Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Convertible
IT’S HARD NOT TO FEEL A BIT SORRY FOR the folks at Chevrolet, specifically for their representatives in Europe. At the beginning of 2020 they were all revved up about selling us the new eighth-generation, mid-engined C8 Corvette on this side of the pond. And in the UK the excitement must have been especially intense given that the car was going to be factory built in right-hand drive for the very first time.
To whet our appetites we drove the new Vette out in the US and, bar some mild reservations about its styling, we reckoned it was ready to take on the best European sports cars that less than £100k could buy. It bore all the hallmarks of being a 911 rival but for Cayman money, plus, of course, it had a big old 6.2-litre V8 in its belly with not a turbocharger in sight. Nice.
And then the you-know-what happened, which meant the whole ‘Corvette comes to Europe’ campaign was put on ice for the thick end of two years, and the excitement surrounding the car inevitably faded. Yet here we are, all that time later, and the all-new Corvette Stingray is finally with us, and despite
