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Main > Car Makers News > Chevrolet > Video: Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 hits 205MPH Late yesterday GM revealed official power ratings for its Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 supercar – 638hp 476kW and 819Nm 604lb-ft - and now we have a video showcasing the potential of the car. GM hasn’t released any top speed figures for the ZR1 but here we see it go all the way to 205mph 330km/h. 2009 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 [source] Full article... Article added: 2008-04-28 06:22:44 Article Views Rating: 296 Main > Car Makers News > Chevrolet > Chevrolet announces 2008 Cobalt XFE improvement Soaring gas prices and tightening credit are currently pushing consumers into smaller, cheaper, more fuel efficient vehicles. However, due to past demand for high-powered, high capacity people haulers, the current economy car market consists of fairly slim pickings. Many great developments are on the horizon, but the high cost of new technologies and the lengthy wait time do not do much to help buyers today. That is why, in order to snag a larger market share of drivers trading in their big toys for... Full article... Article added: 2008-04-25 06:16:07 Article Views Rating: 373 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Officially Official: Corvette ZR1 makes 638 hp and 604 lb-ft var digg_url = 'http://digg.com/autos/Corvette_ZR1_most_fuel_efficient_600_hp_car_in_the_world'; When Chevrolet officially announced the new Corvette ZR1 just before the Detroit Auto Show this year, it hadn't yet finished the certification of its new power-plant, the supercharged LS9. At that time, all the engineers would tell us was that the supercharged 6.2L V8 would produce a minimum of 100hp/L or 620 hp. Three months have passed since we got our first official look at the LS9 and the numbers are now... Full article... Article added: 2008-04-25 06:16:01 Article Views Rating: 108 Main > Car Makers News > GM > Unrest hurts GM hot-sellers General Motors Corp. dealers have waited years for the automaker to turn out the kind of must-have vehicles that draw throngs of shoppers into showrooms and sell without deep price cuts. GM delivered with the Chevrolet Malibu sedan and Buick Enclave crossover: Both models are flying out of showrooms almost as quickly as the automaker can ship them from the factory -- with minimal or no incentives. But dealers around the country are now struggling to keep the vehicles in stock as labor disputes with the... Full article... Article added: 2008-04-25 06:15:59 Article Views Rating: 153 Main > Car Makers News > Other > '09 Corvette has 638 horses, reaches 205 mph The 2009 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1's supercharged V-8 officially produces 638-horsepower, General Motors Corp. executives announced today. GM completed SAE certification of the ZR1's 6.2-liter LS9 engine and released the results at midnight. The final tally: 638 horses and 604-pound-feet torque and blistering top speed of 205 mph. The ZR1 will be built at the Bowling Green Assembly Plant in Kentucky, home to the regular Corvette and Z06. The LS9 engine will be hand built at GM's Performance Build Center in... Full article... Article added: 2008-04-25 06:15:59 Article Views Rating: 94 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Malibu adds fuel-efficient LTZ model Chevrolet will begin shipping its more fuel-efficient Malibu LTZ -- with a 2.4-liter four-cylinder engine mated to a six-speed automatic transmission -- on Thursday, General Motors Corp. executives said Tuesday. The new powertrain, the first by any carmaker in the mid-size car segment, will be offered as an option on the high-end 2008 Malibu LTZ. Consumers will save $900 over the six-cylinder LTZ, which was the only engine offering until now. The four-cylinder LTZ will have a starting MSRP of $26,545... Full article... Article added: 2008-04-25 06:15:58 Article Views Rating: 140 Main > Car Makers News > Other > Track revs up thrills for novice drag races It was back in 1973, so I can't exactly recall why my older brother was taking his '71 Dodge Charger R/T to the drag strip. It may have been to dial in the new Six Pack carburetor setup he installed on the car's thumping 440 Magnum, or he could have been testing a then high-tech Direct Connection transistorized ignition. Regardless of the reason, he took me. I was 11. While details of my first trip to a drag strip are fuzzy, one memory remains razor sharp: the roar of uncorked exhaust pipes. It was more... Full article... Article added: 2008-04-25 06:15:58 Article Views Rating: 114 Main > Car Makers News > Ford > Tractorri is Gallardo-Ford hybrid Take a 2006 Lamborghini Gallardo, a pair of 2007 Ford Mustangs and put them together and what do you have? If you're car collector John Haugh, you have the Tractorri, a unique, Lambo-powered, mid-engine Mustang. Haugh, who founded a company that produces the pigments that give color to plastics and has a collection of some 30 cars, always wanted a street car with a Formula One racing engine. But the Eastlake, Ohio, resident wanted to put such an engine into a car that no one had done before. Intrigued... Full article... Article added: 2008-04-25 06:15:58 Article Views Rating: 163 Main > Car Makers News > Buick > Spy Shots: 2010 Buick LaCrosse Buick’s next-generation LaCrosse has been spotted testing at GM proving grounds both in the U.S. and Germany and as these latest images reveal the new car sports a similar shape to the Invicta concept unveiled over the weekend. Like the concept, the production version’s styling is being handled by teams in both the U.S. and China and the final styling is expected to be very similar to the concept. Production of the car is expected to start at GM’s Fairfax plant in Kansas in early 2009 and the... Full article... Article added: 2008-04-25 06:15:56 Article Views Rating: 558 Main > Car Makers News > Chevrolet > GM debuts ‘XFE’ green line with 36MPG Chevrolet Cobalt Following a trend started by a number of European carmakers, GM has revealed a new ‘XFE’ EXtra Fuel Economy labeling system which has debuted on the 2008 Chevrolet Cobalt. Cars badged with the new XFE logo feature a number of fuel economy improvements and on the Cobalt ensures the car is among the “most fuel-efficient compacts on the market.” The Cobalt with a manual transmission rates at just 36mpg for a mix of city and highway driving and is bettered only by the Honda Civic. However, the... Full article... Article added: 2008-04-25 06:15:29 Article Views Rating: 385 |
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