Chevrolet Corvette
The Chevrolet Corvette is the sports car that has been manufactured by Chevrolet
since 1953. It is built today exclusively at a General Motors assembly plant in
Bowling Green, Kentucky, U.S.A.. It was the first all-American sports car built
by an American car manufacturer. The National Corvette Museum is also located in
Bowling Green, Kentucky. For more than 50 years, Corvettes have combined very
powerful engines, such as the 400hp LS2 or 505hp LS7, with relative
affordability, especially when compared with more prestigious marques of similar
performance. Older generations of the Corvette have been criticized for being
crude and lacking in refinement by European sports car standards, and their
on-limit handling is a divisive issue garnering both praise and reproach.[1]
Recent generations of the Corvette, however, are widely seen as being much
improved in these areas.[2] Corvettes tend to emphasize simplicity over
technical complexity. Where nearly all competing marques rely on smaller
displacement, more complex and faster-revving engines, the Corvette uses a
simpler overhead valve (OHV) design coupled with a larger displacement to make
up for the lower rev limit pushrods impose. The result is usually less expensive
to manufacture and maintain. Another example of this philosophy is the continued
use of transverse leaf springs in the suspension. This is judged as a lack of
sophistication by some automotive purists, and has fueled the aforementioned
"lack of refinement" argument, although the Corvette's units differ
substantially from traditional leaf springs, being made of a composite material
and arranged in such a way as to act as stabilizer bars.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
Corvette Audio
Corvette Custom Audio Systems
Corvette Stereo Evaluation
Corvette Stereo
Corvette Interior Corvette Carbon Fiber Dash Corvette Exterior
Corvette Borla Exhaust Corvette Floor Mats Corvette Corsa Exhaust
Corvette Wheels Corvette Body Kits Corvette Accessories
Corvette Gifts Corvette C6
Corvette C5 Corvette Performance
Corvette Trim Kits Corvette Grill Corvette Jacket Corvette
Apparel Corvette Engine Corvette Brakes
|