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There are some great events this summer for Corvette owners and enthusiasts. Doesn’t a road trip in your Vette sound like fun?
- Corvettes at Carlisle – August 22-24, 2014 – Event Details
- National Corvette Caravan – August 28-30, 2014 – Event Details
- National Corvette Museum Event Listings
- Corvette’n America Road Tours
- Corvettes Conquer Cancer
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Early this morning, General Motors announced five separate recalls, affecting roughly 2.7 million Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, Pontiac, and Saturn vehicles from the 2004 to 2015 model years. One of the recalls is so serious that GM has asked owners to stop driving the vehicles immediately.
RECALL #2: 2005-2007 Chevrolet Corvette
This recall of 111,889 U.S. vehicles is meant to fix a serious problem with the low-beam headlights. GM says that “When the engine is warm, the underhood electrical center housing could expand, causing the headlamp low-beam relay control circuit wire to bend slightly.” Over time, the circuit wire can break, disabling the low-beam headlights.
This problem appears to affect Corvettes from the 2008-2013 model years, too, though GM says that those vehicles will be repaired via a Customer Satisfaction Program, rather than a full-fledged recall. As with recall #1, GM hasn’t specified how it will fix the problem.
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If you’ve been itching to replace that 2002 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 convertible sitting in the garage, I hate to break it to you, but the 2014 model probably isn’t for you.
Unlike its predecessor, which was a potent but fully outfitted sports car, the all-new Z/28 is a stripped-down, street-legal track machine that’s more in the spirit of the original 1967 racing homologation special than the coupes and convertibles that followed it. Chevy’s single-minded goal was to make it the fastest-ever Camaro around a track.
To that end, no drop-top is available; it comes from the factory without a carpeted trunk or air conditioning to cut weight; and the stereo isn’t really one because it has only a single speaker that’s there only because the feds require it to provide a door-open chime.
(Why Chevy included the audio head unit is more of a mystery, [...]
