Callaway has used this weekend’s ADAC GT Masters Season Finale as the backdrop to unveil the Callaway Corvette C7 GT3-R. Built as a successor to the C6-generation Callaway Z06.R GT3, the company has been developing the new racer for almost two years.

The car has been created to meet all FIA rules and regulations for the GT3 class. It is powered by a Chevrolet-based 6.2-litre naturally-aspirated V8 engine delivering 600 hp. Coupled to the potent engine is an X-Trac six-speed sequential transmission with paddle shifters. While Callaway has yet to release performance figures for the car, it claims that it has surpassed all its expectations.

The vehicle’s design comes courtesy of Canadian designer Paul Beutschman and Callaway team owners Giovanni Ciccone and Ernst Wohr. Much of the redesigned body is made from lightweight carbon fibre and all the new body panels make the racer clearly distinguishable from the road-going Corvette.

Some of the key new [...]

James Garner’s American International Racing
#44: 1968 Chevrolet Corvette L88 Competition Convertible
Chassis no. 194678S405175
One of the first 200 Corvettes built in the 1968 model year
Race Prepared in 1967/1968 by Guldstrand Engineering
Pole Winner, GT class- 1968 Daytona 24 Hours

The history of the three James Garner American International Racing (AIR) cars are unique in automotive history. James Garner’s AIR team sponsored the three cars under one banner. The three cars were brand new, factory-built L-88’s that got built in the St. Louis plant and delivered to the AIR team in November of 1967. All three of the L88’s came in Le Mans Blue convertible. Of course, the cars were all Central [...]

By Joshua Fechter Updated 11:48 am, Thursday, September 24, 2015

SAN ANTONIO — The New Braunfels Police Department is rolling out the sleekest member of its vehicle fleet: a seized 2007 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 named “Coptimus Prime” that previously belonged to a San Antonio-based drug trafficker with Mexican cartel ties.

Agents with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Comal County Metro Narcotics Task Force, which includes the police department, seized the Corvette during a 2011 raid on a methamphetamine trafficking cell linked to the Mexican drug cartel La Familia Michoacana.

The cell was responsible for moving 25 pounds of nearly 100-percent pure meth each month that sold for a maximum of $20,000 per pound, mySA.com archives show.

Law enforcement agents estimated that the cell brought in $4.5 million a month for the cartel.

At the time, agents seized 10 pounds of meth, high-caliber weapons, cars and assets valued at $500,000, including more than $140,000 [...]

Business Insider readers already know that we like the Chevy Corvette Stingray.

We named it our 2014 Car of the Year, concluding that although it might not be the mythical Corvette of the Mind — that honor goes to the second-generation version of the car from the early 1960s or the third-gen Vette, built from 1968 to 1982 — it was certainly the best Corvette to yet emerge from the storied bluegrass assembly line in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

But you should know something. There’s actually a better Vette.

A much better Vette.

There’s just one drawback. While the Stingray (technically the C7, or seventh generation of the all-American sports car) is a deeply compelling motoring experience, the better Vette is a way of life.

It’s the Z06, and it’s a living, breathing supercar.

The stats: 650 horsepower, 650 f00t-pounds of torque. You’ll know this because Chevy has included a small plaque with the data, located [...]