AUTOS
Mopar is great about making performance and appearance accessories to personalize your FCA vehicle. The Mopar ’15 kit for the Dodge Charger R/T is one great example: a $3550 crate holding a “Scat Pack Performance Stage 1 Kit,” including cat-back exhaust, cold-air intake, performance ECM, a front strut-tower brace, and custom badges and appearance add-ons. The only problem is, you almost definitely won’t be able to get your hands on it:
Mopar is great about making performance and appearance accessories to personalize your FCA vehicle. The Mopar ’15 kit for the Dodge Charger R/T is one great example: a $3550 crate holding a “Scat Pack Performance Stage 1 Kit,” including cat-back exhaust, cold-air intake, performance ECM, a front strut-tower brace, and custom badges and appearance add-ons. The only problem is, you almost definitely won’t be able to get your hands on it:
“Looks like it’s going a hundred when it’s standing still” is a lazy old way for people to describe fast-looking cars. But in this case, it’s particularly appropriate: Check out the number 97 Aston Martin Vantage GTE, whose eye-boggling checkered livery will debut at this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans. – Designed by German artist Tobias Rehberger, the checkered visuals make the Aston Martin Vantage GTE look like a still
– The EPA has released fuel-economy figures for the Mazda CX-3, and the new Mazda is able to claim best-in-class ratings for the baby-SUV segment. With front-wheel drive, the CX-3 merits a 29-mpg city rating and 35 on the highway. That beats all comers—but not by a lot. – The Honda HR-V, again with front-wheel drive, is just 1 mpg behind at 28 mpg city, and it matches the Mazda’s
– It wasn’t just trees, flowers, and other pollinating plants that were in bloom in May. Auto sales blossomed too. They’re on pace to reach 17.7 million U.S. sales this year, and if June goes just as well, it will be the first time the industry maintains this momentum in 11 years. All told, May’s 1.63 million vehicle sales were up 12 percent from April and two percent from a
-Quirky. Offbeat. Funky. It seems wherever Nissan’s Juke goes, those three adjectives seem to follow. And we get it: A subcompact crossover, the Juke wears its high wheel arches and an even higher beltline as badges of nonconformist honor, their effect only amplified by the slivers of side glass, ambiguous rear doors, bulbous tailgate, and twisted front and rear lamp lenses that rise, blisterlike, from the body surface. But to
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– If you abide by the idea that the Pope is really just a normal dude who gets to wear a robe everyday, then the news that he has augmented his predecessor’s special Mercedes parade car with a Hyundai is, well, not really news. But c’mon, people, this is the Pope, the leader of the Catholic church, globally recognized public figure, and all-around guy you wouldn’t expect to make risk-fraught public
– Hoping to make drunk driving a literal impossibility, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration rolled out a prototype drunkenness-detection system for cars that would disallow vehicle operation if the driver is above the legal limit. Working with auto-industry members, NHTSA has been working on DADSS—Driver Alcohol Detection System for Safety—and presented its ideas for stopping drunk-driving accidents before they happen before Congress and Mothers Against Drunk Driving. – – Drunk driving
– Stroll any thriving downtown metro area a few years ago, and you’d invariably spy with-it twentysomethings shod with Toms. They’re the sort of product that you’d like to feel good about—the company donates a pair of shoes to folks in need for every pair you, the benevolent first-worlder, purchases—but they have the unfortunate side effect of branding the wearer as the well-meaning, wholly insufferable type. Fundamentally, they’re the foot-borne
