Monthly Archives: April 2014

Eight-Speed Automatic Transmission Confirmed for 2015 Corvette Stingray

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After weeks of circling the rumor mill, General Motors has made it official: the Corvette Stingray will be offered with an eight-speed automatic transmission for 2015. Designed and built by GM in-house, the automaker says the new transmission will deliver world-class shift times that will rival some of the best dual-clutch systems on the market, all while delivering better fuel efficiency.

2015 Stingray to Get an Eight-Speed Auto

Chevrolet has been in business for 103 years. It makes sense that they’d do things the old-fashion way. The company still produces pushrod V8s (although they’ve been thoroughly modernized), and whereas other automakers have moved on to gearboxes with dual clutches, the bow-tie bunch still use conventional automatic transmissions. GM’s new eight-speed automatic for the [...]

Energy to Drift – Matt Coffman’s LS7 240SX

Matt Coffman is another rookie that will be competing in Formula Drift in 2014 with LS power under the hood. Let’s take a look at the car that got him the license to drive in the Formula Drift Pro Championship! Matt is not just your standard rookie of the year candidate, though he will probably [...]

Energy to Drift – Matt Coffman’s LS7 240SX

This is (P)1 Cool Vehicle Drop-Off

The clip at the end of this post blows my mind. Not because it shows a factory-sealed McLaren P1. Not because it means Jay Leno is getting another car. No. What really fascinates me is the trick trailer in which it comes. I had no idea companies make them like that now! It makes sense, [...]

High Profile, Low Standards: Slammed Scion xB on Bags

Floral print needs to make a comeback like it has in this xB. There are simply not enough surfaces in daily, urban life covered with fake flowers. I mean, what if the VIP aesthetic was applied to more things in general? We’d live in a world with crystal knobs on everything that has knobs, curtains [...]

evo Tests a McLaren 12C for the Long Term – Part 2

Don’t let that orange paint, center-mounted V8 or those swoopy lines fool you. The McLaren 12C can be used as an everyday car, according to evo’s editor Nick Trott. He would know. By the time the video at the bottom of this post went on Youtube, he’d driven the Mac for approximately 11,000 miles. The [...]

Monthly Archives: April 2014

Eight-Speed Automatic Transmission Confirmed for 2015 Corvette Stingray

2015 Stingray to Get an Eight-Speed Auto

Energy to Drift – Matt Coffman’s LS7 240SX

Energy to Drift – Matt Coffman’s LS7 240SX

This is (P)1 Cool Vehicle Drop-Off

High Profile, Low Standards: Slammed Scion xB on Bags

evo Tests a McLaren 12C for the Long Term – Part 2

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