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How to Stay Ahead of GM and Ram
It is no doubt that John Hennessey and his team get some amazing horsepower figures from some of their intricate tuning of the finest automotive machines directly out of the production factory. Jay Leno invites John down to his garage for another visit only this time he brings 602 horsepower packed under the hood of a new Chevrolet Camaro Convertible. Check out the drop-top fun that Jay has with this beast below!
[source: Jay Leno's Garage]
As I’ve just before, this whole trend and push to make cars more economical has resulted in a decrease in driving fun. But at the same time, it’s inevitable since times are changing. For example, a research poll conducted by Opinion Research Corp. and commissioned by the Consumer Federation of America showed that 62% of Americans support Obama’s mandate requiring manufacturers to meet a 60 mpg standard by 2025. The survey was based on 2,000 Americans with a margin of error of minus-plus two percen…
When the 1973 Chevrolet and GMC half-ton pickups were introduced, they were the first truly streamlined pickup trucks on the market. And their timing could not have been better… imagine a pickup truck that was designed in a wind tunnel and introduced just in time for the first gas crisis.
What makes these the best trucks GM ever built? Well, they were breakthrough vehicles–the first, in my opinion, of today's modern pickups. No previous truck had combined rugged workability and pleasing cr…
The automated enforcement industry has suffered significant setbacks in the past several months. In November, voters in America’s fourth largest city, Houston, Texas, used the referendum process to outlaw automated ticketing machines. A number of California cities have been dropping red light camera programs after experiencing mediocre safety results. Now one of the key industry [...]
With 15 “new or refreshed” Chrysler Group products launching over the next 4 months [complete product plan in PDF format here], we’re about to find out definitively if a company’s product can be turned around in a little over a year. Given how complex automobiles are, and how deeply uncompetitive many of Chrysler’s products have [...]
2011 Chevrolet Volt
Recently, with all the development of electric vehicles that has been going on, the automotive lexicon has expanded greatly, and now GM seeks to trademark part of that expanded vocabulary; the company has filed for a trademark on the term ‘range anxiety’. The term refers to the concern that traveling a given distance will leave one with a dead battery, and thus no means of returning home. It is one of the leading reasons consumers give for avoiding purchasing such a car.
The phr…