While we should all be thankful that they don’t build cars like they used to from a safety perspective, you have to give N2A Motors credit for channeling old school with their striking 789 custom car. N2A starts with a factory Corvette C6, then radically reworks the exterior to create the vehicle you see here. [...]
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GM: Corvette ZR1 Laps Nürburgring in 7:26.4
GM recently announced that a 2009 Corvette ZR1 — driven by GM Development Engineer Jim Mero — managed to compete a lap of the famed Nürburgring race track in Germany in an astonishing 7:26.4 seconds. That’s well into supercar territory, and once again demonstrates that the Corvette engineering team is one of the best things the General [...]
Wheel Talk: Corvette C6 Z51 vs. Cayman S
photo: © Calvin Cheng A nice comparison article over at Wheel Talk pits a C6 Z51 Corvette against a Porsche Cayman S. The comparison is written by Calvin Cheng, and does an admirable job of summarizing the strengths and weaknesses of both vehicles in a location that they were cleary optimized for: the racetrack. Here’s an [...]
The Corvette Z06 is an Unqualified Success for GM. Is the Blue Devil next?
The Corvette team over at GM must be getting used to good press, as the accolades for the new Z06 keep pouring in. Even the curmudgeonly Jeremy Clarkson seemed smitten by the “Zed-oh-six” in this recent Top Gear segment: The C6R racecar continues to dominate the GT1 class in the American Le Mans Series, while [...]
