The newest addition to the LS family made it’s way into the lime light earlier, wrapped inside the determinedly aggressive sheet metal of the new Z06. That’s great and all, but I know—and you know—that the real star here is the LT4. I’ll give it a solid week before someone shoehorns this new V8 into a […] More »
By: Marcus Slater | January 15, 2014
Hold on to your butts. The factory backed dragster is back. Sometimes, you just want to go racing and not have to deal with building your car from scratch. The copo camaro is the best way to do that without a sweat. These things are fast as hell. They’re also sold in really limited amounts. […] More »
By: Marcus Slater | November 12, 2013
Wait… what? Shouldn’t that be the other way around? In what bizarro world does Cadilliac’s premier luxury sports car get outrun by this. A closer look at the Cobalt reveals that it’s not quite stock. This is the turbocharged SS after all. The owner has it pushing 25 psi of boost and running on E85 […] More »
By: Marcus Slater | October 10, 2013
Pontiac Trans-Am. 8 liters of displacement. 700 horsepower. No one would blame you for assuming it was a drag car. The fact that this Trans-Am is built to go around corners just makes things much, much more interesting. Instead of living it’s life burning down quarter miles, this second gen f-body blazes up hillsides. I’m going […] More »
By: Marcus Slater | September 6, 2013
Right. Because the stock CTS-V just wasn’t fast enough. In addition to putting this CTS-v into the 9’s, they’ve also made it look a bit more agressive. No, not the go pros. Those aren’t intimidating. The black wheels and rear diffuser and spoiler, add some visual panache the the regular CTS-V is lacking. Also, the […] More »
By: Marcus Slater | June 24, 2013
This weekend is the Grand Prix of Long Beach, and in addition to the American Le Mans race and round three of the 2013 IndyCar Series, the cars of the Pirelli World Challenge will be hitting the 11-turn, 1.9 mile circuit for a 50-minute sprint. Last week, I was down there for a media ride […] More »
By: John Coyle | April 17, 2013
American Le Mans Series/Grand-Am Racing is poised to lead the charge in Green Technology in the racing world. Already a sponsor of hybrid-powered prototypes and alternate fuels, the organization partnered Patrick Racing in June 2012 to develop a natural gas-powered prototype for the Series’ Prototype Challenge Cars in 2013. Team owner U.E. “Pat” Patrick’s Oreca […] More »
By: Andreanna Ditton | January 7, 2013
