Corvette Land

The audience in Scottsdale, Arizona , is now accustomed to the Barrett-Jasckson expensive sports car auctions , which also gave a lot of show this year. In fact, a new Chevrolet Corvette Stingray C8 was sold. Not just any Stingray but the C8 VIN 001 , the first produced by the American Chevy factories . An element that obviously pushed the price up, even reaching 3 million dollars - and the C8 2020 starts from a price of 60,000 dollars. To place the winning offer was Rick Hendrick , Founder and CEO of the Hendrick Automotive Group. The proceeds from the sale, to which must also be added the shares of a Toyota Supra ($ 2.1 million) and a Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 ($ 1.1 million), will be donated to the Detroit Children's Fund, an organization not -profit which aims to improve the quality of schools in the Detroit area. Returning to the Chevrolet Corvette Stingray C8 number 001 , we are talking about a red car and black interior with always red s...

To beat a modern car do you need another modern car? Not even an idea: this 1967 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray is able to humiliate some of the most famous modern supercars . A breathtaking video shows the determination of what, apparently, is a car of another era. Obviously behind these performances there is the hand of a skilled work of elaboration. Under the bonnet we find a 6.2L LT1 , an extremely high-performance V8 . Even the exhausts have been replaced with a version designed for sports use. The video in question was recorded during the 2018 Pikes Peak Airstrip Attack. The Chevrolet was able to win every single race, and also with a fairly solid margin. The vehicle touched s peed peaks between 252 and 280 km / h . A result to say the least amazing for a classic 1967 car. The LT1 engine was boosted thanks to the use of two turbos, with the result that the vehicle went from the original 460 hp associated with the engine to a power of 900CV . The vehicle was subjected t...

After years of waiting, including spy photos, rumors and teasers, the Chevrolet removed the veils from the first Corvette with a central engine , the C8 . The new architecture has led the American sports car to clearly break away from the past, both in terms of the proportions of the bodywork, and for the style, totally revised to bring the American supercar into a new era. For the moment the Corvette has formalized data and information on what should be the entry-level variant of the sports car, the Stingray which, with its 6.2-liter naturally aspirated V8 engine , will be positioned at the base of the offer with prices that, in the United States, should start below $ 60,000 (€ 53,309). Behind the passenger compartment there is a 6.2 liter LT2 V8 derived from the previous LT1 . Mounted longitudinally and combined with an eight-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission with rear-wheel drive , the only naturally aspirated eight-cylinder in this categ...