Here’s a confession: I hate most vanity plates. They’re usually dumb, trite, or going for an all-too-obvious joke, like Corvette plates touting the superiority of V8s over forced induction. Yet, my most recent two cars have each had vanity plates: My FR-S was K4NSE1, as in kansei dorifto, and my NB Miata was L4TT3.… Read…
Filed under: Ford,Performance Continue reading The new Ford Mustang’s V8 is available as a crate engine The new Ford Mustang’s V8 is available as a crate engine originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 22 Apr 2024 09:35:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments
The German manufacturer endured another challenging weekend in China where the promise of a second place in the sprint with Lewis Hamilton was not followed through to the main grand prix.Russell came home in sixth, with Hamilton down in ninth, as the squad was once again left chasing answers about why it cannot unlock the…
Everyone’s entitled to their own opinion on the cars on sale today. Some people will always come down hard in favor of vehicles like the Ford F-150 Raptor, claiming it to be God’s gift to gasoline, while others would rather drive a Model T fitted with a seat made of nails than a massive truck…
The world is changing, McLaren is pedaling hybrid hypercars, Porsche has an EV selling like hot cakes and even Lamborghini has fitted battery packs to its latest cars in search of more performance. Now, Ferrari is looking for ways to add hydrogen power to its cars, but it could bring with it some very un-Ferrari……
Following the debut of the SL63 S E Performance back in December, Mercedes-AMG has unveiled the range-topping plug-in-hybrid version of the new GT coupe using the same V8 powertrain. With a 0-to-60-mph time of just 2.7 seconds, the new GT63 S E Performance is the quickest series production Mercedes ever made, beating… Read more…
The Maserati Ghibli has been the butt of depreciation jokes and Chrysler partsbin jokes since its debut in 2013, but the new Ghibli 334 Ultima manages to refocus the narrative. All it took was squeezing a twin-turbocharged V8 under the hood that sounds like all three of Cerberus’ heads harmonizing. Unfortunately, the… Read more…
Filed under: Government/Legal,Green,Electric,Infrastructure Continue reading Automakers hope for new profit stream from bidirectional EV charging Automakers hope for new profit stream from bidirectional EV charging originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 22 Apr 2024 08:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Comments
Diesel-powered motorcycles never really took off, for about one thousand reasons that make them worse than gas or electric bikes, but when have you ever cared about a vehicle being bad? You’re on Jalopnik after all, where we adore the absolute worst pieces of garbage ever set loose on the American roads. You’re a… Read…
Tesla was forced to issue a recall for the futuristic Cybertruck last week after it emerged that the accelerator pedal could come loose and jam the car on full power. Not good for a truck that’s meant to be so rugged it can survive the apocalypse. Now, Tesla has revealed the fix for the issue…
