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With Mother's Day coming up, we're always looking for new gift ideas to celebrate the occasion, but hot laps around a track might not be the best suggestion for Darius Khashabi. In a video posted on YouTube, Khashabi straps his mom into the passenger seat of his
C6 Corvette Z06 for some laps around
Sonoma Raceway (
formerly Infineon Raceway) at "60 percent" with comical results.
Now this isn't the first time Mama Khashabi has gotten seat time in her son's car around a track, as his YouTube page shows him pulling a similar stunt - with
similar results - around
Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca last year.
Scroll down for the video, but know that the action really gets going at around the 1:40 mark.
Continue reading Mother's Day Suggestion No. 2,506
Mother's Day Suggestion No. 2,506 originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 02 May 2013 19:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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May 2nd, 2013
Filed under: New York Auto Show, Coupe, Performance, Videos, Chrysler, Dodge, SRT
In one of the most interesting roundtable discussions we've seen in quite some time, the boys from
Motor Trend, along with pro racing driver Randy Pobst, sat down with
SRT head honcho
Ralph Gilles to discuss the
2014 Viper. And the
Chevrolet Corvette ZR1, naturally. As you may remember,
Motor Trend has filmed two videos pitting the latest Viper from SRT against the standard-bearing ZR1, with the Viper
losing the first battle but barely eking out a victory with the upgraded TA model in
the second.
A few interesting tidbits sneak out regarding the Viper, such as the fact that an ACR model isn't ready "yet," as well as the story of how the TA model came into existence after the first test by
Motor Trend. Apparently, that test also resulted in a slight softening of the regular Viper's suspension for production. Interestingly, Gilles doesn't seem ready to admit defeat even in that first testing session, saying that the Viper used by MT was a pre-production model and that it had been out of alignment - that said, he does offer up an apology of sorts for "throwing gas on the fire" on social networks after the video hit the web.
Moving away from the Viper toward the end of the discussion, Gilles touches on the new
Camaro Z28 and mentions that "the
Challenger is under the knife as we speak... and we're going to come with an answer to [the Z28] and an answer for our friends at
Ford." That sounds mighty intriguing... though Gilles also admits that a
Cuda isn't coming "anytime soon," but that it is "a couple years out" on a different platform than the Challenger. Fortunately, it sounds like the next-generation of the Challenger SRT will make an appearance in New York in 2014.
There are plenty more interesting tidbits in the video, so we suggest you take about 20 minutes of at the end of your day to watch it yourself.
Scroll down below to watch it, along with the two MT videos comparing the Viper and ZR1 at Laguna Seca.
Continue reading SRT's Ralph Gilles addresses the infamous Motor Trend Viper vs. ZR1 test
SRT's Ralph Gilles addresses the infamous Motor Trend Viper vs. ZR1 test originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 04 Apr 2013 19:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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April 4th, 2013
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Filed under: Coupe, Performance, Safety, Chevrolet
You wouldn't believe it by looking at the
Corvette in these pictures, but the driver of the
Chevrolet that slammed into the back of this moving truck survived with only non-life threatening injuries. The crash occurred near Los Angeles on the southbound 405 Freeway on Monday, March 4. Fire crews reportedly had to raise the moving truck in order to extricate the driver, who escaped perhaps the worst possible death imaginable - decapitation - by simply ducking prior to impact.
What's supposed to prevent a crash like this from becoming lethal is a
Mansfield Bar, so named because the low-hanging bar affixed to the rear of semi truck trailers became mandated by the
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration after the death of popular movie actress Jayne Mansfield in 1967 from a rear-end collision with a tractor trailer.
The Mansfield Bar is designed to prevent under-riding, and in 1998, the rules governing them were revised to lower the bar to 22 inches off the ground. Even at the height, some vehicles, including sports cars like the Corvette, have leading edges that are low enough to clear them. That's particularly true when the car in question is braking hard and its weight is pitched forward, lowering the nose even more).
