Chevrolet Corvette News
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The 2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 is one of the fastest cars in production right now, but it isn't an exotic with a price tag resembling some mortgages. How fast can it go? Chevy has set a lap record at Virginia International Raceway and also clocked the car at 212 mph. Jay Leno has been fortunate enough to push the car near its limits. He's taken one to 204 mph at General Motors' Milford Proving Grounds in Michigan and recently he had Chevy's Shad Balcher over at his personal garage to explain all of the intricate details. Power in the ZR1 comes from a 6.2-liter supercharged V-8 tuned to...
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Bart Starr's Super Bowl I MVP 1967 Corvette up for auction
On January 15, 1967, Green Bay Packers quarterback Bart Starr completed 16 of 23 passes for 250 yards, with two touchdowns and one interception as the Packers rolled over the Kansas City Chiefs 35-10 in the first AFL-NFL World Championship game (which would later become known as Super Bowl I). For...
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One man's Chevy Corvette Indy 500 pace car collection's heading to auction
The Indy 500 and the Chevrolet Corvette are a match made in brickyard bliss. The Corvette as a pace car is an institution. But, this collection of pace cars is unlike anything we've seen before. Why? Because it includes a Corvette pace car from every year the nameplate was used to pace the...
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2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 clocked at 212 MPH
The 2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 is the most powerful Corvette out of the factory. Naturally, it can go pretty damn fast. Chevrolet has released video of the car tackling the Papenburg test track in Germany where it was able to clock a 212 mph average between two runs. The final speed is calculated...
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2019 Corvette ZR1 is most powerful pace car in Indy 500 history
The 2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 has been named the official pace car of the 2018 Indianapolis 500, and with 755 horsepower on tap it will be the fastest, most powerful car to ever handle pacing duties in the race's 100-plus-year history. A blue example of the Corvette flagship will be used for the...
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Watch the complete build of a 686-HP Katech Corvette Z06 engine
The guys and gals at Katech have a new Stage 4 package for the C7 Chevrolet Corvette Z06, and new video from the company shows exactly what goes into building the monster engine capable of delivering 686 horsepower at the wheels. The company began the build with a standard Corvette Z06 equipped...
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Chevrolet is currently hosting a dealer meet in Las Vegas and one of the dealers in attendance claims to have been shown the next-generation C8 Corvette. The dealer is Nate Chandler of Van Bortel Chevrolet in Rochester, New York, and in separate posts made Tuesday on his Facebook page and the Corvette Forum (via Corvette Blogger) he said Chevy presented two teaser shots of the new Corvette, a face shot and profile, and added that the depicted car “definitely looked mid-engined.” He described the car as having a short hood much like a Lotus and a front fascia that reminded him of...
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This is the first 2019 Chevy Corvette ZR1 to hit the dyno
When you take delivery of a 2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1, you'll want to be sure it makes all of the power that Chevy claims is on tap. For the record, that would be 755 horsepower and 715 pound-feet of torque. YouTuber StreetSpeed717 recently snagged what he claims is the fourth ZR1 off the Bowling...
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2019 Corvette ZR1 specs confirmed, including 0-60 mph time of 2.85 seconds
We've known the 2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 is the most powerful Corvette to ever leave the factory thanks to a 755-horsepower, but now we know what the car can do with that incredible number. Speaking to Corvette Blogger during this month's 2018 12 Hours of Sebring race, Corvette Product Manager...
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Equus Throwback is a 1,000-HP homage to Corvette design
Thus far, Equus Automotive is best known for the Bass 770, a 1960s Ford Mustang lookalike with scads of power and modern amenities. Now, the Troy, Michigan, firm has revealed its second project and it's one big homage to the Chevrolet Corvette, appropriately called the Throwback. The Equus...
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4th lawsuit filed over C7 Corvette Z06 cooling issues
Owners of the Chevrolet Corvette Z06 have banded together to serve General Motors a new class-action lawsuit over the sports car's alleged cooling system defects. In fact, it's the fourth lawsuit over the matter. Overheating issues surrounding the current-generation Corvette Z06 have plagued the...
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Ares restomod C2 Corvette blends Italian elegance and American muscle
Ares tackles a diverse range of coachbuilt vehicles. We know the Modena, Italy-based firm is working on a Ferrari 412-inspired GTC4 Lusso conversion, a Tesla Model S convertible, and a Model S shooting brake. Those are all future endeavors, but what Ares most recently finished should be stunning to...
