Chevy Corvette Stingray convertible touts its top-dropping speed

When we woke up at 6:00 this morning, in Geneva, to head to the local convention center in time for Chevrolet’s show-opening global introduction of its new Corvette Stingray Convertible, the outside temperature hovered around freezing. But this did not stop the Vette from taking off its thick, three-ply, padded, rectangular glass-windowed top, a feat it can now achieve fully electronically, as well as remotely (via the key fob), and at speeds of up to 30 m.p.h.

This was wonderful news to those of us who had squandered countless hours mentally (or virtually) undressing Chevy’s latest fiberglass firecracker, since its coupe-y January introduction in Detroit. But it was even better news to anyone who ever drove a C6 Corvette Convertible and had to suffer that car’s roof retraction mechanism, which involved pulling and twisting a cheap plastic release handle that felt like it fell off an ILLCO Woosh backyard toy, in 1975.