Thursday, August 12, 2010

Video: Fifth Gear drives a Camaro SS



Believe it or not, but the new Chevrolet Camaro has been in dealership showrooms for a year now. Sales of the reborn pony car have been very strong, besting its rival Mustang in sales for several months out of the year. Pretty much every automotive journalist has wrung one out, and now Fifth Gear host Jason Plato has gotten his chance. You can expect smoky burnouts and typical Englishman-reviews-American-car fare in the video above.

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Dodge releases pictures of 2010 Mopar Challenger

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Mopar has long been a name synonymous with Chrysler performance, and has also long been a supplier of go fast parts. And now they have their name on a tuned version of Dodge's Challenger, the 2010 Mopar Challenger. And with only a reported 500 examples being built, you may want to hurry if you hope to own one.

The cost of entry is $39,000 for the manual transmission equipped version, or $38,000for the automatic. A hood scoop and some accent colors don the outside, while the inside sports Mopar logos, seat thread accents, and a new steering wheel. Drivetrain is the standard, untouched R/T spec Hemi.

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Thursday, August 5, 2010

Video: Classic Design Concepts Firebreather in action



The Smoking Tire was recently lucky enough to not only get to fool around in a 2011 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 convertible, but also a Classic Design Concepts Firebreather.

The Firebreather is what we would like to think a "new" Firebird would look like. And it sports a 6.2 liter V8 under hood with a supercharger on top, which helps it produce a more-than-adequate 600 horsepower. While the car was originally built for use in a movie, it is now being offered to the car buying public. Check out the video to see these two unique muscle car heavyweights go at it.