The LT1 V-8 found in the latest 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray is the most advanced engine ever put under the hood of a 'Vette--but how do its power and torque numbers stack up? You could read the official spec sheets of course. Chevy claims 460 horsepower and 465 pounds-feet of torque from the new car, when fitted with the optional performance...
We’ve compiled a list of 11 things you probably didn’t know about the 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray. They range from the reason designers didn’t add a split rear window to the top speed of the car when in reverse. Chevrolet’s new SS rear-wheel-drive muscle sedan goes on sale towards the end of the year but here’s a...
Lexus’ GX 460 and CT 200h are the only models yet to receive the automaker’s new spindle grille treatment, but it looks like it will soon be only the CT 200h as alleged patent drawings for the 2014 GX 460 have surfaced and they show the vehicle with some radical plastic surgery. The image, one of a handful found by Autoblog on Russian...
Fans hoping General Motors will utilize its seventh-generation Corvette platform, debuting in the 2014 Corvette Stingray, in other models will be disappointed to learn that there are no plans for such a move. The information comes directly from the Corvette’s chief engineer, Tadge Juechter. “This is a Corvette, it’s optimized for...
Chinese officials have given approval for Volvo to establish new plants in Daqing and Zhangjiakou. As a result, Volvo's full Chinese industrial base, including a current site in Chengdu, has been approved. An assembly plant in Daqing is under construction and is expected to be fully operational in 2014. The plant in Zhangjiakou will be operational...
The 2014 Chevrolet SS rear-wheel-drive muscle sedan is almost here and we can’t wait to hop behind the wheel. But as most readers will know, the SS is essentially a rebadged Holden Commodore SS V already on sale in Australia, albeit with a few performance tweaks thrown in. In a previous generation, Holden’s Commodore spawned a coupe...
It’s been quite some time since we last heard about the newest car from Gordon Murray, designer of the McLaren F1, but we now have news that the car is slated for a market launch in 2016. Unfortunately, Murray’s latest creation isn’t a world-beating supercar but an innovative city car the South African designer and his eponymous...
Infiniti is on the hunt for two very talented graduate engineers to sign up for a new training program that will see the duo work on projects for the Red Bull Racing Formula One team as well as Infiniti’s road car division. The automaker hopes the program generates mutual benefits on the track and the road, as well as help motivate a new...
The founder of tuning firm A. Kahn Design, Afzal Kahn, has rejected a £6 million (approximately $9.35 million) offer for his prized ‘F1’ number plate. Kahn originally acquired the 109-year-old British plate in 2008 for 'only' £440,000 ($685,700), which remains a record for the U.K. and at the time was considered a...
11. The split-window made the original Sting Ray unique, but it's not on the table for the new model. In fact, Chevy mocked up a car with a split window for the 2014 Stingray, but ultimately decided not to pursue it for the same reason the original only lasted one model year. The team found it to be distracting in the car, looking in the rear view...
Lucas Ordonez has become a pivotal member of the Nissan Motorsports team. He was the original winner of the Nissan GT Academy contest, which brought together video game racers to see who could rise to the challenge and transition their skills in real cars on real tracks. Ordonez has gone on to drive for Nissan at a variety of racing events...
And now for something (maybe not so) completely unexpected. First, how does a Camaro ZL1 on bias ply slicks lose it altogether midway down a drag strip? Our bet is a poor shift of some sort--either a 3-2 instead of a 3-4 or a really brutal upshift. So maybe that's not so inexplicable. But what happens next is not the most likely result, either for...
Some Porsche Carrera GT owners are probably quite familiar with the word "NO". Usually preceded by "OH" and suffixed by several exclamation marks and a few expletives as their V-10 supercar goes into an uncontrollable spin. Porsche might be elbows-deep in development of its 918 Spyder--successor to the Carrera GT--but it's had time to develop a...
Games have professed to offer open-world layouts before, but short of flight simulators few games have offered the entirety of the United States to explore. That's exactly what Ubisoft's new racing title The Crew offers though, set to launch on next-generation games consoles and putting the cities, countryside and mountains of the U.S. at your...
