![[VIDEO] Dubai's C7 Corvette 'Fire Car' Has A Top Speed Of 211 MPH](https://www.corvetteblogger.com/images/content/2021/043021_14b.jpg)
The C8 Corvette has already proven itself to be superior to its predecessor at everything average customers seem to want. Two notable exceptions to this rule are: 1. having a clutch pedal, and 2. wearing chrome wheels.
Well, Team C7, some not-so-average customers from the Dubai Civil Defense department have officially added put another mark in your car’s W column! The seventh-generation Corvette absolutely demolishes the new guy as a…FIRE TRUCK!
Garcia, Gavin to start fifth from GTE Pro grid in European debut for mid-engine Corvette
STAVELOT, Belgium (April 30, 2021) – Antonio Garcia qualified Corvette Racing’s No. 63 Mobil 1/SiriusXM Chevrolet Corvette C8.R fifth in qualifying for Saturday’s Six Hours of Spa – the opening round of the FIA World Endurance Championship.
![[VIDEO] C8 Corvette Convertible Receives a Titanium Exhaust Upgrade at Late Model Racecraft](https://www.corvetteblogger.com/images/content/2021/043021_7b.jpg)
The guys at Late Model Racecraft in Houston, Texas were busy last week installing their first catback Titanium Exhaust system on a C8 Corvette convertible, along with a set of American Racing headers.
![[VIDEO] Speed Phenom Recaps His First Year of C8 Corvette Ownership](https://www.corvetteblogger.com/images/content/2021/043021_5c.jpg)
One of the better YouTube channels that we’ve followed over the last two years is that run by a young automotive enthusiast named Austin who posts videos under the moniker “Speed Phenom.” Austin was an early adopter of the new mid-engine Corvette and has now owned the car for one year.
You never know what you might find on Facebook Marketplace.
For example, right above an ad for a $50 workout bench is another ad for a $250,000 Corvette Daytona Prototype, said to be the last such racecar produced.
Legendary Corvette Racing driver Oliver Gavin is calling it quits on a spectacular career this weekend, but not before one last race with the Corvette team.
![[VIDEO] C8 Corvette Chased by Police SUV is Actually a Promotion to Sell Aftermarket Wheels](https://www.corvetteblogger.com/images/content/2021/042921_10b.jpg)
Be aware, the suspect is armed and extremely dangerous.
That’s the message playing in the background of this new YouTube video that offers up one videographer’s idea of what a police chase involving a suspect in a mid-engine Arctic White Corvette might look like, with the not so subliminal goal of selling C8 owners a new set of Rohana wheels in the process.
Fans of unique fourth-generation Corvettes, please stand up and take note. You currently have a chance to bring home this red 1991 Callaway Aerobody convertible.
RPO B2K, the Callaway twin-turbo package was offered between 1987 and 1991. A little over 500 cars were assembled during that time. The 1991 model year was the final year for RPO B2K and changes were minimal. The output of the twin-turbo boosted 350ci LT1 was bumped to 403hp and 575 lb.-ft of torque compared to the base L98’s 250hp. New ducts on the hood channeled fresh air into the intercoolers.
![[VIDEO] Hennessey Races a Stock C8 Corvette vs the Hellcat Durango](https://www.corvetteblogger.com/images/content/2021/042921_1b.jpg)
If you would have told me a few years ago that the Corvette would be regularly beaten on the track by factory new SUVs, I’d have used my Eddie Murphy voice and told you to GTFO. But the great horsepower wars waged by domestic automakers have seemingly made this nightmare scenario possible as evidenced by a freaking Dodge Durango SUV featuring a 710-hp Hellcat V8 engine leaving a stock C8 Corvette behind on the drag strip.
![[VIDEO] Watch the Corvette Team Presentation from the 2021 NCM Bash](https://www.corvetteblogger.com/images/content/2021/042821_15b.jpg)
On Friday members of the Corvette Team offered a virtual presentation for the National Corvette Museum’s NCM Bash, and today the Museum has made the full one-hour video public on their YouTube Channel.
Joining the conversation from the Corvette Team is Executive Chief Engineer of Corvette Tadge Juechter, along with Product Manager Harlan Charles, newly promoted Vehicle Chief Engineer Josh Holder, and Program Manager Kelly Bellore.
