Now that the all new C7 Corvette Stingray has been revealed, the C6 suddenly finds itself the wearer of the title “yesterday’s news.” That’s rather unfortunate, because the outgoing Vette is still a hell of...
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Reinventing a legend is one of the most challenging tasks known to mankind. On the one hand, you want to keep up with – or better yet, advance – the state of the art and...
Lots of car geeks, particularly in our age bracket, like to rag on the Chevrolet Corvette. They love to moan about the Tupperware party interior materials, the Victorian technology behind the transverse leaf springs in...
Many, if not all, of the critics who contended that the Chevrolet Corvette would never be a true supercar changed their tune when the current generation ZR1 arrived in 2009. With carbon brakes shared...
While nowhere near as popular as it was in the years leading up to the Great Depression (the first one, just so we’re on the same page), coachbuilding has been enjoying a bit of a...
You gotta feel for Chevrolet Corvette Z06 owners. Until last year, theirs were the fastest , most powerful and most exclusive Plastic Fantastics you could buy new, featuring the 7.0L LS7 V8 with 505hp, an...
Gearheads who were around during NASA’s heyday – roughly the mid-1960s to the early-1970s – no doubt remember that one of the perks of being an astronaut at that time was receiving a new Chevrolet...
Many of today’s high-dollar, high-performance cars feature handbuilt engines put together by one person, and that one person usually winds up signing the finished product. This provides the buyers of vehicles so equipped with peace-of-mind...
The Chevrolet Corvette has long been regarded as “America’s sports car,” but there have certainly been faster and meaner pretenders to that throne over the years; do the names Cobra and Viper ring any bells?...
Lately, car manufacturers have seemingly been focused on only one thing: gaps in the market. The Toyota Venza filled a gap I didn’t know existed, somewhere between city-capable SUVs and passenger cars. BMW did the...