The 2008 Dodge Challenger SRT8 was officially revealed moments ago -- official numbers are the same as it's big brother the Dodge Charger SRT8 -- 425 horses under the hood from the 6.1-liter Hemi engine, and a zero-to-sixty time of somewhere around 5 seconds.
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Saturday, February 9, 2008
2008 Dodge Challenger SRT8 officially revealed, 425 HP
Next Dodge Viper killed by Chrysler, 2011 to be last model
Chrysler's new owners at Cerberus have killed the next generation Dodge Viper, dooming the high-horsepower beast to an end of run in 2011 and ceding the American automaker supercar war to GM with their new Chevy Corvette ZR1. Jalopnik mourns the 600-HP snake, may it rest in peace.
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CarTorrent - Peer-to-peer networking for cars
Researchers from UCLA are working on a wireless network that will allow cars within 300-1000 feet of each other to talk to each other, simultaneously downloading information in the shape of road safety warnings, entertainment content and navigational tools (i.e. traffic jam ahead). Toyota and BMW are on board helping to bring the project to life.
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Ferrari Enzo-crashing Gizmondo exec free from jail
Somebody hide the super cars! Stefan Eriksson, the Ferrari Enzo-crashing executive and member of the Swedish mafia, was just released from an LA jail where he's been held for the past two years after being found guilty of charges of embezzlement.
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BMW Travels At High Speed Down a Private Airport Runway...
And "the car ran off the 85-foot-high embankment at the end of the runway", "was airborne for 200 feet", and when it smashed into "the large tree, the car split in half, scattering wreckage over an area of 200 square feet." All five young men inside the BMW were killed.
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