It could take years to get a right-hand-drive Stingray. Here's your chance to skip the queue - for a price...
It could take years to get a right-hand-drive Stingray. Here's your chance to skip the queue - for a price...It’s taken a while but some US carmakers are finally coming around to the idea that selling performance cars to Americana-loving Brits might not be a bad idea. Of course, being American, they've picked the perfect time - just as increasingly stringent EU legislation makes it difficult to bring them across the pond.
Like the Mustang, a Chevrolet Corvette to call our own has long been on the enthusiast wishlist. Granted, at one time or another we’ve all poked fun at their supposed inability to navigate a corner at speed, but that certainly did not do justice to the C8, which was developed with the intention of giving its European rivals a black eye. Obviously it earned a V8 but it was also extensively tested at Nurburgring and set some blistering lap times along the way.
There’s just one teeny tiny problem: Chevrolet doesn’t officially sell cars in the UK, and hasn’t for almost a decade. The only way to get your hands on a factory-prepped, right-hand drive C8 is to go through an importer and even then you’re likely in for a long wait, with some customers apparently told it might take two or three years to arrive.
Ticks a lot of boxes, doesn’t it? And if you’ve somehow missed all the commotion around the C8, it’s received a good deal of praise on both sides of the Atlantic.how the mid-engined C8 was far less “edgy” than the front-engined C7, possibly owing to the overhauled suspension setup.
We are, however, evidently short of right-hand-drive Corvettes, so you’ll be saving a huge amount of time by making straight for this example, which is priced at £97,995. Obviously, importing doesn’t come cheap and it’s not far off fully loaded, but admittedly it’s quite a lot more than what you’d pay in America.
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