Eduardo Zepeda, Author at CorvSport.com

JoinedOctober 4, 2021

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Eduardo has been obsessed with cars since he was a toddler and now spends his days consuming car-related content and working on cars, so he knows a thing or two about automobiles.

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Corvette Culture

No Radio Allowed: Inside the Original Corvette ZR1

Twenty-five people checked the ZR1 box on a 1970 Corvette order form. Chevrolet gave the option a dry name, the “Special Purpose Engine Package,” and priced it at $968.95. For that money, a buyer got race-tested parts built around a new solid-lifter small-block, plus a list of comforts the factory...

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The C5 Corvette Is the Sweet Spot Between Classic and Modern

Every Corvette generation eventually stops being a used car and starts being a classic, and the C5 crossed that line a while ago. Chevrolet built the fifth-generation Corvette between 1997 and 2004, so the newest examples are now 22 years old and the earliest ones are closing in on 30....

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C7 Corvette Wheel Fitment and Upgrade Guide

The C7 Corvette was built from 2014 to 2019, sold in four flavors that barely share a wheel size between them, and modified by just about everybody who buys one. Wheels tend to be the first thing that goes, which makes sense when you consider what else a couple thousand...

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Corvette Chief Engineer Says a Z06X Is Possible, 16 Years After the First Concept

Chevrolet has confirmed that a hybrid, all-wheel-drive Corvette Z06X is feasible from an engineering standpoint. Corvette executive chief engineer Tony Roma recently said the company could build one, although he stopped short of announcing a program. As GM Authority‘s George Barta pointed out in a recent report, the Z06X name...

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The Road to the Hybrid Corvette Started With the C4

The fourth generation Corvette (1984-1996) has a reputation problem. Most of us enthusiasts know about the flickering dash displays, the electrical gremlins and how hard it is to find a clean one. All of that is true, but for its time the C4 was one of the most technologically advanced...

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The Corvette Was Not Born a Sports Car

The 1953 Chevrolet Corvette left Flint with a 150 hp inline-six derived from Chevrolet’s ordinary lineup, a two-speed automatic with no manual anywhere on the order sheet, and plastic side curtains where the roll-up windows should have been. It looked like a sports car and it was assembled from whatever...

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How Callaway’s Sledgehammer Hit 254 MPH and Drove Home

Corvette enthusiasts can recite the C4 ZR-1‘s particulars without prompting. Considerably fewer can account for the 1988 Corvette that ran 410.00 km/h (254.76 mph) around an Ohio test oval two full model years before the ZR-1 reached showrooms, then drove home to Connecticut with the air conditioning running. Reeves Callaway...

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Is the C6 Corvette Still a Good Value? It Depends Which One You Want

If you’re a regular on Corvette forums, you’ll know that every few months somebody opens a thread or posts in the comments section asking the same question: what’s the smartest used Corvette to buy right now? And for about a decade, the answer was easy. It was the C6. All...

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Why a Suspension Refresh Is the Corvette Mod Owners Notice Most

Ask around at a Corvette meet about mods worth doing and the conversation goes straight to power. Intake, exhaust, maybe a tune. Nobody brings up shocks. That’s a little strange, because on a car that’s been on the road for fifteen or twenty years, the shocks are usually what’s holding...

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1963 Corvette Grand Sport Sells for $18.7 Million at RM Sotheby’s Monterey

A 1963 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport sold for $18,705,000 with fees at RM Sotheby’s Monterey auction on August 15, the most money ever paid for a Corvette at public auction. Chassis 003 carried a pre-sale estimate of $11 million to $13 million. Bidding opened near $5 million and moved in...

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2026 Corvette E-Ray In-Depth Guide

Chevrolet is done with the E-Ray. Production wraps up with the 2026 model year, and the hybrid all-wheel-drive slot in the lineup passes to the 2027 Grand Sport X, a car with a bigger engine and a name that traces back to Zora Arkus-Duntov’s aborted 1963 racing project. Four model...

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What the C9 Corvette Could Look Like, According to MotorTrend

If you have a 2027 Grand Sport on order, you might want to look away for a second. MotorTrend’s new piece on the C9 has it entering production in 2029 as a 2030 model, which leaves the car you’re waiting on roughly three model years before it becomes the old...

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The Aerovette Was a C8 Four Decades Too Soon

By the late 1970s the paperwork was done. General Motors had signed off on a mid-engine Corvette for the 1980 model year, with a 350 cubic inch (5.7L) V8 mounted behind the seats, gullwing doors that folded in the middle and a projected window sticker between $15,000 and $18,000. That...

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Why Running Boards Have Become a Practical Upgrade for Today’s Full-Size SUVs and Pickup Trucks

Full-size SUVs and pickup trucks have become larger and taller than ever, offering better visibility and real off-road capability. That added ground clearance, however, also makes climbing into the cabin more demanding than it used to be. For families with children, older passengers, or anyone who prefers an easier step...

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2026 Corvette ZR1X In-Depth Guide

Front view of 2026 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1X Quail Silver Limited Edition.

Last October, Corvette development driver Stefan Frick ran an 8.675-second quarter mile at US 131 Motorsports Park in Michigan. The car was on pump gas and standard tires, running the same 50-state-legal engine calibration every customer receives. Several follow-up passes came in under 8.8 seconds. That car was the 2026...

