The Chevrolet Corvette rolled out of Flint, Michigan in 1953 and has never stopped—eight generations, no domestic rivals left standing. It nearly didn't happen. Fiberglass over a 3.9-liter straight-six, two-speed automatic, Chevrolet's answer to the lean British roadsters of the postwar years—it debuted at GM's Motorama in the Waldorf-Astoria and promptly sold almost none of its 300 hand-assembled units. A quiet beginning for what would become America's sports car.
The Corvette gains a new body style in 1999: a fixed-roof coupe to round out the lineup alongside the targa-topped hatchback and convertible. Shedding nearly 80 pounds and gaining 12 percent more rigidity over the targa, the hardtop is also the most affordable of the three. It's enough to keep all three variants on our 10Best Car’s list, where we call them "refined, practical sports cars with performance that simply can't be matched at the price."
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