Corvette Mike Vietro reporting from Carmel: “The streets of Carmel are bumper to bumper with cars and elbow to elbow with spectators for the 9th Annual Carmel-by-the-Sea Concours on the Avenue. This annual event has grown into the Monterey Peninsula’s most popular show. Concours on the Avenue combines the charm of Carmel with an International flair, making it a “must attend” event during car week. The event is free to the public, so come enjoy a leisurely afternoon in beautiful Carmel-by-the-Sea.
From Steve McQueen’s last official Porsche order, Corvettes, Ferrari and a bulldog in a tutu, all forms of transportation can be found here.
Always the Tuesday before the Pebble Beach Concours.”
Carmel-by-the-Sea’s whimsical architecture, inspired by Arthur Rackham’s illustrations for children’s fairy tales, provides a unique setting for the CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA CONCOURS ON THE AVENUE. This is the latest addition to the prestigious group of events that make up the area’s internationally known [...]
Shirley Veine, 82, isn’t your average granny. She doesn’t drive a 1992 Oldsmobile Silhouette, nor does she believe old people should be cooped up in a nursing home watching repeats of the “The Price Is Right.” Instead, she enjoys the fast life — and she proved it last weekend by racing her 2000 C5 Chevrolet Corvette to 171 mph along a two-lane highway.
The feat was accomplished during the Sun Valley Road Rally near Ketchum, Idaho — an event that closes down Highway 75 and allows competitors to open up their machines. Last year was Veine’s first attempt, and she took her ‘Vette to an impressive 166 mph. But this year, she wanted even more:
“We put headers and a larger air intake valve on it,” she said during a local radio interview the week prior to the race. “They put it on the dyno last Thursday and she got up to 181.”
[...]By: Paulo Acoba | Art of Gears
Callaway and their Corvette packages have always taken us by surprise every time they announce a new iteration of what Corvette has blessed us with. According to their official press release that various forums and fans on Facebook got the privilege of seeing earlier today (July 28, 2015) Callaway has taken the 2015 Corvette Z06 and produced their most powerful Corvette to date. The 2015 Callaway Corvette makes a whopping 757 HP and 777 lb-ft of torque (a stock Z06 has 650 HP/650lb-ft of torque.) In case you’re too lazy to do the arithmetic, that’s an increase of 107 HP/127 lb-ft of torque.
Want to wipe the floor with a Nissan GT-R or a Pagani Huayra? This Callaway Z06 will hit 60 MPH in 2.8 [...]
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July 20, 2015 – 6:39 am ET — UPDATED: 7/20/15 2:58 pm ET — adds details
DETROIT (Bloomberg) — A simulated city opened Monday on the north campus of the University of Michigan to test how self-driving cars will travel in the future without mowing down pedestrians or causing colossal crashes.
“We had the faculty here at the university design the fully evolved future,” Peter Sweatman, head of the Transportation Research Institute, which oversaw the creation of the M City test facility, said in an interview. “After all, we’re replacing humans with machines and those machines need to be able to operate in a full, rich environment.”
Automakers are racing to develop self-driving cars and overhaul their business models for a world where mobility is being redefined as most of the global population crowds into large megacities during the next two decades. Driverless cars that move in harmony may become essential to [...]
SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Gov. Andrew Cuomo paid a brief visit this afternoon to the Syracuse Nationals car show to announce that show organizers had signed a contract to keep the show at the state fairgrounds for at least the next five years.
Cuomo, an avid car enthusiast, spend a few minutes wandering among classic cars inside the fair’s Horticulture Building before conducting a brief news conference with reporters. Then aides rushed him off for a dinner with local government and business leaders.
Cuomo may not have spent much time at the car show, but his blue 1975 Corvette was on display all day in the Center of Progress Building. Cuomo joked with reporters that he was considering having one of the artists at the car show paint pinstripes on his Corvette, which he acquired during college.
Cuomo, whose weakness for American muscle cars is [...]
