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Remembering the first 200 MPH Stock Car
June 1st, 2021 Chris Phillip
These days, just stroll into your Dodge dealer and pick out a Charger Hellcat with a top speed of 203 mph. Back in 1969, however, Dodge was the first manufacturer to break the 200 mph closed-course speed record and they did it with this Daytona, which sat on pole at the Inaugural Talladega 500 in September 1969 with a top speed of 199.446 mph. It was then proven to 205 mph at the Chelsea Proving G...
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Escalade V- What Took Them So Long?
May 31st, 2021 Chris Phillip
It's about time. A Cadillac Escalade V is coming. Big V-8. Throaty rumble. All-American opulence. It's all in the 2023 Cadillac Escalade V. Since we've been waiting 20 years for one, another two years is a piece of cake. GMAuthority, who reported this news, says, "Both the Escalade-V and Escalade-V ESV will be powered by the supercharged 6.2L V8 LT4 gasoline engine, which is also used in the Chevy...
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Porsche is Pretty in Pink
May 29th, 2021 Chris Phillip
Porsche is dishing out fantastic colors on its new Taycan, Cayman and 911. This photo shows its newest color Frozen Berry Metallic and not only do we love the paint name, we love the color, too. And we're not the only ones. Back in 2017, tennis star Laura Siegemund won the Stuttgart Open and Porsche treated her to a new 911. She asked if it could be Frozen Berry Metallic. Porsche built her a Froze...
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New GTO promises classic Ferrari DNA and 10,000-rpm redline.
May 27th, 2021 Chris Phillip
In case you didn't know, Pontiac borrowed the GTO name from Ferrari way back in the fall of 1963. Now, GTO Engineering is borrowing classic DNA from the Ferrari 250 GTO for a new vehicle called Squalo. Let's get right to the spoiler alert. 4.0L quad-cam V-12 engine. 460 horsepower. 10,000-rpm redline. "The triple bonnet vents, quad-exit exhaust system and aggressive vents in the quarter panels are...
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ATV, UTV and now LTV. What Does it Mean?
May 26th, 2021 Chris Phillip
Sure, hitting the dunes in a UTV sounds like fun, but what if you could do it in 1/6th the gravity of earth. That's what General Motors and Lockheed Martin will turn into reality by the end of this decade for NASA and America's astronauts for their return to the moon. LTV, if you haven't guessed by now, is a lunar terrain vehicle, and GM designed the original moon rovers over 50 years ago. This ge...
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Safety Features Likely to Kill the Manual Trans
May 25th, 2021 Chris Phillip
Do you remember the feeling when you mastered the clutch pedal? Future generations are likely to not even know what a manual transmission is and the death blow may come from safety tech and not from dual-clutch automatics. According to Automotive News and FordAuthority.com, "Automatic emergency braking and adaptive cruise control do not pose a direct threat to the manual gearbox." It is the develo...
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1 Day Left to Win Two Camaros
May 24th, 2021 Chris Phillip
Camaro is a legendary name in the muscle-car world. Imagine two Camaros, including an iconic 1969 restomod and a 720 horsepower Sixth-Gen, in your garage. Matching. High performance. Camaros. Both are LS powered and both are six-speeds. See them online and enter before midnight, Tuesday May 25th (PDT) to win. Your donation to win could score you four wheels times two - these are bad-a** Camaros. E...
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Dodge Says Hellcat Party As We Know It Is About Over.
May 23rd, 2021 Chris Phillip
We have reported on this development before and this update is just in. The era of the gasoline-powered Dodge Hellcat is about over. "This is the last hurrah," said Matt McAlear, head of Dodge sales operations. Matt goes on to call the current plethora of Dodge Hellcats - Challenger, Charger, Jeep, RAM, Durango - as a "bachelor party" that's about to end. The good news? According to Matt, "The rep...
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Lightning Storms on the Horizon
May 21st, 2021 Chris Phillip
Look out Elon Musk. Ford is entering the all-electric marketplace big time with the Ford F-150 Lightning and the specs are sure to please. For a starting price of $41,995 (Ok, we'll get this pun out of the way: SHOCKING!), F-150 Lighting buyers will be treated to 426 base horsepower, and an optional performance package will be available that will up the ante to 563 horsepower. The F-150 Lighting w...
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Lambo Plugs Into the Future
May 19th, 2021 Chris Phillip
Lamborghini is slowly saying arrivederci to the gasoline-powered world of supercar performance. The announcement happened earlier today when the Italian exotic-car manufacturer shared its plans for the decade. "The full Lamborghini road-car range will be plug-in hybrids by 2024," CEO Stephan Winkelmann announced at an event today. In other words, as Car and Driver emphasized in their reporting of...
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