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The Smoking Tire
Zack Klapman, Matt Farah
4.7 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2013
⏱️ 99 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | See if you don't think this is the most exciting car in America today. |
| 0:09.0 | Know what makes this car so exciting besides its obvious style. |
| 0:13.0 | It's the Corbett's not so obvious engineering. |
| 0:16.0 | The things you feel but don't see, the things that led Car Life magazine to award Corvette its coveted engineering |
| 0:23.3 | excellence award. Here's what Car Life magazine says about the Corvette Stingray. |
| 0:30.1 | The Stingray has a chassis and suspension system years ahead of contemporary sedans, bold and |
| 0:36.1 | concept, thoroughly tested, meticulously |
| 0:38.6 | manufactured. |
| 0:39.9 | Handling has been vastly improved. |
| 0:41.9 | The car is much more stable at any speed and thus safer. |
| 0:45.5 | The Chevrolet engineers designed to the Corvette Project had done an outstanding job. |
| 0:49.7 | That's a smoking tire podcast. |
| 0:51.6 | That was the 1963 Corvette Stingray, the OG Stingray. |
| 0:57.0 | And podcast number, I don't know, 50 something. |
| 0:59.7 | 54. |
| 1:00.3 | 4, whatever it is. |
| 1:01.7 | Still the best looking Corvette ever, in my opinion. |
| 1:03.7 | 63 split window? |
| 1:05.3 | See, that is the Stingray. |
| 1:07.8 | This new Corvette came out, right? |
| 1:09.6 | The C-7, yeah, everyone's been fucking blowing everyone over it. Fucking. And it's, they called a stingray. Why? Why did they do that? You know, it's nostalgia. They're trying to move the brand forward. And then they're going to go, well, we're going to hang on to a trope of 50 years ago. It's not that the stingray name wasn't cool like in the 60s. It kind of was. But like, you mean, the C5 and the C6 all kind of looked sort of like the C3s. Yeah. And so, you know what I mean? And so, like, now the sort of sting, the name Stray just is sort of like, well, that's sort of what a Corvette looks like. Yeah. It's sort of redundant, isn't it? The only thing on there I think that looks stingrayish is just that back, the back hatch tapers a lot now. Yeah. But the rest of it looks like an evolved C6. And even then, I'd argue, the rear of it now looks nothing like any of the previous vets. |
| 1:44.6 | Not that I't look. |
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