Donuts on Your Infield! Chevy Announces 2018 NASCAR Camaro ZL1

With the Chevrolet SS off to the great big scrapyard in the Australian sky, Chevy needed a new nameplate to feature in NASCAR, and apparently a regressive step to the front-drive Malibu or Impala wasn’t going to make the cut. As such, they’ve whipped up a Camaro ZL1 for competition in the biggest league of American […]

The Prince of Parsimony: Squeezing 70 MPG from a Chevy Cruze Diesel

This is a simple hypermiling test. Take a 2017 Chevrolet Cruze Diesel, turn off the A/C, keep the windows rolled up, get on a California freeway, set the cruise control at 55 mph (10 mph under the limit), and see what sort of fuel economy results. Touch the brakes and throttle as little as possible, […]

2017 Chevrolet Trax: An In-Depth Look at Chevy’s Smallest SUV

The crossover market has been flooded by a wave of subcompact SUVs, some of which pack an outsize personality into a small package. Not the Chevrolet Trax. Chevy’s littlest utility vehicle has bland styling and a lackluster engine, making it a middle-of-the-road choice among more interesting competitors. The Trax is worth considering given its solid […]

Retirement Age: Chevy Launches Special-Edition Carbon 65 Anniversary Corvettes

The 2018 model year will mark the 65th anniversary of the Chevrolet Corvette. It’s a bit of an arbitrary milestone to celebrate—retirement age!—but nevertheless Chevy has created the Carbon 65 Edition package specifically for 2018 Grand Sport and Z06 models. Chevrolet is building 650 of these bad boys (exclusively for the GS 3LT and Z06 3LZ trims), […]

Hatchback Showdown! New Chevy Cruze vs. Honda Civic, Mazda 3, and VW Golf

“If you could have just one car . . . ?” You’re a car person, so non–car people, who, heaven bless ’em, are just trying to make party conversation, probably ask you this all the time. It’s an absurd question of course, because as every car dude knows, owning just one car is like owning […]

Peeved by VW’s Diesel Malfeasance? Chevy’s New Diesel Engine May Be Your Salvation

An old proverb states that what the Hindenburg did to hydrogen, Oldsmobile did to diesels. Fortunately, humans are a forgiving, forgetful lot. Both hydrogen and diesel fuel are likely to play important roles in our transportation future—as the new Chevrolet Cruze diesel is about to show us—no matter what rash moves you expect of our […]