The 2020 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray is the first mid-engine Vette in history. 
With a relatively low starting MSRP, it’s hard to willfully ignore the new Vette.
Is it possible the 2020 Chevy Corvette will change old minds and win new hearts" 

Now that the dust has cleared, and we’re getting to the point where the 2020 Chevy Corvette is ready to hit the market, what do we know" We know people from a surprisingly wide swath of the car world are singing its praises. Perhaps this is premature and time will tell" We also can, at the very least, speculate on what must be happening in the marketing and planning departments at places like Porsche and BMW and . . . oh yeah, Toyota.
I almost forgot about them. The Vette Versus The East Coast
This all started with a phone conversation with my brother. He’s a certified, dyed-in-the-wool gearhead. Owner-past and present of many sports cars. Still owner of many AutoX trophies. Possessor of an uncanny amount of mechanical sympathy. He was, also briefly, an owner of a 1965 Corvette. And when I say briefly, I mean less than a month. Turns out, parking a nearly-new Vette on the street in Boston, circa 1971 is a bad idea. One morning, he found its vent window smashed. Being the bright young spark he is, he took matters into his own hands.
Before parking it that night, he pulled the distributor rotor and chained the clutch pedal taught to the steering wheel spoke. The next morning he came out to find an o...