If you started salivating at the thought of shoehorning GM’s earth-shattering LS9 crate motor into your own weekend project car, you’d better start saving up those pennies. The General has released pricing for the boxed-up V8 donk, and it ain’t cheap.

$21,000 US dollars is the price, which equates to roughly $33,000 Aussie simoleons. A hefty [...]

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Crate motors. Is there anything more joyous than being able to flip through a catalogue, select a donk with the power output that best suits your tyre budget, wait a few weeks and then open your front door to see a brand-spanking-new, fully-assembled performance engine sitting on your patio? The guys and gals at GM [...]

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As promised, the General has provided video footage of the ZR1 Corvette and its now legendary 7:26 lap of the ‘Green Hell’. Jim Mero, a GM development engineer is behind the wheel. Jim obviously isn’t your average garen variety cardigan and corduroy wearing engineer.

I never expected to see a Corvette corner and accelerate like the [...]

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Insideline recently spoke to Corvette Chief Engineer, Tadge Jeuchter about the Corvette ZR1 and to say that Tadge is confident in the ZR1’s abilities is an understatement.

He said that the ZR1 “will be able to take the production-car track record at any racetrack”. We all know that there is only one production car lap record [...]

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Thanks to the LS9 supercharged V8, the most powerful engine ever produced by GM, the Corvette ZR1 is knocking some of the exotics from their lofty perches. Tipped to cost around $US100k, the ZR1 is set to stir the establishment in much the same way as Nissan’s mighty GT-R.

Having just revealed that the 6.2-litre LS9 [...]

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It would come as no surprise to the average Aussie car enthusiast that bold pictures of HSV’s and FPV’s on the covers of our local car mags does more for monthly circulation figures than pretty much anything else – such is the popularity of these brands amongst the everyday folk.

In the lead-up to the 2007 [...]

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Due to be unveiled at the Detroit Motor Show which opens this Sunday, the Corvette ZR1 is powered by GM’s new supercharged LS9 6.2-litre V8. For those with long memories Bob Lutz did promise an M5 V10 beating engine a few years back and if power and torque are the yardstick then the LS9 has [...]

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Okay, lets be honest. The car you see in these pictures is the new Cadillac CTS-V and its dog ugly. Good from afar…but far from good is the best way to describe the styling, particularly the 80’s inspired front end. But…just like the fat kid at school had the best personality, the CTS-V ‘s ugliness [...]

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Well, its finally arrived. The much hyped Corvette ZR1 has been officially announced today by GM along with a full image gallery and specifications. The press release is attached for those want to know everything but if you suffer ADT like myself then here are the major points of interest.

The ZR1 is powered by [...]

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The car that we were all hoping HSV would bring to the Sydney Motor Show was the rumoured LS7 powered GTS, instead we were confronted with the nice but kind of boring (in comparison) 20th Anniversary model.

Well, HSV have been beaten to the punch by the guys over at Corsa Special Vehicles (CSV) in Melbourne, [...]

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GM’s upcoming Corvette ZR-1 will be the most powerful production Vette that GM have ever built. Featuring the 6.2-litre supercharged LS9 small-block that we showed you last week this is the car that GM hopes will take the fight to the exotic supercar brigade, oh and of course Nissan’s new GT-R that will go on [...]

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HSV fans should get ready to go a little weak at the knees with this report. First pictures of GM’s LS9 engine have become available and its basically a supercharged 6.2-litre LS3. Destined for the Corvette ZR1 the new mill is tipped to produce a very handy 485kW/650hp. Being a somewhat simpler solution to the [...]

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