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We’ve been telling you for a long time that the new mid-engine Corvette is one hot automobile.
Of course, we were referring to its ranking as the fastest-selling vehicle in America for several months running.
It’s been an eventful summer for Sam Schmidt.
The latest chapter in the inspiring story of the paralyzed racer continued this weekend at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.
Schmidt – who was paralyzed from the neck down in a horrific high-speed accident in 2000 – drove a lap around the Goodwood Festival track using his semi-autonomous C8 Corvette.
There aren’t too many cars as iconic as the 1963 Corvette split-window coupe. Just 10,594 were made during the first year of the second generation.
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The 2022 Corvettes will arrive in Europe this October
European Corvette customers are now getting their first look at the new C8 Corvette as Chevrolet is offering both traditional and Right-Hand Versions of the popular American sports car for the European market. The first-ever Right-Hand Drive version was unveiled last week at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in England with Chevrolet ambassador Oliver Gavin on hand to help with the reveal as the video below shows.
Who needs a gas-thirsty Suburban to pull a trailer when he has a perfectly good Corvette to do the job?
Looking for a Corvette that once was literally Red Hot but now is just the factory shade of Torch Red?
Then you might want to check out this online auction coming up later this month.
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Although Oliver Gavin has officially retired from racing, he’s still a member of the Corvette family as a Chevrolet Brand Ambassador for Europe. In this new video from Michelin, Oliver meets up with fellow race car driver Oli Webb who is a brand ambassador for Michelin tires. The two drivers get together during the Goodwood Festival of Speed in England where they will be driving the Z51 Coupe on the famous Goodwood Hill Climb, but first, they do some preliminary track testing of the new European-spec C8 Corvette Stingray that will go on sale later this year.
After spending most of 2021 at or near the top of the iSeeCar’s monthly list of Fastest-Selling New Cars, the Chevrolet Corvette failed to crack the Top 20 for new cars in June 2021. Taking the top spot with a 9.5 average days to sell is the Toyota Rav 4 followed by the Kia Telluride at 10.5 days and the Toyota Tacoma rounds out the top three with 10.6 days.
With Covid on the run and the summer show schedule returning to normal, we can’t wait to head to Carlisle, Pennsylvania for the annual Corvettes at Carlisle show presented by Top Flight Automotive. The world’s largest gathering of Corvettes returns to the Carlisle Fairgrounds August 26-28th and it’s shaping up to be extra special as people can now get back to celebrating America’s Favorite Sports Car as they always have before.
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We’ve seen the C8 Corvette Z51 take on many different vehicles over the last year with drag and roll races that featured everying from a C7 Corvette ZR1 to the Jeep Trackhawk.
In this next matchup, has the Corvette Stingray Z51 Coupe met its match? Watch as Edmunds and their long-time test C8 Corvette goes racing against the BMW M4 Competition.
