Month: September 2010

Guests at Beverly Hill’s famed property The Peninsula are finding that proposition even easier.

Motor Trend’s Jonny Lieberman takes the Porsche 911 Turbo and the Corvette ZR1 out to Willow Springs Raceway and the Mojave Spaceport’s 12,000-foot runway and put both cars through a lineup of instrumented tests. The wheelman for the tests was 24 Hours of Le Mans winner and GT2 world champion Justin Bell. Both […]

Here is a fairly original 1959 Corvette that was stored away in a barn somewhere in Wisconsin since the mid-sixties. The Corvette was recently willed to a nephew following the death of the owner and the nephew’s friend shared these pictures on the Corvette Forum. Many times, we’ll see barn cars only […]

First of all, all my 16 cars that I bought in my lifetime were my favorites. But my most favorite would have to be my 1971 Chevrolet Corvette that I purchased used in 1980.

Photo Credit: Richard Prince / GM Racing

All right Corvette Racing fans. Give yourself a big pat on the back as it looks like Doug Fehan got the most votes for the “From the Fans” awards. Now we turn our attention to the favorite driver award and both Johnny O’Connell and Jan Magnussen […]

Genovation Cars Inc., which got its start modifying Ford Focuses into a plug-in electric cars, is now working on its crown jewel a ‘ a 600-horsepower sports car that is expected to hit 60 miles per hour in under four seconds and is styled on the latest generation Chevrolet Corvette.

Talk about a reversal of fortune. For how many years now has the Corvette versus 911 story gone something like this: Yes, the Porsche is faster around a track, built better, and more fun to drive; stops shorter; pulls more gs around a skidpad; and is the waking dream of every member of our staff.

There is Corvette and there is Porsche. One is the best engineering effort of America, the other of Germany.

Frony had a brush with fame in 1962 after learning that some of the “Route 66” television show crew were in Cape Girardeau for lunch.

I was perusing the Corvettes on eBay (over 1,400 Corvettes for sale btw) a little after midnight and came across this stunning custom Corvette coupe. The combination silver/black matte custom paint immediately jumped off the screen to grab my attention. Black Matte seems to be all the rage currently and this Corvette […]