The LT1 V-8 found in the latest 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray is the most advanced engine ever put under the hood of a 'Vette--but how do its power and torque numbers stack up? You could read the official spec sheets of course. Chevy claims 460 horsepower and 465 pounds-feet of torque from the new car, when fitted with the optional performance...
We’ve compiled a list of 11 things you probably didn’t know about the 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray. They range from the reason designers didn’t add a split rear window to the top speed of the car when in reverse. Chevrolet’s new SS rear-wheel-drive muscle sedan goes on sale towards the end of the year but here’s a...
Lexus’ GX 460 and CT 200h are the only models yet to receive the automaker’s new spindle grille treatment, but it looks like it will soon be only the CT 200h as alleged patent drawings for the 2014 GX 460 have surfaced and they show the vehicle with some radical plastic surgery. The image, one of a handful found by Autoblog on Russian...
Fans hoping General Motors will utilize its seventh-generation Corvette platform, debuting in the 2014 Corvette Stingray, in other models will be disappointed to learn that there are no plans for such a move. The information comes directly from the Corvette’s chief engineer, Tadge Juechter. “This is a Corvette, it’s optimized for...
Chinese officials have given approval for Volvo to establish new plants in Daqing and Zhangjiakou. As a result, Volvo's full Chinese industrial base, including a current site in Chengdu, has been approved. An assembly plant in Daqing is under construction and is expected to be fully operational in 2014. The plant in Zhangjiakou will be operational...
The 2014 Chevrolet SS rear-wheel-drive muscle sedan is almost here and we can’t wait to hop behind the wheel. But as most readers will know, the SS is essentially a rebadged Holden Commodore SS V already on sale in Australia, albeit with a few performance tweaks thrown in. In a previous generation, Holden’s Commodore spawned a coupe...
It’s been quite some time since we last heard about the newest car from Gordon Murray, designer of the McLaren F1, but we now have news that the car is slated for a market launch in 2016. Unfortunately, Murray’s latest creation isn’t a world-beating supercar but an innovative city car the South African designer and his eponymous...
Infiniti is on the hunt for two very talented graduate engineers to sign up for a new training program that will see the duo work on projects for the Red Bull Racing Formula One team as well as Infiniti’s road car division. The automaker hopes the program generates mutual benefits on the track and the road, as well as help motivate a new...
The founder of tuning firm A. Kahn Design, Afzal Kahn, has rejected a £6 million (approximately $9.35 million) offer for his prized ‘F1’ number plate. Kahn originally acquired the 109-year-old British plate in 2008 for 'only' £440,000 ($685,700), which remains a record for the U.K. and at the time was considered a...
11. The split-window made the original Sting Ray unique, but it's not on the table for the new model. In fact, Chevy mocked up a car with a split window for the 2014 Stingray, but ultimately decided not to pursue it for the same reason the original only lasted one model year. The team found it to be distracting in the car, looking in the rear view...
Lucas Ordonez has become a pivotal member of the Nissan Motorsports team. He was the original winner of the Nissan GT Academy contest, which brought together video game racers to see who could rise to the challenge and transition their skills in real cars on real tracks. Ordonez has gone on to drive for Nissan at a variety of racing events...
And now for something (maybe not so) completely unexpected. First, how does a Camaro ZL1 on bias ply slicks lose it altogether midway down a drag strip? Our bet is a poor shift of some sort--either a 3-2 instead of a 3-4 or a really brutal upshift. So maybe that's not so inexplicable. But what happens next is not the most likely result, either for...
Some Porsche Carrera GT owners are probably quite familiar with the word "NO". Usually preceded by "OH" and suffixed by several exclamation marks and a few expletives as their V-10 supercar goes into an uncontrollable spin. Porsche might be elbows-deep in development of its 918 Spyder--successor to the Carrera GT--but it's had time to develop a...
Games have professed to offer open-world layouts before, but short of flight simulators few games have offered the entirety of the United States to explore. That's exactly what Ubisoft's new racing title The Crew offers though, set to launch on next-generation games consoles and putting the cities, countryside and mountains of the U.S. at your...
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