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Corvette history
This sports car is a Chevrolet Corvette.

Chevrolet Corvette is a national treasure super sports car in the United States and the highest-end super sports car brand under GM. This series was born in 1953. Up to now, seven generations of models have been derived, and the latest model is 14 C7.

Corvette especially embodies Americans' pursuit of super sports cars: wild atmosphere, informal, manic V8 engine, huge 7.0 displacement (13 Z06),

Corvette -ZR 1 has a huge horsepower of 638 HP and a torque of 604 lb-ft. 0- 100 only takes about 3 seconds, and the top speed reaches an astonishing 350 km/h. The most amazing thing about Corvette is the never-ending acceleration in the middle and rear.

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195 1 In the autumn of, Earle began to design a sports car, the price of which was close to the US$ 2,000 of the mainstream American cars at that time. At the beginning of this project, because of cost control, the general designers were equipped with the general accessories of Chevrolet at that time, and only the engine was modified to make it have more horsepower. 150.

At first, this concept car was only included in the new york Mini Auto Show of GM 1953. But after seeing this car, Ed Cole, a famous engineer of General Motors, liked it very much and made a series of mechanical changes before sending it to new york. Together with the senior management of GM, he named it "Corvette", which means small warship.

This modified Corvette became an instant hit in new york. Half a year later, on June 30th, 1953, Corvette officially went offline in Flint, Michigan. Since then, the Corvette brand has developed to the sixth generation after 59 years, and it has become the classic with the longest production history of a single model in the history of sports cars.

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