A few years ago, during the darkest hours of the GM bankruptcy, Corvette
chief engineer Tadge Juechter found himself on a conference call with
company execs and government overseers. A conversation on the bolts and
screws of bailing out GM suddenly halted when one of the federales, a
Corvette fan, wanted to know the plan for the C7. “At the time, there
was no plan,” recalled Juechter as we stood trackside at Road Atlanta
this past October....
