Chevrolet News
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An adjustable exhaust valve on the new 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray means the car can have a split ‘Jekyll and Hyde’ personality. Driving around town valves located inside the car’s exhaust pipes sit shut to mute the sound and keep things civil. When the driver wants, however, these valves can be opened to let the full fury of the Corvette Stingray’s LT1 V-8 engine be heard. As Patrick Herrmann, the Corvette’s technical communications manager in Europe, explains in the video above, the valves are adjusted by an electric motor instead of a vacuum solenoid, as...
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Is This The First Customer-Owned 2014 Corvette Stingray Crash?The 2014 Chevy Corvette Stingray has been making waves everywhere it goes--and occasionally hitting Very Hard Objects. It even managed to get into a tangle or two during development. But this looks like it might be the first known customer crash. While details are non-existent on the Reddit posting...
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Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Immortalized As Monopoly TokenThe Chevrolet Corvette Stingray is a lot of things to many people, including being a Monopoly token it seems. That’s right, the new Corvette Stingray has been immortalized as a Monopoly token, but not for the version of the game you most likely remember from your childhood but the latest...
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2014 Corvette Stingray & Tommy Milner Lap VIR: VideoWe've shown you why the 2014 Chevy Corvette Stingray is a great sports car, and the best Corvette yet. But you don't have to take our word for it. Watch Corvette Racing driver Tommy Milner toss the car around the fear-inducing bends of Virginia International Raceway. One of the most notable bits of...
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Supercharged C7 Corvette Z06/ZR1 Engine Spied?The new Chevrolet Corvette is a pretty amazing machine. It offers a whole lot of performance for relatively short money. Still, the Corvette King of the past generation was, for many, the Z06 version. The Z06 is the Kentucky-bred badass that offers the best mix of furious power and potent...
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Strong Demand To Limit 2014 Chevy Corvette Stingray’s AvailabilityThe 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray is a very good car. In fact, it’s a great car. That’s why General Motors already has a long list of orders despite it only just reaching showrooms. In addition, dealers are expected to have few unsold examples up until the second quarter of next...
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Chevrolet Performance, Chevy’s official performance parts and accessories brand, has come out with a range of new upgrades for the fifth-generation Camaro, which means they’re applicable for the first 2010 model right up to the latest 2014 range. The best part is that the upgrades will preserve your vehicle warranty, if they’re installed by a Chevy dealer. If you’re a Camaro fan on a budget, chances are good there isn’t a ZL1 parked in your garage. In fact, you may not even be able to pay the monthly tab on a 1LE, but that doesn’t mean you can’t make...
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Save The Manuals, Save The Environment: Corvette Stingray Auto Is Less EfficientThe 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray holds the honor of being the only car on the market with more than 455 horsepower and a 29 mpg highway EPA gas mileage rating. But that's only if you opt for the seven-speed manual. Choose the automatic and you'll lose 1 mpg city and highway. Gas mileage ratings...
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How To Buy Everlasting Love: Get Her A 2014 Corvette StingrayThis guy clearly has the right idea. First of all, the 2014 Chevy Corvette Stingray is a great car. Tons of fun. Incredible value. Second, it makes a great gift. Especially when the recipient is your girlfriend. It might be cynical, but this is perhaps the best example of buying someone's affection...
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Hey, Russian Camaro Guy, You're Doing It WrongThere is the proper way to drive in the rain, and then there's what this Russian Camaro driver is doing. Though to be fair, he might be better served by the lessons learned at an off-road school like the Land Rover Experience, since the rain on this Russian street appears to be more like a series...
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First Customer-Owned Corvette Stingray Runs 12.23 @ 114.88--Bone Stock: VideoHennessey Performance Engineering does many things we envy, from the Venom GT to its ridiculous/awesome CTS-Vs. But this we don't so much envy--we've already driven the Stingray hard. We can't say it surprises us, either. But it's still impressive. A bone-stock, automatic-transmission Stingray, the...
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Chevy Silverado Black Ops Concept Is The Perfect Vehicle For The Zombie ApocalypseThe Silverado Black Ops is a "survival kit on four wheels," Chevy says.
