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Chevy Started a Driving School Because It Didn’t Trust Corvette Drivers With 400 HP

You know the phrase: With great power comes great responsibility. When Ron Fellows started its performance driving school in 2008, the entire idea was born from the thought that 400 horsepower was a lot for normal street-car drivers to handle. And Chevy, hot on the heels of its much-ballyhooed C5 Corvette Z06 and looking to make a splash with the leaner, meaner C6, was worried about how it would look if those shiny new blue-collar performance rockets started to appear upside down in alarming numbers.

The notion seems quaint now. In the decade that followed, h …


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Author: Byron Hurd

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