Arrival: 2021 Chevrolet Corvette Z51

摘要

As you probably know, the 2020 Chevrolet Corvette was our 2020 Car of the Year. As with every Of The Year winner, Chevrolet agreed to provide us with a car on a one-year loan to evaluate how the winner holds up under heavy use. Why, then, more than a year after we crowned the Corvette, are we just now introducing our 2021 Corvette Z51? It's a long story. Unsurprisingly, we weren't the only ones smitten by the mid-engine Corvette. All y'all wanted one, too. And that's where things went sideways. First, a United Auto Workers strike pushed the launch back from December 2019 to February 2020. Fair enough; collective bargaining is important. Chevy finally restarted the plant in late February, only to shut it down again in March when COVID-19 reached pandemic status. Two months passed before production resumed, and Chevrolet was pressed to get cars into customer hands a quickly as possible. That's fair, too. So we waited.