Monthly Archives: May 2013

NHTSA Investigating 2008 Ford F250 and F350 Super Duty Trucks for Steering Gear Box Failures

The NHTSA is looking into five steering gear box complaints on 2008 Ford F250 and F350 Super Duty Trucks. Several complaints allege that steering box failures caused crashes at speeds ranging from 20mph to 35mph. ...

Truck Trend Tests 2013 F-150 XLT Supercab V6

For all the hubub and hoopla about the EcoBoost and the Raptor, there are a lot of F-150 drivers with neither. They might not trumpet it from the roof-tops or brag about it, but they ...

“Fastest Taxi Driver in the World”

“It’s a good job,” says Sabine Schmitz, without a hint of understatement. In case you’ve been on Mars for the last twenty years and returned this morning, Ms. Schmitz is employed as the Nurburgring’s “taxi” driver and ferries people around the ‘Ring in a BMW M5. In the video, she discusses growing up in her [...]

First Ferrari F12 Wreck Happens on the Autobahn

The good news is that no one got hurt. Apparently, the F12 driver was attempting to overtake another car when he lost control and slammed the Ferrari into a guardrail. He had only owned the 730 horsepower, $330,000 supercar for three weeks. Doesn’t look like that will buff out but maybe it’s fixable? via [Jalopnik] more [...]

Scion Announces Pricing for Limited Edition 10 Series

The Release Series special edition Scions have always given Scion owners the chance to own an exclusive. Normally, the bonus is just an exclusive paint job. Scion’s stepped it up with their Series 10 vehicles. They’re all dipped in Scion’s Silver Ignition paint. They’ll have matching seat belts and other fancy interior bits. They’ll even have [...]

Johnny Gray wins the Southern Nationals in all Mopar final

Magneti Marelli expanded its relationship with Mopar, Chrysler G

Johnny Gray took home his second win of the 2013 NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series season this past weekend – taking down fast qualifier and fellow Mopar racer Matt Hagan with the fastest pass of the entire event. Matt Hagan was super fast all weekend, qualifying in the top spot with a track record ...

Seat Leon Cup Racer Debuts at Wörthersee

I already showed you the awesome Design Vision GTI unveiled at Wörthersee. Well how about this Leon Cup Racer being developed by Seat for their next generation racing program? In addition to the standard version, Seat will build another version for endurance racing, equipped with a six-speed sequential gearbox and mechanical diff (vs the standard [...]