Month: December 2010

We’re not able to respond to all of them, sadly, and besides, we don’t know why the bed of your 1993 GMC Sierra squeaks and we apologize in advance for not looking at your blog chronicling the hottest auto trends of Belarus.

In a throwback to the muscle-car glory days, two Chevrolet dealers are using GM factory parts and the General Motors ordering system to create custom Camaros that pump out as much as 700 horsepower.

Normally our “Corvettes on the dyno” posts are reserved for new models like when the Corvette ZR1 first became available. But this video of a twin-turbo 2005 Corvette on the dyno is just too good to pass up. Dallas Performance is the tuner who built this 1250 hp coupe and in addition to […]

Nevertheless, a seventh-generation Corvette is coming, and while rumors of an exotic mid-engine layout for America’s supercar are unlikely to pan out, it’s possible that the Bowtie brand’s designers could take the Corvette’s look in an entirely new direction.

The owner of this 1958 Corvette had the typical dream to restore this C1 straight axle but never got around too it. And so it sat outside for several years in the North Georgia weather with only a tarp to protect it. The time had finally come to sell it and so […]

The C7 Chevrolet Corvette has been the subject of rampant speculation since the C6 came out, with everything from all-wheel drive to mid-engine orientation supposedly planned.

Chevy Corvette is the heartbeat of the millions of fans across the globe. But there always hovers a question – ” what’s next? Keeping this thing in mind, a Transportation Design student James Robbins has envisioned the future form of the Corvette.

The San Francisco International Auto Show came and went two weeks ago. This year, the major automakers showcased their latest offerings, from a hybrid VW Taureg to an entry from Fiat called the 500C, which promises to be a competitor to the well-established Mini, among other compact cars.

Here are several C7 concept renderings whipped up by transportation design student James Robbins for a class project and posted on Yanko Design. Robbins keeps the current C6 Corvette proportions and reworked the front and rear based what he sees as the next logical step for the C7.

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On December 16, 1953, Chevrolet assistant engineer Zora Arkus-Duntov, who later became General Motors’ head of high-performance penned the following letter to his superiors at GM.