The Chevrolet Corvette is one of the most sensational and most wanted sports cars in the United States of America. Chevrolet Corvette is considered one of the best cars ever produced by the Americans. It has a good brand name which has evolved from time to time. The evolution of Corvette as the number one car in America is not something that happened overnight since it has got numerous years of historical events to back it up.

The credit of manufacturing the Chevrolet Corvette sports car goes to the brand General Motors which have been manufacturing this car ever since 1953. It has to be specially mentioned that the credit of original design of this most wanted car, goes to Harley Earl for his immaculate design and dedication to work. He was an individual worker in his early times and later, the General Motors hired him and they made full utilization of this rare talent in motor car production.

The original car building plant of Chevrolet Corvette was at Flint but General Motors has building plants at various other cities like Michigan, and St. Louis. Right now, general Motors have found their permanent place of production unit at Kentucky.

The rich evolution of grand Corvette sports car owes a lot to the different generations through which it evolved. If classified, there were as many as six generations for the Chevrolet Corvette car. These generations of evolution starts from the first generation C1, second generation C2, third generation C3, C4, C5 and C6. Each generation has different and unique stories to tell as each generation Corvette sports car was entirely different from the predecessor or successor as latest technologies of respective times have been very well incorporated. Each and every generation was different in terms of design, technologies used, facilities provided, and lots of other factors. To complement this achievement, it should be stated that the latest Chevrolet Corvette sports car uses the latest engine built which is the ZR1 that has never been used in the entire Corvette series and these kinds of engines cannot be found in too many of the modern cars.

To substantiate the far reaching success of Corvette, it is worth mentioning the award winning performances of the car in each and every of the six generations in their times. Some of the top rated magazines, in fact sports magazines, such as "Motor Trend", "Car and Driver," etc, have elected Chevrolet Corvette car as the best car in each generation. It would be hard to find any year, when Corvette cars haven't bagged any of the awards. Apart from this, supreme organization of Engineers like "Society of Automotive Engineers" have elected Corvette a good number of times to underline the impact and influence of this car in society. Also, ever since 1978, Chevrolet Corvette sports cars have been used as pace cars in the "Indianapolis 500" car races and no other cars have gained this much attraction and neither has any other car had this much importance in the pages of motor car history.