Tuesday, April 16, 2013

On Rt. 122A in Holden, MA I saw what I at first thought was a Chevrolet Impala with a truck bed. Then I looked up El Caminos online and found out that it was really a 1959 El Camino. It had he exact same tail light setup with the bat-wing fins as the 1959 Impala.  Some pictures of '59 El Caminos ( I did not take them myself):

Monday, April 15, 2013

Most people have heard of the Delorean DMC-12, if only from Back to the Future. For those of you who haven't, I won't go into detail. The company, founded by John Z. Delorean, the hotshot GM executive who created the Pontiac GTO, was mired with financial trouble from the moment it was founded. Now, however, a company based in Texas called DMC Texas plans to release a new electric Delorean this year! Before you head out to the dealer, however, let me warn you that it is going to cost about 90,000 dollars. And while I'm on the topic of electric cars, don't get me started on the electric Fiat 500.  (;

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Who has heard of the Fiat 500? Everyone who only knows it as a boring economy car should meet the Fiat 500 Abarth. The name comes from the Italian (I think) company with the scorpion and the Fiat 500 Abarth has 8 scorpion logos on the outside of the car, and no doubt more on the inside. Motor Trend clocked a 0-60 time of 6.8 seconds, three seconds slower than the Abarth's little brother, the Fiat 500 sport. That's about half a second slower than the Mini Cooper S, the Abarth's main competitor. It gets 17 mpg city and 32 highway, according to Motor Trend. According to the Fiat website, it gets 34 mpg highway with the 1.4 liter turbo engine and a 5 speed manual transmission. If anyone reading this has ever driven one, please post about it in the comments. Oh, and one more thing. Here is the Motor Trend test for it and here is the link to the Fiat Website.

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

The new Corvette Stingray is going into production in 2014! Okay, okay, I know I'm a bit late on posting about this, but I only just read about it. I've been to busy reading about old cars to read about new ones lately. For some reason (don't ask me why, I don't know), they have been selling them to a select few people now, even though it's only due to be released in 2014. I believe that Jay Leno got one. I also think that Motor Trend got one and wrote an article about it. I saw pictures of it- I think it looks best in red. The carbon fiber Targa roof on the hardtop is, well, carbon fiber, so it's Greyish-black and looks very good with a red body.
Here is the first generation Corvette Stingray:                    

And you can look up pictures of the new C7 yourself.

"We wanted technologies that actually enhance the driving experience" said Tadge Juechter in a Motor Trend article. I'm not sure who he is aside from that he has something to do with the new Corvette. I think he's like a GM executive or something.

When testing the Dodge Viper against the Corvette ZR1, the Corvette beat the Viper by about 2 seconds. 2.07 seconds, really. Motor Trend said "I can't think of two other direct competitors that are so eually matched, so equally designed, so equally sadistic." They also said, "Very few cars are as angry as these two, as fast as these two, and as scary as these two. That said, the Viper's meaner." By which they meant that the Viper was less refined. The Corvette is faster, but it, as opposed to the Viper, can be driven instead of tamed. Now all you Viper fans out there, take no offense. I like the Viper a lot. I think of it as a modern reincarnation of the Carrol Shelby's AC Cobra. But the Corvette was the original American sports car. And it gets better gas milage. (;