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Lightning Seed? Next-Generation Ford F-150 Performance Pickup Rendered!

– During the sport-truck mania of the 1990s and early aughts, Ford’s SVT unit graced us with two versions of the Lightning, which has been out of production since 2004. That hole in Ford’s lineup ostensibly has been filled by the flatbill-ready, improbably lovable Raptor. And while FoMoCo wasted no time displaying a second-gen Raptor based on the new, aluminum-intensive F-150, SVT’s successor unit, Ford Performance, has yet to offer any official

Mercedes G-Class Gets More Horsepower and Colors, Same (Very) Old Shape

-The Mercedes-Benz G-class has soldiered on since 1979, regularly refreshed with mildly updated styling and additional luxury appointments but largely unaltered since its disco-era debut. This year hews to the same strategy, with more horsepower, some opulent interior updates, and the same ammo-box shape that refuses to acknowledge the concept of aerodynamics. – For 2016, the base-model 550 gets a new, all-aluminum, twin-turbo 4.0-liter V-8 to replace the naturally aspirated

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