The 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray finally breaks cover in Detroit

I now understand why the Canadian Government gave the Corporation 10.6 billion and screwd over 90,000 General Motors of Canada Limited retirees and their dependance cutting off their Health care and freezing their pensions. The Corporation needed to spend Billions on showing how to move Cadillacs around the world and how fast the car can go in the hands of our young people killing them at a faster rate than shooting them. Time for GM Corporation to give back to the retirees in Canada the billions owed after the freeze most are all babyboobers and older.

You can't honestly think GM's designs and future technolgies should stop? Auto manufacturing in US and Canada continues to take a kicking as does most manufacturing. Face it, while places around the world can provide labour for a fraction of what we can afford, then manufactiring will soon be all but gone around here soon. Unless we want to live like those countries, we best devise some marketable needs that the world wants. Bitching about governemnt polices and cursing China, Korea, Mexico, Japan, etc, etc, ain't goona work, that dog don't hunt !!!

Plano: yours is about the most ignorant, foolish and blatantly idiotic post I have seen on here. The Vette is a test bed for technology. Technology that filters its way down into every car GM makes at some point. Comparing the Vette to getting shot is about the most idiotic thing I have ever read. The fact is that most young people A) could not afford this car B) could not afford the insurance and C) would never end up in a car like this unless they won the lottery. The fact is that it's the retirees that are sucking money out of GM. GM sells more cars than anyone else (they trade places with Toyota from year to year actually) and yet they almost went bankrupt. What kind of fools think that there isn;t something else causing the problem. They sell enough cars so clearly it's not sales. It's the fact that they have to pay for old geezers with a sense of entitlement to sit on thier porch in Florida with three cars in the driveway. This adds about $1500-$2000 to the cost of a car. I am a GM fanboy and my dad worked for GM Oshaea for 40 years. I love GM but if you think GM's problems are anything other than paying for old people to live out their lives in comfort you are crazy. Selling 8 million cars a year while going bankrupt tells you one thing: there's money being funnelled elsewhere.

Love Love Love it. Have been waiting since 1982 when my uncle took me for a ride in his new Vette to be able to have my own and with 4o now in the taillights and a couple well timed investments this is my year. Can't wait. As for the grumpy old man above, the unions are killing the car makers and moving jobs out of canada and the u.s. Keep up your whining, you had an awesome lifelong job and kept getting greedier and greedier, now shutdowns and cutbacks are making things tougher (shall we call it more competitive) and good on the car companies. No one likes a bully, or a whiner.

@PLANO, I was 28 when I got my first vette. 4 years later, I have, maybe once or twice opened it up to reach speeds above the "average" car would take me. My sisters 4 cylinder accord can also go 130km/h, maybe even more... My point is that it doesnt matter what car you drive. If you are going to drive like an idiot you are going to crash, whether it be in my 0-60 4.2 second car or the broken down 0-60 10 second car. I dont know what kind of car you have been driving. As someone else posted above, most of these cadillacs you speak of and corvettes et all are being bought and driven by the same people you are talking about.

Just a clarification on sales Joe, GM's sales are indeed slipping, at least in terms of automobiles. They have slipped to number 3 in Canada but consistently behind Ford the last three years. Nothing in this new "test bed" is going to change that. Ford has the heaviest retiree load because they didn't download any of that responsibility on the tax payer. In terms of worldwide auto sales, Volkswagen is currently the top seller and has outsold GM every year since 07 which was as far back as I looked. GM has consistently been number 3 in worldwide auto sales until Toyota's troubles surfaced and Volkswagen took over the top. Toyota was the top vehicle producer worldwide until dethroned by Volkswagen in 2010. Toyota has seen it's sales slip as well in response to the numerous quality issues that were documented in the media the last two years regarding their products. GM has had the top spot periodically when light, heavy and commercial vehicles are added in. Their sales in those areas remain fairly strong.

Joe, young people wont buy a vette because it is seen as being an "old mans car". It has become the punchline to more midlife crisis jokes than a Hummer. It is not the car of todays youth and will soon die out with the aging generation that remember when it actually had street creds. The old guys who own them now also owned them when they were young. Young people actually drove vettes in the 60's and 70's before they became fat and bloated in the 80's (the cars and the drivers). The vette has a long and mostly decent history but it's days are numbered. At some point the numbers wont even justify it's status as a test bed as you called it. That job will be passed on to something that has more appeal to buyers and drivers who don't wear diapers.

Joe you and others here miss the point General Motors of Canada Limited is a Privatly owned Canadian Company acording to the Superior Court of Ontario Documents and our Government gives 10.6 billion to the Corporation that in the documents is indirect Parent of the Canadian company . Then if as most people think you or any one would like to put in 32 years working for a company the government takes away their pension and health care like Toni Clement has done as Finance minister and giving taxpayers money to the corporation is good I question your thinking.
The car I drive today is a Buick Enclave 2011 CSX all wheel drive it is my 82 car over my driving years that included 4 Grand Nationals, thank you

I remember making my first pay in GM $2.34 per hour in 1961 and today the facts most people that have a hate for their fathers that worked in Oshawa feeding them out of this income and today at least $10.75 is more than our pensions that include 90,000 Canadian GM retirees and dependants as some of the kids are still living off of them at home.The facts some go to the food banks is not their fault the CAW took consesions and the Government will in the end pay for taking the contracts away from the retirees earned over 32 years of working.

plano is out of touch with reality. thankz to people like him its amazing there are any factories left in this country. gm did not try to take away their pensions .fair is fair. these union workers could careless about the future generation or well being of the country only about what they can bleed out of the country .the new vette rocks

@Lauderdale, yes the vette is driven by older people. But I think that has more to do with price point and less to do with the whole mid life crises notion that you pointed out. How could the vettes days be numbered? Think about this strictly from a car purchase, forget the whole midlife crises crap you were talking about. I will talk about the one I have because I know most about it. I bought mine at the age of 28 and would buy it again if I had to do it all over. Will I buy the new one? Probably not, I think it looks too much like a GTR.

The car has 400 HP with 400 lb/ft torque. Gas mileage is not bad at all as long as your arent driving it like an idiot. Keep in mind its not a courier drivers car, lol. The interior is spacious, as spacious as a 2 seater can get. The ride is comfortable and the exterior is gorgeous. Trunk space is huge. I fit a 40 inch flat screen tv in it at christmas time. Its not a truck so comparing the space to a truck is not right. Compare the car to other sports cars in its catergory.

@2006C6, I know many younger people with quite significant incomes. None would buy a vette because of it's "old man" status. Certainly price is an issue for some younger people, especially if you are talking about brand new. But you can pick up a vette that's a couple of years old for less than many of the Lexus, BMW and Mercedes products that younger people will spend their money on in a second. Young people don't look at Corvette's and say "when I make it, that's the car I will buy". They buy a Porsche or some other toy. I like vettes, have owned 3 of them but that doesn't change reality. I currently own a 2006 Ford GT and it turns more heads by a long shot, than any Corvette I ever owned. Paid more for it and it's not as technically sophisticated as the new vette but young people do love it, even though it's based on a car built way before any of them were ever born. Go figure.

This year's Vette will take some getting used to in the styling department. I'm not liking the "Transformers Look" with my first sighting. It may be an acquired taste for most people at any price. I'm old school and to me the last Vette ever produced was in '67.

IMHO and dollar for dollar the new Viper wins for styling hands down. If I was to buy a new sports car it would be a Viper.