About a year ago we told you about a set of Corvettes that were from a contest VH1 did back in 1989. The winner of the contest sold the cars to Peter Max, who was going to use them in an art project. The cars ended up languishing in a single New York Metropolis parking storage instead. The collection included 36 Corvettes; one from every year starting in 1953 until 1989. The current owners, a group called Corvette Heroes, have restored each of the Corvettes and are going to raise money for the National Guard Educational Foundation by raffling the cars off. There will be two drawings to pick the winners. First, 36 tickets will be chosen at random to form a group of winners. Then another drawing will decide which winner gets which Corvette. Raffle tickets start at $3 for one, five tickets are $10 and 20 tickets go for $25. There are also discounts if you want to buy more up to 7,200 tickets for $5,000!. Just in C8 Nurburgring Lap Time rumor There is a new rumor about the C8 rounding the Nurburgring. The time they are stating is 7:28.30. In comparison, Z51 C7 set a time of 7:33, so the new car is considerably faster if these rumors are true. We at Corvette Mike have questions about this time though. Even tho [...]

will the Corvette Become an EV? We have all heard the rumors of the C8 being developed as a hi-performance Hybrid, but how about a totally Electrified Version? In an interview with Corvette Blogger, Corvette Chief Engineer Tadge Juechter, was asked if an all-electric version of the Corvette was in its future. The reply was not the normal No Comment, but rather a surprising "you know, Corvette is part of General Motors, and part of General Motor's mission, you know, from the top of the company, is zero, zero, zero. So, zero-emissions are part of our mission. Now, that's a future state. We'll get there eventually, so that's our job to continue to work towards that." That makes sense that, at some point, an all-electric Corvette will become a reality. However, GM just produced a wholly new Corvette, at great development cost, and isn't expecting it to go all-electric in a hurry. Juechter made clear in the podcast, it's Chevy's job to figure that out. Just in Genovation GXE Hits 211.9mph The Genovation GXE, a Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport turned into an all-electric speed machine, just keeps getting faster, and faster, and faster. After it previously set its top speed at 210.2 mph back in September 2019, the GXE wa [...]

The new C8 Corvette has broken a lot of norms already by moving the engine to the back of the car, but this was not enough for Chevrolet. They wanted a Corvette that could be enjoyed the world over, and that required a version with the steering wheel to the right side of the car. Well, that is exactly what Chevrolet has done. Starting in 2021, the C8 Corvette will be available for sale in both left-hand-drive, and right-hand-drive, versions. In most countries, it will be sold at Chevrolet dealerships with one exception. That market is Australia, where the Corvette is debuting in 2021 in Holden and HSV (Holden Special Vehicles) dealers, but not all of them. The Australian version will not be rebadged as a Holden, but rather just marketed as a Corvette. Offering the right-hand-drive version makes it more suitable for export to countries where it has never been a big player, such as the U.K., Ireland and Japan, as one expects, but also India, New Zealand, large parts of the Caribbean, numerous countries in sub-Saharan Africa, Indonesia, Malaysia and large parts of Southeast Asia. In total, the new Corvette is suited for 75 countries and territories where traffic keeps on the left side of the road. Just in 2020 C8 Corvette Is [...]