Detroit 2013: Corvette Stingray C7

The Americans want to return to the sports car track. This they now in Detroit before her latest work: the C7 Corvette Stingray. This name is the Corvette disciples normally already automatically the water in the mouth, because the previous version from the sixties is still regarded as one of the best American sports car classic.

The time for the 60th birthday presented new Stingray generation looks edgy, is provided with precise solid lines and sprayed as early as an expression of pure power. For the development of strength provided by a 6.2 L V8 engine, which is around 450 hp to the rear wheels pressed. Thereby develop the horse an impressive torque of 610 Nm. Power is transferred to the one provided by a previously known only from the Porsche 911 7-speed manual gearbox. On the other, but of course the pampered comfort Racer Select a 6-speed automatic transmission.

The "Z51 performance package" equips the stingrays rocket from a aerodynamic kit, an electronic limited-slip differential and a dry sump lubrication. The latter is to ensure that the engine is supplied also with really high lateral acceleration forces with sufficient lubricant.

In consumption, the engineers expect about nine liters of the standard distance. For it is intended to ensure, among other eco mode that turns off the casual cruising, just four of the eight cylinders. How much money the sports car fan for such a car must be put on the table, is not yet known.

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