Chevrolet builds 1,500,000th Corvette

Corvette has been going on for about 60 years. Recently the sports car icon produced the 1,500,000th Corvette at GM Bowling Green assembly plant. The announcement of this incredible milestone was made by Karen Rafferty, Chevrolet Product Marketing Director.

"The 1.5 millionth Corvette is a great example of how Chevy is America's brand" Rafferty said at a meeting of the Greater Atlanta Automotive Media Association. "For nearly 60 years we have built America's Sports Car and this milestone is a solid proof point."
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tundrahq - 6/12/2009 12:29:09 PM

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NICE - great comment...keep em' going. Idiot.

pennfootball - 6/11/2009 2:03:18 PM

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Yay 1.5 million plastic sports cars that just got beaten by the Boxster S in this month's Car & Driver Magazine review!

Chevy Listen up! The car will handle better if we swap out the Oxcart Leaf Springs for a set of Eibach Coil overs! Give it up!

Joe_Limon - 6/11/2009 2:41:54 PM

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The leaf springs are transversly mounted composite leaf springs, the design acts as a partial sway bar so the regular composite sway bar can be lighter, and since it's mounted on the bottom of the car, it has a much much lower CG. If it was so bad the C6R/C5R corvettes wouldn't have such a great winning history. The reason why other cars don't do it is partially due to copy right laws, and partly do to it being expensive to develop and manufacture. As to reviews, there have been enough reviews on this car that prove its standing either way. The only way magainzes make money off of known facts is by shock factor, and thus comes your biased reviews.

inspirion7 - 6/11/2009 3:23:10 PM

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— pennfootball the Vette has just as many model variants as Porsche has for its 911. The Boxter S, no question a great car best even BMW, and Audi's new arrivals. So? The Vette BASE model was used not the Z06. If the performance Z06 was used, I would think that the cars in question would have gone home sad.

Car&Driver

" as noted, this softtop is not a ZR1, and four years into its product cycle, the convertible version of one of our favorite sports cars is very noticeably aged."

tundrahq - 6/12/2009 12:33:21 PM

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Great comments - very knowledgeable responses from both of you. Good work. For the record, I'd take the Z06. That thing is ridiculous!