Yahoo Autos What's The Perfect Configuration for a Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport?
The Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport is easily one of the best cars we've driven this year, and it's definitely the pick of the range among Corvettes. It's also a helluva bargain with a base price of just $66,445 for the Coupe.
Chevy just put the car configurator for the Grand Sport up on its site and unsurprisingly, your Road & Track staff has been configuring our perfect models. Here's what I've come up with.
I started out with the mid-level 2LT trim, which adds some nice luxuries–like a front parking camera, heated/cooled seats, and an upgraded hi-fi–over the base car, but rings in $6000 cheaper than the top 3LT trim. For colors, I went with the classic C4 Grand Sport scheme of Admiral Blue with a white body-length stripe, and torch red hash marks. It just feels right, though there are all kinds of color combinations you can choose.
The Z07 package seems expensive at nearly $8000, but it's actually quite the bargain. It gets you the same ultra-sticky Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 tires, carbon ceramic brakes, and aero kit as the Corvette Z06. Porsche will charge you more money for carbon brakes alone, so yeah, a bargain.
Otherwise, I added the $2000 Competiton Sport Bucket seats, which are more aggressively bolstered than the standard GT seats, and I skipped navigation since it comes with CarPlay and Android Auto standard.
All in, my perfect Grand Sport rings in at $83,177, which is more than a fair price for the performance this car offers.
