From the Archive: One last fling for the fourth-generation Corvette.
You could see this Corvette coming a mile away, and not just because of its retina-ripping red, white, and blue paint.in the last year of its model run and turn out a special edition to hook a few customers waiting for next year's new model. This tactic worked with the previous-generation Corvette, which begat a "Collector Edition" in 1982 with special paint, badges, and wheels and an engine closely related to that of the new-design Corvette due the following year.
was the most expensive Corvette to date, yet it accounted for a quarter of the year's Corvette sales.So here comes the 1996 Corvette Grand Sport, with special paint stripes, badges, and wheels and a new LT4 5.7-liter V-8, reported to be a preview of the Gen III 5.7-liter that will bow in next year's entirely new Corvette. Surprise!The Grand Sport is joined by another collector edition, cleverly named the "Collector Edition.
Stay with us here. The Grand Sport is a factory option package for both coupes and roadsters, and about 1000 will be produced. For $3575 more than the Corvette coupe's $38,120 base price, buyers get the Admiral's paint job, chrome emblems, leather seats in black or red, and larger tires and wheels from the ZR-1. Convertibles get standard-sized tires and wheels.
At speeds less likely to re-refine the Mobil 1, the LT4 engine delivers the same instant throttle response and vigorous thrust as the LT1, all the way up to its higher redline. No bitching here. The higher revs make the Vette feel more sophisticated, and its characteristic transmission whining sounds more purposeful.
Back to those rear tires, which keep the rear end very well planted—perhaps too well. They increase understeer in normal maneuvers. Break the tail end loose with brakes or throttle, on the other hand, and the resulting oversteer is more difficult to manage, especially on less-than-perfect pavement. Our test car's Z51 Performance Handling package, a $350 spine-pulverizing collection of stiffer springs and shocks for autocrossers, seems to exacerbate these tendencies.
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