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April 30, 2015 AUTOS

What’s the Hellcat’s True Potential? We Head to the Drag Strip with Various Tires to Find Out

– From the May 2015 issue – Mopar’s reputation at the drag strip has been secure for more than 50 years, ever since Chrysler CEO Lynn Townsend told his engineers to get busy building a modern Hemi to rule them all. If not a lineal descendant, the 707-hp powder keg in the Challenger SRT Hellcat is a spiritual scion of the 426 Hemi, and it’s in a car that will

April 30, 2015 AUTOS

Look, More 2016 Chevrolet Camaro Parts! Tease Continues with Shot of Hood, Rear Fender

– Browse Chevrolet’s string of teasers for the 2016 Camaro, all of which show individual bits of the car, and you’d be forgiven for thinking that the automaker isn’t previewing a new car so much as it is giving us an unprecedented early look at what the sixth-gen Camaro will look like in a junkyard in the year 2036. The latest recycled, er, we mean, new Camaro components to be

April 30, 2015 AUTOS

2016 Honda HR-V First Drive Review: Small Gets Tall

– The SUV-ification of the automobile market continues apace, with buyers in even the smallest segment now deciding that they, too, want the higher seating position and (in all-wheel-drive versions) the bad-weather capability afforded by a crossover-type vehicle. Honda is showing more hustle than usual with the new 2016 HR-V, getting into this game in the still-early innings. The Nissan Juke, the Mini Countryman, and the Buick Encore were the

April 30, 2015 AUTOS

Six for Eight: 2015 Mercedes-Benz CLS400 4MATIC Tested

-Mercedes-Benz gets credit—or blame—for inventing the whole silly “four-door coupe” thing with the CLS550 it launched in the U.S. in 2005. It took Audi and BMW a while to catch on, but today the notion of a sleeker but less functional four-door is so common that it has even spreaded to, heaven help us, the SUV segment. So it probably irritated the three-pointed-star team no end to see the second-generation

April 30, 2015 AUTOS

Vee-ndetta: 2016 Cadillac CTS-V Way More Affordable than M5, E63 AMG

-Cadillac probably didn’t need to hold the price of the 2016 CTS-V sports sedan so far below that of the 560-hp BMW M5 and the 550-hp Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG, what with its superior output (640 horsepower) and general awesomeness, but it went ahead and did so anyway. The CTS-V is a full $10,860 cheaper than the 2015 M5, with the 2015 E63 narrowing the gap to just $9535. (That’s for the “base”