Tag: GM

At my house, Christmas comes once a week. I receive media test vehicle presents on Wednesdays and discover what they contain over the course of a week. Recently, Cadillac delivered a gift wrapped in Red Obsession Tintcoat: the 2014 CTS Vsport Premium. I found myself saying many of the things we’ve all said when opening […] More »

My best friend Jacob is fond of using the term “boss status.” If you possess it, you feel cool – as if you run things, no matter where you are. I certainly had it during the week in which I drove the 2014 Chevrolet Silverado High Country 4WD. For most of it, anyway. Attaining such […] More »

If you own a C6 Corvette, you can definitely light up the rear tires, but there’s a chance you won’t be able to light up the road in front of you. The crossed-flags cruiser is just one of the models covered by the five recalls recently issued by General Motors. Out of the roughly 2.7 […] More »

The National Corvette Museum and Lynda Patterson have both suffered losses. Patterson’s is much more significant, though. While a sinkhole took eight of the facility’s exhibit models in February, the resident of Louisville, Kentucky lost her husband Mike to a brain tumor in 2012. She no longer has her 40th Anniversary Corvette, either. It’s now […] More »

If you see a line of police motorcycles and cars following the AMS Performance “Madness” Hearse, they might not be escorting it to a funeral. They might be trying to catch the damn thing. They won’t, though. This death sled, based on a 1996 Chevrolet Caprice, murders its rear tires with 1,000 horsepower on 23 […] More »

 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 »