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The C7 Corvette Almost Never Happened, and It Ended an Era

Before the C7 ever turned a wheel, the C6 had already set the bar high for its successor. That was the challenge Chevrolet laid on its engineers. Build a car that could out-run the old one and go toe to toe with the best from Germany and Italy, without looking...

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Every Equipment Level Explained on the 2027 Corvette Grand Sport and Grand Sport X

The 2027 Corvette Grand Sport and Grand Sport X are, on paper, the closest of siblings. Both are built around Chevrolet’s new naturally aspirated 6.7L LS6 V8, both wear the wide-body Grand Sport look, and both roll out of Bowling Green on the familiar GM Y2 platform. The obvious split...

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Grand Sport Takes 35% of Early 2027 Corvette Builds, and the Stingray Feels It

2027 Corvette Grand Sport

Three weeks into 2027 Corvette production at Bowling Green Assembly, the new Grand Sport is already crowding the Stingray. Unofficial assembly tracker data shared in a C8 owners’ group on Facebook, first spotted by CorvetteBlogger, shows 590 Grand Sports built between June 9 and June 26 against 719 Stingrays. That...

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2027 Corvette Grand Sport In-Depth Guide

Chevrolet revived one of Corvette’s most storied racing names at the 12 Hours of Sebring this year, and the new 2027 Grand Sport makes a strong case for being the sweet spot of the C8 lineup. Rather than chasing the Z06’s lap-time obsession, it borrows that car’s wide-body stance and...

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2026 Corvette ZR1 In-Depth Guide

When Chevrolet pulled the wraps off the 2026 Corvette ZR1, the automotive world knew the C8 platform had reached its absolute limit. Not its limit in the sense of compromise or concession. Its limit in the sense that Chevrolet engineers had taken everything the mid-engine architecture could physically contain and...

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Corvette ZR1X Claims Pikes Peak Production Car Record in Stock Trim

At the 104th running of the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb on Sunday, a near-stock Chevrolet Corvette ZR1X reset the production car record on America’s most iconic hillclimb course. Piloted by IndyCar and Pikes Peak veteran JR Hildebrand, the 1,250-horsepower hybrid supercar covered the 12.42-mile course to the 14,115-foot summit...

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The Other C8: A One-of-One Spyker and the Case for Proven Engineering

Say “C8” around here and everybody knows what you mean. Chevrolet wasn’t first to the name, though. Spyker, a small Dutch manufacturer, had a hand-built supercar badged C8 a decade before the mid-engine Corvette arrived, and the engineering philosophy will sound familiar to Corvette people: proven mechanicals underneath, money spent...

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Corvette Racing’s Andrea Hidalgo Talks Le Mans Outlook as Four-Car Effort Gets Underway

The 24 Hours of Le Mans got underway this weekend, and for Corvette Racing’s new program manager Andrea Hidalgo, the race marks her first time at the event in a leadership role. Hidalgo took over the position in January after five years with the Corvette Racing factory team, a background...

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1978 - C3 Corvette

FOR SALE: 1978 Chevrolet Corvette Silver Anniversary Edition L48 Automatic

1978-Corvette-Silver-Anniversary-Edition

This 1978 Silver Anniversary Edition Corvette comes to market showing fewer than 17,000 documented miles, with the State of Ohio listing the mileage as actual. The car was previously sold through Mershon’s of Springfield, Ohio, a well-known classic Corvette dealer, which adds a layer of provenance to the low-mileage claim....

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The 3,000-PSI Corvette: Inside GM’s Secret Active Suspension Program

A regular C4 Corvette charging across a rutted proving ground at speed should have been pitching and heaving over every bump. This one wasn’t. The chassis stayed flat, almost unnaturally so, while the wheels hammered up and down underneath it like the legs of some mechanical insect. That car was...

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The World’s First Big Block C8 Corvette Is Almost Finished

If you follow the Corvette at all, you know the big block is part of its history. The 427s and 454s that powered the C2 and C3 cars are some of the most celebrated engines Chevy ever built. But that was a different era. The modern, mid-engine C8 was never...

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The Complete Forgiato Wheels Buyer’s Guide: Sizes, Fitment, Finishes, Pricing, and More

Forgiato makes some of the most visually striking custom wheels on the market. But between the bold designs, the wide size range, the finish options and the fitment variables that come with any serious custom wheel purchase, there’s a lot to navigate before you hit checkout. This guide covers everything...

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Corvette Racing Conquers Detroit Streets for First Win Since 2007

Corvette Racing finally got its home win. Antonio Garcia and Alexander Sims put the No. 3 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R on top of the GTD PRO class Saturday in the Chevrolet Detroit Sports Car Classic, the program’s first points-paying victory in the Motor City since 2007. Winning it on General...

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First Street Footage: The 2027 Corvette’s LS6 V8 Sounds as Good as Its Numbers

The 2027 Corvette Stingray has been caught on a public road, and the new 6.7L LS6 V8 sounds exactly like you’d hope it would. GM Authority has footage of the mid-engine C8 making a right turn on a residential street, waiting for traffic, then pulling away. The Stingray in the...

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Chevy Marks America’s 250th by Unveiling the Corvette ZR1X at Indy

At the Racing Capital of the World, Chevrolet used a hypercar, 250 pyrotechnic candles and a bottle of milk to honor America’s 250th birthday ahead of the 110th Indianapolis 500. Chevrolet had a birthday party to plan, and it did things its own way. On May 23, the company sent...

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