Video: 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray

The re-imagined, redesigned seventh generation of Chevy's icon. The Corvette actually takes the Stingray Moniker, now celebrating the Corvette of 1963 to 1967 fame. We're going to take a closer look at what differentiates this from the sixth generation Corvette. It's a very dramatic restyling. In fact, Chevrolet says that just two parts are shared between this Corvette and its predecessor. You look up here, the headlights have LED implements up there. The hood and the roof were actually carbon fiber. It's a standard feature on this generation of Corvette lowers weight, especially up top here to keep the weight distribution toward the bottom part of the car, which should improve handling. Now Chevy says all of these events that you see on the Corvette are functional heat extraction here from the engine. Again, over here on the side, as you come around to the back here, this vent right here, funnels air into the rear differential, and it comes out here in these areas at the very end of the car. Now, as you look at the end, this is probably the most dramatic redesigned element of the Corvette. You've got very bold looking taillights. The traditional Corvette quad exhaust had been moved into the center now. The old Corvette had more of a traditional look. This one, definitely not. It's gonna, it's gonna make a big impression on you as it's driving away. Versus the last base Corvette, the old base is up about an inch overall length of about two and a half inches. The car sits about a half inch lower, but most importantly, overall width is up almost an inch and a half. In fact, it's only about two inches short of the outgoing Corvette ZO6 which had a wider track. If you want, there's a Corvette Z51 performance package, which adds things like dry sump oil pump. It's got an electronic limited slip rear differential. It's got enhanced aerodynamics. It's got additional cooling systems for the transmission, for the oil stuff like that should really even take the Corvette's handling potential to the next level. Big interior upgrade. You can see there's a lot of upholstery wrap surfaces around you. There's two types of seats here. There's a GTC, which is what you're seeing. That's got a magnesium frame. And if you really want to take the car to the track, Chevy makes a competition sports seat with even more bolstering, a couple of standard features. There's a standard My Link 2 System the second generation of a GM's My Link System occupies the center part of the dashboard. It's got a large screen there. There's also an LCD screen between analog gauges in front of the steering wheel, which allows you to look at a lot of different things there as well. There's also what Chevy calls a competition sports seat it's got even bolsters there. If you want to take the car to the track. Under the hood is a new V8. It's still a push rod, 6.2 liter, but it's got a bunch of new technologies. Things like cylinder deactivation to improve fuel economy, direct fuel injection variable valve timing, a lot of firsts for the Corvette. 450 horsepower, 450 pounds feet of torque drives the rear wheels and gets the car from 0 to 60 in less than four seconds Chevrolet says. How does it do that? Well, it goes through a six speed, automatic with paddle shifters or first ever a seven speed manual transmission. Now that makes Chevrolet the second brand besides Porsche to offer a seven speed manual. And in the Corvette it rev matches for you much like the manual transmissions in a Nissan Z, or a BMW M5. So you downshift it automatically kicks up the revs, It makes it a lot easier to do that. Kind of cool that it's now in the Corvette. This is the first of the seventh generation Corvettes. And most likely there will be other additions like convertible as ZO6, other high performance cars coming out afterwards. This is the first one comes out this fall. So stay tuned for more.