The 2019 Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance will be held August 18th. Since 1950, the Concours has been the premier celebration of the automobile in the world. You won’t want to miss this historic and storied event.
The 2019 Event Calendar can be found at: https://pebblebeachconcours.net/visitor-guide/event-calendar.htmlhttps://pebblebeachconcours.net/visitor-guide/event-calendar.html. Other events held during the week include the Tour d’Elegance, RetroAuto and the Classic Car Forum.
Pebble Beach is a must-see for any automobile aficionado.
Bowling Green, Ky. — General Motors is adding a second shift and more than 400 hourly jobs at its Bowling Green (Kentucky) Assembly plant to support production of the Next Generation Corvette, which will be revealed on July 18, 2019. WATCH VIDEO
The addition of the second shift will increase the plant’s workforce to more than 1,300.
“The Corvette’s iconic status owes so much to the [...]
Original article: Road & Track https://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/future-cars/a27118564/mid-engine-corvette-debut-date/
General Motors finally acknowledges that the C8-generation mid-engine Corvette is real, and announces an official reveal date.
After years of waiting, months of speculation, and plenty of rumors along the way, it’s finally official: The mid-engine Corvette, fully acknowledged by Chevrolet for the first time tonight.
General Motors CEO Mary Barra revealed the mid-engine ‘Vette this evening in New York. Barra was driven to the Siller Foundation Footsteps to the Future Gala, a charity event in New York City honoring 9/11 firefighter Stephen Gerard Siller, in a camouflaged example of the future car.
The C8 Corvette will make its official debut on July 18, 2019, judging by the date emblazoned on the camouflaged prototype just posted on social media:
mid engined corvette reuss spy screenshot
The Midengine Corvette is already burdened with the curse of being an expensive American car. That means it will go on auction early in its production run, and Boomer money will pile onto it and relegate the thing to “collector” status before a tire ever hits the road.
But the car shouldn’t be trapped in a garage. It shouldn’t be forced to live out its life in a climate-controlled prison, waiting for the day that it can come back up at Barrett-Jackson with LOW MILES EARLY SERIAL NUMBER NUMBERS MATCHING COLLECTOR’S EDITION.
I say this because here’s a collection of a pre-production prototypes out in the snow and slush and sleet on a twisting California mountain road, the kind of place a traditional Corvette driver would look at and resolve to stay inside and grouse about while soaking in the hotel hot tub.
