Month: November 2009

Nelson Ortiz washes a new Chevrolet Corvette on the sales lot at the Kendall Chevrolet at The Dadeland Mall in Miami.

Kerbeck Corvette held their 6th annual Toys for Tots Corvette run and and the Corvette community turned out big time! Over 800 Corvettes showed up bearing more than 3,000 toys that will be distributed by the Marines to underprivledged kids during the holidays. Former Chief Engineer Dave McLellan led the procession of new and classic Corvettes and even the police escorts showed their support! A Corvette wave goes out to all who participated!

 

Now that we have a new month, we wanted to update all of our readers on November’s Corvette incentives from GM.  Not much has changed, but we’ll break down everything for you here.

2010 Corvettes

• $500 discount if you waive GM’s 60 day Satisfaction Guaranteed program

2009 Corvettes (excluding ZR1)

• $4,000 customer rebate available
• $500 discount if you waive GM’s 60 day Satisfaction Guaranteed program (can be combined with either the $4,000 rebate or the financing offer below)
• 0% Financing available up to 60 months or 3.9% Financing available up to 72 months

2009 Corvette ZR1

• $500 discount if you waive GM’s 60 day Satisfaction Guaranteed program

2008 Corvettes

• $6,000 final dealer payout

In addition to everything listed above, we will give you the GM Employee Discount on any 2009 Corvette purchased from our inventory.  We have a great selection still available, including a Black on Black 2LZ Z06.  Call us at (888) 875-0728 or leave a comment which will be kept private if you’re interested in learning more.

We will NOT be undersold.

Besides the twin-turbo V6 Jay Leno Camaro we profiled earlier, we got to see Snergy, Chroma, Dusk and Graphics.

La Carrera Panamericana is a 7 day/2,000 mile road rally run in stages along Mexico’s Panamerican Highway. Here are two Corvettes that recently competed in the classic south-of-the-border race. [More]

Earlier this year, Chevrolet announced the return of the Corvette Grand Sport model. It?s a track-oriented Corvette with wider wheels and tires, special suspension tuning and unique exterior details. The Corvette Grand Sport achieves a 0-60 time of less than four seconds, pulls 1.0 g on the skid pad and still boasts an EPA-rated highway fuel economy 26 mpg. GM is now at the 2009 SEMA show in Las Vegas where they announced a slew of cool accessories for the new Grand Sport. [More]

A strong performance by GM’s four core brands — Chevrolet, Buick, GMC, and Cadillac — resulted in GM U. S. October sales of 177,603 vehicles, up 4 percent from last October, the company’s first year-over-year gain since January 2008.

GM released the October sales report today that shows 1,154 Corvettes were delivered last month. This is a decrease of 27% over September’s 1,585 deliveries and 1.4% off October 2008’s sales of 1,170. For the calendar year (January-October) 11,949 Corvettes have been delivered, a decreased of 51.3% from the 24,554 Corvettes sold over the same time period in 2008. [More]

Gran Turismo for PSP is now available. This new Play Station game allows players to race a wide assortment of over 800 sports, historic and racing vehicles. The game, developed by Polyphony Digital, offers great game handling and the opportunity to either play alone or with multi-players.

With each win, players earn cash and can then purchase their next car from the 830-vehicle list. As one’s car collection grows, players may add specific cars to their “favorite” status, which facilitates the car selection process for future races.

Though, each vehicle drives differently – you should definitely try test-driving one of the nine Corvettes listed. In no particular order, they are:

1. Chevrolet Corvette C5-R ’00
2. Chevrolet Corvette Convertible ’54
3. Chevrolet Corvette Coupe (C2) ’63
4. Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport ’96
5. Chevrolet Corvette Stingray L46 350 ’69
6. Chevrolet Corvette Z06 Race Car ’63
7. Chevrolet Corvette Z06 ’00
8. Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1 ’90
9. Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 ’09

After test-driving the Gran Turismo Corvettes – tell us what you think! Blog with us, and add your comments below. For more information about the game, click Gran Turismo for PSP.

[ Jalopnik ]

Chevrolet took the covers off five dramatic Camaro concepts at this week’s 2009 SEMA Auto Show, kicking off what is expected to be one of the event’s biggest showcases.