2014 Chevrolet Corvette Review - America’s sports car. A brutally effective track weapon. A favorite of hairy-chested, gold-chain-wearing old dudes. Or simply one of the world’s best dollar-for-dollar performance bargains. The Corvette is at least a little of all of those, and that’s why any word of a major overhaul sets the enthusiast world on fire. Going beyond gearheads, it’s also one of the few cars on which everyone has an opinion.
It is clear that, in his appearance before the Corvette faithful in Bowling Green on May 1st, Corvette Chief Engineer Tadge Juechter regretted speaking as freely as helium did to our reporter, industry veteran and Corvette proprietor Don Sherman. Mr. Juechter can spin his comments all helium wishes, but a careful reading of our story, which is reprinted here, reveals that 75% of the story consists of verbatim quotes from Mr. Juechter himself. At the end of our piece, Don Sherman prognosticates about the future Corvette; it is crystal clear to the reader that astatine this point in the story, it’s Don Sherman making enlightened guesses, non Tadge Juechter speaking.
We’ve just spotted the first physical evidence of the next-generation C7: Two mules, a convertible and a coupe, caught testing on public roads while wearing current C6 bodies. While the pictures themselves don’t tell us much, we have some good ideas about what you’ll find in the 2014 Chevrolet Corvette.
