OREANDA-NEWS. Russian dealers of Chevrolet began the sales of a new version of the sports car Corvette - Grand Sport, which received a more powerful engine, ultra-light body and a racing chassis. The price of new car starts from 7 million 500 thousand Rubles, informed the press service GM Russia.

As noted, Grand Sport – is a more dynamic version compared to the Stingray, but with less weight and fuel consumption than the Z06. The car is equipped with a 466-horsepower with V8 engine capacity of 6.2 liters, with a maximum torque of 630 Nm. In addition to the track-minded aerodynamic elements Grand Sport has extended rear wings. Engineers have adapted braking system and transmission cooling similar to the Corvette Z06. Sports car accelerates to 100 km / h in just 3.5 seconds.

Corvette Grand Sport is equipped with an adaptive suspension Magnetic Ride Control, the special anti-roll bars, springs and unique electronic limited slip differential eLSD, which contributes to the stability of Corvette to lateral loads of 1.05 g.