Month: October 2009

The authorization process for NAHB members to receive $500 towards the purchase or lease of most new GM passenger cars, light-duty trucks, vans and SUVs – whether for business or personal use -just got easier.

Without a doubt, the Grand Sport is the preferred model for those purchasing a new Corvette for the 2010 model year!  So, what is it about the Grand Sport that draws the customers?

I think the answers to this question are easy.  They are Looks and Choices.

I say Looks, because for the first time, the Corvette buyer can get that beautiful wide body look, previously available only to the buyer of the Z06 or the ZR1.  You have just got to love those gills!

And, I say Choices because you can have these desirable looks in a Convertible, as well as in a Coupe!  In addition, you can have the 6-Speed Paddle-Shift Automatic Transmission or the 6-Speed Manual.  Yes, you have new choices in this year’s Corvette line!

Scott Burgess of the Detroit News was one of many auto writers to pick up on these qualities, and write about them.  Scott is spot on, as usual.

 

FTW, this is the coolest halloween costume I’ve seen this season.

 

This may be the first bone-stock Corvette ZR1 to run the quarter mile in the 10’s. Corvette Forum’s Racerns posted video and the time slip from last Monday’s drag run at Maryland International Raceway. Following the bone stock quarter mile runs, the Corvette ZR1 switched to drag radials and the forum’s “Ranger” dialed up an even faster run of 10.730 @ 132.46 mph. Videos of both runs are after the jump. [More]

‘Everybody of generation who likes cars loves corvettes’ By AMY COYNE BREDESON abredeson@islandpacket.com 843-706-8134 Published Sunday, October 25, 2009 Comments Mouse over the photo to enlarge Schedule of events Thursday – 9 a.m.-4 p.m.: Savannah/Hilton Head Speed Classic Test & Tune Day, Westin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort & Spa, Hutchinson …

If you’ve been following our C4 project from the outset, you know that the past few years have seen the car make depressingly little progress toward its goal of achieving quarter-mile parity with its late-model kin.

Reports of Godzilla’s invincibility are exaggerated. Any aficionado of Japanese monster movies can tell you the giant lizard frequently gets its scaly green tail kicked back to the Marianas Trench, often by another monster and a resourceful Japanese Boy Scout.

South Dakota Lottery Contact: Kelly Thompson, 773-5770, or kelly.thompson@state.sd.us Jack Stack of Sioux Falls today claimed the second of two new Corvette convertibles that were offered as the grand prize in the South Dakota Lottery’s Corvette Summer scratch ticket game.

I guess the new Convertible Corvette Grand Sport is just too tame for some folks. [More]

Source:
Jalopnik

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