Month: December 2011

With end of the year car sales in full swing, the experts at Kelley Blue Book have put together a Top 10 list to showcase ten of the most heavily discounted cars and trucks available. The 2011 Chevrolet Corvette Coupe was listed in the #1 position as the best new car deal this holiday season.

With its #1 selection as the top 2011 holiday car deal, Kelley Blue Book writes the following about the 2011 Chevy Corvette:

Once hailed as America’s only true two-seat sports car, the 2011 Chevrolet Corvette continues to offer driving enthusiasts the most bang for the buck, running neck-and-neck (and in some cases surpassing) exotic cars costing up to four times as much – or even more. Nowhere else but in America can you find a two-seat sports car costing roughly $50,000 and delivering 430 horsepower while returning an EPA highway fuel economy figure of 26 miles per gallon.

For the last few months, General Motors has had some really good rebates and incentives for both 2011 and 2012 Corvettes and we are sure that was one of the primary factors in ranking the 2011 Corvette Coupe #1 on the KBB list.

Current offers on the remaining 2011 Corvette stock include a $3,000 rebate or financing 0% down for 60 months or 2.9% for 72 months. Additionally, current Corvette owners (any year, but must have valid registration) can get another $3,000 rebate towards the purchase of a new Corvette.

Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end. Our friends at Kerbeck Corvette are now telling us that GM will be discontinuing the $3,000 Corvette owner rebate on January 3, 2012. Other rebates that are also scheduled to end include the $1,500 dealer cash and the $2,000 lease conquest rebate.

However, it’s still not to late to take advantage of these programs! Kerbeck has over 70 Brand New Corvettes in stock and available right now with huge discounts to add on to these programs as long as you act before 01/03/12. Call Dave Salvatore at 877-537-2325 or email him at dave@kerbeck.com for pricing and availability.

Source:
Kelley Blue Book

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If there is a “one size fits all” gift we can recommend for your favorite Corvette enthusiast, it’s the DVD documentary called “The Quest”. Based on the story of Corvette’s first win at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, “The Quest” tells the story of how one man’s dream to find and restore the winning Le Mans race car was cut short and how his son set out to fulfill his dad’s dream of returning the Corvette to Le Mans with its original driver to mark the 50th anniversary of its historic win.

“The Quest” re-visits the 1960 race through color film shot at the time. It also re-creates what happened to each of the four Corvettes after they disappeared for decades. Never before seen footage, photos and interviews help bring this amazing story to life.

As collectors and restorers recognized the historical importance of the former racing Corvettes, they went looking for them. Chip Miller, renowned collector and co-founder of Corvettes at Carlisle, set a goal of finding and acquiring the #3 class-winning 1960 Corvette…with a dream of restoring it and taking it back to Le Mans in 2010, with John Fitch, one of its original drivers.

Within only a few years of completing his dream, Chip Miller died from an extremely rare disease called amyloidosis. His goal was cut short in 2004. But his son, Lance, picked up Chip’s quest and took the car and its driver back to Le Mans in June of 2010…marking 50 years of Corvette Racing at Le Mans…and fulfilling his late father’s dream.

“The Quest” is a heart-warming story of visions cut short, obstacles to success and a son’s love of his father. The documentary has something for everyone… whether hard core car enthusiast or someone who just loves a good story.

You can purchase “The Quest” on DVD for $20 at The Quest Documentary. It’s also available from our friends at CorvetteCentral.com.

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Over the last few days, we’ve been on the receiving end of some pretty interesting rumors regarding Corvette Racing. About this time every year, Fehan and the team review their driver lineups for the coming season and decisions are made on which drivers will be offered full time rides vs the part time endurance races. What we’ve been hearing so far is that Antonio Garcia will become a full-time driver for the Corvette Racing team. Multiple unconfirmed reports are listing Olivier Beretta as the driver that Garcia will be replacing.

Garcia’s rumored ascendency to a full time driver status was likely cemented in France during the 24 Hours of Le Mans. With Beretta sick from exhaust fumes, Garcia and Milner ran double and triple stints to put the #73 Corvette C6.R at the top of the GTE-Pro class.

Garcia joined the team as one of the two part-time endurance drivers with Corvette Racing in 2009. During his career which also saw him as a member of the arch rival Aston Martin DBR9 GT1 team, Garcia has three first place class wins at the 24 Hours of Le Mans including two with Corvette Racing.

Garcia’s full-time ride last year was with the GRAND-AM team Spirit of Daytona while driving the #90 DP. We last saw him in Daytona for the testing the new Corvette Daytona Prototype with Corvette Racing’s Oliver Gavin and Richard Westbrook.

ALMS prognosticator Murphy the Bear tweated earlier this week that Garcia would be racing full time for Corvette Racing next year and that the other Corvette Racing part-time endurance driver Richard Westbrook will replace Garcia on the Spirit of Daytona team. In another tweet this morning, the Bear claims that “Most likely – but not certain – regular ALMS driver displaced by Garcia is Olivier Beretta, according to other sources”.

Beretta has been a member of Corvette Racing since 2004. He has 4 class wins with the team at the 24 Hours of Le Mans and is the most successful driver in ALMS history with 41 career victories and 23 career poles through 2010.

Corvette Racing usually maintains radio silence during the off-season and especially in matters pertaining to driver changes, so we have yet to hear anything official at this point. But when it does come, we’ll bring to you immediately!

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