Monthly Archives: October 2013

Corvette’s Manual Transmission Take Rate at 38 Percent

2014 C7 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray Featured

Chevrolet delivered 485 Corvette Stingrays last month. Just to gloat a bit, let’s compare that to the 426 SRT Vipers that have been sold all year. On a side note, if you are a Viper fan, stop sitting on your checkbook because there are 565 Vipers sitting on dealer lots across the country right now. […]

Two Porsches Wreck Hard at VIR

The American Le Mans Series Oak Tree Grand Prix was held this weekend at Virginia International Raceway. Partway through the race, two Porsche 911 tangled before a corner and then wrecked hard into a tire barrier. Amazingly, neither driver was injured, a testament to the safety precautions in modern racing. Video after the jump! Via [...]

Rumor: FR-S Convertible Delayed Indefinitely

I really wish Toyota would quit playing games with our hearts on this. I know I would like to see an FR-S convertible and I imagine there are a handful of other people out there that feel the same way. According to this report from WhatCar?, the GT86 convertible as been shelved indefinitely. On the [...]

Rumor: FR-S Convertible Delayed Indefinitely

Slow Sales Cause 33-Percent Production Cut for SRT Viper

Only 426 SRT Vipers have been sold this year; 443 dealers are certified to sell the Viper, so that’s fewer than one Viper sold (0.96) per dealer. Chrysler has built 805 units of the 2013-model-year Vipers, and before production was cut by one third, they were building 9 Vipers per day. Chrysler has moved to [...]

680 WHP Solid Roller LS7 Swapped Monte Carlo SS Is Pure Evil

The late 80s Monte Carlo SS has always been pure evil, but it brings new meaning to the term when it makes 660 WHP thanks to a solid-roller LS7 under the hood. All of this evilness comes courtesy of a stock bottom-end LS7 with ported heads, a massive solid-roller cam, a sheet-metal intake and plain [...]

38 Percent of C7 Vettes Built With 7-speed Manuals

Sounds like the death of the manual transmission has been greatly exaggerated. Or anyway, it has been exaggerated for the early adopters of the new C7 Corvette. A whopping 38 percent of new Vettes ordered have been optioned with the 7-speed manual. How cool is that? Oh, and a whopping 75 percent have ordered the Z51 [...]

Monthly Archives: October 2013

Corvette’s Manual Transmission Take Rate at 38 Percent

Two Porsches Wreck Hard at VIR

Rumor: FR-S Convertible Delayed Indefinitely

Rumor: FR-S Convertible Delayed Indefinitely

Slow Sales Cause 33-Percent Production Cut for SRT Viper

680 WHP Solid Roller LS7 Swapped Monte Carlo SS Is Pure Evil

38 Percent of C7 Vettes Built With 7-speed Manuals

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