Named for the slick Corvette and elegant Bel Air, the Chevrolet Corvair has a storied history. With its appearance in January of 1960, it was apparent that Chevrolet’s then-General Manager Ed Cole had ...

The Chevy Corvair, a blending of the Corvette and Bel Air monikers, was built for the 1960 to 1969 model years. The Corvair began as a 1954 GM Motorama concept car built as a fastback version of the ...

The Corvair is the most un-Chevrolet ride ever made and possibly the weirdest American car to roll off the line. A rear-engine flat-six, compact sounds like something that would come from Germany or ...

There were two generations of the Chevrolet Corvair, the first from 1960 to 1964 and the second from 1965 to 1969. Ed Cole, a 44-year career executive with General Motors Corp. (including as the ...

Most pickup trucks follow a familiar template: engine in the front, bed in the back. That isn't the case with this 1961 Chevrolet Corvair pickup, featured on a recent episode of "Jay Leno's Garage." ...

The Chevy Corvair debuted for the 1960 model year. The Corvair moniker came from a blending of Corvette and Bel Air, with the “air” portion a direct reference to the Corvair’s air-cooled, horizontally ...

Corvair. Say that word even softly in the presence of off-road enthusiasts and you can bet a week's pay that some sort of argument will follow. The engine's use and misuse off the road is second only ...

Great things can happen when motivated employees come up with a great idea, put it into practice, and then take it to the bosses. That's pretty much how Gmail was invented, and it's also how we ended ...

There are many “what were they thinking moments” in the automotive industry, the most recent of which include the Dieselgate scandal and Takata debacle. The Ford-Firestone controversy also springs to ...

One day as I was sitting at my desk networking (aka Facebook-ing), I saw a strange car with a candy paintjob and wire wheels pop into my newsfeed asking for people to vote for it. Upon further review, ...

Among the quirky contraptions that made it out of the Detroit Big Three's assembly plants, the Chevrolet Corvair is a special breed for one main reason. Its architecture was entirely and utterly ...

Chevrolet promoted the portion of the 1960 Corvair behind the passenger seats as a "baby cradle" that was "a safe, comfortable way to carry your baby" because it was the "warmest place in the car … ...