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The Corvette Stingray 2014 stays true to its roots as a sports car two-seater that offers an engaging driving experience thanks to the use of advanced engineering and lightweight materials. Their technologies are based both in features and in a design influenced by the competition, both factors combine to perfection to offer the unique driving experience in the history of this car. It is also the model series most powerful to date, and the most efficient, with a rated power of 450 hp (335 kW) which allows you to accelerate from 0 to 100 in less than four seconds. It is also expected that consumption in road of around 9 litres to the 100.

The Corvette Stingray 2014 coupe will hit the market in the third quarter of 2013.

Data highlights of the Corvette:

• The first major driver of the Corvette was the legendary style director of GM's Harley Earl, who insisted that there was room for an american model in the market of sports cars, then dominated by european brands. His was the idea of using a fiberglass body for the Corvette.
• The Corvette owes its name to the "corvettes", a type of small boat and fast.
• The 1953 Corvette had a starting price of 3.498 $ and only offered two options: one with heating for 91 $ and the other with AM radio 145 $.
• All models of the Corvette has used innovative materials, from fiberglass in 1953 to advanced technology nanocarbono and carbon fiber in the Corvette Stingray 2014.
• In your home equipped a V-6 engine and in 1955 began to be offered with a V-8 engine. That year he was elected the 90% of the customers, so that, from then on, all Corvettes were equipped with engines V-8.
• The name Stingray was used for the first time, a prototype of racing car whose design was influenced by the Corvette of the second generation, which debuted in 1963. The coupe Corvette Sting Ray 1963 with a rear window split is considered as one of the most beautiful designs and influential in the history of the car.
• In its history, the Corvette can boast to generalize the use of technologies once reserved to luxury cars very high-end. For example, in 1957, introduced the injection of fuel; in 1963, the independent rear suspension; in 1965, disc brakes in the four wheels; in 1986, the anti-lock brakes; and in 1989, a system of monitoring of tire pressure.
• The Corvette is the sports manufactured continuously for more years in the world.
• Have sold nearly 2 million Chevrolet Corvette since it went on sale in 1953 up to 2012, which represents a third of all sales of sporting in north America.

Founded in 1911 in Detroit, currently Chevrolet is one of the brands most important cars in the world, is present in more than 140 countries and its annual sales of vehicles exceeded four million units. Chevrolet offers drivers fuel-efficient cars with excellent levels of quality, expressive design, and high performance.