Tag: Stingray

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 »

General Motors has issued another recall. You are not hallucinating. You are not high (are you?) This is real. The automaker “will rework or replace the ignition keys on about 3.16 million 2000 to 2014 model year cars in the U.S. because the ignition switch may inadvertently move out of the ‘run’ position if the […] More »

The new Coyote powered Mustangs are certainly no joke: cube for cube, they’re hard to beat. Then again, even a stock C7 is hard to beat. Such was the case with this video where two automatic equipped modern muscle cars (OK, one’s a sports car) go head-to-head. The box stock Corvette puts a whoopin’ on […] 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 »

Just when we thought the C7 Corvette horsepower wars were put to rest yesterday with Vengeance Racing’s 1000whp C7 Stingray Corvette, Late Model Racecraft goes and nudges the bar further with an impressive showing of 1121whp and 992 lb-ft at the rear wheels on N20 and 990whp and 942 lb-ft on boost alone. Now granted, the […] More »

Well, there it is, folks: The first 1000whp C7 Corvette Stingray and it’s one bad mofo! Vengeance Racing is responsible for the primordial beast that churns out 1018hp and 894 lb-ft at the rear tires thanks to a stock short block and heads (no, that’s not a typo), a big cam, methanol injection, supporting mods, […] More »