Nissan’s hell bent on besting the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 at Nurburgring, and to prove it the company took the newest-generation car to Green Hell for a few hot laps. How’d it do? The Series II GT-R popped off a blistering 7m 27s time for the full 12.9 mile circuit. That’s a full 27 seconds quicker [...]
Ah, the mighty ZR1. Of all the Corvettes to come and go through the ages, this one is a special breed. If you notice one in the wild, it takes some looking to differentiate the car from its white-bread brethren. It’s a sleeper in the most anti-sleeper kind of way, and Stile Bertone has recently [...]
Just a few days ago, word popped up that Nissan would be headed back to Green Hell in an attempt to better the GT-R’s 7 minute, 29 second lap time. Now it looks like the company isn’t just out for improvement. Rather, Nissan’s shooting for total domination. GT-RBlog managed to get some face time with [...]
A couple of dominant themes have already reared their ugly heads at this year’s Detroit Auto Show. First and foremost, the gloomy economic conditions and the resultant (near total lack of) auto sales have factored into everyone’s speeches — even sales-record VW Group. Next in line? None other than Captain Planet’s fleet of green machines. [...]
Last year, GM began pawning off whatever it could for cash, including a few hot examples from its Heritage Collection. Now it looks like a ZR1 rolling chassis will follow the same fate. There’s no word as to what exactly makes this thing heritage material, but according to the auction paperwork, it has no title [...]
Not so long ago, our favorite cranky auto journo Jeremy Clarkson laid the weighty crown of Top Gear’s best car of the year on the Caterham 500. And we were happy. If you’ve spent any time around Autofiends at all, you know we’re suckers for open-wheel hoonage, of which the Caterham reigns supreme. Once the [...]
Here’s something I will probably never say “here in the Corvette section of my garage.” That’s how Leno starts off the little tidbit you’ll find after the jump. The king of comedic car guys has been kind enough to show the world around his ZR1, which just happens to be the very first one ever [...]
As if we needed another reason to want the world-class ZR1. GM has announced buyers of the bow-tie supercar will receive a complimentary advanced driving course from Bob Bondurant. So far, the driving school has picked up two ZR1’s with more on the way. The course builds a drivers confidence gradually by starting them in [...]
Remember those reports of our three favorite hoons from the UK busting around the desert in a Dodge Challenger SRT8, a Cadillac CTS-V and a Chevrolet Corvette, ZR1? Here’s why: Clarkson, Hammond and May set upon the states to find out if the newest generation of muscle cars are more than crappy a crappy chassis [...]
So, the boss has asked us to pick our favorite engine swap. As fate would have it, I have a friend who knows a thing or two about swapping… and the odd thing is that he was just a toddler in the ’70’s! Matt “Tinman” Johnston is that rare and valuable combination: good friend and [...]
