Month: January 2009

The New York auto show in April will be the venue for the naming of the World Performance Car for 2009.

General Motors may be running low on cash, but youa d never know that from the amount of special edition Chevrolet Corvettes the automaker is pumping out.

Did someone out there say there was a recession going on? Maybe so, but the recent sale of a 1963 Gulf One Corvette ZO6 with a racing pedigree for $1,050,000 at the recent Mecum Auto Auction shows that the …

Following sweeping technical-regulation changes to the 2009 Touring Car category, SCCA Pro Racing announced the reassignment of two models to the class.

NASCAR announced this morning that they will allow each manufacture to have a “wild-card” for the 2009 Budweiser Shootout, increasing the size of the field from 24 to 28.

The event is scheduled to take place Feb. 7, and originally was set to include the top-six drivers from each manufacture.

Eligibility for …

Sponsors are hard to find these days in the Sprint Cup Series… Heck, they are hard to find anywhere these days. Check out the latest news about the ARCA Series.

However, teams are trying to push on, without the big dollars from the corporations. Michael Waltrip Racing announced Wednesday that David …

Sports car enthusiasts who love General Motors products are losing their non-Corvette optional choice after the current model year is over.  As announced yesterday in Autoweek, the Cadillac XLR will be no more after this year’s run.

Likely one of many moves to reduce overhead during GM‘s revitalization, the XLR was sometimes preferred by those who loved Corvette performance, but wanted more evidence of luxury in their car, or who desired  the angular styling of Corvette‘s sibling.  I recall one XLR owner coming many miles to my dealership to consider a trade for a Corvette, though, because he now knew his car wasn’t just a Corvette with a different body.  In his thinking, it was just a Cadillac.  I am sure he wasn’t alone.

By the way, you do know that the letters of the name of this Cadillac are a pun, don’t you?  If you have never said it aloud before, combine the name with the engine’s cylinder count, and say XLR8!

[ Autoweek ]

Yesterday we reported that the Honda S2000 ‘s days are numbered. In yet more bad news for wind-in-the-hair fans, Cadillac announces a Spring departure for its XLR roadster .

Chevrolet has set the sticker price for the Corvette Competition Sport packages it announced last week.

As if we needed further proof that the auto industry is in a tailspin, GM has announced plans to pull the Cadillac XLR as of this spring .