The 1997 Corvette C5 was not just a new model year, it was a structural reset aimed squarely at problems that had dogged America’s sports car for decades. Engineers attacked chassis flex, cramped ...

Even though the idea of a mid-engine Corvette stems from the Chevrolet Engineering Research Vehicle (1959) of Zora Arkus-Duntov, the golden bowtie needed six decades to put the man’s dream into ...