The new C8 generation of Chevrolet Corvette is the first in the car’s 68-year history to be mid-engined instead of front. It is also the first ‘vette to have a folding metal roof, the first to not be offered with a manual gearbox, and the first to be available in right-hand-drive.

Normally such drastic changes to a decades-old bloodline would be taken slowly, the recipe gradually changed over the course of several generations. But no. Chevrolet has gone all-in, rolled the dice and profoundly changed the very foundations of what the Corvette is. As a result, the Corvette can be considered a global car for the very first time – and as such it finds itself competing against European thoroughbreds from the likes of Porsche.