The New England Motor Press Association recently held their annual winter car of the year awards ceremony at MIT this week where a number of models were honored. Two of those models happen to be British.
Sales numbers were down across the board in the muscle car segment for May 2016, but the Chevrolet Camaro posted the biggest slide, trailing both the Ford Mustang and the Dodge Challenger as sales of the 6th gen GM muscle car remain inexplicably slow.
Most automakers who build electric vehicles get batteries from suppliers like Samsung and LG. But Tesla is gearing up their Gigafactory to build their own batteries for their vehicles. This idea has caught the eye of another automaker.
New insider information suggests that when the next generation Dodge Charger arrives around 2021, a new twin turbocharged 4-cylinder engine could serve as the fuel-sipping entry level option under the lineup of powerful Hemi V8s while the entire model line stands to lose some 500 pounds.
I recently had a chance to put a pair of 2016 Ford F150 pickups to work – one with the 5.0L V8 and the other with the 3.5L EcoBoost V6 – and today I bring you my views on how these two powerful F150 engines size up to each other when run through my hauling, towing and daily driving tests.