By Matt DeLong Star Tribune
April 22, 2016 — 11:47am
Numerous brands have honored the life of Prince after his sudden death yesterday, mostly by incorporating the color purple into their logos. However, one company that is forever linked to the Minnesota legend’s music offered a special tribute in this morning’s print editions of the Star Tribune and the New York Times.
Chevrolet, the maker of the classic American sports car immortalized in one of Prince’s biggest hits, “Little Red Corvette,” took out a sparse, full-page color ad in the newspapers with a play on the song’s lyrics. Check it out:
We’re living in a golden age of featherweight sports cars. If you’re looking to go fast at half the heft, the likes of the Porsche Cayman and Alfa Romeo 4C can more than accommodate. Add in all the boutique sports car automakers and you have a veritable full house of options – everything from the Ariel Atom to the 700-horsepower Rezvani Beast X.
This is one you might not know about however – it’s called the Deronda G400. Weighing in at a scant 1,900 pounds, the Deronda punches hard with a GM LS2 Corvette engine, which is hidden under its rear deck, giving it incredible agility and a massive power to weight ratio.
In 2013, Jay Leno took this car for a spin, calling it “a super bike for a guy who doesn’t like motorcycles.” A few years earlier, it was compared it to a jet—”agile, powerful, and built for speed.” Now it’s up for [...]
A walk back in time!!! This 1956 high Fin SR2 (Sebring Racer) has always been a dream car of Corvette Collectors worldwide. Way out of the price range of your typical Corvette owner/buyer, this car was Chevrolet’s answer to the racing European cars eating up the tracks stateside and abroad. Conceived and built under the direction of Harley Earl himself for his son Jerome to race. This is perhaps the most valuable Corvette you will ever see firsthand and also to ever leave the GM stable. Auction houses speculate that a car like this, in the right venue, under the right conditions and with two or more passionate pursuers, could lift the canvas off the tent. But until that happens, no one really knows for sure how many millions it will take!!!! Anyway, my buddy Frank and I produced this video to take a walk back in time. Enjoy it and LIKE it if you [...]
