jChevrolet introduced the Corvette in 1953 as the all american answer to the very popular British roadsters of that era. Named after a sleek and fast Canadian sumbarine chaser of WWII the first corvette was fitted with a fiberglass body and a blue flamed pushrod inline six engine. Although the fiberglass body and the front engine rear drive configuration have become integrual components of the corvette's design the body shape engine and chasey have seen much change over the last forty years. In 1990 Chevrolet launched the ZR-1 project with a mandate to build a supercar to compete with Ferrari, Porsha, and other European sports cars. Though the last of the 6,938 ZR-1's rolled of the production line on April 28, 1995 the ZR-1 remains to be one of the fastest and most powerful production cars in the world.