Chevrolet (Page 49)

The Chevrolet Corvette C7R showed that it is one of the best production based race cars in the world this past weekend, with the Corvette Racing crew claiming the 2015 24 Hours of LeMans win in the GTE Pro class – winning by 5 laps after a 24 hour long battle with a Ferrari 459 Italia.

The General Motors team tasked with restoring three of the eight historic Chevrolet Corvette show cars that were swallowed up by a sinkhole under the National Corvette Museum have started on the second of the cars, this time working on fixing up the 1992 Corvette that was the 1 millionth Corvette ever built.

Since the 2016 Chevrolet Camaro was introduced on Detroit’s Belle Isle a few weeks back, the battle between the Camaro and the Ford Mustang has heated up, leading me to put together a short “tale of the tape” piece showing the currently available vitals for these two American muscle cars.

Chevy Volt is building on some impressive numbers. Look what it has achieved so far in the past five years.

While we don’t know the exact number just yet, General Motors has reportedly turned in a record Nürburgring lap of some sort for the 2015 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 and according to chief engineer Tadge Juechter, we should all know how fast the C7 Z06 got around the Ring very soon.

This past weekend, the 2016 Chevrolet Camaro SS stopped by the MIFBody.com car show in Milford, Michigan, and one of the show’s attendees has posted a video of the 6th gen car leaving – offering us a chance to hear the new LT1 grumble in the new muscle car.

When the 2016 Chevrolet Camaro was introduced last month in Detroit, we learned that the new generation GM muscle car would come with a turbocharged 4-cylinder engine similar to that offered in the 2015 Ford Mustang EcoBoost, but based on the specifications of the Camaro turbo 4, it seems very unlikely that GM will see the same success from their fuel-sipping model as Ford does – at least not in the United States.

Roughly 16 months ago, a sinkhole under the floor of the National Corvette Museum Skydome exhibit opened up and swallowed eight Corvette show cars, but the fully restored display area will reopen next month in the same form as before the Earth tried to claim those special American sports cars.

Recent reports state that there are 6,000 2015 Chevy Volts on Dealer lots.

Toyota’s expanded manufacturing capacity comes on-line, and Tacoma sales jump 31%

A Car was on Fire on Saturday in Kaufman County Texas over the weekend and a strong smell of fuel was reported. To our surprise it wasn’t a Chevy Volt, or Tesla or Nissan Leaf according to reports. It was a gas car fire. The Story didn’t even state what type of car it was; however, from the video you can tell it wasn’t one of the three vehicles I referenced above.

Since the 2016 Chevrolet Camaro debuted 12 days ago on Detroit’s Belle Isle, we have received a great many comments from readers who both love and hate the new design, so we reached out to a pair of Camaro community leaders to see what they think of the 6th gen Camaro.

While the new Cadillac ATS-V is an awesome compact performance sedan with a twin turbo V6 putting out 464hp and 445tq, Motor Trend has reported that General Motors is working on an even higher performance ATS-V that will pack the LS7 V8 that currently motivates the Chevrolet Camaro Z28.

General Motors brags about the Chevrolet Camaro outselling the Ford Mustang each of the past five years, but when you look at historic sales based on model year rather than calendar year, the Mustang has outsold the Camaro a whopping 42 times in the past 51 years – with Ford selling over 4.2 million more Mustangs than Chevy has sold Camaros.

The ink is barely dry on the many articles around the world discussing the debut of the 2016 Chevrolet Camaro, yet there are already renderings of the 2016 Camaro Convertible and the next gen Camaro Z28 popping up online – including these two beautiful images done by skilled automotive artist X-Tomi.

The automotive world is still abuzz from the debut of the 2016 Chevrolet Camaro this past weekend in Detroit, but the news has surfaced that production of the 5th generation Camaro in Canada will come to an end on November 20th, 2015 – marking the end of an era that has spanned the last two generations of the GM muscle car.

When the 2016 Chevrolet Camaro debuted this past Saturday afternoon at a rainy event on Detroit’s Belle Isle, we brought you live images of the debut and the basic details of the next generation muscle car – but today we take a closer look at the key performance details of Camaro Six.

After months of speculation and waiting, the 2016 Chevrolet Camaro made its grand debut at a private event on Detroit’s Belle Isle and here are just a few shots of the 6th gen GM muscle car from the big debut.

The 2016 Chevrolet Camaro will make its grand debut tomorrow at a special event on Detroit’s Belle Isle, but the folks at CNBC let the cat out of the bag this morning, revealing the 6th gen Camaro on their show Squawk Box – and members of the forum at GM Inside News were quick to get screen shots.

The 2016 Chevrolet Camaro will make its grand debut this weekend at Detroit’s Belle Isle and according to a new report, the first examples of the next generation Camaro will reach dealerships around the US before the end of the 2015 calendar year.

The introduction of the 2016 Chevrolet Camaro is just a few days away now, but even before the next generation Camaro has met the world – there is already a rumor of a special edition package that comes via a General Motors trademark filing.

The National Corvette Museum will give away a 2015 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 this Thursday as part of their fundraising raffle program and if you didn’t get a ticket for the Z06 raffle, you have another chance to win a new Corvette from the Museum later this month.

General Motors dropped the final set of teaser images of the 2016 Chevrolet Camaro, this time showing us the side profile and the center of the grille – both of which give us our best official view of the 6th gen Camaro thus far.

Those Chevrolet performance fans who are involved in the gaming world will be happy to hear that the 2015 Corvette Z06 coupe has come to Forza Horizon 2 as part of the May car pack, bringing the most track capable Corvette of all time to one of the greatest open-world racing games of all time.

The new 2016 Chevrolet Volt debuted at the 2015 Detroit Auto Show with a new look, a greater all-electric range and improved fuel economy when the gasoline range-extending engine is being relied upon and now we know that this new and improved Chevy Volt will also cost less than the outgoing models.

The sales boom for the 2015 Ford Mustang continued in April 2015, posting the best sales figures in almost a decade while once again comfortably outselling both the Chevrolet Camaro and the Dodge Challenger – and Mustang sales are likely to continue to improve as we get into the summer months.

While it had been speculated that the new 2016 Chevrolet Camaro would be the official pace car for the 2015 Indy 500, General Motors announced today that the 2015 Corvette Z06 would lead the field at the 99th running of the Indianapolis 500 with local celebrity and NASCAR champ Jeff Gordon at the wheel.

The newest pair of teaser images for the 2016 Chevrolet Camaro was introduced today, this time showing the hood lines and the new rear spoiler of the 6th gen muscle car.

The folks at Hennessey Performance have just offered up a video of their first 2015 Corvette HPE1000 build, showing the 1,000 horsepower Stingray getting a light workout on the dyno.

Last Friday we brought you a look at the 2016 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 C7.R Edition, but that isn’t the only news for the 2016 model year Corvette – and today we take a look at the other changes for next year’s new Corvette Stingray and Z06.