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- Price:
- $25,214
- Mileage:
- 10,328
- Location:
- Galveston TX
- Dealer:
- Classic Ford
FOR 2008 Motortrend wrote?Don't believe your eyes. This car may look like the current Corvette with fixed headlamps, but it is an all-new interpretation of the Classic American Sports Car. Actually, Chevrolets engineers and designers have changed a lot of things you can see--and, more important, many more you can't--in a comprehensive, if not total, makeover. For starters, its new Gen-IV LS2 V-8 makes 400 horsepower in base form The 2005 sixth-generation Corvette is five inches shorter than the C5 and within 0.1 inch of its longtime street and track rival, the Porsche 911. And the interior has finally climbed above rental-car-level quality and materials. The whole treatment creates a global sports car designed to appeal to Corvette traditionalists and successfully woo conquest buyers who've previously chosen leaner, cleaner Euro hardware. How substantial are the nips, tucks, and organ transplants? You could put all the carried over parts from the C5 in a bushel basket, says Dave Hill, vehicle-line executive for Corvette and XLR and just the third chief engineer in Corvettes history, after Dave McLellan and Zora Arkus-Duntov. After more than 40 years of disappearing headlamps, a Corvette with flush-glass lighting will take some getting used to. Peters notes that there was a lot of internal commotion about this, and the decision to go or not go with fixed headlights was nearly 50-50. Some feel they are cleaner and more modern while others disagree, citing them as busy and perhaps strangely shaped. The second that you see this car you will know that it was very well taken care of. Our only surprise was that the car was traded in the first place?. Cars like this are generally spoken for before the car gets to a dealership. A two owner car, with only 10,328 miles on it, this Corvette also features a good Carfax with no accidents or damage reported.
