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what's up guys this is antuan goodwin with cnet com we're on the floor at the 2013 Detroit Motor Show taking a look at the new Corvette Stingray that's right chevrolet's brought back the Stingray badge for this new corvette they think it's that impressive now underneath this hood we've got a 6.2 liter v8 that uses direct injection technology to make 450 horse power and 450 pound-feet of torque that power is going to exit all of it through the rear wheel by way of a 7-speed manual transmission that uses an interesting active rev-matching technology sort of like install on the nissan 370z so we need to press the clutch and change gears you're going to get a little blip from the engines computer to match the engine speed to the wheel speed for smoother ships sort of the best of both worlds between a manual gearbox and an automatic transmission we use some lightweight technology here including a full aluminum frame and carbon fiber on the hood and on the roof those are both stock features the point here is to reduce the weight and to keep the center of mass low for more nimble vehicle now we're expecting the new Corvette to go on sale in the third quarter of 2013 this is probably one of the most hotly anticipated cars of the Detroit Motor Show I'm antuan goodwin with cnet com on the floor and destroy