Chevrolet News
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It was called the Blackout Edition when it was shown at SEMA as a concept car. And apparently General Motors Company [NYSE:GM] liked what it created so much that it decided to put a version of this car into production. ALSO SEE: Latest LaFerrari Crash Is Worst Yet Say hello to the 2016 Chevrolet Impala Midnight Edition. It's a jet black version of the full-size sedan, paired with a few extra styling goodies fitted that help set it apart from your standard Impala. Besides the blacked-out paint, the Midnight Edition has aluminum wheels with black accents and a blacked-out grille. The front and...
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Hennessey’s 1,000-Horsepower Corvette Gets Strapped To The Dyno: VideoFor most, the 650 horsepower offered by the Chevrolet Corvette Z06 is more than you’ll ever need in a front-engined, rear-wheel-drive sports car. However, for the rarefied buyer out there that demands even more power—much, much more power in some cases—there are companies like...
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2016 Chevy Corvette Z06 Gets Minor Updates, C7.R Special EditionChevrolet’s Corvette Z06 first burst onto the scene at the start of this year but already the car has received some updates. The big news is the addition of a special Corvette Z06 C7.R Edition that pays tribute to the Corvette C7.R endurance racer and is limited to just 500 copies. As you may...
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Stock 2015 Chevy Corvette Z06 0-185-MPH Run: VideoA Z06 with an automatic isn’t a real Z06, you say. It’s barely even a sports car, you sneer. It’ll probably get outrun by a grocery cart, you chortle. You obviously haven’t been paying attention. Maybe you will now. CHECK OUT: Yes, The Tesla Model S Can Drift: Video If this...
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2015 Callaway Corvette Z06 Coming To National Corvette Museum C7 BashIn Corvette tuner circles—and performance car circles in general—Callaway remains a legendary name. From the simply bizarre to the purely awesome, the brand has run the gamut, but now it’s working with the best Corvette ever: the 2015 Z06. ALSO SEE: Wing, Bodywork Rip Off Of...
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More 2016 Chevrolet Camaro Tech Secrets RevealedThe all-new sixth-generation Chevrolet Camaro is set to be revealed May 16 at a special public event hosted at Detroit’s Belle Isle Park, and in the lead up Chevy has been dropping small morsels of information on the car. Previously, we learned that the new Camaro will be 28 percent stiffer...
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Amid a gaggle of sensible sedans and crossovers, Chevrolet unveiled a concept car that seems straight out of science fiction at the the 2015 Shanghai Auto Show. The Chevrolet FNR concept is an autonomous electric car that looks like a cross between Tom Cruise's Minority Report Lexus and the Batmobile. It was developed locally in Shanghai by General Motors Company's [NYSE:GM] Pan Asia Technical Automotive Center (PATAC) joint venture. ALSO SEE: 2016 BMW 7-Series Tech Secrets Revealed: Video The FNR features what Chevy calls a "capsule design," with fairly minimal bodywork. The low-slung canopy...
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Hennessey HPE1000 Camaro Z/28 Roars On The Dyno: VideoAs you know by know, the Hennessey Performance Engineering team likes to take everything out there that's already fast and powerful... and make it faster and more powerful. Such is the case with the Chevrolet Camaro Z/28. This is a highly focused machine with over 500 horsepower and around 470...
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Corvette Chief Engineer Tadge Juechter Shows Off Improved PDR Image QualityThe Corvette's Performance Data Recorder—which captures video and overlays metrics like speed, RPM and steering angle—is a great tool for enthusiasts looking for lower lap times. ALSO SEE: Hellcat Converted To E85 Sees 753 Rear-Wheel Horsepower: Video As we've seen, it can also be used...
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Artist Turns 1983 Camaro Z/28 Into Non-Functional Hippy Coral ReefThe topography of the automotive art world is as varied as Malibu's famous canyon roads—lots of highs and lots of lows. The pinnacle is populated by greats like Jeff Koons and Andy Warhol—both did fantastic work with BMW—and the nadir by execrable carnival barkers like the pompous...
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1965 Chevy Corvette Cutaway Expected To Bring Up To $1.4 Million At AuctionThis cutaway display stand features a 1965 Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray fuel injection car built from a prototype with 4 miles on the clock in 1964. It’s going up for auction and is expected to bring somewhere between $1,000,000 and $1,400,000. Built for the 1965 Motorama show, it went...
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EcoCar 3 Competition Aims To Turn Chevy's 2016 Camaro Into A Mean, Green, Hybrid Machine: VideoWhen enthusiasts consider Chevrolet's Camaro, classic designs, tire-shredding burnouts, and track-tuned Z/28s spring to readily to mind. Green technology? Not so much. But the Department of Energy and partner General Motors Company [NYSE:GM] have made the iconic piece of American iron the focus of...
