Month: March 2010

The annual review of the best and worst cars on the road has been published by Consumer Reports .

We spoke with Corvette Racing’s Program Manager Doug Fehan on the Friday before the 12 Hours of Sebring. We asked Doug about technology transfers between racing and production, last season’s climatic ending at Laguna Seca as well as what’s new for the team for 2010.

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Members of GM’s Corvette team were at the 12 Hours of Sebring on Friday, March 19, 2010 to unveil the new 2011 Corvette Z06 Carbon Limited Edition. This new Corvette for 2011 features the Z07 package which includes the Corvette ZR1’s Brembo carbon ceramic brakes, front splitter, 19/20″ black wheels with Michelin PS2s, rear ZR1-style spoiler plus a custom suede interior.

We also learned some other new features for the 2011 Corvette Z06 Carbon not covered in the press release: A new tuned exhaust system, custom VIN and the ability to choose between different steering settings.

UPDATE:
? New VIDEO Walk Around the 2011 Corvette Z06 Carbon Limited Edition
? [PICS] First Look: The 2011 Corvette Z06 Carbon Limited Edition

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To say that I was excited to be testing the all-new 2010 Chevrolet Camaro would be an enormous understatement.

Quite simply, these are very impressive.  Head on over to our friends at AutoBlog who have the complete gallery!

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If your everyday car is too dull, get a BMW 3-series. If the 3-series doesn’t do the trick, get an M3.

Celebration To celebrate this historic occasion, Chevrolet participated in a year-long series of events to honor its foremost offspring.

Oliver Gavin, a racing British driver and four-time American Le Mans Series class champion, will be apart of the driver lineup for the world championship of car racing, set to begin soon. Gavin will drive a Corvette C6.R for Mad Croc Racing on eight of the 10 scheduled races in the FIA GT1 World Championship.

The FIA GT1 World Championship will hold 10 events in 10 countries on four continents. A maximum of six car manufacturers have entered the series, which include Aston Martin, Corvette, Ford, Lamborghini, Maserati and Nissan.

The races will take place as scheduled:

Round	Circuit	Date
1	Yas Marina Circuit, United Arab Emirates	April 17
2	Silverstone Circuit, United Kingdom	May 2
3	Masaryk Circuit, Brno, Czech Republic	May 23
4	Circuit Paul Ricard, Le Castellet, France	July 4
5	Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Belguim	August 1
6	Nurburgring, Germany	August 29
7	Autodromo Internacional do Algarve, Portimao, Portugal	September 19
8	Durban street circuit, South Africa	November 7
9	Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace, Sao Paulo, Brazil	November 28
10	Potrero de los Funes Circuit, San Luis, Argentina	December 5

Gavin will be teamed together with Finland’s Pertti Kuismanen. Mika Salo will stand in for Gavin on a couple races due to Gavin’s prior ALMS Corvette racing commitments.

"I’m looking forward and am intrigued to see how it will evolve, and it’ll be good to be racing against the likes of top-line drivers such as Darren [Turner] and Tomas [Enge], reprising our ALMS battles from a few years ago,” said Gavin.

To view Gavin’s racing record, click here.

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Notice the dealer plates on the car?? Heck of a save, but there is a reason for traction control and not hooning a 436-horsepower rear wheel drive sports car in the rain!

Source:
Streetfire.net

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