But with the Corvette, the identity crisis goes much deeper, since about two-thirds of all the Corvettes ever built have automatic transmissions. It also goes much further back. Back, in fact, to the very genesis of the car.