well, that's like saying lionel messi=more awesome than landon donovan, henry poole &co.=more awesome than the gap or paul bocuse=more awesome than country kitchen. if you want to do an apples=apples comparison to the 'vette, do it with the teehee thunderbird.
but still more fair than comparison with the GT-40 of which only enough units were hand-built to homologate the car for for GT racing and none of which ever reached a dealership. the thunderbird was specifically conceived as a competitor for the corvette, and if it went so far astray, ford design office bears responsability. actually corvettes never got anywhere close to "sports car" performance until the 60's, and if through the generations the 'vette has veered away and back from its original idea, t-birds just missed the first turn and kept right on going. but to get back on topic, the '67 t-bird was definitely one of the most shoddily built cars in history. this photo was from a magazine ad intended to sell the car and what stands out is the shocking mismatch between bumper and fender which was the car's stylistic trademark. a neighbor bought one and even at 11 i was dumbfounded by the poor workmanship (for instance, that bumper gap was over a cm bigger on one side than the other but every inch of the car inside and out breathed crap) . i had already started to realize that europe made better cars than the US, but the same neighbor's wife drove a toyota, and looking at them side by side a little light went on.
Speaking of crap, my dad (God rest his soul) once bought the car that consumer advocate and failed Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader called, "Unsafe and any speed:" the Chevrolette Corvair. The one pictured above is a slightly sportier version of the one dad bought. At the time, I believe he was thinking, "sporty, but economical." What he got was, "underpowered and leaky."