It was as if a stun grenade went off. I knew lips were moving, but I could barely hear what was coming from them. There was a war taking shape behind me as the Ferraris, BMWs, Porsches, Corvettes, and Vipers of the Tudor United SportsCar Championship warmed up on the Circuit of the Americas for […] More »

My buddy Jake got a 2002 Honda S2000 back in October of ’01. The Japanese automaker squeezed an astonishing 240 naturally aspirated horsepower out of its 2-liter four-cylinder engine. When it revised the small roadster for 2004, it enlarged the I4 to 2.2 liters, increasing torque and around-town driver-friendliness in the process. That told me […] More »

In the best news that will ever come out this week, and possibly this year. Dodge has just announced that the starting price on the new Viper will be reduced a drastic $15,000 to put it in shooting distance with the Corvette Z06!!! Viper sales have not been what the company has wanted for a […] More »

For those of you that like class with your speed, you are about to be about another choice in super sedan country, Chrysler will be killing the 300 SRT after this generation. The sedan’s poor sales, and in my opinion, not enough room actually in the car have led the company to rethink the model […] More »

“Sure, your Viper is fast. But is it faster than a jet?” If you’re John Canal, the national secretary of the Viper Club of America, you can confidently say, “Yes, it is.” He took his snake out to Phoenix’s Luke Air Force Base to drag-race an F-16 fighter jet – commonly nicknamed the “Viper” – […] More »

Tires are tires, right? Wrong. That’s like saying that cars are just cars. As an enthusiast, you know that’s mistaken and hopefully you feel the same way about tires. Obviously, they’re the only part of your car that contributes to acceleration, handling, braking and fuel economy. But you don’t need a lecture. Instead, we’ll just […] More »

Now this is interesting. The new V10 beast from SRT has finally been given a price, and oddly, it’ll cost considerably less than Corvette’s ZR1. Whether or not it’s worth it has yet to be proven. The ZR1 is a known quantity. It’s been driven to death in endless comparisons, flogged around the Nurburgring, heck, they’ve […] More »