Two-car Viper team set for full 2013 ALMS season and 24 Hours of Le Mans

AUBURN HILLS, Mich. – Chrysler Group’s SRT® (Street and Racing Technology) Motorsports team announced its driver lineup today for the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) presented by Tequila Patrón and the 24 Hours of Le Mans in June.

Beginning at the ALMS season opening event – the 12 Hours of Sebring – Tommy Kendall, Kuno Wittmer and Jonathan Bomarito will share GT-class driving duties in the No. 93 SRT Viper GTS-R, while Marc Goossens, Dominik Farnbacher and Ryan Dalziel will be in the No. 91 S…

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Ford Confirms Full Powertrain Lineup for 2014 Transit Van

Two of the four pieces in the all-new, 2014 Ford Transit van’s powertrain lineup already were confirmed. Back in March, Ford revealed that the brand’s 3.5-liter EcoBoost V-6 would be the van’s upmarket option and earlier this week a 3.2-liter inline-five diesel also was announced. But it was really more like three of the four pieces were confirmed, as it was a no-brainer the 3.7-liter naturally aspirated V-6 that serves as the F-150′s base powerplant would be a part of the lineup…

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M-Sport Qatar team confirms Østberg for full season in 2013

Following the recent announcement that M-Sport will team up with the State of Qatar for the 2013 edition of the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC), the company is pleased to confirm Mads Østberg and Jonas Andersson as Qatar M-Sport World Rally Team’s nominated point scorers for all 13 rounds of next season’s championship.

Following a sensational performance this season, Østberg was a strong candidate to help guide the team to success in 2013. Securing a top-five finish on each of the 11 rounds he …

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QOTD: “You Are Full Of Shit” – Ralph Gilles to Donald Trump

Pursuant to our continued discrediting of the “Jeeps built in China” lie, Donald Trump took to Twitter to further propagate that falsehood. And the Donald ended up getting a virtual earful from Ralph Gilles, head of Chrysler’s SRT Division.

The Trump tweet that launched a thousand shits reads as such
Obama is a terrible negotiator. He bails out Chrysler and now Chrysler wants to send all Jeep manufacturing to China–and will!
Gilles took a direct and concise course of action, one…

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After Full 2012 Run, MINI Pulls Out Of World Rallying Championship

Well that was fast. After just one year, MINI has announced that it is pulling out of the World Rallying Championship. They went from wanting to win the whole thing in 2013 to pulling out in 2012. Earlier this year even, they committed to WRC, with Dr. Kay Segler saying “We remain convinced that the sport of rallying is perfectly suited to our brand.”
We agree. So what happened then? MINI made a big deal about its WRC entrance when they first announced the program in 2010. Since then things have…

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Full Higgs Boson Results Officially Published

Higgs Candidate Event A proton-proton collision event in the CMS experiment produces two high-energy photons (the red towers). This is what physicists would expect to see from the decay of a Higgs boson, but it is also consistent with background Standard Model physics processes. CERNThe most important papers to come from the world’s biggest physics lab Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider announced their Higgs boson likely-discovery on July 4, but now it’s (a little) more official: The first scientif…

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2013 Bentley Continental GT Speed Full Specs, Images and Video Released

We finally get the full run-down on Bentley’s most powerful and fastest vehicle yet, the new 2013 Bentley Continental GT Speed.
Aside from the beefy 616 horsepower and 590 ft-lbs. of torque twin-turbo W12 engine mated to an 8-speed automatic transmission and 205 mph top speed, the new Bentley Continental GT Speed is actually a more efficient vehicle when compared to its predecessor, up to 12 percent in fuel economy to get a combined 19 mpg.

The new 2013 Bentley Continental GT Speed has a reworked po…

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2012 Kia Rio: Full of Pep

The new 2012 Kia Rio has shown the world that fun and affordability in the subcompact market are not impossible to find.  With a brand new design brought to the 2012 model year, this new look brings with it a sedan and five-door ride, all with a sleek new body.  Along with the improved styling has come the fuel economy many are looking for in a new car.
While the Rio is a small car, it still manages to be spacious inside, with the new five doors bringing increased legroom and headroom in the front and…

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DUI Suspect Full of Swag Asks "What is Drugs" After Crashing Into Three Cars…

Here's a new meme in the making. Last Friday, 29-year old Vardan Aslanyan took police on an hour-long chase reaching speeds in excess of 100mph (+160km/h) through several freeways in the San Fernando Valley. While being pursued by cops, Aslanyan collided with three vehicles, including a Mercedes-Benz SUV that was knocked over injuring a mother and her 3-year-old toddler, fortunately, not seriously, according to NBC LA. Read more »Copyright © Carscoop.blogspot.com – All Rights Reserved

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Spied! 2013 Acura RLX Hot Weather Testing in Full Camouflage

Acura’s new flagship sedan is set to arrive early next year, which means the automaker should be putting the finishing touches on the final production version. The 2013 Acura RLX was revealed at this year’s New York auto show, and our spy photographer recent caught this tester out on the streets. It wasn’t difficult to [...]

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