[VIDEO] Matt Farah’s ‘One Take’ Track Test of the 2020 Corvette Stingray Z51 Coupe
Call Matt Farah a fan of the mid-engine C8 Corvette.
“Simply Extraordinary!”, says the “One Take” auto reviewer after wrapping up his first track session ever with the car at Thunderhill Raceway in California.
Matt was able to get some seat time in the 2020 Corvette Stingray Z51 Coupe as part of Road & Track’s testing for their Performance Car of the Year Award.
Corvettes for Sale: 1961 Corvette Parked in the 1990s!
If you’re looking for good bones to build a classic C1 Corvette around, you might want to check out this barn find ’61 in Durant, Okla.
Interest has already been high since this car debuted a few days ago on eBay, with 31 bids meeting the reserve at $24,000, but the price still has plenty of time to climb since the auction doesn’t end for another four days.
The Corvette C8.R, Homologation Rules, and the C8 Corvette Z06
Petit Le Mans just wrapped up at Road Atlanta signaling the end of factory-backed front-engine Corvette race cars. To ease the pain of losing a national icon, Chevrolet did an official reveal of the new mid-engine C8.R that will take its place. The biggest news from the event came when Chevrolet confirmed some important details about the C8.Rs endlessly speculated upon powerplant.
Motor Trend: 2020 Corvette Stingray Z51 Runs 0-60 in 2.8 Seconds; Quarter Mile in 11.1 @ 123.2 MPH
Photo Credit: Motor Trend
Motor Trend is first out of the gate with their review of the 2020 Corvette Stingray and you could probably say that the members of the Corvette Team are smiling right now.
That’s what happens when you under-promise and over-deliver.
Chevrolet told the world that its new mid-engine Corvette equipped with the Z51 package can go 0-60 MPH in under 3.0 seconds.
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[VIDEO] More Glorious 4K Footage of the 2020 Corvette Stingrays from the NCM 25th Anniversary Celebration
[GALLERY] Midyear Monday! (46 Corvette photos)
Happy Monday, Corvette fans!
Hope everyone had a great weekend. It’s been a busy day for Corvette news so I am sort of phoning in this week’s Midyear Monday image gallery.
This week our salute to the C2 Corvette features 46 Corvettes sold between 1963 and 1967. We have several vintage and barn finds for you so hopefully you enjoy that sort of thing.
[VIDEO] The Corvette C7.R Leaves a Smokey Burnout for Fans After Its Final Race
Photo Credit: Andrew Hoetker / Facebook
As the C7.R chapter comes to a close with the car appearing in its final race under the Corvette Racing banner, Tommy Milner gave racing fans a treat as he lit up the rear tires and left a huge burnout as he climbed the hill between turns 10-11 during his cool-down lap.
GM Strike Hits the 2020 Corvette as the First Week of Production is Pushed Back to Mid-January
Over the weekend we started hearing some whispers about the start of the 2020 Corvette production being shifted to early 2020 due to the GM strike. While no official statement has been released, Corvette enthusiasts with TPWs (Target Production Week) started receiving updates showing their orders were pushed back.
Here’s what our friends at the MidEngineCorvetteForum are saying on this:
Information given by Chevy Chat to a person whose car had/has an EXTREMELY low VIN, that customer being told by Chat today that his TPW, which was originally confirmed for December 2nd production (an order with no complicating issues such as requested changes, no constraints affecting it, etc), now has a January 20th TPW.
[STOLEN] Red C6 Corvette Left Running at a 7-Eleven is Easy Pickings for Car Thief
The owner of a red 2005 Corvette coupe is probably wishing he’d shut his car off when he dashed into a 7-Eleven on Route 112 in Coram, N.Y., on Friday night.
Instead, the man left the engine running on his Corvette – with the key fob and his cell phone still inside, no less – while he went inside for a couple of items.
[VIDEO] On-Board Camera Captures the Corvette C8.Rs Hot Lap at Road Atlanta
Although we have a previous thread from the weekend about the Corvette C8.R’s hot lap prior to the start of Petit Le Mans at Road America on Saturday morning, we wanted to make sure you saw this on-board video posted Sunday by IMSA.
Corvette Racing driver Tommy Milner had the honor of taking the new racecar out for a couple of demonstration laps.
The 2020 Corvette Stingray Set a Nurburgring Time with Oliver Gavin Doing the Driving
Photo Credit: Addicted to Track / YouTube
During the weeks leading up to the official reveal of the 2020 Corvette Stingray in Tustin, California, Corvette Racing’s Oliver Gavin was at the Nurburgring and allegedly set a fast lap time for the new mid-engine C8 Corvette.
When or if we’ll ever learn what that time is remains to be seen.
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[VIDEO] Auto Reviewer Lets the 2020 Corvette Stingray’s LT2 Do the Talking In This Test Drive
The 2019 Corvette ZR1’s VIR Track Record Beaten by the $980K McLaren Senna
Photo Credit: Car and Driver
For nearly two years the fastest production car to ever lap Virginia International Raceway’s 4.1 Mile Grand Course was the 2019 Corvette ZR1 which broke a one-week old record set by the half-million dollar Ford GT when it stopped the clock at 2:37.25.
It took a car twice as expensive as the ultra-low production Ford to get it done, but the King of the Hill has been dethroned as VIR Grand’s quickest road car.
[VIDEO] Watch the Corvette C8.R Presentation from Petit Le Mans
On Thursday, we were invited by Chevrolet to Petit Le Mans to hear about the new mid-engine Corvette C8.R racecar that was revealed earlier this month alongside the 2020 Corvette Stingray convertible at Kennedy Space Center. The new race car will take to the track for its first race at the 2020 Rolex 24 at Daytona in January.
Corvette Racing at Petit Le Mans: Tough Fight to Close C7.R Era
BRASELTON, Ga. (Oct. 12, 2019) – Corvette Racing ended its run with the Chevrolet Corvette C7.R on Saturday with fourth- and seventh-place class finishes in the IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Championship’s Petit Le Mans at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta.
The No. 3 Mobil 1/SiriusXM Corvette C7.R of Antonio Garcia, Jan Magnussen and Mike Rockenfeller led Corvette Racing’s effort in the final race of the season.
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Corvette Interior Designer Tristen Murphy Discusses the C8’s Interior Design
One of the most controversial aspects of the new mid-engine Corvette is the long vertical line of buttons on the center console.
But before you get too critical of the interior designers for their latest effort on the 2020 Stingray, take a listen to design manager Tristan Murphy who spoke with GearPatrol.com because there is definitely sound logic behind the new look.
QUICK SHIFTS: C1-C8 Convertibles, ZR-1 Prices, Modern C2 Sting Ray Rendered, Lego C8 Build and More
Quick Shifts is a content feature here at CorvetteBlogger featuring links to Corvette and automotive-related stories of interest. We usually base Quick Shifts on a 6-Speed manual transmission but there is so much Corvette action going on right now that we had to go with the 8-speed auto this time around.
