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With a lineup that includes some of the bestselling cars, trucks and SUVs sold in America, Chevrolet is routinely one of the bestselling brands in the US market. A refresh to the Camaro and Malibu along with new versions of the Corvette, Silverado and Impala join forces with the likes of the Volt and the Spark EV to offer an incredible range of performance cars and super efficient models in the same showroom.

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The new C7 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray is the best performing version of the fabled American performance car and to make sure that owners have a good idea of how to handle the power of the new Corvette, General Motors has teamed up with the Ron Fellows Performance Driving School to form Stingray School.
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General Motors has announced that the 2014 Indianapolis 500 will be paced by a 2014 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 driven by three time Indy 500 winner Dario Franchitti – marking the 8th time that a Camaro has led the field to the green flag and the 25th time that a Chevrolet product has been the official pace car of the fabled American race.
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The National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green Kentucky announced this morning that Amazon.com has offered to help cushion the financial blow of the sinkhole repairs by donating 0.5% of eligible purchases on their website to the museum – with an extra $5 per purchase being donated by Amazon between now and the end of March.
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There are now four different recognized charging standards worldwide for DC fast charging. This fragmentation of infrastructure hinders the growth of electric vehicles.
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The very first 2015 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 built for public sale will be auctioned off to the highest bidder at the Barrett Jackson Palm Beach Collector’s Car event on April 12th with the proceeds of the auction going to the Karmanos Cancer Institute – and you have to think that Mr. Rick Hendrick might be among the deep pocketed collectors looking to score the first C7 Z06.
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The 2014 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 is the most track capable Camaro of all time, but for those folks who need more than the 505 horsepower offered by the standard LS7 V8, the folks at Callaway have put together the new SC652 package that brings the output up to 652 horsepower and 620lb-ft of torque.
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The sinkhole tragedy that took place at the National Corvette Museum on February 12th had a severe impact on the hallowed halls with 8 historic American sports cars being badly damaged, but there has been a positive effect as the museum has seen a significant increase in visitor traffic over the past month.
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The 2014 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 is a street legal muscle car designed for serious road racing and to help promote racing among new Z/28 owners, the 5 year, 100,000 mile warranty will cover problems which occur during track racing sessions.
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It has been expected since the sinkhole under the National Corvette Museum swallowed up 8 historic American sports cars last month that they would be fixed, but a great many people believe that not all of the cars should be fixed – and I agree.
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It has taken the new Chevrolet Camaro Z/28.R race car just two tries to score its first win – with the Stevenson Motorsports Z/28.R piloted by Robin Liddell and Andrew Davis winning the warm-up race ahead of the 12 Hours of Sebring.
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The two teams campaigning a new Chevrolet Corvette C7R headed into this weekend’s 12 Hours of Sebring endurance race with the hopes of improving on a slow start to the 2014 season, but those hopes were dashed by mechanical issues for the second race in a row.
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The qualifying runs have finished for the 2014 12 Hours of Sebring race and after being among the quickest cars in practice, the Chevrolet Corvette C7R teams have secured solid starting spots – but the same cannot be said for the SRT Viper GTS-R teams.
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The field for the 2014 12 Hours of Sebring race have completed all four practice sessions and for the first time this season, the Chevrolet Corvette C7R race cars look to be the teams to beat in this weekend’s historic endurance race – while the cross town rival SRT Viper GTS-R teams struggled throughout most of the four practice runs.
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During the internal track testing of the 2014 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28, the engineering team found that the new Z/28 accelerates and brakes so hard that it was spinning the tires on the rims – forcing GM to come up with a way to keep the tires where they belong during high performance driving.
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It has been more than a week since we posted an update on the National Corvette Museum sinkhole repair program and that is because no more cars have been removed since last week – but there has been plenty of progress in the effort to remove the final three buried Corvettes from the massive pile of rubble.
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After being gifted the small pickup market by Chevy, Ford and Ram for years, the Toyota Tacoma is suddenly way behind the times. Here is Toyota's secret plan to keep it viable.
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The Chevrolet Camaro enthusiasts’ community is eagerly awaiting the debut of the 6th generation Camaro for the 2016 model year and while some are expecting a radically different GM muscle car with the next generation – rumors indicate that the next Camaro might not look all that different from the car in dealerships right now.
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How do you make your new mid-sized pickup truck look good? Make claims about "engineering" and "advanced metallurgy" while comparing your smaller truck to full-sized, full-use, heavier-duty offerings from the competition. Chevrolet talks apples to watermelons in latest press release.
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There has been talk for years about bringing back a "true" compact truck, ala the 1970s-80s size, back to the U.S. market. For many truck buyers, the new pickups have grown too large and too powerful for their needs. Many think a Chevy LUV type vehicle may do very well. Apparently, GM does too and may be seriously considering bringing one to the market.
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The Chevrolet Volt has been the gold standard among plug-in hybrid electric vehicles since its much-hyped debut in 2010, but the vehicle has remained largely unchanged since and appears to be due for a refresh as sales have stalled in recent months. GM hopes the second generation of the Volt will rejuvenate its flagship plug-in.
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Rumors have surfaced that the Oshawa Ontario Assembly Plant where the Chevrolet Camaro is built will be shut down for a while early this month for a week and then again for several weeks – not this shutdown is rumored to be caused by an excess of Camaro inventory.
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General Motors has already received enough orders for the 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray to cause a yearlong backlog on certain configurations so to help slow the demand of the new C7 Stingray – the automaker has decided to raise the prices of both the Corvette and the most popular package.
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There aren't many changes expected for the Chevrolet Camaro until the next generation arrives for the 2016 model year, but to keep the interest of prospective Camaro buyers around the country, General Motors could introduce Lime Rock Green and Laguna Blue Tintcoat for the 2015 model year.
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The crew working on the National Corvette Museum surprised us all late yesterday afternoon when they pulled the 1984 PPG Pace Car up out of the sinkhole – but this surprise wasn’t as great as the 1,000,000th Corvette coming out of the hole as the customized ’84 Pace Car is by far the most badly damaged thus far.
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The engineers behind the 2014 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 looked at literally every aspect of the super muscle car – going so far as to design even the smallest details including the Bowtie emblem in the grille to yield improved performance of the most track capable Camaro of all time.
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The Corvette world got a surprising piece of news today as the white 1992 Chevrolet Corvette Convertible which was the one millionth Corvette ever built was extracted from the sinkhole in the floor of the National Corvette Museum.
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The crew responsible for extracting all of the historic American performance cars from the sinkhole under the National Corvette Museum was hard at work today – this time removing the black 1962 Chevrolet Corvette which was perched precariously along the side of the hole in the Earth with a 10,000lb slab of concrete pressed against the front end.
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After removing the 2009 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 Blue Devil Prototype from the National Corvette Museum sinkhole this morning, the crew spent the afternoon successfully lifting the 1993 Ruby Red 40th Anniversary Edition Chevrolet Corvette out of the hole as well – although the damage to this classic Corvette is far too bad for it to drive away from the scene.
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Finally the people at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green Kentucky had some good news today as the first of the historic Corvettes to be swallowed by the sinkhole has been exacted – marking the start of a careful auto-archeological dig that is expected to take several weeks.
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General Motors will use high performance to capture attention at this week’s Geneva Motor Show with the 2015 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 and Corvette C7R race car serving as the collective center piece of a display which focuses on American muscle.