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Photo Credit: Chevrolet  When 2018 arrives, the Corvette will enter its 65th year as Chevrolet’s sweetheart sports car. Living a lifetime marked by both prosperity and adversity, the Chevrolet Corvette underwent adjustments through seven generations as culture assesses the modern automobile. The increase reliance on electrification, fuel management and customers favouring other vehicle types has resulted in a global auto market that may not be kind to a rear-wheel drive, V-8 engined sports car. When the 638-horsepower Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 was released between 2009 to 2013 there were even thoughts that classic American sports car philosophies would not translate into succeeding examples of the vehicle. Some of this concern was alleviated by the roll-out of the seventh generation Chevrolet Corvette and the Z06 featuring 650 horsepower of old-fashioned performance greatness. Proceeding into the 2019 model year, the future of the automobile will involve Corvette’s most treas...

Photo Credit: Chevrolet The performance prowess of the Chevrolet Corvette often insulates through ability to escape an uncomfortable situation quickly. However, for eight Corvettes on February 12 th of this year , nature swallowed them before they had a chance to apply their V-8 muscle.   More than six months ago, the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green,Kentucky , a large sinkhole developed within the facility's Skydome section. With the hole opening overnight, it timing most fortunately spared human harm. The casualties of the sinkhole was limited to some high quality motorized display pieces. In total, eight Chevrolet Corvettes were the victims of a sudden deep fall. This weekend, the National Corvette Museum provided some details on their recovery efforts. Pledging to fill in the opening within the Skydome, Chevrolet has provided updates on three of the vehicle's damaged in the natural occurrence.   The 2009 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 prototype (termed the...