The Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport is Goldilocks’s sweet spot in the iconic American sports car’s lineup. Most people don’t need the tower of power that is the Z06, but many still want something a little more special than the base Stingray. The Grand Sport offers style, heritage, and medium-hot performance at a reasonable price. It’s a legendary value that has transcended U.S. borders and is desired across the globe. After releasing the Grand Sport to the Japan market back in November 2016, Chevrolet has slowly been putting out special editions in limited quantities. The Admiral Blue Heritage Edition, of which only five units will be sent to Japan, is the most recent example.
The Grand Sport Heritage Edition is an appearance package that—although limited in Japan—doesn’t seem so very special here in its home country. Nearly this exact spec has been touring U.S. auto shows, is plastered all over the Grand Sport web page, and can be easily built in the configurator on Chevrolet’s consumer website.
The patriotic exterior nods to the original blue- and-white race car and previous-generation special editions. It’s an assembly of Admiral Blue paint, Torch Red fender hash marks, a body-length center white stripe, carbon-fiber effects packages, and staggered red-rimmed satin black wheels with red brake calipers. The interior is Jet Black leather and suede and includes sport bucket seats with microfiber inserts as well as a microfiber flat-bottom steering wheel. The look is rounded out with carbon-fiber accents and a brushed-aluminum hash mark.
This isn’t the first time Chevrolet has released a limited number of special-edition Grand Sports in Japan. Chevy also allocated only five Watkins Glen Gray and Tension Blue Collector Editions and 15 Heritage Editions in Racing Yellow, Arctic White, and Black. The Admiral Blue Heritage Edition is available only with an eight-speed automatic transmission and costs about $115,000 using today’s currency conversion rates. In the United States, you could pick up something similar for less than $90,000. But then, no one would promise you that only four others would be offered nationwide.
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