Tag: Vettes in the News

When we first saw the vitals on the 2015 Z06, everyone on the forum knew the 650hp Vette was going to be quick—and now we know just how quick. Motor Authority has just posted the weapons-grade Vette’s performance numbers and they’re bonkers. With the new 8-speed Hydra-Matic 8L90, the Z06 will shoot from zero to 60 […] More »

New Chevrolet Corvette C7.Rs to race for first time in TUDOR Championship opener DETROIT (Jan. 21, 2014) – Fifteen years ago, Corvette Racing stepped onto the world’s sports car stage for the first time. Thirteen years ago, it scored a stunning overall victory in the Rolex 24 At Daytona. Now with 90 victories around the […]

The temptation to take a joyride in a shiny late-model Corvette apparently proved to be too much for a Florida trucker to turn down. Pearland, Texas police have charged 49-year-old Ronald Francis Kelly of Sebring, Fla., with unauthorized use of a motor vehicle after a New Year’s Day escapade involving a Corvette and a woman. […]

Photo Credit: Tony Giberson/pnj.com For the second time this month, a Corvette driver has been shot and killed by law enforcement officers after leading them on a high-speed chase. On Dec. 13, 51-year-old Brian Newt Beaird of Oceanside, Calif., died after being shot after leading Los Angeles Police on a wild hour-long chase into the […]

Photo Credit: AP Photo/Shuji Kajiyama The new Corvette Stingray and Cadillac CTS models may be racking up all kinds of prestigious honors in their homeland, but several thousand miles away, it remains to be seen if that hardware will pay off in the form of increased sales in Japan. GM Japan is anxious to see […]

Police have identified the driver of a C6 Corvette involved in an hour-long high-speed chase in Los Angeles Friday night as 51-year-old Brian Newt Beaird of Oceanside, Calif. Beaird was behind the wheel of the silver Corvette in Cudahy in east LA about 9:30 p.m. Friday when L.A. County sheriff’s deputies tried to stop him […]

This yellow C5 Corvette crashed Sunday evening into the middle of a home at Richmond Street and Ridgedale Avenue on the north side of Odessa, Texas. According to police, the driver was cited for failure to control speed after driving through a stop sign at a T-intersection and into the living room of the home, […]