Chevrolet Automobiles Blog

Here's a scenario: you've just inherited more money then you know what to do with from a great uncle you didn't know existed – what car do you buy with the money? To help with your decision making process, we compiled a list of the top 10 most expensive vehicles ...    Read more

Chevrolet's SS badge has a long and storied history -- many cars have been worthy of the legendary "Super Sport," while others (remember the Malibu Maxx SS?) were certainly not. In honor of the revival of the SS badge for the 2014 Chevrolet SS rear-wheel drive sedan, we have rounded ...    Read more

General Motors’ Holden brand is understandably excited by today’s announcement about the 2014 Chevrolet SS: after all, the Australian division is chiefly responsible for both designing and producing the vehicle that will soon be sold to North American consumers. But is this news really all that new? Hardly. Five years ...    Read more

Ford has practically owned the police cruiser market for 15 years, but the automaker recently replaced the Crown Victoria Police Interceptor with the Taurus-based Interceptor. Dodge and Chevy are trying harder than ever to take a piece of the pie away from Ford with new Charger Pursuit and Caprice ...    Read more

The speculation can finally come to a close: Yes, Chevrolet will sell a rear-wheel-drive sport sedan in the U.S. market next year. Yes, it will be based on a Holden-developed platform. And yes: it will be sold as the 2014 Chevrolet SS. Today’s announcement is largely hinged around the fact that ...    Read more

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has named three new Top Safety Picks in its latest round of testing. The agency has named the 2013 Chevrolet Malibu Eco, 2012 Hyundai Azera, and 2012 Toyota Prius C Top Safety Picks. To become a Top ...    Read more

The Corvette’s popularity extends beyond hard-working Americans—it’s also popular among car thieves. From 1981 to 2011, the 1984 Chevy Corvette proved the most-stolen model year, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB). Overall, 90,427 Corvettes were stolen in the U.S. and Puerto Rico during those 30 years. Not surprisingly, 1984 ...    Read more

At the Paris Motor Show in September, Chevrolet will unveil the Trax compact crossover. The Trax will go on sale in 140 different countries, but Chevrolet says it's not coming to the U.S. The Chevrolet Trax isn't a huge surprise, given that in March we saw patent drawings previewing a ...    Read more

Been away from your computer this week and missed all the automotive news? We’ve gathered a few of the top stories of the past week for your convenience. Carroll Shelby: Cobra Creator and American Racing Legend Dead at 89 Automotive icon and racing legend Carroll Shelby died Thursday at age 89. ...    Read more

In the 4th installment of Hot Rod’s “Roadkill,” Mike Finnegan and David Freiburger decide that Finnegan’s wife’s 1969 Chevrolet El Camino needs a new engine. But instead of just ordering a crate motor and doing the job in the garage, they decide to do things the fun way. The duo ordered ...    Read more

The 2013 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 will pace the 96th running of the Indianapolis 500 later this month, making it the 11th time a Corvette and 23rd time a Chevrolet have paced the Greatest Spectacle in Racing -- Indy records for a nameplate and an automaker. The 638-hp ZR1 will also ...    Read more

DragTimes, a Russian-based outfit, has released a cluster of new videos that includes tuned versions of  the mighty Chevrolet Corvette ZR1, Nissan GT-R, and a Lamborghini Gallardo with a reported 1500-hp going head-to-head in quarter mile and mile-long drag races. The latest video puts a Switzer-tuned 850-hp GT-R and the mighty ...    Read more

It didn’t take long for noted GM tuner Lingenfelter Performance Engineering (LPE) to extract more juice from the stock version of the mighty Camaro ZL1. And as we reported last week, in addition to more power, the guys at LPE -- with Hot Rod magazine’s ...    Read more

Anatole Lapine (left, above), whose long career included stints as chief designer for Porsche and designer for General Motors, died April 30 in Germany. He was 81 years old. Born in 1930 in Latvia, Lapine joined Daimler-Benz as an engineering apprentice after World War II, before joining GM in the U.S. ...    Read more

Chevrolet engineers took the new 2012 Camaro ZL1 down to the drag strip, and came away impressed. Stock examples of the new muscle car managed to run an 11-second quarter mile time with both the automatic and manual transmissions. The results are pretty impressive for a street-legal car with no modifications: ...    Read more

The rapidly changing midsize sedan market is inspiring Chevrolet to pay special attention to family-oriented customers' needs with the redesigned 2013 Chevrolet Malibu. With a little help from special engineers with expertise in family vehicles, the automaker hopes it has given the new sedan an edge over its competitors. Four ...    Read more

U.S. and German automakers have agreed on a common EV charger in an effort to spread the use of electric vehicles. Audi, BMW, Chrysler, Daimler, Ford, General Motors, Porsche, and Volkswagen will demonstrate the DC-fast charging with a ...    Read more

The folks over at Lingenfelter Performance Engineering apparently weren’t finished having fun with their 2012 Chevy Camaro ZL1. A few weeks ago, the tuner's car was the first Camaro ZL1 to achieve a quarter-mile time in the 10s. Now, that ...    Read more

The compact crossover continues to provide volume close to that of the midsize sedan class and, for April, the new Honda CR-V was the segment’s best-selling example at 23,627 units sold. That number represents an improvement of 9.0 percent over April 2011, when the model sold ...    Read more

In the high-volume compact car segment, the 2012 Toyota Corolla pulled ahead of the pack with 24,804 units sold last month. Just a few hundred units shy of the Corolla was the 2012 Honda Civic, which found its way home to 24,423 customers ...    Read more

My, how the mighty have fallen: in a month where the midsize segment's top contender and bottom third didn't change, competitors from Chrysler, Honda, and Nissan are making things interesting. As we just said, the top spot didn't change at all in April: the Toyota Camry sold 36,820 units, enough to ...    Read more

General Motors reported sales of 213,387 cars in April, which was a drop of 8.2 percent compared to a year prior. The company, however, says the percentage drop-off is no cause for alarm because it merely represents a fall in fleet sales. According to GM, the company's retail vehicle sales ...    Read more

An all-American icon, the Chevrolet Corvette, is going on sale in South Korea. The launch of the Corvette continues the expansion of the Chevrolet brand in Korea, and comes about a year after the Chevrolet Camaro sports car debuted there. The Corvette coupe will go on sale in May for 86.4 ...    Read more

Been away from your computer this week and missed all the automotive news? We’ve gathered a few of the top stories of the past week for your convenience. Ford’s 2013 Shelby GT500 Doesn’t Make 650 Horsepower–It Makes 662 Ford revealed that the 2013 Shelby GT500 muscle car doesn't produce 650 hp ...    Read more

General Motor’s CEO Dan Akerson made roughly $0.85 for each vehicle the company sold in 2011, The Associated Press reports. His compensation package totals $7.7 million, which the automaker says is too low compared to what CEOs of other companies make. GM made the claim in its annual proxy statement ...    Read more