 Hey, this is Chris from The Verge. Why the heck am I in the middle of the desert? Very few things would cause me to travel some 60 miles away from our home base in Las Vegas just as CES is getting into full swing. The chance to drive a 460 horsepower Corvette Stingray though? Yeah, that'll do it. I'm here at Nevada's Spring Mountain Raceway today to look at a new feature coming to the 2015 Corvette, the Performance Data Recorder. You've heard of the Quantified CELF. Well, think of this as the Quantified Car. It's a combination data logger and forward-facing camera that outputs video to an SD card you stick in your glove box. The result looks like something straight out of a video game. But let's back up for a second. Why would you want to do this? If your daily driver is a minivan, odds are you wouldn't. But then again, the Stingray is no minivan. This is for track day warriors, the men and women who spend a Saturday or an entire weekend flogging their car around twists and turns for the pure thrill of it. It's IRL Gran Turismo and it's a blast, trust me. It's not just about driving though. You need to show off your asphalt conquest, which is why the GoPro camera has revolutionized the track day. At this point, it's hard to find a car on the local track that doesn't have a couple action cam suction cup to the fenders. Well, GM caught on to the trend, concealing an HD camera right in this Stingray's headliner. As it records, the video is overlaid with a bunch of stats racers care about. RPMs, current gear, lateral Gs, so on, after which you can eject the card, upload the video to YouTube, and brag to your friends about that sick lap you turned at Laguna Sega. In other words, it's definitely not for everyone. In fact, it's not even for all Corvette drivers. It'll be an extra cost option available later this year and pricing hasn't been announced. But if analyzing your driving mechanics to squeeze another second out of your lap times is your idea of a good Saturday night, GM has the coolest product in town. Or in this case, 60 miles outside of town.
 Hey, this is Chris from The Verge.
 Why the heck am I in the middle of the desert?
 Very few things would cause me to travel some 60 miles away from our home base in Las Vegas
 just as CES is getting into full swing.
 The chance to drive a 460 horsepower Corvette Stingray though?
 Yeah, that'll do it.
 I'm here at Nevada's Spring Mountain Raceway today to look at a new feature coming to the
 2015 Corvette, the Performance Data Recorder.
 You've heard of the Quantified CELF.
 Well, think of this as the Quantified Car.
 It's a combination data logger and forward-facing camera that outputs video to an SD card you
 stick in your glove box.
 The result looks like something straight out of a video game.
 But let's back up for a second.
 Why would you want to do this?
 If your daily driver is a minivan, odds are you wouldn't.
 But then again, the Stingray is no minivan.
 This is for track day warriors, the men and women who spend a Saturday or an entire weekend
 flogging their car around twists and turns for the pure thrill of it.
 It's IRL Gran Turismo and it's a blast, trust me.
 It's not just about driving though.
 You need to show off your asphalt conquest, which is why the GoPro camera has revolutionized
 the track day.
 At this point, it's hard to find a car on the local track that doesn't have a couple
 action cam suction cup to the fenders.
 Well, GM caught on to the trend, concealing an HD camera right in this Stingray's headliner.
 As it records, the video is overlaid with a bunch of stats racers care about.
 RPMs, current gear, lateral Gs, so on, after which you can eject the card, upload the video
 to YouTube, and brag to your friends about that sick lap you turned at Laguna Sega.
 In other words, it's definitely not for everyone.
 In fact, it's not even for all Corvette drivers.
 It'll be an extra cost option available later this year and pricing hasn't been announced.
 But if analyzing your driving mechanics to squeeze another second out of your lap times
 is your idea of a good Saturday night, GM has the coolest product in town.
 Or in this case, 60 miles outside of town.