{"id":88078,"date":"2013-12-14T13:26:07","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T20:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=88078"},"modified":"2013-12-14T13:26:07","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T20:26:07","slug":"first-drive-2014-chevrolet-corvette-stingray-convertible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=88078","title":{"rendered":"First Drive &#8211; 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Convertible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Sports cars and that &#8220;wind in your face&#8221; experience have gone hand-in-hand since the days when open-top MGs ruled the twisties.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Despite Chevrolet&#8217;s best efforts, however, we&#8217;ve always had a hard time properly classifying the Corvette as a genuine sports car. Offered only as a roadster initially, it lacked the handling precision necessary to properly compete with the zippy small cars GIs were experiencing in postwar Europe. Subsequent &#8216;Vettes emphasized straight-line performance up until the outgoing model. But even it came up a little short in some areas &#8211; primarily interior refinement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Fast forward to today, however, and the Corvette has\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leftlanenews.com\/new-car-buying\/chevrolet\/corvette-convertible\/review\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pictures and more<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sports cars and that &#8220;wind in your face&#8221; experience have gone hand-in-hand since the days when open-top MGs ruled the twisties. Despite Chevrolet&#8217;s best efforts, however, we&#8217;ve always had a hard time properly classifying the Corvette as a genuine sports car. Offered only as a roadster initially, it lacked the handling precision necessary to properly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-new-automobile-products-tests","category-sports-car"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88079,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88078\/revisions\/88079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}