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NHRA Funny Cars Faster Than Top Fuel Dragsters—It Has Happened
Photo credit: Icon Sportswire – Getty Images The technology behind a both an NHRA Top Fuel dragster and a Funny Car is stunning, a true engineering feat of genius. However, the long, skinny power-producers, with the skinny front tires and the fat slick in the backs of the Top Fuel dragsters till are the headliners
The AC Cobra will be reborn — bigger and more modern, AC Cars says
Somewhere up there, Carroll Shelby is smiling. The unmistakable AC Cobra, the two-seat British-made roadster known to most Americans as the Shelby Cobra, is to be reborn next year with a V8 motor generating 645 horsepower and a new name: the AC Cobra GT Roadster — so says AC Cars, which claims to be Britain’s oldest
Morgan’s electric future – why it’ll be ready for the future of sports cars
Of all the UK’s specialist car makers, Morgan is far and away the oldest and most celebrated. It was founded in 1909 by HFS Morgan, a motoring pioneer who designed a light and inexpensive three-wheeler as transport for the masses that sustained the company well into the 1930s. By then, HFS recognised it was time
There are finally more cars to buy — but there’s a new reason Americans can’t afford them
A Toyota dealership in Florida. Joe Raedle/Getty Images High interest rates are hitting car buyers just as vehicles are becoming more available. Parts shortages have made it an expensive nightmare to buy a car for much of the pandemic. The Federal Reserve raised interest rates again on Wednesday by .75{5be0972a10a00bb621c1a18de1a801d58662e556d02921cebb422beac5e5b2fe} to TK With more cars
Peugeot 208 and Tesla Model Y top market skidding -8.5{5be0972a10a00bb621c1a18de1a801d58662e556d02921cebb422beac5e5b2fe} – Best Selling Cars Blog
The Peugeot 208 is the best-selling vehicle in Denmark in September. After 7 consecutive months of double-digit losses, Danish new car sales curb their fall somewhat in September to -8.5{5be0972a10a00bb621c1a18de1a801d58662e556d02921cebb422beac5e5b2fe} year-on-year at 13,011 units. The year-to-date tally is however off a damning -22.1{5be0972a10a00bb621c1a18de1a801d58662e556d02921cebb422beac5e5b2fe} to 109,085. The Top 3 brands all swim upstream with year-on-year gains:
Electric cars won’t overload the power grid — and they could even help modernize our aging infrastructure
Tesla electric cars charge at a Supercharger. George Rose/Getty Images Electric cars won’t overwhelm the US grid anytime soon, energy and transportation experts say. EVs don’t consume a lot of energy now, and it will be decades before electric cars take over fully. EVs can be charged when it’s best for the grid and may
Mercedes-Benz recalls 125,000 cars for detaching sunroofs
Mercedes-Benz is recalling nearly 125,000 coupe and sedan models to address a potential defect with their sunroof panels that may allow them to detach from the vehicle while in motion. Broadly speaking, the campaign covers various 2001-2011 C-Class, CLK, E-Class, and CLS models — including AMG variants where applicable. Per Mercedes, the vehicles included in
2022 was the year automakers figured out how to make electric cars really work
Even with negative undertones, this year was pivotal for the auto industry’s $515 billion push to leave the internal-combustion engine behind. Nora Naughton 2022 was a pivotal year for the auto industry’s $500 billion transition to electric vehicles. Despite auto execs losing faith in electrification, they learned a lot about how to make EVs work.