Category: Vette Videos

Watch Footage of the Mid-Engine Corvette at the Nurburgring – VIDEO

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C8 Mid-engine test driver flogging the pants off a C8 mule Corvette and having too much fun!

It will not be long! I speculate that the mid-engine Zora Corvette will debut either this November at the Dubai (the exact date has not yet been set, for more info, CLICK HERE), or at the Detroit Auto Show in January 2019. I say this because the recent batch of photos and videos are very clear. Some of the surface details might be what they call “holder pieces”, but we now clearly know the C8’s overall shape. The debut can not be far off.

The video also provides another big hint as to what’s under the hood. Watch and listen for yourself. All I’ll say is that the car sounds very tame.

Special thanks to Jalopnik.com for the excellent video. Jalopnik.com offers more commentary HERE. – Scott

All-electric Corvette claims new speed record of 186.8

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GXE

by James Vincent for The Verge

GXE is a prototype created by small automotive company Genovation, and uses state-of-the-art electric motors

Dateline 3.29.16: A new world record for the fastest street legal all-electric car has been awarded to the Genovation GXE, a heavily-modified 2006 Z06 Corvette which hit a top speed of 186.8 mph at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida last month. Continue reading “

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How Difficult Is It To Control A 3,000-HP Corvette Z06? VIDEO

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by Joel Patel as republished from Car Buzz
Really, really difficult

Dateline 11.28.15: There are powerful Chevrolet Corvettes and then there’s this 3,000-hp Chevrolet C6 Corvette Z06. Kelly Bise Racing and KP Racing took a stock C6 Z06 and added a pair of turbos with other performance upgrades for a whopping total of 3,000 hp. Continue reading “

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[VIDEO] Neighbors File Lawsuit Against the National Corvette Museum

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as republished from Corvettblogger

Dateline October 2015: With all the back-and-forth going on between the National Corvette Museum Motorsports Park, the City-County Planning Commission, the Code Enforcement Board, and the neighbors near the track, we figured the disagreement would wind up being settled in court. Continue reading “

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Lightning Laps-Corvette Ride-and-Handling Engineer Jim Mero Answers Seven Questions – VIDEO

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by K.C. Colwell, Tony Quiroga, Aaron Robinson, and Eric Tingwall | Illustration by Raúl Allén as republished from Car and Driver

7 Questions for Corvette ride and handling Engineer, Jim Mero

Dateline October 2015 Corvette ride-and-handling engineer Jim Mero knows a thing or three about putting down a fast lap. Watch him attack the Nürburgring in a C6 ZR1 on YouTube if you don’t believe us (see above). During his 11 years working on the Corvette, he estimates that he has done more than 15,000 laps on tracks all over the world. Continue reading “

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Randy Pobst Flogs the Pants Off a 2015 Z06 Corvette – Video

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Let’s hope there’s a retest with a Z06 that’s running right! – Video

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Dateline: 10.1.15 – Watch and listen to this car and it’s hard to believe this is a factory-built street car. Factory Corvettes haven’t “sounded” this good since the days of the ’65-’69 big-blocks with side pipes. While in the beginning the car “sounds” awesome, something wasn’t right with this particular Z06. You hear are few sour exhaust notes then hear Pobst say, “This is REALLY not running right AT ALL!” The car grips and brakes great, but the LT4 was not delivering. Let’s try this again, Chevrolet.

Bum test car aside, with absolutely nothing to apologize for or make “yea, but…” arguments over while splitting hairs, you have to wonder, “Where is all this going???” I don’t think this will be the Corvette’s high-water-mark as far as power is concerned. Continue reading “

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One Millionth Corvette Restored – Timelapse Video

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1-Millionth Corvette Restoration Timelapse

Chevy finishes restoring one millionth Corvette after sinkhole damage

by JORDAN CHITTLEY as republished from The Globe and Mail

When a sinkhole opened up underneath the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky last year, it swallowed the one millionth Corvette that rolled off the assembly line – a white 1992 model.

The fall made the iconic sports car look more like a pancake. Now, after more than four months and 1,200 man hours the restoration is complete. Continue reading “One Millionth Corvette Restored – Timelapse Video” →

A Sneak-Preview of The Quest, the 1960 Briggs Cunningham Le Mans Racer Restoration Story

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Corvettes on Netflix Watch Instantly!!!

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Dateline: 9.5.15 – If you are a Netflix subscriber, you’re in for a treat! Corvette Nation aired for two seasons with the third season bogged down in a law suit. Well, it you missed the series as it rolled out on the cable network, Velocity, seasons 1 and 2 are on Netflix in their Watch Instantly library.

Corvette Nation is fun with great visuals and if you’re already a Netflix subscriber, you can’t beat the price. Concerning the lawsuit, Continue reading “

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First-Ever 1963 Z06 Corvette Stingray – Dave MacDonald Picks Up, Then Races Z06 #684 At Riverside

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The First Z06 Corvette Was a Race Car!

Dateline: 8.30.15 – The original Z06 was Duntov’s “racer kit” for the then-new 1963 Sting Ray. Unlike modern Z06s, there was no flash to the first Z06, it was strictly hardware designed for the racetrack – no badges, special body panels, or designations at all! But considering the official “we don’t race” policy of GM, 199 1963 Fuel Injected Corvettes with heavy-duty brakes and suspension, wasn’t anything in GM’s big picture. But, if you wanted to race your Corvette in ’63, it was everything, and Duntov made sure you got what you needed.
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Thanks to the SCCA rules that allowed the 2000-pound Cobra to race against the 3100-pound Corvette, even with the Z06 racer kit, the Vette was at a serious disadvantage. Continue reading “

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1966 Corvette vs 2015 Toyota Camry! SAY WHAT???

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It’s not about numbers,
it’s about PASSION!

1966-Corvette-vs-CamryDateline: 8.27.15 – Carlos Lago at Motor Trend arguably has one of the coolest jobs of our time – driving and hot-lapping modern and classic cars, and getting paid to do it and HAVE FUN! Carlos says it all up front. The Camry is an appliance, the 1966 Corvette Sting Ray Coupe with a 4-speed, knock-off aluminum wheels, and factory side pipes is what you WANT to drive, it’s what you LUST to drive! (Make those side pipes BARK and GROWL!)

Not much is known about the Corvette other than the obvious – it’s a small-block with a four-speed and everything is stock, right down to the car’s weakest point, the painfully skinny bias-ply tires. The tires just killed the Corvette’s lap time. The Camry turned in 1:37 @97-mph compared to the Corvette’s 1:44 @ 83-mph. Continue reading “

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Grab A Glance Of The 2016 C7 Corvette Build Process: Video

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How C7 Z06 Corvettes are built…

BY SEAN SZYMKOWSKI as republished from GMAuthority.com

Dateline: 8-7-15  It’s hard to take a closer look at manufactured goods, especially automobiles. Every piece and part has been welded, clipped and bonded together at a rate we couldn’t even begin to fathom. But, when we do peer into the manufacturing process, it’s astonishing. Take this video of the 2016 C7 Corvette Stingray for example.

 
The 2016 C7 Corvette recently made it onto Velocity‘s “How It’s Made: Dream Cars”, and the channel has provided a small sliver of the build process for us to gawk at. 

 

 

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