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In a spectacle that combined horsepower with audacious ambition, a stock Stars and Stripes-adorned C8 Chevrolet Corvette recently took to the skies, soaring 110 feet through the air at action sports icon Travis Pastrana's "dirt playground" in Maryland. While Pastrana, renowned for his daredevilry in motocross, rally...
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The next time you hit up the C8 Corvette configurator, you'll notice that General Motors has thrown in a couple of hot new colors while taking away another couple at the same time. Say hello to Rosswell Green Metallic and Blade Silver Metallic, as well as say adios to Sea Wolf Gray and the beloved Rapid Blue Metallic...
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To commemorate the opening of a new General Motors advanced design studio in Birmingham, England, the design team there has revealed a wild Corvette concept vehicle. The design looks far into the future while taking styling cues from the past. The car is meant to be electric-powered, mid-engined (or motored, as is the...
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Hot dang, General Motors has gone and done it! What is "it," you ask? The automaker recently took a couple of its 1,064-horsepower 2025 C8 Corvette ZR1s to the ATP Automotive Testing Papenburg test track in Germany and clocked a max velocity of 233 mph, something that the development team wasn't expecting. Moreover...
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Debuting with descriptors such as "mind-bending," "like a freight train," and "next level," the new 2025 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 has the chops (on paper) to be the most powerful Corvette ever assembled. Think non-electrified 1,000+ horsepower from a twin-turbocharged 5.5-liter V8, a top speed of over 215 mph, plus a...
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Here it is, folks. General Motors just released the first official image of the 2023 Chevrolet Corvette Z06, minus camouflage. The car won't make its official debut until October 23rd, but GM decided to release this single image to appease car enthusiasts excited about what will be the most powerful C8 Corvette. Well...
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If you thought that the Chevrolet C8 Corvette Stingray was intense, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. Of course, we all knew that General Motors has been working behind the scenes on a hotter version of the current-generation Corvette, but the company announced this week that the new Z06 would make its official debut on...
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Well folks, here it is: the 2020 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray, aka C8 Corvette. The vehicle isn't officially supposed to be unveiled until a little over an hour from right now, but as with most things these days, it has leaked early.
Just look at it. It looks downright amazing with its new mid-engine proportions...
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Tonight will be a historic moment for gearheads that intently follow the car industry. The Chevrolet Corvette throughout its entire run as a production vehicle has been a front-engine, rear-wheel-drive vehicle. And the for vast majority of those years, it has been powered by a V8 engine.
The 2020 Corvette Stingray...
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"America's Sports" car is getting its most radical makeover in its 60+ years of existence for its 8th generation (C8). The Corvette has always been a front-engine, rear-wheel-drive vehicle, but that all changes for the 2020 model year which sees the car shift to a mid-engine configuration.
General Motors has...
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After years of speculation, spy shots and insider rumors from General Motors, the automotive giant has finally confirmed what we already knew: the mythical mid-engined Corvette will soon be upon us. The idea of a mid-engined Corvette dates back to the 60s (via various concepts and design studies), but the vehicle has...
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The Detroit Auto Show is just a few months away, which means that the next-generation C8 Chevrolet Corvette is starting to shed more and more of its heavy camouflage. Back in early October, we got a nice look at the track-oriented C8.R racing around Road America wearing final bodywork.
This time around, the regular...
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In case you haven't already heard (or have been living under a rock for the past two years), the next generation Chevrolet Corvette is going to a mid-engined sports cars. After 60+ years with a front-engine, rear-wheel drive configuration, General Motors apparently feels that it's time for a change to better compete...
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We here at HotHardware love fast cars, so our ears definitely perked up when the upcoming 2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 leaked to the web yesterday. The ZR1 is supposedly the swan song for the C7 chassis, and by all accounts, the vehicle will go out with a tremendous bang.
At the heart of the ZR1 is a burly LT5 V8...
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General Motors recently announced that it is killing off its Australian-bred and produced, rear-wheel drive Holden Commodore. For Americans, this means that the Commodore-based, hard-charging Chevrolet SS is also being euthanized.
But Holden isn’t going down without a fight, which is why it is coming out guns...
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Owners of 2015 Chevrolet Corvettes could be breaking the law if they use the vehicle’s Valet Mode feature. General Motors has been sending out letters to Corvette owners and its Chevrolet dealerships with the warning that the use of this feature could be illegal in some states. Valet Mode is simply a Performance...
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