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There's no doubt the 2014 Chevy Corvette Stingray is a truly impressive performance car, from its electronically actuated limited-slip differential to its direct-injected, 460-horsepower LT1 V-8. But it might soon become even more advanced: GM has filed a patent for a seven-speed dual-clutch transmission. The news comes by way of Corvette Forums, where the speculation is, predictably, along Corvette lines. But there's still a chance that the automatic-transmission Corvettes might not get the new dual clutch, instead making do with an upcoming eight-speed automatic transmission. That idea is...
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Harley Earl Corvette Coming Up For Auction At Mecum ChicagoHarley J. Earl was the vice president of design for General Motors from 1928-1958, and while he had a hand in many great design projects during his tenure, he may be most famous for his role as the "father" of the original Chevrolet Corvette. This is Harley J. Earl's Corvette, and it's for sale...
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2014 Chevy Corvette Stingray Shipping To Dealers TodayFresh from its first runs around the 'Ring, the first 2014 Corvette Stingrays are shipping to dealers today, bringing a new era of the iconic American sports car into the first retail buyers' hands. About 1,000 Corvette Stingrays have been built so far, and will reach dealers over the next several...
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2014 Corvette Stingray Stretches Its Legs On The ‘Ring: VideoChevrolet’s Corvette Stingray is gearing up for its showroom debut, not just here in the U.S. but elsewhere around the globe including in Europe where sports car fans are more attuned to Lotuses, Porsches and other exotics. Chevrolet is aware of this and is fine tuning the seventh-generation...
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Classic Chevrolet Corvette Crosses Auction Block For $3.4 MillionThe all-new 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray is a performance bargain. For around $50k, you wind up with a vehicle that's capable of yielding world-class levels of performance and can keep up with some of the best sports cars on the planet. If that price point is a little too rich for your blood...
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2014 Chevrolet Camaro Convertible Live Photos From FrankfurtChevrolet’s updated fifth-gen Camaro, which is being introduced for the 2014 model year, has already debuted in coupe form and has spawned a new Z/28 flagship. Now the car’s convertible variant has made its debut, with the covers coming off at this week’s Frankfurt Auto Show. This...
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Given that Chevy isn't even sure it should offer stop-start technology on its Corvette Stingray, the concept of a hybrid 'Vette seems fairly unlikely. You'd think so, anyway--but General Motors North America president Mark Reuss has hinted that one might be possible at some point. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Reuss said, "actually, don't laugh" when the subject of a hybrid Corvette was brought up. "I think it would be really fun to do," he added, suggesting that it would build capability inside the company--and that people might even love it. While this year's Corvette Stingray...
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Rally Corvette Grand Sport Is Current Coolest Car On Planet: VideoRally cars are a unique breed of vehicle that demand a high level of performance combined with a high level of abuse. Sure, other forms of racing take tolls on the vehicles competing, but rally cars are some of the hardest working machines on the planet. That's why it's important to run a vehicle...
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2014 Chevy Corvette Stingray Configurator Goes Live, MostlyThe 2014 Corvette configurtor is online, but Chevy didn't include an image of the car itself. Luckily, all of the pricing, packages, and individuals options were included.
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Next Corvette Z06 To Be Called A Z07, Come With 600 HP: ReportPrototypes for the Z06 version of the seventh-generation Chevrolet Corvette have just started testing, though they don’t reveal too much detail just yet. However, we hear that the car will break from tradition and no longer be called a Z06 but will use a new “Z07” designation to...
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Z51, Manuals, Magnetic Ride Control Popular On Early 2014 Corvette Stingray OrdersThe 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray is probably etched into your retinas with the frequency of its appearance on your computer monitor, smartphone, and tablet of late. But there's a very good reason for that. It's a very good sports car. It's also quite popular with enthusiasts, it seems, with...
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2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Dyno Numbers Are InThe LT1 V-8 found in the latest 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray is the most advanced engine ever put under the hood of a 'Vette--but how do its power and torque numbers stack up? You could read the official spec sheets of course. Chevy claims 460 horsepower and 465 pounds-feet of torque from the...
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