Month: June 2010

GM says it will launch 70 new and refreshed models around the globe in the next four years.

Tuesday, June 30, 1953, may seem unremarkable to most historians — but not Corvette enthusiasts.

The top seller at the event was an SS 454 LS6 convertible, which sold for $253,000. The muscle-bound favorite of enthusiasts and boulevard cruisers everywhere, the 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle, returned in force at the Barrett-Jackson Orange County Collector Car Auction, June 25-27. The top seller at the event was an SS 454 LS6 convertible, which sold …

Germany’s BMW car company is known for its sporty cars and not for fuel efficiency.

Who wants to bet the driver is a gold chain wearing guy named Tony?

Source:
TheChive.com

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Despite rumors to the contrary, it seems that Chevrolet’s halo vehicle will continue using its trademark V8 engine and not a V6.

Because the Tigers player was robbed of a perfect game due to a poor umpire call weeks back, GM gifted Armando Galarraga with a brand new 2010 Chevrolet Corvette convertible.

Yes, the gifted vehicle did cost a heavy penny at $53,000. However, the nationwide publicity that Galarraga received about the poor call and GM’s sincere donated gift doesn’t even compare. We’re talking $9 million worth of media coverage!!

Ann Arbor’s Joyce Julius & Associates evaluated this significant amount, which included coverage in:

• 714 television programs
• 151,000 print publication and website entries

GM was smart to take advantage of this unique yet completely unrelated sporting event. On behalf of Matick Chevrolet, kudos to GM!

[ Fox News ]

It was fifty-seven years ago today that the first Corvettes rolled off a temporary assembly line in Flint, Michigan and into the hearts and dreams of Americans. By the end of the year, 300 of the Polo White with Sportsman Red interior Corvettes were produced making Corvette the first mass-production car to use […]

Canadian C5 New rule. If you send purge pictures like this, you go right to the top of the Street Heat pile.

Here are some real world photos of the C6 Corvette-based Rossi SixtySix from its appearance at the Bloomington Gold Corvette show last weekend. While computer renderings are cool in all, it’s refreshing to see a car actually live up to the hype.

We understand from several in attendance at the Bloomington Gold show that […]