GM put on a dominating performance at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach in the GTLM class of the Tudor United Sportscar Series and in the SCCA Pirelli World Challenge GT class as well. It was flag to flag racing for both. Here’s the brief! Jan Magnussen secured the pole for this 100 minute […] More »

Since when did 140 mph trap speeds become normal? I guess if you live in Texas and run at Texas Speed Syndicate events they are. Take your pick, this video has it: C5, C6, GTR, Camaro, 4th. Gen F-body, BMW S1000RR (motorcycle), 2014 GT500 and more. The Corvettes are always fun to watch, but I especially […] More »

Speculation is over—the General’s will debut a drop top version of its hardcore Corvette at the New York International Auto Show next week.

 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 »

Union members have voted in favor of authorizing a strike at General Motors bowling green plant citing safety issues and working conditions. Roughly 800 UAW members partcipated in the vote; 93% voted in favor of a strike. According to a local union president Eldon Renaud, concerns about physical safety and product quality control are the […] 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 »