Chevrolet Corvette: The Real American Car

American always had a desire for sports car. All big brands have brought out sports cars from time to time in the American soil. Chevrolet, one of the biggest automaker brought out its Corvette, targeting the sports car lovers. The Corvette was introduced into the Yankee land in the year 1953. The car gained the recognition of being the first completely American sports car built by an American car company, which is why it is often referred to as “America’s Sports Car”.

Today, Chevrolet manufactures Corvette in the city of Bowling Green, Kentucky. Even though, there exist complaints regarding the handling of the car, Corvettes’ handling has been continually improved to be on a par with popular European sports cars. But still they remain relatively affordable, which is perhaps one of the reasons of their continuous popularity as a sports car.


Corvettes have brought out technical sports cars in Europe from time to time, which is one of the reasons they are cheaper. Due to the simplicity, Corvettes tend to be smaller and weigh less than sports cars manufactured abroad. The famous car designer Harley Earl after noticing that soldiers after the Second World War were bringing back European sports cars as America didn’t really have one, longed to make a sports car. At the 1953 Motorama car show, the Corvette designed by Earl was finally unveiled to the shocked public.

The body was originally made with fibreglass, and the performance was similar to other Chevrolets produced at the time, but when Chevrolet released it with the first V8 engine in 1955, it became more popular.

Since then, six different generations of Corvettes have come out.

GM to Shut Down?

You probably heard of the financial crisis that affected the whole world.
Of course, the whole crunch got the auto-market, too, and unless the US Congress won’t agree to hand some $25billion in soft loans to the big three (GM, Ford and Chrysler), rumors say that in early January, General Motors may become insolvent and as a consequence … shut down.

The Big Three account for more than 10-percent of the American jobs so can you even imagine what will happen if they go down?

The Big Three account for more than 10-percent of the American jobs so can you even imagine what will happen if they go down?

Voices in the market still think that even a bail out for GM may lead to shutting doors within months or weeks. Meanwhile the US Treasury thinks that it’s cheaper to save Detroit (or at least try to) instead of letting it die.

What do you think it will happen, and would you miss GM ?


- via TopGear

Ford Coupe: After Seven Decades, Still a Prestige Car

The 1932 Ford Coupe Hot Rod is a royal car of pride collector’s piece for all car lovers. This is a model that all car lovers love to own at home, if had some money in the pocket. The Ford Coupe Hot Rod is a full handmade custom car, known as the definitive hot rod. It came out from Ford at a time when the Native Americans longed out a new entrant from Ford to challenge the European cars. It is the holy grail of hot rods, which is best known for introducing the first mass produced V8 engine. It is the key vehicle in American car culture. The Ford Coupe, although most commonly used chassis for hot rods, the whole point is that it is what you make of it that counts. The royal car marked its 75 years later as the Little Deuce Coupe.


This elegant car from world’s biggest car maker is the first model to experiment on V8 engine. This awesome car came out in a choice of colours of a cross between yellow and puke green. Considered as the finest looking car of its era, in any price range, from any manufacturer in the world, Ford Coupe really ruled the American roads for decades. It is a classic, as it served as a foundation for several generations’ worth of hot rods. Even after 75 years, the car has many lovers among the American youths, who still feel as it is a part of American pride. The Ford Coupe used to come out with an upholstery kit consisting of a seat made of fine upholstery fabric from Belgium. The first car on roads to use a V8 engine, also it is the most beautiful car ever discovered by hot rods. It is unquestionably the classic king of street rods. No doubt about the superiority and authority that Ford Coupe still possesses among the car market.