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The Chevrolet Corvette (C6) is the sixth generation of the Corvette sports car that was produced by Chevrolet division of General Motors for the 2005 to 2013 model years. It is the first Corvette with exposed headlamps (as opposed to hidden headlamps) since the 1962 model. Production variants include the Z06, ZR1, Grand Sport, and 427 Convertible.
This model of Corvette is particularly derided for its poor performance. Edmunds.com named this model the 3rd worst Corvette of all time, [87] Time magazine listed it as one of the 50 worst cars of all time, and it is included in Automotive Atrocities! The Cars We Love to Hate by Eric Peters. Dan Neil wrote of the 1980 small block Corvette ...
Larbre's GTE-Am class-winning Corvette C6.R at the 2011 24 Hours of Le Mans. The first team to run a privateer Corvette C6.R GT2 car was the French-based Larbre Competition. In their first race with the car, they finished with a DNF at the 2011 12 Hours of Sebring, but would later come back to win the GTE-Am class of the 2011 24 Hours of Le Mans.
C6.R GT1 (Z06) In 2005, the factory Corvette Team began racing the C6.R to coincide with the new sixth-generation (C6) Corvette being released to the public. Private teams, primarily in Europe, continued to race the C5-R for a couple of years before switching to the C6.R. Corvette C6.R went on to win its class at every race it entered in the ...
The Callaway Project C15, was originally known as Corvette Z06.R GT3, a competition version of the Corvette C6 Z06 built to compete in FIA GT3 category GT racing. The cars are built at Callaway Competition's facility in Leingarten , Germany and raced in the FIA GT3 European Championship .
It is common knowledge among Corvette historians that the newly introduced 327 cubic inch engine had power ratings of 250 horsepower, 300 hp and 340 hp with a carburetor induction system and 360 hp with fuel injection. This is verified in all of Mike Antonick's Corvette Black Books [1] and many other of the 50 or so Corvette books in my library ...
Academy Award nominated animated feature “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl” marks the latest adventure from Aardman’s beloved inventor and loyal pooch, who first appeared in Oscar ...
LS3 engines found in manual transmission-equipped C6 Corvette Grand Sport models also received a dry sump oiling system similar to the one fitted to LS7-equipped Corvettes. From April 2008, Australian performance car manufacturer HSV adopted the LS3 as its standard V8 throughout the range, replacing the 6.0-liter LS2.