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The phrase “bargain Corvette” might seem as much an oxymoron as “jumbo shrimp” or “(insert branch of armed services here) intelligence.” And yet that phrase has crossed my online reading twice recently. First, in manufacturing chronological order, Scott Oldham: Chevrolet had the stones to call it the most advanced production car on the planet. The … Continue reading The “bargain” Corvettes
Motor Trend: The all-new mid-engine C8 Corvette’s impressive $59,995 starting price is only good for the first year, as we reported back in August, and unless it goes up by $20,000, Chevrolet will continue to lose money on low-trim cars, a senior GM source tells MotorTrend. We had a feeling the $59,995 starting price was too good to be true, … Continue reading Corvettes aren’t supposed to be this kind of red
This weekend Chevrolet is bringing a 2020 Corvette to Road America in Elkhart Lake. I’m not going. I have other plans. Although I’ve always enjoyed Road America since the first time I went there in the 1980s (where there are photos of me appearing to break into a Ferrari and I got one of the … Continue reading The Corvette, and American society
Tonight at 10 p.m. Central time … … the eighth-generation Corvette gets revealed. This is destined to be the final Corvette for one of two reasons. It is impossible for GM — the developer of such great leaps forward in automotive technology as the Chevrolet Vega (with melting aluminum engine) and Citation (prominent on the … Continue reading Here comes the last Corvette
Two years ago the Detroit News asked the question of whether Chevrolet should build a Corvette SUV. No, not this: Something that would look more like a Porsche Cayenne: Car & Driver returns to the subject: In a recent interview with Automotive News, iconoclastic auto-industry figure and former General Motors vice chairman Bob Lutz was asked about … Continue reading The Corvette SUV returns
One of the two Car Chase Wonderland YouTube channels recently posted tributes to movies with car chases featuring Ford Mustangs … … and Dodge Charger … … both of which were featured in the greatest car chase of all time: My exhaustive coverage of Corvettes on this blog has included the lamentation of the lack … Continue reading Mustangs and Chargers and Corvettes! Oh my!
Dave Cruikshank: The front-engined Corvette is dead. GM head honcho Mary Barra delivered the news last week the final production C7 would be auctioned off this summer. While the press skimmed the surface of this historic automotive event, The C7’s demise has received little in-depth coverage. Not only is this a melancholy milestone for us … Continue reading The last Corvette
This blog has reported from time to time the progress of the next supposedly mid-engine Corvette: The Corvette world has a mixed opinion about this, as Brett Foote notes: Historically, the Corvette has always been about two things, namely performance and value. For significantly less than the cost of an exotic supercar, you can go out, … Continue reading The next unaffordable Corvette
As you know, I am a connoisseur of both Corvettes and movies where cars play prominent roles. One of the downsides of the latter is the dearth of quality movies with Corvettes in them. No, “Corvette Summer” does not count, nor, probably, “Last Stand”: For whatever reason, a New York Times book excerpt popped up … Continue reading The first famous film* Corvette
… click here to read everything I have ever written about America’s sports car … … which, because life is unfair, is not my sports car. Today is the 64th anniversary of the completion of the first Corvette. Two days before that … On this day in 1953, workers at a Chevrolet plant in Flint, … Continue reading On National Corvette Day and Drive Your Corvette to Work Day …
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