Posted on November 1st, 2011 • by Bill Cawthon
If you’re power-hungry, Mopar’s got just the thing for you: a new 512 CID, V-10 engine with more than 800 horsepower and a new 426 Gen III High Output HEMI crate engine that are sure ot be the highlights of the Mopar exhibit at the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) show that opened today in [...]
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Posted on September 27th, 2011 • by Bill Cawthon
Chrysler’s Street and Racing Technology (SRT) team made history on Sept. 14, 2011, as the Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR recaptured the production car lap record at the Nürburgring Nordschleife track near Nürburg, Germany. The Viper’s time was 7:12.13, more than seven seconds faster than the 2012 Corvette C6 ZR1′s time from June of this year. [...]
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Posted on July 25th, 2011 • by Bill Cawthon
Good news for those who like the Fiat 500 but want a little more more performance: According to the folks at Fiat 500 USA, Laura Soave, head of Fiat North America, says the North American market version of the hot little Fiat 500 Abarth will make its debut at this fall’s Los Angeles Auto Show. [...]
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Posted on June 23rd, 2011 • by Bill Cawthon
Chrysler has officially elevated its in-house performance division – the Street and Racing Technology (SRT) team – to a separate company brand that promises to maintain its successful formula to design, engineer and build benchmark American high-performance vehicles for Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge. The launch of SRT as the performance brand comes as three additional [...]
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Posted on May 12th, 2011 • by Bill Cawthon
Can’t get enough of that wonderful HEMI sound? Corsa Performance Exhausts is offering a new cat-back exhaust system for 2011 HEMI-equipped Chrysler and Dodge LX-platform cars including the Chrysler 300C, Challenger SRT-8 and R/T and Charger R/T. Available for both manual and automatic transmissions, the systems come in two sound levels: Sport, for a robust, [...]
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Posted on April 14th, 2011 • by Bill Cawthon
The Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR (American Club Racer) has made history at yet another storied road course. On Monday, April 11, well-known Dodge road racer Kuno Wittmer drove a street-legal 2010 Dodge Viper ACR on a record lap of 1:59.995 at Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, Utah. Wittmer’s time broke the 2-minute mark for the [...]
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