Steve Saleen’s SMS released a new supercharger for their 570X Dodge Challenger’ Boosting the Challenger’s 6 liter V8 to 650 foot pounds of torque, the package also adds a high performance cooling system and a Saleen six speed transmission’ Way cool’ Source: Ride Lust
Chrysler finally files Chapter 11. CEO Bob Nardelli is leaving. Vice chairman James Press is likely gone. Vice chairman and former Chrysler CEO Tom Lasorda is retiring.
Camaro5 tracked down the arrival of 50 Chevrolet Camaro’s in Dallas Ft’ Worth last week’ The parade, assisted by a police motorcade, was a first large scale Chevrolet Camaro appearance’ The guys on scene captured it all’
The guys over at Camaro5 spotted a very unusual stack of weights on a 2010 Chevrolet Camaro’ Upon closer inspection, it appears to have two sets of wheel weights stuck to the Camaro’s Brembo brake calipers’ As Jalopnik states “to alleviate brake squeal’ From a physics perspective, this explanation is plausible, as resonant frequency is in large part determined by mass, and by changing the vibrating mass of the caliper with the weights, a troublesome squeal would be eliminated for a particular driving condition”‘ Hope that doesn’t make it into production! Source: Camaro5 via Jalopnik
Chrysler LLC and the U.S. Treasury Dept. have reached an agreement with banks and private equity firms holding $6.9 billion of the automakers debt. Those firms have agreed to take $2 billion and a small equity stake in the company, paving the way, it seems, for Chrysler to avoid bankruptcy and with Italian automaker Fiat.
Ask a Toyota or Honda executive how much their respective companies make per hybrid car and you’re unlikely to get a straight answer. Indeed, it was progress of sorts a couple of years back when Toyota began saying that the Prius, which debuted in Japan over a decade ago, had begun contributing to the bottom line. Honda, meanwhile, prefers to point out that with the Insight it achieved its aim of reducing the cost of its Integrated Motor Assist hybrid system to below $2,000.
