Video of the new Corvette Stingray taking on the Jaguar F-Type V8 S and the Aston Martin V12 Vantage S on a damp and slippery Goodwood Hillclimb.
The new Corvette Stingray on the Goodwood hillclimb
Can America really make a muscle car that Europeans love? It’s certainly starting to look like it with the 2014 Corvette Stingray.
Many glowing reports about the Stingray’s more refined character, handling and performance abound, with many seeing the new Stingray as the first American muscle car that can really stick it to the Europeans, right across a range of abilities.
So the Goodwood crew decided it would be a good idea to pitch the new Stingray against a pair of the ‘Best of British’ competition – the Jaguar F-Type V8S and the Aston Martin V12 Vantage S.
Both the Brits costs a chunk more than the Stingray (the Stingray starts at £62k, the Jaguar at £80k and the Aston a mind-boggling £132k) and both have more power. But is that enough?
Goodwood roped in Anthony Reid – former Goodwood Festival of Speed ‘King of the Hill’ – to drive the enticing trio up an out of season hillclimb course (with sheep as spectators instead of petrolheads) in rather damp, typically English, weather with all electronic aids switched off.
Logic tells you it should be a contest between the Jag and the Aston.
But was it?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK4_gLwiKf8
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