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Chevrolet Volt will be available on dealers from October in Austin (Texas) and New York, U.S. metropolitan areas designated for the difference in climate and the usufruct different car. “We decided to sell the Volt in these two cities,” said Ed Whitacre, CEO General Motors, “for this feature in itself as vehicle designed to carry commuters also indicated for longer journeys.” Erev hybrid sales continued in New Jersey and Connecticut, in conjunction with the extension to Texas and New York, while the availability for the remaining 46 states will be complete within the next 12-28 months.

Whitacre has also stressed how the Chevrolet Volt will be produced at 10,000 units during 2011 and 30,000 in 2012, although he did estimate sales or prices. This has to except that the sedan will not produce any profit.

Corvette will once again be a model of the Chevrolet range in Europe. In 2005 it was created a separate brand and it was decided that the distribution will be handled by Cadillac sales network, to keep up the image of the product and not associate it with the Chevrolet cars in these lists, in fact rebadged Daewoo models. The situation has now changed, with the bankruptcy of the European distributor of Cadillac and the total renewal for the Chevy range. The new commercial structure, which will soon be operational, then return to bring the sporty Corvette as spearhead of the entire Chevrolet and GM, as has always been in the United States, in the same showroom, where soon we will also find and the Chevrolet Camaro. Read the rest of this entry »

Chevrolet Camaro, originally expected in Europe for 2011, comes a bit early on the UK market: British fans will buy the American pony car before the end of the year (2010).

Chevrolet has not announced pricing for the model across the Channel, nor the exact date of his official debut, simply announce that the first unit for use in the UK will take part in Moving Goodwood Motor Show, the event which takes place on July 1.

There are also no other details on the marketing of the Yankee coupe in part by internal range that will cross the Atlantic. In the U.S., we recall, the model can fit a 3.6 V6 or alternatively a 6.2 V8. These units reserved for the Camaro SS, the less powerful is coupled to the automatic six-speed transmission, while the other is for the manual.

General Motors will sell the Chevrolet Volt – Opel Ampera in China, where the model will be sold under the Buick brand. The group of Detroit will correctly capitalize the fortune that the brand is enjoying the growing market in the Asian country.

The car for the Chinese market, should be produced together with the sisters under the brands Chevrolet and Opel factory in Hamtramck, Michigan. Among the few details emerged at the time on account of this operation, there are some sales projections, which speak in volumes for the Chinese predictably lower than those in the U.S., despite the fact that Asian market now exceeds the size of North American.

Hennessey reveals the potential of its HPE800 Twin Turbo Camaro: as the name suggests, the latest creation of American tuner has been well equipped with two turbochargers, and other “minor little things”, able to squeeze out of the Chevrolet Camaro V8 – 815 hp and 1067 Nm of torque. Curl stuff from the asphalt.

Not enough? Hennessey has the solution to this also. It’s called HPE1000 and mounts a twin-turbo version of the 7-liter V8 in the Corvette Z06 and other improvements to intake and exhaust. In this case the power output is 847 hp and almost 1100 Nm of torque. Just over 30 hp Read the rest of this entry »

Special models for American manufacturers of the day. However, reaching,  for the first vehicle from a limited series, the price of 297.000 U.S. dollars (about 219.000 euros ) at an auction is rare. This is happening now with the Corvette Z06 Carbon Limited Edition. Limited at 500 copies, variant of the Corvette with 513 hp V8 engine.

Car auctions are very popular in the U.S., both buyers and sellers as well as spectators. Often bidders battles develop special vehicles, which have very high entertainment value. Such there were in the Barrett-Jackson Auction in Palm Beach, Florida just over a week.

It was about a very special Corvette. The brand new sports car bears the number 1 of the Z06 Carbon Limited Edition. More 499 cars will go from now for free sale in the U.S. market. Compared to the well-known, 377 kW/513 hp Z06 version is replaced by this special model apart from some carbon fiber parts and special Read the rest of this entry »

Chevrolet offers the Camaro as a Pace Car replica of this year’s Indianapolis 500 race. The limited Special Edition is based on the SS and the top model offers some additional extras such as 20-inch aluminum wheels and of course a special coating.

The strong of a 400-hp 6.2-liter V8-powered engine – Chevrolet Camaro Indianapolis 500 Pace Car Limited Edition white rally stripes and an engine cover in Inferno Orange and has particularly high quality floor mats. The Indianapolis-Emblem of 2010 can be found on the front fenders to the doors and into the headrests of the front seats. Shifting in a 6-speed automatic.

Up to 200 copies will offer over its 187-selling Chevrolet dealer. The price is 41 950 U.S. dollars (the equivalent of about 37 000 euros). This is the fourth pace car replica of Chevrolet for 1969, 1982 and 1993.

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Auction house RM Auctions will host the sale of 80 muscle cars belonging to a U.S. collector. Among these are 18 units Corvette models, but also a Chevelle LS6 convertible belonging to a limited series of only18 units.
The U.S. RM Auctions has announced it will hold an auction in San Diego where an American collector will put on sale 80 U.S. sports models. Besides these extremely rare cars, mainly for collectors,  RM Auctions sale will also have many BMW and Mercedes models, some of them in versions M, like the AMG. The most interesting thing is that all the 80 models belong to a single collector from Southern California and all models are offered without a reserve price.

The rare example of this auction is a 1969 Chevrolet Corvette L88. The model is equipped with a 430 hp V8 engine, which has a capacity displacement of 7.49 liters. This copy has a small number of km made and is accompanied by full documentation, which is rare when it comes to a very old model. This is just one of the 18 Corvette models that will be sold at this auction. Along with this comes an LS6 Chevelle, only one of the 18 units of its kind ever produced.  Also, it seems that this copy is the only Chevelle LS6 convertible in the world with a red and black interior.

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