From motorsports to music: GM impresses with Corvette speed, Cadillac sound

February 27, 2026Newsletter Archives

From the studio to the street, General Motors innovates across the product suite.

The Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 is rewriting records left and right, zipping to the fastest lap in Lightning Lap history during Car and Driver’s annual hot-lap shootout at Virginia International Raceway. At Le Mans, Corvette and Cadillac will field four Z06 GT3.R entries and three V‑Series.R prototypes respectively. These fierce endurance machines showcase GM’s reach as a global motorsports powerhouse, highlighting its drive for endurance, innovation, and performance since the initial four-car lineup and a GT-classic win in 1960.

Away from the track, Cadillac is pairing that track focus with a new kind of performance: sound. Grammy‑recognized music mixed in Dolby Atmos now moves seamlessly from studios like Just For The Record into Cadillac cabins, where artists use the “car test” to finish tracks and listeners experience music in immersive, three‑dimensional detail.

-- Jazmine Woodberry, head of editorial platforms

GM leads the charge in vehicle-to-home EVs: inside the home energy ecosystem

In addition to being a top two EV seller in the U.S. last year, GM sold more than 246,000 vehicles equipped with vehicle-to-home technology, which can provide power to a properly equipped home during an outage.

From apprentice to SVP: Mike Trevorrow returns to the plant where his career began

General Motors Senior Vice President of Global Manufacturing Mike Trevorrow clocked in at the North American Engineering and Tool Center in Flint, Michigan — the same facility where he started his GM career as a die maker’s apprentice more than 40 years ago.

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