Category Archive: New Car and Industry News

Aug 20

One off tribute to Carroll Shelby

Ford Motor Company, Shelby American, Ford Racing and others are paying tribute to the late Carroll Shelby with a one off 2013 GT500 Cobra. Appropriately the car was unveiled at Monterrey where this years feature cars were Shelby. The car comes with a Ford Racing 4.0L whipple supercharged engine that makes 850hp and put’s it …

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Aug 17

Fiat 500 turbo, 135hp, $20,000

I get press releases every day in my inbox with new car prices and all sorts of things from the auto makers. My job is to weed through it and find the interesting stuff and then try and regurgitate it in a not so boring and dry way. One trend I always find funny is …

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Aug 15

McLaren 12C Can-Am edition

We haven’t done much on super cars as of late, quite frankly it’s not a huge area of interest for me because there are so few of them and I much prefer the craftsmanship and hard work of a classic hot rod or muscle car then the cold calculated engineering of a super car. That’s …

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Aug 06

Jackson Racing supercharger kit for the Honda CR-Z

The CR-Z has all the right makings of a tuner car. It’s reasonably priced, light weight, decent looking, and being a Honda will have huge aftermarket support. The one problem that keeps coming up is that it’s quite sluggish. It’s 138hp 1.5l engine just isn’t up to the task of having fun. Of course it …

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