Show Spotlight: Chevrolet Corvette Stingray

An all-new Corvette is always big news, but when it bears the legendary Stingray nameplate, it’s a show-stopper. The seventh-generation Chevrolet Corvette for 2014 began deliveries earlier this fall and is the first ‘Vette to wear the Stingray badge — that fabled mark first bestowed upon a dashing 1950s race car and intermittently on later production models — since 1976.

This revived ‘Ray lives up to its storied name, being the most powerful standard Corvette ever at 455 horsepower and achieving 0 to 60 miles per hour in just 3.8 seconds in its extra-potent Z51 incarnation. It also happens to get 29 miles per gallon highway — that’s the best fuel economy of any sports car on the market.

The Corvette Stingray also refines the vivacious, visceral visage common to its lineage while making massive interior improvements over its predecessor, including authentic carbon-fiber and aluminum trim, hand-wrapped leather materials and dual eight-inch infotainment screens.