That’s all, folks. The eighth and final Corvette has been removed from the National Corvette Museum sinkhole. A 2001 Mallett Hammer Z06 – or what very little was left of it – was crane-lifted from its tomb of almost two months. Kevin and Linda Helmintoller of Tampa, Florida donated the tuner special to the NCM […] More »

Let’s face it.  Even if you have the money to buy a brand-new Corvette and travel to the Bowling Green, Kentucky plant to pick it up, you won’t be able to pay your way into taking pictures there. But if you’re a magazine as well-known and highly circulated as Road & Track, it’s a different […] 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 »

There has been a lot of fallout thanks to GM ending Holden’s manufacturing in Australia. Now, Holden tuner Walkinshaw and owner, Ryan Walkinshaw, may be making the move the Detroit if he wants to tune more GM products. In December of last year, General Motors announced officially that Holden manufacturing will be wound down and […] More »

I know Callaway has been tuning Corvettes and other General Motors vehicles for a long time, but I think they’ve branched out into mind reading. They answered the question I’ve had in my head for years: “What would happen if someone supercharged the giant LS7 V8?” Six hundred fifty-two horsepower and 620 lb-ft of torque,  […] More »

There are certain cars that just shouldn’t be road-tested.  Some of them need to be taken to the track, immediately. The 2014 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 is one of those cars. Autoblog’s West Coast editor, Michael Harley, took it to the right kind of place: Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, Alabama.  There, he was able to […] More »

1,000 horsepower is a big number. One that can seemingly be impossible to reach without losing engine reliability. Yet, it’s a number that’s becoming standard in Formula Drift. “Drifting” is a motorsport where cars are judged on their ability to slide around a track in tandem, and Formula D is highest level of that sport. […] More »