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Ford's Pony Size Truck Gets a Name - Maverick
June 8th, 2021 Chris Phillip
There's a lot to love about the newest truck in Ford's line-up. Let's start with the name - Maverick. The Ford Maverick was a pint-sized economy car back in the 1970s. It is good to see the name repurposed some 50 years later. For $20,000, Ford will offer a 40-mpg full-hybrid light truck. Here are its main features: • All-new Ford Maverick is the first standard full-hybrid pickup in America and th...
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Cadillac Adds Fiber to its Diet
June 7th, 2021 Chris Phillip
Here at RYNO, we've been watching with interest as Cadillac gets closer to releasing the Blackwings, the CT4 and CT5 V Series Blackwings, which are the last high-performance internal combustion engine powertrain Caddys to be built before the brand (and the world) crossover to an all-electric future. Two carbon-fiber packages will come on the Cadillac CT4 V Series Blackwing and thanks to the good f...
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C7/C8 Corvette Mods from Harding Performance
June 4th, 2021 Chris Phillip
Those in the Corvette hobby may remember the name Jason Harding from his years at Katech Performance. As far as we know, Jason's new venture Harding Performance is the only company making billet-aluminum valve covers for the C8 Corvette. They'll also work on C7 Corvettes and late-model Camaros. Harding Performance billet aluminum valve covers for Gen 5 LT engines are CNC machined from 6061-T6 bill...
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Ford's Garage Meet Tesla's Diner
June 3rd, 2021 Chris Phillip
Oh, Elon. What would we do without you? Tesla Motors just filed for a new trademark to use the Tesla brand name and logo as a new restaurant chain. It seems Mr. Musk wants to open some drive-in restaurants that recall the drive-ins of the 1950s and 1960s ... with one exception. These new Tesla restaurants will have superchargers so you can charge up while you're filling up on food. You'll even be...
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Ford Opens Bronco Off-Rodeo
June 2nd, 2021 Chris Phillip
Those clever folks at Ford. They are opening an off-road driving academy for new Bronco owners. Motor1.com has the news and says, "The day-and-a-half-long training course will teach select Bronco Sport owners and Bronco reservation holders how to make the most of their crossover or SUV off the beaten path regardless of whether they're beginners or experts." The location is about 50 miles west of A...
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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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