The Chevrolet Stingray Concept is a design study with no current plans to be produced, though never say never – there is always a small possibility of it being used in the future when GM goes to the drawing board for a next generation Corvette.
It seems that Michael Bay was touring the GM styling studios looking for cars to be made into new characters for the Transformers 2: Revenge of The Fallen movie and liked the car so much that he decided to use it for a new character – Sideswipe.
We don’t know if there was any plans to display the Stingray to the public originally, but whether it was because of the movie character or not, the new Stingray concept Corvette made its debut this week at the 2009 Chicago Auto Show. The Stingray Concept takes the Corvette down the retro-futurism road with elements from both the 1963 Corvette Sting Ray and the modern day Corvette. Even the Sting Ray badge has been updated.
Look after the jump for a video of GM’s Global Design Vice president Ed Welburn taking us through a walkthrough of the concept.
After dabbling for years in the IT industry, Paul Tan initially began this site as a general blog covering various topics of personal interest. With an increasing number of readers paying rapt attention to the motoring stories, one thing led to another and the rest, as they say, is history. An avid electronic gadget aficionado as well as big-time coffee lover, he's also the executive producer of the Driven motoring TV programme.
alpina better than this silver junk
Looks ugly from the front.. with that ‘evil grinding teeth’.
the styling was based on the corvette zr1 .. ??
i guess under the bonet will be a 5.7litre V8 or 6.2 litre Supercharged V8 engine or a 7litre V8 ..
Wow! The car very nice indeed. Like batman return car.
well GM , these kind of concepts and ideas that making u weep for governments loans right now…get out of bankrupcy only thn do those out-of-touch-with-reality-cars
oh no! they completely destroyed sideswipe character by replacing him with this piece of junk! arghhh
ahh i have been waiting for it to come i even drow the consept my self