A lot of people point their fingers at V8s and high-performance sports cars and say they’re destroying the environment.  I think Mother Nature just exacted a little revenge.  Eight of America’s sports cars at the National Corvette Museum plunged into a 40-feet wide sinkhole.  Luckily, nobody was injured.  I’m sure ‘Vette fans will feel a […] More »

Top Gear’s Richard Hammond has been called a “secret American” for his love of U.S.-made performance vehicles, such as the Ford Mustang.  In a recent video, the Autocar crew makes no attempt to hide its fondness for the stars and stripes.  It openly hoons (and gets airtime) in a Corvette Stingray.  But not just that.  […] More »

A lot of politicians come across as boring, bland, suit-wearing puppets scrubbed of any personality by nervous public relations experts.  For better or worse, Vice President Joe Biden is known for being colorful and outspoken.  At a recent United Auto Workers conference, he was more than happy to express his praise for Corvettes, new and […] More »

Ah… The perfect day.  That beautiful girl at the bank gives you her number, traffic on the way home is nonexistent and your buddy buys the next round of beers. Chevrolet is having the car maker equivalent of such a string of events, and it started with last year’s Stingray.  The seventh-generation Corvette has been […] 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 »

If you’ve been dreaming of owning the track-attacking 2014 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28, you now know how much it will cost to make that fantasy a reality: $75,000. Now that the C6 Corvette Z06 is gone, the Z/28 is the only new GM model available with the hand-built, 7.0-liter LS7 V8.  Power is SAE-rated at 505 […] More »