There’s no denying the new Corvette is a numbers car. It develops 460 horsepower from 6.2 liters and eight cylinders, and costs thousands less than its competitors. Even its new automatic transmission is all about impressive figures. For instance, the eight-speed unit has two more forward gears than the one it replaces. Thanks to a […] More »

“We designed [the 2015] Escalade with what we call the beauty of contrast,” Eric Clough, director of design, Cadillac Interiors, said in a press release about the fourth-generation model. The luxury utility is a rolling embodiment of that last word, inside and out – down to its core as a vehicle. However, in my seven […] More »

Classrooms don’t need chalkboards and desks in order to be learning environments. I recently spent time in one that had leather seats, a Bose audio system…and rolled on 20-inch forged polished aluminum wheels. While blasting down a toll road to discover the tastes of Lockhart, Texas barbecue, I had an epiphany. The 2015 GMC Sierra […] More »

Chevrolet has been in business for 103 years.  It makes sense that they’d do things the old-fashion way.  The company still produces pushrod V8s (although they’ve been thoroughly modernized),  and whereas other automakers have moved on to gearboxes with dual clutches, the bow-tie bunch still use conventional automatic transmissions. GM’s new eight-speed automatic for the […] More »

Chevrolet’s 2015 Corvette Z06 is a very important vehicle for the company.  It needs to be one helluva follow-up to the bow tie gang’s Stingray, the North American Car of the Year.  The 50 ‘Vette convoy in which the new Z06 traveled to Detroit’s Cobo Center made the car look as if it was the […] More »

The Corvette is known for offering a lot of value for the money. It provides incredible levels of performance at thousands of dollars less than European competitors. At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, Chevy announced it will offer a videographer for the 2015 Stingray – the Performance Data Recorder. Have you ever heard of a […] More »