Ferrari Roma

Tony Roma, who runs the Corvette program at GM, told The Drive the next Corvette can't get more expensive just to add technology, and it shouldn't chase Ferrari and Lamborghini. Roma also talked manuals, an electric Corvette, and the C8's looks.

Car culture has its own language and it moves fast. A conversation about a Skyline build can cover RB26 specs, ATTESA AWD, coilovers, hellaflush stance, and RWB widebody kits before you've finished your first coffee. If you don't know the vocabulary, you're not lost exactly, but you're definitely translating while everyone else is talking.

White is demanding. Black is unforgiving. But neither of those is the hardest color to wear on a car. The hardest color is yellow. Not orange, not lime green, not any of the other colors people think of when they imagine a car color that requires commitment. Yellow specifically. And the reason has everything to do with what yellow does to proportion, light, and the viewer's eye before any design quality is even registered...

The most beautiful production cars ever built would kill you at a rate modern safety regulators would find unconscionable. The 1966 Ferrari 275 GTB had no crumple zones, no airbags, a steering column that would impale the driver in a frontal impact, and drum brakes that required planning your stops several seconds in advance. It is also one of the most visually perfect objects ever produced by human hands. The connection between these two facts is not coincidental...