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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
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:
Rivian aces IIHS crash tests, gets Top Safety Pick+ rating
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration began testing the Rivian R1T around May of this year, we’re still awaiting its ratings for the electric pickup. Meanwhile, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has completed its crash tests of the R1T, the pickup earning a Top Safety Pick+ rating. Based on the IIHS system, that means
Elon Musk loses top spot on Forbes list of world’s richest people
Elon Musk (left) and Bernard Arnault (right). Rashid Umar Abbasi/Reuters; Drew Angerer/Getty Images LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault passed Elon Musk on Forbes Billionaires List on Wednesday. Musk is still the world’s richest person on Bloomberg’s Billionaire Index. The Tesla chief’s net wealth has fallen by more than $100 billion this year. Elon Musk gave up
Zenvo TSR-GT ends the TSR range with a 263-mph top speed
The Danes aren’t known for being flashy, which helps explain how Danish supercar maker Zenvo has been building and selling 1,000-horsepower, million-dollar coupes since the ST1 in 2008. Zenvo introduced the latest evolution of its single product in 2016, the TSR. Next year, the TSR will be replaced by an all-new model, so the company
VW builds an electric office chair with a 12-mph top speed
Volkswagen’s long-rumored entry-level electric model is here, and it’s not quite what we expected. The company’s Norwegian division built an electric office chair with a surprisingly long list of features (including a rear-view camera) to promote its range of commercial vans. We’re on the opposite end of the calendar from April Fool’s, so this isn’t
Here Are the Top Auction Sports Cars of 2013
BOSTON (MainStreet) — Forget the Dow Industrials‘ 26.5{5be0972a10a00bb621c1a18de1a801d58662e556d02921cebb422beac5e5b2fe} gain last year. Collectible-car prices rose more than 40{5be0972a10a00bb621c1a18de1a801d58662e556d02921cebb422beac5e5b2fe} — and rare Ferraris saw their value shoot up more than twice as much as the Dow. “There’s a global realization that the automobile as a collectible is very exciting and rewarding,” says David Gooding of Gooding & Co.,
The top 10 electric sports cars
(iSeeCars) – While electric vehicles are ostensibly about saving the planet from excessive CO2 emissions, the truth is EVs make excellent performance cars because of the instant torque provided by the electric motors that motivate them. Unfortunately, these electric motors also require a battery pack for power, and between the motors and battery packs an