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A former GM designer from Brazil created a series of future concept drawings based on classics. Here is his take on the 1959 Corvette: Retired GM Designer Creates Future Concepts Based on Retro Classics His other renderings include concepts based on a Jaguar XK 120, 1950 Studebaker...

Zora's last Corvette was a Bright Red 1989 Corvette Convertible which he bought new in 1989 and drove the Corvette until he passed away in 1996. The 35,000 original mile car was one of the featured lots at Saturday's Russo and Steele auction in Scottsdale where it was sold for $27,000. As the...

The National Corvette Museum will be offering up a unique 2010 Corvette Grand Sport Coupe as part of the 15th Anniversary Celebration in early August. The Corvette is Arctic White and features a black "Jake" hood treatment with red accents and an NCM logo on the B-pillar. Tickets are limited...

The Corvette ZR1 "Hero Edition" was specially built by General Motors to raise money for the Kids Wish Network's "Hero of the Month", a child that has faced and overcome traumatic and life-changing circumstances with courage and spirit. The Hero Edition serial #1 of 1 is the only Corvette ZR1...

Corvette Racing's Program Manager Doug Fehan spoke to a crowd of racing fans last week at the National Corvette Museum's C5/C6 Bash. Doug loves to talk about the racing program and GM. From one hour seminar, we broke down the discussion into several topics. In this first video, Doug talks...

The 500 Festival held their annual kickoff party to begin race month today around the Circle in downtown Indianapolis. Although the 2010 Camaro is this year's official Pace Car, the 2009 Corvette Convertible still gets to pull Festival Car duties. Here are some pictures from Friday's event...

Chevrolet Dealer and noted Corvette Collector Bob McDorman will be bringing 25 unique cars to Dana Mecum's Spring Classic in Indianapolis in mid-May. Among those cars is the first true high-performance Corvette in history, the 1954 EX87 test mule that Zora drove to 163 mph at the Arizona Proving...

Paul Graham, the new manager from the Bowling Green Assembly Plant was at the C5/C6 Bash last weekend. He talked about the production of the Corvette line as well giving us an update on the summer closure. Tadge also jumped in and talked about production of the ZR1. [VIDEO] Corvette...

In addition to the new launch control system coming to all manual transmission Corvettes in 2010, there is another new feature coming exclusively to the Corvette ZR1. Called Performance Traction Management, the system integrates the Selective Ride, Traction Control and Active Handling systems...

This is from the Grand Sport walk-around on Saturday with Corvette Team members Tadge and Harlan. This walk-around focused more on the improvements with performance the wide body package brings to the Corvette lineup. As Corvette Chief Engineer Tadge Juechter discussed the new model, he...

In this video from the C5/C6 Bash at the Museum, Corvette's Chief Engineer Tadge Juechter goes into more detail about the new Launch Control option that will be standard on all manual transmission Corvettes. The system modulates engine torque 100 times per second to give the driver the...

Here are some of the pictures I took of the Corvette Grand Sport at the C5/C6 Bash: Exclusive Photo Gallery: The 2010 Corvette Grand Sport

Here is a 10 minute video from the C5/C6 Bash of Team Corvette members Harlan Charles, Kirk Bennion and Tadge Juechter discussing vehicle content, design and technical performance of the new 2010 Corvette Grand Sport. Following their presentation, everyone went out to the main rotunda in the...

Corvette Quarterly magazine is suspending printing and cancelled the Spring and Summer 2009 issues. They have put the following on their site: Because we value the readers of Corvette Quarterly, we are taking some time to make Corvette Quarterly the best source of Corvette news available. As...

With about 5 minutes remaining in the race at Long Beach, the LG Motorsports #28 Corvette catches fire. Driver Boris Said was able to bail and is okay. The fire was caused due to damage following contact with one of the BMW M3s that spun out both cars. Video here: Corvette: Sales, News &...

I was at the ALMS race today in St. Pete and got this video of Lou Gigliotti and his #28 GT2 Corvette during the afternoon qualifying session. Their fastest lap time qualified them for 8th in GT2. Corvette: Sales, News & Lifestyle: [VIDEO] #28 LG Motorsports GT2 Corvette Qualifying in St. Pete

At the Twelve Hours of Sebring I had a chance to talk with Corvette Product Marketing Manager Harlan Charles. I started the conversation asking about how the people were doing within the team (this was before the news that the plant was closing again). We talked about the new 09 special...