Where else on Earth where you can walk into a dealership, plunk down $72,125, and drive away in a car capable of 12-second quarter-miles and mid-24+ mpg on the highway when you pedal softly? Nowhere, that's where. Is this is a great country or what? It's no secret that I like Corvettes and am...Read More»
You've been fighting, scrapping, waiting, and drooling for every detail on the 2009 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1. Well, brace yourself for a biggie: The ZR1's base price tag will be $103,000. Add the $1,700 gas-guzzler tax and you're looking at $104,700. Now that you've stopped swooning, I'll go ahead...Read More»
Chevrolet’s twin Corvettes at next week’s Chicago auto show will be special editions, not the long-rumored Blue Devil, or mid-engined Corvette, or V-6 version, or any of the other mythical Corvettes reported breathlessly elsewhere (and here, once – oops!). The coppery Corvette Indianapolis...Read More»
Look at me, look at me! You’ll have to excuse this anxious driver. The post-War, German-made Isetta was not only a little, um, odd-looking, but it was one of the smallest cars on the road, then or now. Among its many unusual features was the front-opening door. This particular Isetta was...Read More»
