The good boys and girls at Chevrolet have decided to up the ante on the delicious Z51 package we sampled earlier in the year by transmuting it into the new Grand Sport. That means the Corvette gets a wider stance, six-piston brakes up front with four-piston grabbers toward the rear, the same beefy tires as [...]
Not just any Le Mans racer. This is the 1968 Chevrolet Corvette Scuderia Filipinetti Le Mans racer. The car was created during GM’s infamous ban on racing, and Zora Arkus-Dunov himself worked over the engine while keeping the project from The General’s heads of state. Here’s a little bit of Corvette lore for you: in [...]
I’ll admit it. The Corvette’s got its hooks in me. I’m not saying I could ever bring myself to become a jean-jacket, gold-chain wearing owner, but after my week with Convertible Z51 I’d be either completely insane or absolutely obtuse to deny the car’s appeal. It looks like the boys at Specter are hell-bent on [...]
How cool is this sucker? It’s a fiberglass replica of the famous Waldorf Nomad. Need a refresher? Right after GM debuted the Corvette in 1953, they rolled out a Nomad show car. The rig was essentially a Corvette with an extended roof, hatch out back and more interior. For whatever reason, the combination of that [...]
Looking for the absolute most bang for your Fiendish buck? It’s hard to do better than the 2010 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport. GM’s priced their newest ballistic offering at $55,720 for the coupe, including delivery. As a refresher, that buys you specific gear ratios that help the car get to 60 .2 seconds quicker, a [...]
Looking to snag a piece of GM history? It looks like Harvey Earl’s 1963 Corvette Convertible is up for sale. The father of the Corvette was given the ’63 just after the Chicago Auto Show by General Motors as a thank-you for his service. The rig was decked in many of the same treatments the [...]
I have just enough self confidence to drive this thing with the top down. The Jetstream Blue Metallic paint and the massive chrome 15-spoke wheels combine to make me look like the ultimate trust-fund jack ass behind the wheel. In downtown traffic, the massive 6.2-liter LS3 V8 is unnaturally well mannered, especially with the silky-smooth [...]
This may be the most unfoolish fool’s gold we’ve come across at Autofiends. It’s a 2004 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 with 7,600 miles, and it can be yours for a mere $32,000. The previous owner has installed a few tasteful modifications, including a Borla exhaust and an eliminator for that pesky first-to-fourth shift. Evidently, the car [...]
With all this talk of GM resurrecting the Grand Sport name once more, I thought it was only fitting to remind everyone of the GS legacy. We’ve rattled off more than once about just how Fiendish the original cars were, so in this case I think I’ll just let the photo above do the talking. [...]
I. It looks like President Obama is getting ready to announce that Chrysler will file for Chapter 11 by Thursday. Obama hopes that the deal with Fiat help carry Chrysler through to building cars people want, but at this point he isn’t sure. [Autoweek]