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We’re now just a little over a month out from the debut of the all-new, sixth-generation Chevrolet Camaro but that hasn’t slowed down the pace of Chevy’s teaser campaign for the car. Today we learned that that the car’s structural stiffness will be 28 percent greater than in the current model, which should result in it having better ride and handling attributes as well as improved NVH levels. The key reason for the improved stiffness is the adoption of General Motors Company’s [NYSE:GM] brilliant Alpha platform, but advanced structural modeling also played an...
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2016 Chevrolet Malibu: More Tech, More Space, Less WeightChevrolet’s Malibu has just undergone its most substantial redesign in perhaps the nameplate’s history. The all-new model, which debuts this week at the 2015 New York Auto Show, the nameplate’s ninth generation, is not only larger than its predecessor, it’s also packed with...
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Camaro Horsepower Applied To Extricate Tooth From MouthThe tooth is loose. So loose that the connection between the chewing tool and the child is the mere suggestion of tissue. A quick yank will usually produce the desired result of one less baby tooth for the kid and one less dollar bill in the wallet of the parent. Still, that yank causes anxiety. It...
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2016 Chevy Camaro To Be More Than 200 Pounds Lighter Than Current ModelChevrolet’s all-new, sixth-generation Camaro is set to be revealed May 16 at Detroit’s Belle Isle Park, just two weeks before IndyCar’s Belle Isle Grand Prix is held at the site. That means we won’t be seeing the car at this week’s 2015 New York Auto Show, but...
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Unfortunately, This Particular Mid-Engine Corvette Is More Than A RumorLast week, Corvette Chief Engineer Tadge Juechter attempted to slam the door on whispers Chevrolet is working on a mid-engine version of the Corvette. Of course, it's going take more than reasoned argument and denial from anyone—even automotive royalty like Juechter—to extinguish one...
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Chief Engineer Tadge Juechter Says He Knows Nothing About A Mid-Engine CorvetteThe mid-engine Corvette. For the better part of four decades, the automotive world has been lousy with chatter about a world-beating, more exotic, more "European," version of Chevrolet's iconic sports car that's just around the corner. The mid-engine Corvette is the zombie of automotive rumors, in...
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Chevrolet is set to unveil an all-new Malibu at next month’s 2015 New York Auto Show, and in the lead up to the car’s arrival the bowtie brand has been dropping a number of details about the upcoming mid-sizer. Today, Chevy revealed that its new Malibu, which goes on sale later this year, as a 2016 model, will come with a new nanny system called "Teen Driver" that parents can use to keep an eye on their kids in those days when the young ones are still getting used to being behind the wheel. DON'T MISS: Angry Supercar Hater Throws Rocks At Lamborghini Aventador: Video Similar to...
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New 2016 Chevrolet Camaro Details ReleasedThe 2016 Chevrolet Camaro is still two full months away from its Belle Isle unveiling in Detroit, but it is arriving in bits and pieces, Johnny Cash-style, in the lead-up. Today, Chevy revealed more details about the car’s construction and engine. That’s right, not that anyone doubted...
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Chevy Bolt Concept Confirmed For Production, Ford Rival MootedGeneral Motors Company [NYSE:GM] has reiterated plans to put its battery-powered Chevrolet Bolt concept car into production. More importantly, the automaker has also reiterated CEO Mary Barra’s promise made at the Bolt’s 2015 Detroit Auto Show reveal that any production version will...
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Hear The 2016 Chevy Camaro’s V-8 Engine Rev & Rumble: VideoThe pistons flagellating your eardrums are the octuplets found under the hood of the sixth-generation Chevy Camaro, and fortunately, we won’t have much longer to wait until we hear them in real life rather than through a set of speakers. DON'T MISS: 2016 Chevrolet Camaro Spy Shots In just two...
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GM Tapping 40 Years Of Drive Data To Make 2016 Malibu Most Dependable Ever: VideoWhen General Motors Company [NYSE:GM] launched its redesigned Malibu in 2008, it garnered immediate critical praise, proving that GM hadn't entirely ceded the mid-size market to Honda and Toyota. The seventh-generation car was a major victory for then GM vice chairman Bob Lutz, and would go on to...
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2016 Chevy Camaro Teased In 500,000th Fifth-Gen Camaro VideoThe 2016 Chevy Camaro is coming—soon—and GM can hardly wait. They’ve got the sixth-gen Camaro itch so bad, they keep dropping teasers of it everywhere. Here we have the latest: at the tail end of the video celebrating the sale of the 500,000th fifth-generation Camaro in the U.S...
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