Chevrolet Corvette News

Despite the fact that General Motors has already pulled the wraps off of the highly anticipated Chevrolet C7 Corvette Stingray in both coupe and convertible forms there's still a lot we don't know about The General's new halo car.

Chevrolet built just two Corvettes with the famed ZL-1 all-aluminum 427-cu.in. engine.

It looks like a 2-door, but it's actually a 5-door hatchback. The two rear door handles are hidden in the black trim at the back of the rear passenger windows.

In yesterday's official announcement from GM that named 49ers Coach Jim Harbaugh as the official driver of the 2014 Corvette Stingray Pace Car for the Indy 500, there was a paragraph that described the known performance specs for the new C7 sports car.

Two C7 Stingray's on public Michigan roads. The twins appear to be in production form Photo by Andrew Stoy.

It may have come from humble beginnings 60 years ago, but Chevrolet's Corvette has become both an American legend and a sports car icon since.

A team including former General Motors Co executive Bob Lutz and China's largest parts maker is looking to buy Fisker Automotive for $20 million, a fraction of the "green" car company's estimated worth almost a year and a half ago.

Russ Moen's concept was to build his Tourliner like it came out of the 1950s but with today's technology hidden beneath the classic body and coachwork.

There's never a bad time to buy a good Corvette, so if you're looking to add a first class C3 to your collection, you've come to the right place! Authenticated by a letter from NCRS Historic Document Services, this Corvette rolled off GM's St.

One of the most decorated mid-year Corvettes hit the auction block at Mecum's 26th Annual Spring Classic last Friday and the results were nothing less than spectacular.

"As engines get smaller, eliminating friction becomes even more important," says Dave Lancaster, a General Motors technical fellow who works at the automaker's powertrain engineering operations in suburban Detroit.

A few weeks ago, we bid a fond happy 40th anniversary to the automotive dark ages of 1973-84 that have come to be known as "The Malaise Era" the performance ice-age when 160 horsepower was a lot and a 0-60 time of under 10 seconds was remarkable.

He brought it out and gave it some TLC and drove it here to trade on his dream car a new Z06 Corvette.

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HAWK HONCHOS: These are just four of the many people who will be working at Sunday's fourth annual Bishop Hendricken High School Car Show on the Hawks' campus in Warwick.

Donta Hampton of Flint polishes his 1976 Chevrolet Corvette during the second annual Baker College Car and Motorcycle Show in Flint in 2011.

Some lucky - and wealthy - person will be the owner of a Corvette C6RS Supercar when the bidding finally comes to a close on May 19.

Volkswagen Group and Ford Motor Co. fare well among automakers in an annual study released today measuring quality and how deeply consumers feel about a new car or light-truck purchase after several months of ownership.

Chris Perry: "What we needed as we move forward is to show people that, yes, we have a rich heritage, but we have a very promising future as well." This year, Chevrolet is rolling out 13 new or redesigned vehicles, including some of its most important nameplates, such as the Silverado full-sized pickup, Impala large sedan and the seventh-generation ... (more)

General Motors and Chevrolet's ad agency, Commonwealth of Detroit, are plotting an ambitious marketing strategy for one of GM's biggest launches of the year.