As American as The Star Spangled banner, the Dodge Challenger SRT8 392 Yellow Jacket edition aims to please and shock prospective muscle-car owners at this year’s LA Auto Show. Okay, lets get a couple issues out of the way: a Brit wrote the national anthem, the Dodge is made in Canada and even though it [...]
The 2011 Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) show in Las Vegas is right around the corner and Chrysler is expected to have a huge presence at the show. Mopar will showcase an outstanding 30 modified Ram, Dodge, Chrysler, Jeep, SRT and Fiat models at a 28,400 square-foot exhibit. “The aftermarket is a $34 billion-a-year industry [...]
Ralph Gilles could be one of the coolest executives currently in the automobile industry. If you don’t know who this man is, he’s the CEO of Dodge’s and Chrysler’s SRT brand. From interviews, to press conferences, Gilles always appears to be very enthusiastic, passionate and just overall plain interesting whenever he discusses the products that [...]
Chrysler Group announced today that its newly formed Street and Racing Technology (SRT) Brand will be hitting the road with its first-ever, “SRT High Performance Tour,” featuring four drivers, four vehicles and a visit to more than 40 clubs and event over the next for months. The vehicles the SRT brand will be traveling with [...]
For the seventh consecutive year, Porsche is the highest-ranking nameplate in the 2011 APEAL Study by J.D. Power and Associates. Hyundai also improved from 2010 more than any other nameplate this year, while Jeep and Chrysler also improved considerably. BMW and Dodge each had three models each that received the segment-level awards. BMW models receiving awards [...]
In recent years, muscle car fans are having the time of their lives while they kick back and watch the Big 3 go at an outstanding horsepower war. Of course Dodge, unlike Ford and Chevrolet, has refrained from offering anything north of 550-hp… until now. Sources inside Dodge say that the newly-formed SRT brand is [...]
Today is the 4th of July and we’ll be taking a break from the normal heavy Monday news day. Like many of you who are not always pumping out news 24 hours a day, we’ll be taking a break and kicking back with our friends and family – don’t worry though, we’ll still be checking [...]
Ever end up with a boring rental – one that’s all about saving you gas, is compact enough to make you feel environmentally friendly and goes like a snail? Hertz has something that will get your adrenaline pumping. The rental car company today announced its Adrenaline Collection, that features “head-turning, heart-pumping specialty performance versions of [...]
As egmCarTech previously reported, May brought in some considerably low sales numbers for alternative-fuel vehicles, despite steadily climbing gas prices. Not only did conventionally powered cars outsell them, but American muscles cars saw better numbers, as well. The Chevorlet Camaro, which brought in the highest numbers of all the American muscle in May, the Ford [...]
Just how well do the new muscle cars of 2011 compare to their predecessors? It’s a question/debate that is continuously brought up at drag strips and auto shows. The guys at Motor Trend decided to find out for once and for all. The team gathered three modern high-spec muscle cars and put them against their [...]
