Like many I was a tad bit skeptical when Ford decided to use the ecoboost engine in the Ford F150. Not that the engine isn’t capable because it clearly is, but mainly because it was a $900 premium over the standard 5.0 V8. I guess my own narrow minded V8 fanboyness didn’t allow me to …
Category Archive: General Discussion
Dec 26
Preview : Toyota GT86
Hachi Roku. These two little words, Japanese for eight-six, invoke immediate images of sliding around mountain corners touge style and going similarly sideways at track drift events. It also brings to mind an affordable, simple, yet practical rear wheel drive hatch and coupe. For reasons of packaging, space and production costs, the Japanese car industry …
Dec 22
Corvette Centennial Edition
Chevy is celebrating 100 years with a special edition Corvette called the Centennial edition. The centennial edition comes with in a special black paint, badging, special wheels with a red strip and center cap, as well as interior accents. The centennial edition is available on any trim level Vette.
Dec 21
Active Exhaust Systems
Cars make noise. For most of automotive history, people just accepted this as a simple fact of the car world. There are those in this world who build houses next to major freeways and then complain about the speed of the vehicles going past. There are those who build houses next to airports and complain …
Dec 20
Dry Sumps
Browse around some forums on the net and you’d think that dry-sumps were sent from hell to complicate the lives of car fans. It’s stupid they say. Why would you want to complicate your lubrication path they say. Let’s see what dry-sumping a car is all about and find out why you’d bother.