Auburn Hills, Mich., Aug 21, 2007 - Dodge announced pricing today for the latest addition to Chrysler’s popular Street and Racing Technology (SRT)® vehicle lineup – the all-new 2008 Dodge Caliber SRT4®.
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Filed under: Trucks/Pickups, Etc., Ford
Autoblog reader Johnny B. sent us these pics of a hybrid Ford Escort pickup he found that, quite honestly, should have been built by the Blue Oval, as it evokes everything that was good and right about the original Ford Ranchero. (Whoa, so much dripping sarcasm, it’s getting tough to type.) In Johnny’s words, it’s got “all the power and versatility of an Escort with the comfort of a pickup.” Wait, that should probably the other way around, but you get the idea. At this point, we’d take a Focichero to replace Ford’s aging Ranger pickup that’s got no replacement waiting in the wings as far as we know.
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Autoblog reader Johnny B. sent us these pics of a hybrid Ford Escort pickup he found that, quite honestly, should have been built by the Blue Oval, as it evokes everything that was good and right about the original Ford Ranchero. (Whoa, so much dripping sarcasm, it’s getting tough to type.) In Johnny’s words, it’s got “all the power and versatility of an Escort with the comfort of a pickup.” Wait, that should probably the other way around, but you get the idea. At this point, we’d take a Focichero to replace Ford’s aging Ranger pickup that’s got no replacement waiting in the wings as far as we know.
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Filed under: Convertibles, Supercars, Misc. Auto Shows, Callaway
click above image for many high-res shots of the Callaway C16 Speedster
Twenty years ago, GM asked Reeves Callaway to infuse the Corvette with his particular brand of genius. The result was the most powerful production car ever sold in America. Twenty years later, the results are still coming, and this is the latest: the Callaway C16 Speedster, third in the C16 family introduced this year, joining the coupe and the cabriolet. For a large automaker to launch a car with three variants, in one year, is an achievement. For Callaway to do so, as a specialist producer, is nothing short of spectacular. Fittingly, the Speedster could be the most spectacular version yet. Click Read to get the full story, and check out the gallery to see hi-res images of the new Callaway C16 Speedster as well as the first Callaway Speedster made in 1990. Do you remember it on the cover of Motor Trend like it was yesterday? We do. Warning, though: it’s still very green.
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Filed under: Convertibles, Supercars, Misc. Auto Shows, Callaway
click above image for many high-res shots of the Callaway C16 Speedster
Twenty years ago, GM asked Reeves Callaway to infuse the Corvette with his particular brand of genius. The result was the most powerful production car ever sold in America. Twenty years later, the results are still coming, and this is the latest: the Callaway C16 Speedster, third in the C16 family introduced this year, joining the coupe and the cabriolet. For a large automaker to launch a car with three variants, in one year, is an achievement. For Callaway to do so, as a specialist producer, is nothing short of spectacular. Fittingly, the Speedster could be the most spectacular version yet. Click Read to get the full story, and check out the gallery to see hi-res images of the new Callaway C16 Speedster as well as the first Callaway Speedster made in 1990. Do you remember it on the cover of Motor Trend like it was yesterday? We do. Warning, though: it’s still very green.
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Filed under: Etc., Safety, Driving
Steven John Earp of Eugene, Oregon could never have imagined that the breakfast sandwich he was eating behind the wheel as he drove to work last week was almost his last meal, period. How so? Well, during the course of his meal on wheels, Mr. Earp began choking on his sandwich, and the situation was so dire that he blacked out behind the wheel. While unconscious, he plowed into another parked car, and for his sake, that’s probably the best thing that could have happened.
Upon impact, Mr Earp’s seat belt performed what amounted to be an unassisted heimlich maneuver on him, clearing the blockage that had caused him to lose consciousness and control of his car. No one else was hurt, and the only harm done was to the two vehicles involved in the crash. Mr. Earp, who collapsed after exiting the car when he regained consciousness, was taken to the hospital for observation and later released.
