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President Barack Obama took time out from watching the Republican field eviscerate each other in Florida to visit the Washington D.C. Auto Show. He sat in roughly six cars, but seemed to focus on the 2013 Shelby GT500, which he apparently called "sick." Right on, Mr. President. More »
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At the mention of modifications to new pickup trucks a flurry of lift kits, overly bright headlights and unnecessarily loud exhausts immediately come to mind. The owner of this Chevrolet Silverado decided to skip all of these and came up with a significantly less conventional and more interesting way to modify their new truck. More »
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A few months back, Late Model Racecraft of Houston, Texas showed us what it was like to go 231 mph in a twin-turbo, 1,500-hp Corvette. Now they're schooling us again, doing the quarter mile in 9.68 seconds at 147 mph. Great butter pecan, that's quick. More »
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More than a quarter-of-a-million people have seen the video of a Corvette ZR1 driver crashing into a Chrysler SRT8 since Jalopnik first posted it. Now we have the video, and story, of what happens next. More »
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Houston's Fastlane tuning shop is working on this 1971 Corvette dubbed "Golden Rod." It's been fitted with a new, supercharged LS9 from a ZR1, and the suspension, brakes and other components will be upgraded similarly. We also hear it's dating a 22-year-old yoga instructor. More »
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Check out the view from the driver's seat as the 2012 Corvette ZR1 makes its way around the famed Nürburgring. Corvette engineer Jim Mero recorded a blisteringly fast lap time of 7:19.63 behind the wheel. Let's find out how that stacks up against the competition? More »
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Lee Adams of central Florida owns 14 high-end sports cars, including a Ferrari, Mosler, Ariel Atom and a Corvette ZR1. Or he used to own a ZR1, until he had to call 911 after getting locked inside. More »
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It's Tuesday morning, so let's take a track run to start the day. Today's track? Spring Mountain Motorsports Ranch, home of the Ron Fellows Performance Driving School — the official Corvette driving school. Today's car? A Subaru WRX. Let's watch. More »
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The security guard who rose to Internet fame for hooning a Corvette ZR1 on camera and uploading the video to YouTube is in a heap of trouble. The car's owner tells us they'll be calling the Dallas police this morning. More »
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It's one thing to beat on a Malibu, but a security guard at a dealership auction committed the cardinal sin of hooning an as-of-yet unsold $110,000 Corvette ZR1. And then recorded it! This guy is toast. UPDATE More »
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Flat out, power-sliding in a Corvette ZR-1 at a hundred miles an hour was probably the wrong place to mockingly ask NASCAR driver Juan Pablo Montoya if he was "having fun turning right." Don't worry, he punished me for it. More »
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Racer Juan Pablo Montoya expressing his displeasure with his Ferrari 360 to our own Ben Wojdyla shortly after thrashing a Corvette ZR1. More on that later. Photo Credit: Photo by Sam Greenwood/Getty Images More »
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For the nine people sitting on the fence about buying a $109K Corvette ZR1, today's a good day. GM's offering either 0% financing or $5000 rebates on 2009's and $3000 off the 2010's. Everybody else? Remain poor and ZR1-less. [CorvetteBlogger] More »
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Way back in January we broke the news GM planned to offer a build-your-own engine program (like this) for the Corvette ZR1. Now it's official. Corvette buyers can choose to build the engine for their very own ZR1 or Z06. More »
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Despite it being a Friday in the Summer, some of us were working. For example, I drove all three of these. More on that next week. In the meantime, I want to know — what're your driving plans this weekend? More »
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Take the fastest car GM's ever built, slap on a famous Dodge Charger paint job. The result? The General Lee Corvette ZR1. It ran in last week's Gold Rush Rally and it's everything a Duke boy could ever want. More »
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It's not just Dodge Vipers and SRT-10s getting wrecked by mother nature. Feast your eyes on this mud-caked Corvette ZR1 absolutely destroyed by a twister. Why does mother nature hate American sports cars? More »
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The owner of this Texan Corvette ZR1 managed to recreate on a license plate the reaction most people have the first time they experience the supercar-shredding 638 HP 'Vette. More »
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We've been told for years that without Corvette Racing there wouldn't be a Corvette ZR1 — or a Z06. Now, in honor of the updated C6.R, Corvette's put together a killer graphic showing us just how racing's made 'em better. More »
