Month: February 2009

Corvette Stingray Concept Highlights GM’s “Transformers” Vehicles at… GM’s star lineup of vehicles featured in this summer’s “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” motion picture just made their debut at the …

General Motors Corp. plans to unveil today five concept vehicles starring in the upcoming summer blockbuster sequel ‘Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen’ — a marketing move the struggling automaker is hoping …

Stefan Gies of Aachen, Germany has been named winner of the 2008 Chevrolet Corvette that Digi-Key Corp.

Tom Durant knows tough times. The auto industry fell into shambles in 1992 just as he gambled on buying a near-dead Chevrolet dealership in downtown Fort Worth.

ExxonMobil’s flagship brand of synthetic motor oil, Mobil 1, has been selected as the factory fill and service fill endorsed motor oil for the new Chevy Cobalt SS Coupe and Chevy HHR-SS. Both vehicles are …

Michael Moga leans on a 1970 Plymouth Hemi ‘Cuda with a rare A990 race Hemi engine.

Jimmie Johnson may be sporting a new, rougher look this season, but one thing is still the same: He expects to win the Sprint Cup Championship.

Johnson has dominated the Cup Series the past three seasons. Say what you want about the No. 48 Lowe’s team, but when it counts (and …

As a NASCAR fan for the past six seasons, I must admit one thing: I will need a program for the upcoming season to remember who is driving what car, sponsored by which company, and for which team.

With all the changes in the offseason, I decided to take a look …

The name n2a means “no two alike,” and that seems an appropriate name for the maker of this Anteros.

The question is being asked more and more: What exactly do we know about the 2010 Corvette?

If you visit the factory website, the link to upcoming vehicles focuses on the new Equinox, the Orlando, the Volt, the Camaro, and the Cruze, but not the Corvette.

Well, we know that the original predictions of a mid-engined C7 Corvette coming in 2010 were a pipe dream.  Do you remember reading AutoSpies back in August 2007, with that prediction?  Even before the financial challenges to GM became so obvious, production of a new C7 Corvette, whether mid-engined or not, had been postponed at least a couple of years.

Some websites in the fall predicted that there would likely be no changes to speak of at all.  ConsumerGuideAuto fell into that category.

DigitalCorvettes played with the dreamer’s list of possible and potential changes for 2010, back in October.  Forum posters listed all of these changes as on their wishlist:

Wide body option

Better seats

Hidden headlight option

Hardtop convertible

Direct injection

Cylinder deactivation

Weight reduction through more extensive use of aluminum

Better radio

Fixed roof notch-back coupe (like 1999 Z06)

Whether these posters would pony up the cash to purchase new Corvettes with these features was not prominent in the forum.

Very soon, we’ll look at what is more probable, and when we will know for sure just exactly what’s up.