– 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
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– 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
– 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
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