On Sunday, the Southern California Viper Club held a cruise beginning at Supercar Sunday (at the Topanga Westfield) following the storied Mulholland Highway and Kanan Rd. to an ultra-luxury detailing shop, Lavaggio in Agoura Hills. This DF journo was lucky to be along. The weather was perfect (it’s SoCal, duh) and all but the first ...
It has been more than ten years since Chrysler built a half ton pickup with a manual transmission option aside from the high priced SRT10 models. While the take rate of Ram 1500 pickups fitted with a clutch pedal were very low in their final years, many half ton Ram owners still pine for a ...
The NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series stopped in Kansas this past weekend for the Kansas Nationals and Dodge drivers claimed both of the branded classes – with Johnny Gray winning Funny Car while Jeg Coughlin claimed the win in Pro Stock. In the Funny Car class, five Dodge Charger race cars qualified (Gray, Beckman, ...
All of the hoopla around the introduction of the 2014 SRT Viper TA at the New York International Auto Show had one downside – a great many people paid no attention to the brief comments by SRT boss Ralph Gilles about the future of the expected “Cuda”. It has long been rumored that the Chrysler ...
The JK Wrangler made its debut in 2007 and as of today, Jeep has built one million examples of this popular model. It has become increasingly refined in recent years, especially with the introduction of the more efficient and powerful 3.6-liter Pentastar V6. And the four door Unlimited model has been a huge success for ...
Dodge has just made it a bit easier to equip the new Dart SXT with the most convenient options including two special edition packages and a new rallye appearance package. Unfortunately, the base model Dart SE doesn’t benefit from these new options, but the top of the line Dart Limited gets a super luxurious Special Edition ...
While scouring the intrawebz for this week’s Black Friday feature video, I came across two videos of the absolutely awesome second-gen Ram diesel in action on the drag strip. Both show this green and red Cummins Turbo Diesel-powered Ram roaring down the quarter mile and stomping an obviously modified Duramax diesel Chevy truck. However, while the ...
