Chevrolet News
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The Mallet Hammer Z06 was the last car consumed by a sinkhole under the National Corvette Museum.
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Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Makes Ward’s 2014 Best Interiors ListFor years the Corvette has been lambasted for its poor cabin design but the latest 2014 model has made it onto the annual list of 10 best interiors compiled by Ward’s Auto, joining some luxury heavyweights like the Rolls-Royce Wraith and Mercedes-Benz S-Class. As we noted in our first drive...
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Eight-Speed Auto Confirmed For 2015 Chevy Corvette StingrayChevrolet has confirmed that its lightning-fast 8L90 eight-speed automatic introduced on the 2015 Corvette Z06 will also be available on the 2015 Corvette Stingray, when sales of the latter commence this fall (the supercharged Z06 isn’t due in showrooms until early next year). The only...
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New Chevy Corvette Variant To Debut At 2014 New York Auto ShowChevrolet has confirmed that a new variant of the seventh-generation Corvette will be revealed on April 15, the eve of the 2014 New York Auto Show. It won’t be the Z06 and C7.R that we first saw at the 2014 Detroit Auto Show back in January but a brand new variant. Possibilities include a...
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2014 Corvette Stingray Buyers Get $1,500 Discount At Ron Fellows Performance Driving SchoolAnyone who buys a 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray can sign up for a two-day program at the Ron Fellows Performance Driving School near Las Vegas and receive a $1,500 discount. That means you have to pay just $1,000 to learn how to get the most out of your Vette as well as how not to see it end up...
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Recently retired racing driver Dario Franchitti, a three-time Indianapolis 500 winner and four-time IndyCar champion, will be pacing this year’s ‘Greatest Spectacle in Racing’ from behind the wheel of a 2014 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28. Franchitti’s appearance at the Indy 500 signals a new start after his career-ending crash last year, with the British driver set to embark on a driver development role with Chip Ganassi Racing. MUST SEE: The Camaro Z/28 Is So Fast, It Outran Its Own Tires. Here's How Chevy Fixed It. As for the Camaro, this will be the eighth time the popular...
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Mid-Engined CERV II Corvette To Be Shown At Corvettes At CarlisleThe 1964 CERV II was a mid-engined Corvette prototype designed for racing.
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Full Specs On Callaway’s 652-Horsepower Supercharged Camaro Z/28Just in case the 500 horsepower of the 2014 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 isn’t enough to satisfy your power demands, Callaway has developed a supercharger kit that will boost output of the car to a supercar-like 652 horsepower. We recently brought you the first details on the kit, which costs...
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Holden Tuner HSV Eyes Chevy Models, Mulls U.S. ExpansionWith the demise of Holden production in Australia, the brand’s in-house tuner Holden Special Vehicles (HSV) is looking to expand its business in other markets, and one of those could be the United States. For those unfamiliar with HSV, it’s a builder of V-8-powered sedans, wagons and...
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The Camaro Z/28 Is So Fast, It Outran Its Own Tires. Here's How Chevy Fixed It.It's well known that the Chevy Camaro Z/28 has the widest front tires of any production car. At 305 mm wide, those tires produce tremendous grip--especially since they're Pirelli P Zero Trofeo Rs. In fact, they make so much grip, the Z/28 was spinning the tire around the wheel under braking--the...
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Chevrolet Considers Tahoe RS & SS Performance Variants: ReportChevrolet is reportedly considering Tahoe RS and SS models.
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Chevrolet’s sixth-generation Camaro is expected to launch next year, bringing with it a whole new platform and a production site in the United States (the current one is built in Canada). That platform will be General Motors’ lightweight Alpha design, currently found in the Cadillac ATS and CTS, and the production site was recently confirmed as General Motors Company’s [NYSE:GM] Lansing Grand River Assembly Plant located in Michigan, the same site where the aforementioned ATS and CTS models are built. One thing that won’t be changing much, however, is the car’s...
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First 2015 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 To Be Auctioned Off For CharityGeneral Motors is offering up the first retail 2015 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 to the highest bidder, but this isn’t just a blatant money grab. Instead, the automaker will generously donate the proceeds from the sale to the Karmanos Cancer Institute. MUST WATCH: LaFerrari Duels With Ferrari Enzo...
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Long-Lost 'Purple People Eater' Corvette Race Car Heads To Amelia IslandThe Purple People Eater is one of the most famous Corvette race cars of the 1950s.
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2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Gets A $2,000 Price IncreaseChevrolet has raised Corvette prices in response to higher-than-expected demand.
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Camaro Z/28 Aero Improved With Addition Of The "Flowtie"Engineers working on the 2014 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 are wildly addicted to the idea of improving the aerodynamics of the car. This is a machine that is designed to devour race tracks, and in order to do so it must stick to the road and slip through the air. There's a large splitter up front, a big...
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Three Corvettes Safely Recovered From Museum Sinkhole: UPDATEWork has begun in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Back in mid-February, a massive sinkhole opened up directly underneath the Skydome at the National Corvette Museum. Eight unfortunate Corvettes that were on display dropped into the hole, and the damage estimates began swirling in. These are extremely rare...
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Chevrolet worked extremely hard to hone the performance edge of the new 2014 Camaro Z/28. We know this from our brief bit of seat time in the vehicle at the Milford Proving Grounds, and by taking in all of the technical tidbits the engineers could lay on us before our brains grew dizzy. ALSO SEE: The Story Behind The World's Fastest Nissan GT-R: Video There's bits about the spool valve dampers, measures to get the car lighter, and the use of massive 305-series tires at all four corners. There's one thing we didn't know about, however, and that is in regards to a special feature of the...
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Chevrolet Corvair Yenko Stinger Visits Jay Leno's Garage: VideoMention "Yenko" in GM circles and most will think of the Camaro Yenko. But Don Yenko is also known for another model, based on the Corvair--the Yenko Stinger. MUST SEE: The Story Behind The World's Fastest Nissan GT-R: Video It's this model that features in Jay Leno's latest video, and it's another...
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Callaway Adds Supercharger To 2014 Chevy Camaro Z/28Chevrolet has only recently pulled the wraps off its new Camaro Z/28. The first press drives of the car occurred about two weeks ago, and our own ride along of the development cars happened at the end of 2013. That doesn't mean that aftermarket tuning companies don't have their plans in order. In...
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After Recent Fire, Chevy SS Returns For Pacing Duties At Daytona 500Last weekend, during the NASCAR Sprint Unlimited exhibition race at the Daytona International Speedway in Florida, the event's 2014 Chevrolet SS pace car caught fire because of some faulty electrical equipment used to power its caution lights. It looks like the issue has since been fixed because...
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2016 Chevrolet Cruze Spy ShotsThese are the latest spy shots of a prototype for the second generation of Chevrolet’s Cruze compact sedan. The new Cruze was originally due late this year but its release has been pushed back to late 2015, which means we’re likely to see it list as a 2016 model. The delay will enable...
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Chevy Lists 28 Reasons That Make Its 2014 Z/28 Its Quickest Camaro YetMuscle cars have never been the most sophisticated of things. For most of their history, they've relied on great looks and brute force--and captivated hearts and minds as a result. More recently though, things have changed. Muscle car customers today want their cars to go around corners too, so the...
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