If you have been dreaming about sending your Mustang to Shelby in Las Vegas to be made over into a Super Snake or a buying a new Shelby GT350 the company has a nice deal going on until the end of the month. If you send your car out to Vegas before Halloween, you can get $3,000 off the transformation. The catch is that you have to provide your own transportation from the factory back to your home or fly out and drive home in your tweaked ride.
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Shelby American offers $3,000 discount on Super Snake and GT350 with caveat
Juke-R takes the ugly out of Nissan’s Juke crossover, infuses a healthy dose of hoonability
I have long thought one of the ugliest cars to ever roll off the assembly line is the Nissan Juke. I am obviously not the target market that Nissan was aiming at with the little crossover SUV. The Juke is a four door small SUV and Nissan has taken the Juke and is making two very special versions that I would drive the wheels off of.
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Ford and UAW reach an agreement, details on 2013 GT500 surface in negotiations
Ford and the UAW union that controls the labor force at many of the factories that Ford operates have reached an agreement for contract labor. One of the plants that had been in jeopardy is the Flat Rock plant where the Mustang and the Mazda6 are built. Mazda wants to move the production of the Mazda6 to Japan and the Mustang alone wasn’t enough to pay the bills at the factory.
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Ford Escape gets new fuel efficient engines for 2012
Ford has announced that the Escape will be getting three four cylinder engine options in the 2012 model year with two of them being powerful and fuel efficient EcoBoost offerings. Like all the other EcoBoost engines in the Ford range the big draw is that they make power equal to larger engines, but use much less fuel. The Escape will be getting two EcoBoost options in 2012 along with a 2.5L Ti-VCT engine.
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Tesla Model S Sport EV aims at BMW M5 performance
Yesterday I talked briefly about the tour that people who ordered the coming Tesla Model S were allowed to take of the Tesla facilities. Today there is some chatter going on around the web about another version of the Model S that is coming to market at some point. The other version is called the Model S Sport.
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Future owners given a glimpse of the Tesla Model S
Tesla made its name in the electric car world with the sweet and fast roadster. The Roadster never sold in huge amounts and was killed off to make way for the Model S that you see in the photo below. This car is cheaper and has more space than the Roadster offered making it more appealing to drivers across a wider market. The Model S will sell for $57,400 before the federal tax credit.
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Fiat 500: perhaps the coolest cheap car ever
There were a bunch of cool cars at the Texas State Fair and a bunch of them scattered around were entry-level cars that were designed to be a cheap means of transportation. Most of them looked like cheap cars too. When I ambled by the Fiat booth the new Fiat 500 and 500C caught my eye right away. I walked over to take a look and was very surprised to see just how cool these little cars actually were.
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Chevy shows off actual Transformers: Dark of the Moon movie cars
I have enjoyed the Transformers films well enough. My kids liked the last film the best and it was one of the better ones in the franchise. If you have watched the film you have seen Bumblebee and Sideswipe during the flick. At the Texas State Fair, Chevrolet had both the Stingray Concept that was actually the Sideswipe car from the film and the actual Camaro that was Bumblebee in the film on hand.
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2012 Boss 302 Laguna Seca: the best Mustang ever produced [video]
While we were at the Ford booth waiting for the unveiling of the 2012 SVT Raptor truck, I spied a 2012 Boss 302 Laguna Seca sitting in the back of the display. These cars have been around for a while but there are still so few of them on the street that most of us will never have the chance to get up close and personal with one.
Chevy shows off flying car at Texas State Fair
I think one of the coolest things that Chevy had in its display at the Texas State Fair auto show was this little matte colored version of the new small car called the Sonic. The first time I saw it sitting there, I thought it was a clay reproduction of the Sonic used for the design process. Then it started whirring and lifted into the air. It turned out that it was a full-scale model of the new Sonic that was controlled and is controlled by a big RC controller like an RC airplane.
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2012 Ford SVT Raptor: updating an off-road icon [Video]
In Texas, trucks are a big deal. Texans buy about 1-in-5 out of every truck that Ford sells. When you combine Dallas and a few other major Texas cities, the individual cities alone sell more trucks than many states do in their entirety. This is why when a new truck is being unveiled, Texas is the place that Ford comes to. At the 2011 Texas State Fair yesterday Ford pulled the covers off the new 2012 SVT Raptor off-road pickup. The truck has some interesting updates for this year that will make Raptor fans happy.
Camaro ZL1: eyes-on the fastest Camaro ever made [Video]
Earlier this month I mentioned the new Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 that had just gone official. The car sounds very cool on paper with a new 6.2L LSA V8 that has an Eaton supercharger strapped to it. The engine produces 580 HP and 556 lb-fit of torque. The engine is all aluminum for weight savings and the car is aimed at being very streetable, yet ready for the owner to take to the racetrack at any time.
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