The lessons learned here are very simple:
[Source: The Register-Guard]
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Filed under: Etc., Safety, Driving
Steven John Earp of Eugene, Oregon could never have imagined that the breakfast sandwich he was eating behind the wheel as he drove to work last week was almost his last meal, period. How so? Well, during the course of his meal on wheels, Mr. Earp began choking on his sandwich, and the situation was so dire that he blacked out behind the wheel. While unconscious, he plowed into another parked car, and for his sake, that’s probably the best thing that could have happened.
Upon impact, Mr Earp’s seat belt performed what amounted to be an unassisted heimlich maneuver on him, clearing the blockage that had caused him to lose consciousness and control of his car. No one else was hurt, and the only harm done was to the two vehicles involved in the crash. Mr. Earp, who collapsed after exiting the car when he regained consciousness, was taken to the hospital for observation and later released.
The lessons learned here are very simple:
[Source: The Register-Guard]
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Filed under: Auction Action, Ferrari
RM brought some really impressive machinery into Monterey this year and seems to have gone home with a fair bit of coin in its coffers. We showed you a few highlight vehicles that we stumbled across outside the auction earlier in the week, and now we have some live result shots, as well. The red 1936 Delage D8-120 Aerosport Coupe went for a pretty fair $1,550,000. A 1930 Bugatti Type 35B GP car brought $550,000. The unique 1937 Mercedes-Benz 540K Special Roadster drew a top bid of $2,300,000. A stunning silver Gullwing sold for $660,000. A wild 1964 Dodge Hemi Charger Concept got a top bid of a cool mill. That limo-like black 1935 Duesenberg Model SJ Town Cabriolet found a new home for four times that amount. The big white Delage that was also in the lobby was a seller at $3.4 mil. The 1998 Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR didn’t go anywhere after bidding stalled at just $1.2 mil. The big seller, though, was the gorgeous 1959 Ferrari 250 GT LWB Spyder California Competizione, showno above, which gaveled out at a whopping $4.5 mil. All of those prices are before the auction fees. You can get the rest of the results by clicking the Read link below.
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Filed under: Auction Action, Ferrari
RM brought some really impressive machinery into Monterey this year and seems to have gone home with a fair bit of coin in its coffers. We showed you a few highlight vehicles that we stumbled across outside the auction earlier in the week, and now we have some live result shots, as well. The red 1936 Delage D8-120 Aerosport Coupe went for a pretty fair $1,550,000. A 1930 Bugatti Type 35B GP car brought $550,000. The unique 1937 Mercedes-Benz 540K Special Roadster drew a top bid of $2,300,000. A stunning silver Gullwing sold for $660,000. A wild 1964 Dodge Hemi Charger Concept got a top bid of a cool mill. That limo-like black 1935 Duesenberg Model SJ Town Cabriolet found a new home for four times that amount. The big white Delage that was also in the lobby was a seller at $3.4 mil. The 1998 Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR didn’t go anywhere after bidding stalled at just $1.2 mil. The big seller, though, was the gorgeous 1959 Ferrari 250 GT LWB Spyder California Competizione, showno above, which gaveled out at a whopping $4.5 mil. All of those prices are before the auction fees. You can get the rest of the results by clicking the Read link below.
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Filed under: Time Warp, Videos, Nissan
Awesome. Yeah, that’s a good word to describe the Datsun 280ZX. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak was busy in 1982 when he made this commercial for the Z car. Not only did he have time to organize the US Festival, he was shilling cars, too. Then there was that other thing he did, involving microprocessors, but that was in flux waiting on the flop of Steve Jobs’ Lisa. That wasn’t so awesome. The Datsun 280ZX, on the other hand, has gone on to earn vaunted status as a classic performance car from an era when it was still common to see Volaré wagons with the fake-wood vinyl applique everywhere you went.
YouTube strikes again, with these chestnuts from the past. Dig the Chyron text, total-cheese voiceover, and we’d totally forgotten about the “We Are Driven” tagline and text move. The other spot after the jump is the one we’d pick. Nevermind the achingly terrible pseudo-Shaft disco soundtrack and the risqué undertones that aren’t very cleverly hinted at, that Z looks amazing in black and gold, kind of a spin on the “Bandit” Trans Ams without the screaming hood art.
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[Source: Macenstein]
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