And another important question is - why was the Middle Class...
General Motors' Chevrolet Corvette is the answer.
The new Corvette ZO6 - or its racing version at least - just won the GTE Pro division of the 2015 Le Mans race, and it was a bullet-proof exhibition.
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| For such a fantastic looking car in real life, there are very few really good pics of it... |
Fans of this icon brand and design ethos know that it represents many significant cultural things - it embodies a kind of practical futurology realized into a 'now' practicality, it embodies hope, it enshrines later Post-War industrialism and the prosperity of an American Middle Class at its zenith.
It ought to have receded into cultural nostalgia but the latest iteration of this design mode is probably the best sports car in the world today using advanced technology both in its construction and contained in the vehicle itself.
Le Mans is the 'holy grail' of world motor sport. It is the pinnacle challenge of speed and endurance, reliability and performance.
The standard news media studiously avoids giving much attention to Le Mans, who knows why? One can but speculate...
In the spectrum of what is available for money, the Corvette is not expensive. Especially not for what it actually is.
I don't own a Corvette but I am spiritually 'a Corvette person.'
I may pine for the late Fifties halcyon social and family cultural era - but I'm only going to think about it like a song. Or maybe... like a sonata.
Not like some 'always faithful' chant. Not like some 'Sempre Fidelis.' More like a real song.
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