The History of the Chevrolet Corvette

"America's Favourite Sports Car"

            A Picture of the new 2005 Corvette

                                                                            *Above picture from http://www.seriouswheels.com/top-2005-Chevrolet-Corvette-C6.htm

 

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“The Corvette’s first dash ever appearance was at the GM Motorama, held at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. June 30th, 1953, saw the very first Corvette roll off the production line. A temporary pilot assembly facility in Flint, Michigan produced 300 1953 Corvette vehicles by the end of the year, all of them white with red interiors and all with Powerglide automatic transmissions on 150hp, six cylinder engines. Fifty years have passed and there have been some very remarkable moments in Corvette’s illustrious history. Corvette is now the most popular sports car in America, boasting a tremendous 405hp in the 2003 Corvette Z06. How’s that for evolution?” (sited from instruction manual for Corvette game for XBOX by TDK MediaActive, page 3)

“With the recently introduced sixth generation corvette C6 which has a baseline 500hp, plus with the Z51 performance package which adds much better handling and overall performance it leaves only one thing to be said, “Look out all you other sports cars ‘cause Corvette’s gonna show you why it’s America’s favourite sports car.”” (original article at http://www.corvettemuseum.com/specs/2005/index.shtml)