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Next Corvette will sport seven-speed manual, too

Perhaps the manual transmission isn't as dead as a few Italian automakers would like you to believe. Porsche has declared that as long as there is demand it will continue to supply automobiles with do-it-yourself gearboxes, and the German automaker has outfitted its 2012 911 with a seven-speed manual gearbox. Now it seems General Motors is following suit, and the next-generation Chevrolet Corvette will reportedly offer up seven forward gears, as well. Inside Line has reported that the 2014 Corvette is set to swap in an extra cog for increased fuel efficiency. As a bonus, this move will ... Read More

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    Featured: Corvette driver ducks to escape decapitation in car crash
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    You wouldn't believe it by looking at the Corvette in these pictures, but the driver of the Chevrolet that slammed into the back of this moving truck survived with only non-life threatening injuries. The crash occurred near Los Angeles on the southbound 405 Freeway on Monday, March 4. Fire crews reportedly had to raise the moving truck in order to ...

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    Official: Corvette Stingray Shooting Brake under consideration by Callaway [w/poll]
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    Callaway has released a few renderings of a design study for a shooting brake version of the C7 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray. The company says it wants to create a long-roof version of Chevy's sports car to offer buyers more interior room and a vehicle with "unique style." The company says it will use structural carbon fiber for the new body bits, which ...

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    Video: Top 5 Best Sounding Cars of 2013
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    As part of the dedicated team at Autoblog Canada, we're often lucky enough to log a few laps behind the wheel of many amazing high performance vehicles. One of the most common questions we're asked about any sports car we review is, "so, how's it sound?" Well, in order to really answer that question we decided it was time to countdown the top 5 best ...

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    Featured: Amelia Island 2013: Chevrolet Corvette Sting Ray from concepts to split windows
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    While this year marks 60 years of the Chevrolet Corvette, the 2013 Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance focused on one of the coupe's most sought after models, the 1963 Sting Ray. General Motors design boss Ed Welburn was on hand to show off the all-new C7 Corvette, but even the hard-edged styling of the 2014 Stingray couldn't take away from the beautiful ...

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    Geneva: 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Convertible is a Swiss hit
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    We've just received an early peek at the 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Convertible here at the Geneva Motor Show. General Motors was kind enough to let us attend the final dress-rehearsal for its press conference scheduled for tomorrow's opening media day, and we've come away with a good look at the droptop C7 in person. In the metal, the new Corvette ...

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    Breaking: 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Convertible goes topless
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    Put away your pixel paintbrushes, kids. Pack up your Photoshop. This is the real-deal 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Convertible in its first official images. The droptop Chevrolet will roll into the bright lights of the Palexpo exhibition at next week's Geneva Motor Show, a four-wheeled statement of intent that General Motors is serious about taking ...

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    Official: Final C6 Chevy Corvette built in Bowling Green
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    With all of the attention given to the 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray lately, you could be forgiven for thinking that it's already well along in production, yet tooling up for the new C7 has only just begun. In fact, production of the outgoing C6 generation in Bowling Green, Kentucky just halted on Thursday. As the C6 has aged, production numbers have ...

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    Exclusive: GM reveals new factoids on 2014 Corvette Stingray
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    During January's Detroit auto show, we managed a longer than expected wandering tag-team interview with C7 Corvette chief engineering exec Tadge Juechter (pictured above), and LT1 engine boss Jordan Lee (pictured below). They are, quite honestly, two of the very nicest bigshot lads to ever walk the engineering corridors of an American manufacturer. Both ...

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    Featured: Why the Corvette is Chevrolet's billion-dollar baby
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    Edmunds has worked up a piece that tries to figure out just how much the global Chevrolet Corvette economy is worth, a spitballed guesstimate putting the number at more than US$2.5 billion with the proviso that the number is probably low. It starts by taking Corvette's new car sales of 14,132 units last year, which would equate to US$714,725,900 ...

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    Rumormill: Chevrolet planning low-cost Corvette under Stingray?
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    If you're burnt out on musings about the Chevrolet Corvette, you'll want to go ahead and skip this post. Motor Trend reports General Motors is hard at work on a low-cost version of the seventh-generation sports car for 2015. Rumoured to be called the Corvette Coupe, the car will forgo the Stingray and skip the 450-horsepower 6.2-litre V8 engine in favor ...