Month: May 2011

An American flag flies in front of the General Motors, Global Headquarters in Detroit, Michigan, Monday, June 1, 2009.

The 2011 Chevrolet Corvette Coupe delivers an impressive 26 mpg on the highway. Everyone and his goldfish knows that you can get good gas mileage by driving a Toyota Prius.

Created at the start of the 1960’s and lasting until the beginning of the 1970’s, a unique class of American Car appeared , and almost instantaneously became extremely desirable , particularly with younger drivers , before fading promptly from the scene to become a modern day classic The famous ‘Muscle Cars’. Muscle Cars were called this due to …

Article contributed by Steve Burns

Bloomington Gold has announced that their popular GoldTour Corvette road tour will be returning to the event line up for the 2011 show coming up this June. The road tour through the rolling northern Illinois countryside was shelved in 2010 for the first time in recent memory. Held as part […]

Corvette fans and Kentucky can breath easy. General Motors has announced it will invest $131 million in the Bowling Green Corvette plant to get it ready for the next-generation of “America’s sports car.” GM didn’t give any hints about when the next-generation ‘Vette would debut other than saying the current generation is scheduled to be built “for …

Photo Credit: National Corvette Museum

GM North American President Mark Reuss brought some very good news to state and local community leaders in Bowling Green as well as for the 500 employees of the Corvette Assembly Plant and Corvette lovers everywhere. General Motors will be investing $131 million in the plant for upgrading tooling […]

General Motors announced today that it will invest $131 million in the Bowling Green Assembly Plant, to support production of the next generation Corvette.

“This is a significant day for anyone who believes that America should build world-class, high-performance products,” said Mark Reuss, GM North America president. "Corvette has no domestic peer for performance and pedigree, and stands alongside the world’s best supercars, with almost 60 years of continuous heritage.

The announcement came at an event held at the plant this morning with employees and several special guests, including Gov. Steve Beshear. The governor last June signed a bill designating Corvette as the "official state sports car of Kentucky."  "Kentucky has a longstanding, mutually beneficial relationship with GM, and this significant investment further demonstrates the strength of our partnership,” Beshear said.

The plant in Bowling Green is scheduled to continue building the current generation Corvette for at least the next two model years, including the 2012 model year that begins this summer.  During this period, the investment starts to take effect, preparing the facility for the C7.

Bowling Green is, of course, the exclusive manufacturer of all versions of the Vette – Coupe, Convertible, Grand Sport, Z06, and ZR1.  Corvette’s current generation, the sixth in its 58-year history, has seen the car enter the realm of the world’s highest-performing cars.

Nearly 400 production workers assemble these vehicles on a one-shift, 10-hour, Monday-Thursday production schedule.  Bowling Green has been home to Corvette production since 1981.

General Motors is putting more muscle into making Corvettes. The automaker said Wednesday it will invest $131 million – and add about 250 jobs – at the south-central Kentucky assembly plant that produces the classic muscle car.

The three-day sale took place at the Carlisle Expo Center during the annual ‘Spring Carlisle’ weekend event, producing a 58 percent sell-through rate for a total of over $2.7 million** in sales.

At the Corvette Museum’s C5/C6 Bash, we talked with Corvette Assembly Plant Manager Dave Tatman. Dave came to Bowling Green last August and calls his assignment a “dream job”. We spoke about the shortage of the metallic paint pigment Xirallic and if that will effect production of the Centennial’s Carbon Flash paint, the […]