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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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I See Flow Formed Wheels in Your Future
May 18th, 2021 Chris Phillip
Introducing the Forgeline Flow Formed Series wheels. They are 100% designed and engineered by Forgeline, in their Dayton, Ohio headquarters, and manufactured by their performance and quality proven partner. Over the last five years, Forgeline developed their newest series of wheels utilizing advanced flow-forming techniques and processes reserved for only the highest-quality wheels in this categor...
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He Ain't Heavy, He's My Hummer
May 17th, 2021 Chris Phillip
Get ready for the 2022 GMC Hummer EV Edition 1 Pickup, but please don't call it a welterweight. According to news reported today by GM Authority, the all-electric Hummer is going to top the scales. So how heavy will the humongous Hummer be? The answer is a staggering 9,000 lbs or roughly the weight of two full-grown adult African elephants. "For all intents and purposes, that’s kinda nuts – by com...
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Premium rusted body panels. Has the world gone mad?
May 14th, 2021 Chris Phillip
The British would use the word "daft," but let's just call it crazy. As if clear coating the patina of well-preserved half-century old classics isn't the fad for you (missed that train, didn't you?), one Dutch company will oxidize select body panels on the new Land Rover Defender to give its well-to-do owners something a new vehicle just can't offer - rust. This premium finish (keep laughing, it g...
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Dodge Abandons 'Cuda Idea
May 13th, 2021 Chris Phillip
The last production Plymouth Barracuda rolled down an assembly line way back in 1974, but enthusiasts have remained hopeful that FCA, the parent company of Dodge and the retired Plymouth brand, would bring the 'Cuda back into production early this decade. The idea was backed up by a trademark application filed in 2017 for the word 'Cuda to be used as motor vehicles, namely, passenger automobiles,...
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Back to the Futurliner
May 12th, 2021 Chris Phillip
Call us old-school, but there's something gigantically special about the GM Futurliner. These mechanical mammoths were a pack of custom bus-like vehicles styled in the 1940s for General Motors, and a big part of GM's Parade of Progress traveling exhibition promoting future cars and technologies. Weighing over 12 tons each, there were 12 Futurliners produced. They featured on-board exhibitions on t...
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