Monthly Archives: April 2013

Corvette ZR1 vs. Z06: Which would you pick?

Here’s a cool video comparing the C6 Z06 against the C6 ZR1 at Chuckwalla Valley Raceway from the guys at Car and Driver magazine. While I wished for more tail-out action and hardcore driving, if you can sit through the whole video it’s a nice highlight of the two line-topping C6 Vettes…and at the end [...]

Drag Race Mondays: 8 Second Ute is Awesome

Why, oh why don’t we have cars like this anymore in the US? I mean, the car-truck combo seems like a natural fit. You can haul all the crap that you need (so long as it’s not heavy duty stuff), and you have a regular car for all other times. In this case, you have [...]

ALMS action from Long Beach: Race recap

Saturday’s Tequila Patron American Le Mans Series at Long Beach street race did not disappoint. The narrow streets made for some door to door action and some white knuckle drama. There was a string of three cautions in the first half of the race that kept the on track action tight as both the established, as [...]

Ralph Gilles Spills The Beans: Dodge NASCAR Re-Entry Probable

The rumor mill has been churning for months about Dodge’s possible return to NASCAR, with everyone from Richard Childress to Earnhardt-Gnassi Racing being pointed to as possible 2014 Dodge partners. But this time, the nod has come directly from SRT chief and all-round Mopar rock star Ralph Gilles, who allegedly blabbed to Allpar writer Ray [...]

Ask the Editors- Is an ATC the same as an ATV?

Dear ATVC: A friend of mine’s dad calls all ATVs “ATCs” even though we constantly correct him. What does ATC mean anyway? ATC or all-terrain cycle was Honda’s designation for its 3-wheeler line. Don’t forget, while today’s do-it-all quads and UTVs have very little in common with motorcycles on a given manufacturer’s line, this certainly [...]

Chrysler engineer killed while driving a 2013 SRT Viper

Earlier this week, a bright red 2013 SRT Viper base model wearing manufacturer’s plates and driven by Chrysler engineer Martin Morse was the first new Mopar supercar to wreck on public roads. The accident occurred in Hartland Michigan, about a half hour or so north of downtown Detroit. Sadly, due to the severity of the ...

2013 Bahrain GP Qualifying

Not since Stirling Moss and Juan Manuel Fangio in 1955 have the silver arrows gone back to back for pole position. In a completely unexpected qualifying result, Nico Rosberg took pole position for Mercedes at the Sakhir Circuit in Bahrain and for two races in a row, the F1 W04 machine lines up first [...]