October 11th, 2022 Chris Phillip
Oops, they've done it again. Dodge returns to the number one position for muscle-car production in 2022, regaining the lead from Ford and proving to Chevrolet that a '60s playbook works as well today as it did for them back in the day. So far this year, Dodge has churned out a total of 42,094 Challengers, compared to the Ford, which built 36,598 Mustangs. If Dodge's lead continues, it will crown t...
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October 5th, 2022 Chris Phillip
Could you use a little boost? Lingenfelter Performance Engineering and Magnuson Superchargers are hoping C8 owners need a little boost and the team is delivering it with their new C8 supercharger kit. Shown at last year's SEMA show and now ready for public consumption, the upgrade features Eaton Advanced (TVS R) High Helix Four-Lobe technology, as well as C-Cal tuning for the factory engine contro...
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September 21st, 2022 Chris Phillip
We couldn't make it up to the Detroit Auto show this year, but plenty of folks did, and there is a bounty of concept cars worth checking out. First on the list is the Buick Wildcat concept. The Wildcat was developed to convey the all-new design language that will influence Buick production models for the foreseeable future. Buickās new tri-shield logo, mounted prominently on the body front and rea...
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September 15th, 2022 Chris Phillip
If you were hanging around metro Detroit yesterday, you may have seen the stampede of Mustang owners from all over the country celebrating the introduction of an all-new Ford Mustang. Dearborn's announcement that the internal combustion engine is not going away yet was important to enthusiasts who were brought up in the ICE age. The Mustang still has a 2.3-liter turbo-four and a 5.0-liter V-8, but...
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September 13th, 2022 Chris Phillip
8-Ball. Q-Ball. Hot Tamale. Those are just some of the cool color names that come on the new Dodge Hornet, the first CUV from the folks who brought you the Hellcat. The all-new 2023 Dodge Hornet unlocks the gateway to Dodge muscle and offers the quickest, fastest, most powerful compact utility vehicle Under $30,000. The Hornet is built by Dodge's sister company in Italy and imported to the USA. Ge...
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September 6th, 2022 Chris Phillip
Time flies when you're making Mustangs and Ford has made millions of them over the decades. Next week, Ford will reveal the seventh-generation Mustang, MY 2024, at the Detroit Auto Show. Car and Driver thinks its artist's rendition of the new Mustang is darn close if not spot on, but Ford is holding back actual photos to build the excitement. The magazine says the base model will continue to be po...
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August 30th, 2022 Chris Phillip
In 1972, the end of the first muscle-car era, Dodge introduced the Demon. The car was novel, but not quite the ground-pounder of thew HEMI Dodges that came before it. Dodge's recent Challenger Hellcat Demon changed all that with 808 horsepower in bonafide strip scorcher, which you could buy off the showroom floor. GSS Supercars announces that they're celebrating the Demon's 50th anniversary in sty...
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August 25th, 2022 Chris Phillip
The 2023 Corvette Z06 may be one of the rarest Corvettes ever produced and it's not because of customer demand. Although there are waiting lists a mile long at every Chevrolet dealer who can order the new Z06, Chevrolet doesn't have the production power to produce them in any meaningful quantity. That means most Z06 customers will wait until 2024 or possibly 2025 to score the 670-hp two-seater. Pr...
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August 22nd, 2022 Chris Phillip
An electric car with exhaust sounds and shift points? Dodge thinks muscle car fans deserve more than a silent, soulless electric car. Meet the 2024 Dodge SRT Charger Daytona. As the Detroit Free Press says, "Nobody is better suited to build the first electric muscle car than Dodge!" The Dodge Charger Daytona SRT Concept muscles aside the boring BEV paradigm and replaces it with an electrified vehi...
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August 17th, 2022 Chris Phillip
When the Summit Motorsports Park in beautiful Norwalk, Ohio, isn't busy hosting NHRA events, it's hosting one heck of a party for car nuts. This previous weekend, RYNO Classifieds was on hand for the Ames Performance Pontiac Nationals and had a chance to check out all the drag-racing Ponchos stormin' down the track. Wheels up seemed to be the motto of the weekend as street cars and pro cars took a...
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