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The All New Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport 2010
The Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport replaces the Corvette’s previous Z51 package and brings a greater degree of handling performance, with wider wheels and tires; revised shock, stabilizer bar and spring specifications; and specific gearing. The equipment enables cornering capability of 1.0 g, as well as a 0.2-second improvement in 0-60 acceleration vs. standard LS3-powered models. [...]
Photo: 2009 Superformance GT40 MKI
Price – Production – Engine – Weight – Aspiration – Torque – HP – HP/Weight – HP/Liter – 1/4 mile – 0-62 mph – Top Speed – 2009 Superformance GT40 MKI – A complete factory assembled rolling chassis. – Vinylestere and glass composite body. – Show quality PPG paint finishes with many standard colors. – [...]
Photo: 2009 Superformance MKIII
2009 Superformance MKIII comes with Show quality two-stage paint finishes, Hand laminated fiberglass body with reinforcing inserts, Heavy duty TIG welded ladder frame chassis with crumple zones, Fully independent front and rear suspension, Limited slip differential, Willwood® power-assisted vented disc brakes (4-pot calipers.Front, Single-pot calipers back), Billstein® custom crafted coil-over shocks, Aluminum pin drive “Halibrand” [...]
The Fast and the Frugal
Sports cars need not be expensive (or impractical) — here are 10 for less than $35,000. Tradition says pure sports cars are equipped with “nothing that doesn’t make them go faster.” Long ago, that meant roll-up side windows and a heater were extravagances. Today, however, they are both sports car norms, along with power-folding convertible [...]
1957 Ferrari sells for record $12.1 million at auction
A 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa once again blew away the competition, setting a world record for cars sold at auction when it fetched an eye-popping $12.1 million on Sunday at an event on the grounds of the Ferrari factory in Maranello, Italy. The Testa Rossa was one of just 22 produced from 1957 to [...]
REPORT: Mitsubishi launches production of the iMiEV in Japan
Mitsubishi has launched series production of its iMiEV electric car at its Okayama, Japan factory. That makes the tri-diamond brand the first major automaker to kick off full scale production of a new EV, though it will be followed by many other automakers over the next two years. The automaker plans to build about 2,000 [...]
Oil Falls Toward $68 From Seven-Month High
Oil fell toward $68 a barrel on Tuesday as prices slipped from a sharp rally to a seven-month high in the previous day. U.S. light sweet crude [US@CL.1 68.15 -0.43 (-0.63%)] fell. On Monday, it closed at $68.58 after hitting $68.68, the highest settlement and intraday prices, respectively, since early November last year on back [...]
GM Files for Bankruptcy
GM’s Chapter 11 filing caps a decades-long slide, but it should emerge relatively quickly from court with lower labor and debt costs A once proud and dominant General Motors, which at its peak controlled half the American auto market, filed for bankruptcy court protection on June 1 in an historic act that will see federal [...]
How Rick Wagoner Lost GM
GM’s ex-CEO threw out the good-governance structure in place when he took over, then made bad decision after bad decision, backed by his rubber-stamp board General Motors’ legendary management system and industrial might were once revered by management scholars and business historians; the thought of bankruptcy would have been beyond improbable and indeed laughable. Yet [...]
Electric Motor Cars To Charge Up The Market 
Spy shots: Hyundai HED-5 making the rounds
GM agrees to sell Saab to supercar company Koenigsegg
Peugeot HR1 concept is over-the-road-hybrid-tech use latest
Teen driving: Can computers teach us to drive?