As we
reported earlier today, the
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has conducted tests on currently sold tractor trailors and found that while all of the examples tested prevented under-riding during a full-width crash, their effectiveness fell sharply when the overlap of vehicle and bar was reduced to 50 percent and 30 percent. In the latter case, only one trailer managed to prevent under-riding, despite all of the trailers passing current US and Canadian crash standards.
Fortunately for this man, the combination of the crash-worthiness of the Corvette, the Mansfield Bar on the truck - and the fact that he had enough wits about him to duck at the last minute - all combined to save his life.
Corvette driver escapes decapitation in crash by ducking originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 18 Mar 2013 19:14:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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March 18th, 2013
Filed under: Aftermarket, Coupe, Performance, Hatchback, Chevrolet, Design/Style, Luxury
Callaway has released a few renderings of a design study for a shooting brake version of the
C7 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray. The company says it wants to create a long-roof version of America's sports car to offer buyers more interior room and a vehicle with "unique style." The company says it will use structural carbon fiber for the new body bits, which suggests the conversion shouldn't add too much more weight to the Corvette. Along with a few mechanical tweaks, the Callaway Corvette Stingray AeroWagon could breeze past the 200 miles per hour barrier.
Provided that they get enough interest, Callaway estimates they will be able to effect the changes on the
Chevrolet for around $15,000, and says the conversion work should be available through its network of dealers. You can check out the brief press release below for more information, or head over to the Callaway site to plunk down a deposit - but before you do, we want to know... do you find this C7 wagon interesting? Vote in our poll below, then feel free to leave a few lines in Comments.
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Continue reading Corvette Stingray Shooting Brake under consideration by Callaway [w/poll]
Corvette Stingray Shooting Brake under consideration by Callaway [w/poll] originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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March 18th, 2013
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Filed under: Coupe, Performance, Chevrolet, Rumormill
If you're burnt out on musings about the
Chevrolet Corvette, you'll want to go ahead and skip this post.
Motor Trend reports
General Motors is hard at work on a low-cost version of the seventh-generation sports car for 2015. Rumored to be called the Corvette Coupe, the car will forgo the
Stingray and skip the 450-horsepower 6.2-liter V8 engine in favor of a 5.3-liter V8 with under 400 ponies. If you're keeping track, that's a shade of the same engine found behind the headlights of the
2014 Chevrolet Silverado and
GMC Sierra.
The report also suggests the Coupe will receive a number of aesthetic tweaks to separate it from the Stingray, including different front and rear fascias as well as new front fenders and a rear diffuser.
Motor Trend says the point of all this is to cut the car's price tag, which means we may see a Corvette on showroom floors for less than $50,000 if this car comes to fruition.
Chevrolet planning low-cost Corvette under Stingray? originally appeared on Autoblog on Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:31:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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February 27th, 2013
Filed under: Aftermarket, Coupe, Performance, Chevrolet
If you can't wait for the next-generation
Chevrolet Corvette ZR1,
Hennessey says they will have you covered. The Texas-based company has announced it will offer a spate of upgrades for the
2014 Corvette ranging from a range of bolt-on options all the way up to a 1,000-horsepower, twin-turbo system. Buyers can start with a cold air intake, cat-back exhaust or stainless steel long-tube headers, but Hennessey says it will also offer up three stages of forced induction mayhem should those bits and baubles not provide enough thrust.
Those choices start with a supercharger system good for up to 700 hp, though Hennessey will gladly ditch the blower in favor of two turbos. Doing so will spin the crank to the tune of 800 horsepower all the way up to a certifiably ludicrous 1,000 ponies. There's no word on how much these tricks will cost you - or when they will be available, as we're guessing they haven't gotten their hands on the car yet - but you can head over to the
Hennessey site to drop them a line if you're curious.
C7 Corvette turbo with 1,000 horsepower promised from Hennessey originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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February 25th, 2013
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