Can Danica Patrick drive a stock car, or is she just a Go Daddy prop getting invited to hang with the big boys just because she’s pretty and marketable? Gentlemen (and lady) rev up your engines because we’re about to find out. ESPN.com is reporting that Patrick plans to announce her plans to move [...]
One of the most anticipated of the green vehicles in the last several years was the Chevrolet Volt that first popped up in 2007 as a concept. The Volt is an extended range EV that has a gasoline generator to help drive the wheels and charge the batteries when the car runs out of battery [...]
General Motors (GM) said today it is recalling 2,100 Chevrolet Cruze 2011 sedans in the US and 400 in Canada after one vehicle (in the US) had an improperly fastened steering wheel. There was no crash or injuries associated with the vehicle. “We have analyzed the vehicle that experienced this condition and made adjustments to [...]
Drivers talk about racing under the lights at Texas Motor Speedway. Paul Menard sponsor Quaker State will continue its relationship with the driver during the 2011 season. Quaker State will come aboard as primary sponsor of the Number 27 Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet for four races during the 2011 season. “I’ve had a long-standing relationship [...]
Carl Edwards is off to the best start of his career and credits “a gift” from Tony Stewart for his first win of the season. Carl Stewart had the dominant car Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway but had to shuffle his strategy when a penalty on pit road crippled his chances. Edwards crew chief [...]
It’s getting hard understanding Chevrolet Volt’s pricing policy. In America it has a MSRP of $41,000, but some dealers take it up even 60 grand. Then in Europe it is priced at 41,950 Euro. And then there’s the Opel Ampera, the European version of the Volt which is priced at 42,900 Euro Of course you [...]
Chevrolet has finally delivered the goods: the 550-plus-horsepower, 6.2-liter supercharged LSA V-8 version of the Camaro. Most expected it to be called the Z28, but it’s called the ZL1. And it’s pretty awesome. Which is to be expected; we performance folk are often fairly easy to please. Give us lots of power, package it in [...]
Even though the Green Bay Packers beat the Chicago Bears Sunday and are the ones heading to the Super Bowl…much of the talk has been about the Bears. More specifically about the Bears quarterback Jay Cutler not finishing the game. John C. Stone might be the most famous Green Bay Packers fan in Chicago. The [...]
Ford’s first electric car, the company says, gets a better miles-per-gallon equivalency rating than the Chevy Volt and charges twice as fast as the Nissan Leaf. Ford plans to begin selling its first electric car toward the end of 2011 in the U.S. and in Europe, the first of five electric vehicles the company has [...]
