The mid-engine Corvette has caused quite a bit of fanfare over the last several months. Almost immediately after the new ‘Vette won MotorTrend’s coveted Car of the Year award, reports surfaced that a 900-hp ZR1 will eventually reprise its role as top dog of the ‘Vette range. But what if you don’t want to wait, and 900 hp simply isn’t enough (because you’re insane)? Well, have no fear, John Hennessey is here.
The Texas tuner recently announced that he and his team will offer up to 1,200 hp via a specially designed twin-turbo system in addition to upgrading the internals of the LT2 V-8 with forged aluminum pistons and forged steel connecting rods. When I spoke with Hennessy at the C8 reveal in July, he mentioned that, though he was excited to get to work on the new C8, he was worried that Chevy might intentionally prevent tuners like him from making big changes to [...]
There’s no doubt Infiniti has seen better days. The brand is struggling with sales in the U.S., it recently pulled out of Europe and other key markets, and it just cancelled the QX30. It also moved its headquarters from Hong Kong to Japan but has shifted its focus to China and the U.S., where it plans to launch five new vehicles in the next three years.
At the Paris Motor Show last year, Infiniti revealed its updated Project Black S, a Q60 coupe prototype that brings its Formula 1 hybrid technology to a road car. The Project Black S delivers 563 hp from its 3.0-liter twin-turbo hybrid engine, with a 0-60 mph estimate of 4.0 seconds, according to Infiniti. The car was developed to test the waters and see how well it would fit the market. The automaker recently finished the research phase and is now analyzing the results.
Speaking with MotorTrend at the recent [...]
We don’t know how many hand-raisers there are for the 2021 Mustang Mach-E, Ford’s new electric SUV, or how many have placed a $500 deposit. Ford won’t tell us.
We do know there were about 9,000 interested would-be buyers on November 18, the night it made its global debut at a high-energy event at the Jet Center in Hawthorne, California. For the event, Ford brought in the Detroit Youth Choir that placed second on America’s Got Talent. Also on hand: actor Idris Elba. His father worked at the Ford Dagenham assembly plant in the U.K. for most of his life and Elba worked at the plant for two years. The Mach-E will start arriving in late 2020, and Ford will only make 50,000 units globally in the first model year.
Contrast that with Tesla, which, two days later in a neighboring building in Hawthorne, had the world premiere of the Cybertruck, an electric pickup that [...]
We first took delivery of our 2019 Honda Insight back in January 2019, and despite some long road trips, a trip to the test track, and using it as a surf mobile, we have had almost an entirely trouble-free experience. Somewhere around the 11,000-mile mark on the odometer, the left-hand gauge in the instrument cluster started to ping us with alerts that we were soon due for service. Close to the 12,000-mile mark, that message changed to “past due.”
So we Googled the nearest Honda dealership, which happened to be Scott Robinson Honda in Torrance, California, and used its online booking tool to make an appointment. Very simple. On the service appointment page, you can see what services will be done and how much it should cost. For those wary of getting upsold at the dealership, this is a nice feature, as everything is relatively clearly articulated in plain English, and there appear to be [...]
The all-new mid-engine C8 Corvette’s impressive $59,995 starting price is only good for the first year, as we reported back in August, and unless it goes up by $20,000, Chevrolet will continue to lose money on low-trim cars, a senior GM source tells MotorTrend.
We had a feeling the $59,995 starting price was too good to be true, and a GM source confirmed as much to us explaining the price would rise for the 2021 model year. This isn’t much of a surprise, as the base price of a C7 rose nearly $2,000 in its second year and by another $2,000 the following year. While we still don’t know how much the C8’s price will rise in 2021, a more senior GM official tells us it would have to go through the roof in order to cover GM’s cost.
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