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A Texas Chevy dealer just accepted the trade-in of a red-on-black $1.6 million Bugatti Veyron for a $100,000 Corvette ZR1. We knew the fiercest of all 'Vettes was a world-beater, but this is ridiculous! Exclusive photos, details below. UPDATE! More »
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Moscow Unlimited brings the wildest street legal vehicles on the planet together for a mile-long race. Clearly, when the Soviet Union fell it didn't take them long to make up for lost time. If only the music would catch up. More »
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Hoping to bring the Cadillac CTS-V closer to its reputation as the four-door Corvette ZR1, the mad tuners at Fastlane swapped the larger 2.3-Liter blower off the ZR1 into CTS-V sedan to create this tire-shredding. Depends-wetting CTS-VR1. More »
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Remember when Jalopnik built a 638 HP LS9 V8 for a Corvette ZR1? Cool, right? Well, GM's considering a program to let ZR1 buyers do just that. It's a totally awesome idea that's every super car buyer's wet dream. More »
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Think Lee Noble's sitting around twiddling his thumbs after the Noble M12? No! So what's he doing next? Designing a Corvette ZR1 LS9-powered, 2,645lb supercar to replace it, naturally. These are the first teaser images from Fenix Automotive. More »
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People realize the Bertone Mantide is based on the $103,300 Corvette ZR1, right? I mean, we agree the interior is awful, but it's not the kind of problem it should take an extra $1.82 million to fix. More »
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The boys have an epic head-to-head between the Audi R8 V10 and the Corvette ZR1. So if you don't feel like waiting for Bitorrent to finish, get your Top Gear fix right now... as long as the YouTube clips last. More »
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According to reader Cody Ace, (that name totally sounds like a movie name) this race-built Corvette ZR1 met the wall with furious vengeance at Watkins Glen last weekend. For a privateer car, that's a helluva bump. Damage mega-gallery below. More »
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We may never see GT5, but at least Gran Tursimo PSP is available on October 1st. This first commercial has a passenger in a Corvette ZR1 lapping Laguna Seca on a PSP while simultaneously lapping it in real life. Epic. More »
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If there's one thing the Corvette ZR1 doesn't need, it's more power. The Corvette ZR1 Geiger GTS is a perfect example of why. The 72 additional HP actually makes it .2 seconds slower to 62 MPH. More »
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Maybe they didn't know how to use the Corvette ZR1 launch control or maybe they just didn't have Ben, but England's Autocar managed to beat GM's finest with an AC Cobra up to 100 MPH. [Autocar] More »
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GM's added launch control to the Corvette ZR1 (and other manual-equipped Corvettes in the lineup!) for the 2010 model year. Good, cause wrangling 638 HP is nigh-on impossible even in a chassis as competent as the one underpinning the 'Vette. More »
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The Acura Sports Car Challenge at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course will be the first venue to host the newly built and designed ZR1-bodied Corvette Racing C6.R GT2 racers marking a new era for Jake. More »
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Think the Covette ZR1 was a bit undercooked when GM served it up? 638 HP not enough for you? Call the folks at Hennessey Performance and they'll cook up a Nurburgring-tested 705HP ultra-ultra Corvette Z700. More »
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Crank your speakers up to hear the angry, snarling sounds pumping out of the world's first LS9-powered 2010 Camaro — the HPE700 . Some say it eats babies for fuel. We wouldn't doubt it. More »
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It doesn't matter whether your opinion's positive or negative of designer Jason Castriota and his Corvette ZR1-based Bertone Mantide, either way it's a marvel of modern design. Here's the final episode of Inside Project M. More »
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The power hungry folks at Hennessey Motorsport in Houston just completed their first swap of a ZR1-sourced LS9 into a 2010 Camaro, creating the HPE700 or what Chevy should call the Camaro Z28. More »
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German Prince Albert von Thurn und Taxis just took delivery of a 2009 Corvette ZR1. Why the sad face? Don't worry, you'll forget about the interior the first time you hit the Autobahn. [Corvette Blogger] More »
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Racing liveries come and go, but there are some so iconic, so recognizable, they'll be remembered forever. For example, Gulf and Martini Racing. There's now a new one to add to that list. Meet "Jake." More »
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