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QUICK SHIFTS: Camaro vs Corvette, C8 Understeer, Top Gear USA, Investment-Quality C2s, Cannonball Run Record

QUICK SHIFTS: Camaro vs Corvette, C8 Understeer, Top Gear USA, Investment-Quality C2s, Cannonball Run Record

After a two-week hiatus, Quick Shifts is back! Quick Shifts is a content feature here at CorvetteBlogger featuring links to Corvette and automotive-related stories of interest.

Check out these automotive quick shifts featuring a look at sibling rivalry between the Camaro and Corvette, a closer look at Randy Pobst and the C8 Corvette’s reported understeer, Top Gear USA introduces new hosts, the best V8s in the United Kingdom, an investment-grade 1967 427/435, the Cannonball Run record is shattered, and for reverse we go back a 1971 Corvette review with Zora Arkus-Duntov.

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Saturday Morning Corvette Comic: Company Perks

Saturday Morning Corvette Comic: Company Perks

Getting paid to drive a Corvette sounds like a pretty good perk! Does the Boss not get how much more productive Barnes would be if his company car WAS a Corvette?

You can browse more of our Corvette comics here!

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[POLL] What’s Your Favorite Corvette of the 1970s?

[POLL] What’s Your Favorite Corvette of the 1970s?

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We just wrapped up the third week of our Corvettes of the Decades countdown by crowning the 1971 model the greatest of the ’70s with its predecessor, the 1970 Corvette, coming in second place and the 1978 earning a nod for third.

Now it is your turn, which vintage of 70’s ‘Vette is your huckleberry?

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[PICS] Sinister Widebody Rendering Pushes the C8 Corvette’s Design Envelope

[PICS] Sinister Widebody Rendering Pushes the C8 Corvette’s Design Envelope

Photo Credit: Hugo Silva Designs

Leading up the 2020 Corvette Stingray’s reveal in California, we saw (and featured here) many different renderings of the mid-engine Corvette. But now that the car has been released, new designers are stepping up to the plate to show just how far the ME design can be extended.

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RHD C8 Corvettes Expected to Go On Sale In Australia in Early 2021

RHD C8 Corvettes Expected to Go On Sale In Australia in Early 2021

If you’re getting impatient about taking delivery of your new C8 Corvette, be grateful you’re not in the Land Down Under.

According to a story this week on motoring.com.au, the arrival of the new mid-engine Corvette won’t happen in Australia until late 2020, which means it’ll be a 2021 model.

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[VIDEO] Driving Impressions of the C8 Corvette and More From a Chevrolet Sales Pro

[VIDEO] Driving Impressions of the C8 Corvette and More From a Chevrolet Sales Pro

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Riley Piper is Chevy sales rep from Parkway Chevrolet in Tomball, TX and he attended the C8 Dealer Training Academy this week at Spring Mountain. He posted a video with photos and PDR footage of his experience driving the 2020 Corvette Stingray for the first time, and he also shares a ton of new information about the car.

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GM CEO Mary Barra Talks C8 Corvette Pricing and Spinning Off Corvette as a Brand

GM CEO Mary Barra Talks C8 Corvette Pricing and Spinning Off Corvette as a Brand

If you ever doubted the faith General Motors has in the future of the Chevrolet Corvette, listen to Chairman and CEO Mary Barra in this exclusive wide-ranging interview with MotorTrend.

It was time for Corvette to make the move to a mid-engine architecture, she said, “and it was a huge investment, but it was something we really believed in.

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The Best Corvettes of the 1970s: No.1 – The 1971 Corvette

The Best Corvettes of the 1970s: No.1 – The 1971 Corvette

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CorvetteBlogger has spent the last three weeks getting ready for 2020 by ranking the greatest Corvettes from each decade since the 1950s (check out all of the previous stories in the links below!). This week we looked at the 70s which only contained one generation of Corvette but still saw large scale changes in our favorite car’s personality and focus.

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How C8 Corvette Designers and Engineers Collaborated to Showcase the LT2 V8 Engine

How C8 Corvette Designers and Engineers Collaborated to Showcase the LT2 V8 Engine

Even the bolts that hold the 2020 Corvette Stingray together are unique to the latest rendition of America’s Sports Car.

That’s just one of the outcomes of the collaborative effort between Chevy engineers and designers that wound up touching all aspects of the new mid-engine Corvette, even something as minute as the bolts.

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Chevrolet Discounts Can Save You Nearly $12,000 on Remaining 2019 Corvettes

Chevrolet Discounts Can Save You Nearly $12,000 on Remaining 2019 Corvettes

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Corvette buyers wanting a new 2019 model under the Christmas tree this holiday season will have a December to Remember (to borrow the phrase from an automotive commercial that always runs at the end of year) as Chevrolet has finally stepped up and is offering huge discounts via employee pricing and bonus cash on all new 2019 Corvettes.

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