Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport

Take an everyday Corvette, beef up its bod with wider fenders front and rear, throw on a cool-looking functional front splitter and rear spoiler, dress up the corners with unique wheels (we particularly like them in Competition Gray), then add some zing with a pair of stylized fender vents and you're halfway to Chevy's latest offering, the Corvette Grand Sport.

Slotted between the base model and the Z06, the Grand Sport is essentially an LS3-powered Z06 Light, if you will, using some of the mechanicals of the zoomier car to give folks seeking the ease of an entry-level Corvette with an extra dose of performance and visual appeal.

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Chevrolet Equinox

The task: Take on two of the most popular small SUVs, the Toyota RAV4 and the Honda CR-V.

The result: The 2010 Chevrolet Equinox.

Say again? The Equinox?

That's right. General Motors expects its all-new, 2010 Equinox to put a serious dent in the draw of the traditional best-selling compact crossovers. That's a tall order. Chevy has moved just 21,000 of the little utes so far this year, compared with Toyota selling 52,000 RAV4s and Honda selling 65,000 CR-Vs. But now that we've driven the new Equinox, we'd say it has a shot.

For starters, it looks good inside and out. The front has what Chevy calls its signature global face: the two-tier grille and gi-normous gold bow tie. The little ute has strong fenders and good-looking wraparound headlamps. The wheels are pushed out to the corners so the overhangs are nice and short. The overall look is a bit like a mini-Traverse, and that's a good thing.

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