In order to increase it’s awareness and sales, General Motors has developed an employee personal driving experience sharing program, called The GM Vehicle Plant Tour. According to the sources, in this program employees will be trained at 40 North American plants through a series of personal experiences. Obviously the aim of the company is to offer the company’s vehicles in their employees’ local communities.

Over 40,000 people will take part in this program. The Tour will include monthly stops at important U.S. and Canadian GM plants. Overnight test-drive vehicles will be available. The vehicles included in the campaign are the Chevrolet Equinox, Camaro and Malibu, the Buick LaCrosse, the GMC Terrain and the Cadillac CTS Sport Wagon.

“The hardworking men and women at these plants are focused each day on producing high-quality vehicles,” said Cal Rapson, vice president and director, UAW International. “The UAW is proud to support a program that enlists the help of our members to play an active role in promoting these vehicles in their communities.”

After we presented you an interview with Doug Fehan, and the upcoming challenge for the Corvette C6R at The 24 Hours of Le Mans, we wanted to present you live image of this beautiful racing muscle car – The Chevrolet Corvette C6R GT2.

The shot above was snapped at the garages of Pratt & Miller, the racing outfit contracted by GM to develop and run the racing Corvettes. As we can see, the color scheme is the same black and yellow, but the 2010 C6R has sharper paint job.

The bodywork is built based on an aluminum frame – for instance – the GT1′s frame is made of steel. The brakes are made of steel, too. The power unit of the muscle car is a downsized 5.5-liter V8.

We all hope that the Corvette Racing team is going to beat the competition, dominated by Ferraris and Porsches. Images – below on Read more!

On June 12-13 in the GT2 class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the Corvette Racing team is going to continue its racing career.

Some of the other competitors are five Porsche GT2 RSRs, two BMW M3s, a Jaguar XKRs, five Ferrari 430 GTs an Aston Martin Vantage and a Spyker C8.

“We are pleased and honored that the new GT2 Corvette C6.R has been invited by the Automobile Club de l’Ouest to compete in the world’s most prestigious sports car race,” said GM Racing manager Mark Kent. “Our objective is to carry forward Corvette’s legacy of success as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Corvette’s first participation at Le Mans. This year’s race will certainly be a challenge because of the depth and quality of the competition in the GT2 division. The entries represent the world’s most storied sports car brands and underscore the relevance and value of racing production-based cars.”

We present you two great modifications of Chevrolet Corvette 2009 Z06 by Ragin’ Racin’. The first one is a 927 hp beast, detuned to 876 hp, and it’s little brother – the 707 hp beast. Ragin’ Racin’ offers 5 stages of tuning kits for Chevrolet Corvette and both these cars are stage 5. The difference appears because stage 5 is pretty much custom modification with many variants. Be sure to check out the modded parts, the dyno results and the video clips after the jump, when you click on Read More. Greatings, Ragin’ Racin’!

Official Press Release:
Scottsdale, Ariz. – Earthquake relief efforts in Haiti will receive all proceeds from the auction of a limited edition 2008 Chevrolet Corvette at this weekend’s 39th annual Barrett-Jackson Collector Car Auction.

The proceeds, which will be donated to the American Red Cross relief fund, are in addition to a $100,000 contribution from the GM Foundation to the Red Cross.

“This is a very good example of the compassion GM employees have,” said Ed Welburn, Vice President of GM Design. Welburn will call the vehicle to the stage to start the bidding process at the event.

There is a rumor that says Chevrolet is taking into consideration building a Corvette sedan based on the Holden Commodore. We know that seems a little exaggerated, but the announcement was made apparently by Bob Lutz who said the four-door Corvette sedan will be a limited edition model which will be sold in the United states only. Lutz said a Corvette sedan is not impossible since a brand is not defined by a body shell, but by the engine, traction and transmission.

Most people know that GM is builds Australian models based on its US cars, but it has never based a North American model on an Aussie vehicle.

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DETROIT – Corvette Racing program manager Doug Fehan has seen it all in motorsports, and he had to rely on every element of that hard-earned experience to navigate through a tumultuous 2009 season. In the midst of a global economic storm, Fehan steered Corvette Racing to the team’s sixth win in the 24 Hours of Le Mans and the successful mid-year introduction of the GT2 version of the Corvette C6.R in the American Le Mans Series.

Corvette Racing’s 10th anniversary season was a year of transition. The championship-winning GT1 Compuware Corvettes secured a seventh win in the season-opening Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring on March 21, and made their farewell appearance in the ALMS in Long Beach, Calif., on April 18. The curtain fell on the GT1 era on June 13-14 with a GT1 victory in Le Mans, France, as Johnny O’Connell, Jan Magnussen and Antonio Garcia stood on the top step of the podium. Seven weeks later, two new-generation Corvette C6.Rs made their competition debut in the GT2 class at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.

The Grand Sport version of the Corvette has received the Heritage Package for this year’s edition of the SEMA Convention. The track Corvette GS Heritage Package comes with wider wheels and tires and a special suspension tuning. the performance oriented Corvette GS Heritage Package can reach 60 mph in less than four seconds and manages to get 1.0 g on the skid pad.

The Corvette GS Heritage Package includes mesh inserts, ZR1-style front splitter and rear spoiler, rocker extensions and wheel spats and a Tech pattern engine cover with red lettering inserts. For the interior, the Corvette GS Heritage Package offers a red stitched shifter knob/boot and red parking brake boot, a PAL iPod connector and racing-style pedal covers.