Chevy comes to the “Street legal NASCAR” party late but wins on style points
Chevy has not left NASCAR in the modern era unlike Dodge did back in the early 1977 and then returned in 2001 and finally bringing back the Charger name plate in 2005 during the Daimler-Chrysler era Dodge left NASCAR again at the end of the 2013 season. Now there are two V8-reardrive American sedans available for the public to see who actually builds the best stock car.
Now is the time for streetlight drag racing. Chevy has made its third attempt to import the Holden Commodore this one the Chevrolet SS is a car which punches well above its weight and feels much more worth the money compared to the dodge charger srt8 which is almost 10k more than the SS. While the Charger grasps and struggles for grip the SS is always in control and very poised. While the charger is the horsepower and torque king in this comparison the SS is the more useable and comfortable to drive.
The Dodge Charger is still based on the out mode Mercedes Benz E class chassis and is showing its age. The Dodge charger has had two face lifts since introduction but is crying out for a total redesign. So let the street racing and parking lot show downs begin
For more click here http://www.caranddriver.com/comparisons/2014-chevrolet-ss-vs-2013-dodge-charger-srt8-392-comparison-test
and here http://espn.go.com/racing/nascar/cup/story/_/id/8242554/dodge-nascar-sponsorship-2013
After more than 50 years Ford finally has an Independent suspension Mustang
Believe it or not the Mustang that has been in production since 1964. For 50 years, it’s had the Solid Live rear axle which is the same basic rear suspension and final drive system. All that changes when Ford unveiled the 2015 Mustang every Mustang will finally have Independent Rear Suspension or I.R.S. but the sad thing is ford had this technology in 1963. So why did it take 50 years for Ford to bring I.R.S. to the masses well every time the engineers tried to bring I.R.S. to the Mustang’s platform the bean counters and the UAW axed the idea because of cost and complication of assembly.
A little known fact is that. A lot of the pre-production 1964 Mustangs had an albeit old tech version of I.R.S. but yet light years ahead of the Mustang’s platform sister the Falcon, solid axle rear suspension witch has been used since the Model T.
Now 50 years later Ford is largely sub assembling its cars in non-union plants run by Visteon That are more efficient and cost much less to produce the “hard parts” for the union workers to do the final assembly. I digress the fact is that Ford really cleaned the baseline and made the best car they could while keeping the mustang recognizable.
For more click here http://www.caranddriver.com/features/2015-ford-mustang-in-depth-with-the-team-that-made-it-happen-feature
Russ Roth
Volkswagen’s Beastly Pickup Breaks Off-Roading Record on the Way to the Olympics
Volkswagen’s Beastly Pickup Breaks Off-Roading Record on the Way to the Olympics
Volkswagen built three heavy duty versions of their Amarok pickup to promote the 2014 Winter Olympics in more rural areas of Russia. Along the way, they busted through the world record for the longest off-road trek in a single country.
The Amarok — which means ‘arctic wolf’ in the native Inuit languages — is an appropriate name for these automobiles, that look more monster truck like than road-worthy vehicles.
The Volkswagen team set a new Guinness World Record with the outrageous trucks by traveling just under 10,000 miles over 60 days between the Russian capitol of Moscow and Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky – one of the worlds largest cities that sits on the Bering Sea and has no road leading into it, Wired reported.
Sadly, the Olympic version of the Amarok won’t be mass-produced for sale, and U.S. readers can’t even get their hands on the standard version of the Amarok as it isn’t sold in America.
For more click here http://www.wired.com/autopia/2014/02/volkswagen-sochi-olympics/
weather underground and other things
today is my birthday and I had to write a paper about the communist group the weather underground and anon. Today has been good day Stacie my wife brought cup cakes to class. in class work we learned about Google analytics.
Hello WordPress
This is my first attempt at blogging I will attempt to daily blog about school and work experience and my quest for a broadcasting career. Tonight in class we were discussing copyright law and how to legally use content
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