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There's a new king of Virginia International Raceway, and it's the 2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1. It was only a few days ago we learned that Ford's halo, the $450,000, all-carbon fiber GT, set a lap record for production cars at VIR with a time of 2:38.62, beating the previous record of 2:40.02 set by the Dodge Viper ACR in 2015. The GT's time was set during diagnostic testing a few months back and doing the driving was Billy Johnson, who races the GT in the World Endurance Championship and helped Ford develop the supercar. Well, Chevy on Wednesday revealed that its ZR1 destroyed the GT's time...
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The final sinkhole Corvette is going back on display four years after disastrous event
On February 12, a special Chevrolet Corvette will once again find itself back on display at the National Corvette Museum (NCM). A Tuxedo Black 1962 Corvette—the final Corvette to have fallen victim to a sinkhole in 2014—will return to the museum after extensive restoration. The Corvette...
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Pair of Corvettes, including first 2019 ZR1, fetches $2.3M at auction
General Motors has raised $2.325 million for charity, although the automaker didn't do it all on its own. It had a little help from none other than George W. Bush, plus auction house Barrett-Jackson. The former president attended a Barrett-Jackson auction on Saturday in Scottsdale, Arizona and...
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Genovation's 800-horsepower electric Corvette hits the road
Genovation debuted its electric GXE sports car at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier in the month, but now we finally have the first video of the silent beast on the road, cruising about Nevada's Valley of Fire no less. The b-roll footage—or should we say...
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Genovation’s 800-horsepower Corvette EV debuts at 2018 CES
Genovation, an engineering skunkworks based in Rockville, Maryland, has finally shown us its Corvette-based electric sports car. The company made the debut this week at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Called the Genovation Extreme Electric (GXE), the car in prototype form hit a top...
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This could be the mid-engine Corvette’s LT7 twin-turbo V-8
A major clue regarding the mid-engine C8 Chevrolet Corvette may have been revealed. New CAD images of what’s believed to be a twin-turbocharged V-8 destined for the car have been posted to Twitter by user Michael Accardi. You can clearly see one of the turbochargers nestled near the bottom...
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When Chevrolet pulled the wraps off of the 2019 Corvette ZR1, a little nugget of information caught our attention. The brand claimed the 755-horsepower sports car would shoot flames from its exhaust, but it did not provide any evidence. Was it a quick puff of fire? A constant stream of fire spewing from the rear? Well, we have our answer. In a video published last month, Chevrolet provided some bonus content from the Corvette ZR1's test sessions. And, at full throttle, the car will indeed spew white flames for the exhaust—the entire time. The 12.0-second-long video immediately shows the...
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Mock C2 Stingray racer built from C1 Corvette heading to auction
Barrett-Jackson auctions see many Chevrolet Corvettes pass the block, but this one is a little different. While this car, called the Centurion, looks like a modified C2-generation Corvette, it's actually a C1 Corvette underneath. According to the car's information document, the C2 Corvette racer...
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CAD images of mid-engine 2019 Chevrolet Corvette reportedly leaked
The myth and legend of the mid-engine Chevrolet Corvette is looking more and more like it'll become a reality soon. It's been spied undergoing cold-weather testing, playing at the track, and even making McDonald's runs. Now it appears someone, who quite possibly could lose their job for this, might...
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Hennessey offering up to 1,200 horsepower for Corvette ZR1
Well, that escalated quickly. Only a month after Chevrolet took the wraps off its new Corvette ZR1, Hennessey Performance Engineering of Sealy, Texas is already out with a series of upgrades for the car, the most potent of which reaches up to 1,200 horsepower. Yes, Hennessey’s HPE1200...
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Engineers had a fun code name for the new Corvette ZR1's LT5 engine
Chevrolet's new Corvette ZR1 bowed with an incredible 755 horsepower and 715 pound-feet of torque last month with a noteworthy engine under the car's shaker hood: a 6.2-liter supercharged LT5 V8 engine. Like most awesome projects, the new LT5 engine had a special code name to ensure others didn't...
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2019 Chevy Corvette ZR1 actually wasn't planned
The last time the ZR1 badge showed up on a Corvette was with the C6-generation car, but we've long expected it to return with the C7-generation Corvette as well. However, a new Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 wasn't always in the cards. GM Authority reported last Friday that the Corvette team originally...
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