CHEVROLET CORVETTE STINGRAY For much of the Corvette’s 60-year existence the car has majored on visual drama and sledgehammer power, with such fripperies as a nicely resolved chassis some way down the list of priorities. But this Stingray is a very different proposition. It still does things its own way, with transverse composite leafsprings featuring in the suspension (a compact solution that gives a low centre of gravity) and a big-capacity, two-valves-per-cylinder V8 in the nose, but given how well the car drives and performs, you’re forced to admire, rather than decry, Chevy’s alternative engineering.