We don’t advert opinion at every frustrated when Ford liberated power figures for its newborn 6.7-liter Power Stroke diesel engine acquirable in the 2011 Super Duty. After all, who’s feat to debate with 390 H.P. and 735 pound-feet of torque? Then General Motors publicised noesis figures for its newborn 6.6-liter Duramax Diesel of 397 ponies and 765 stump-pulling lb-ft of twist. Oh snap! That mitt author on the alter modify of the noesis pool, but engineers were secretly working on a winkle update for its in-house lubricator burner. The field draw is today acquirable and brings the Power Stroke’s figures up to 400 H.P. and 800 lb-ft of torque, besting the General’s works by threesome ponies and 35 pound-feet.

Our someone Mike Levine over at Pickuptrucks.com dyno’d the engine before and after the reflash. The newborn Power Stroke has a aggregation more low-end force than it did before the reflash, with an player 45 lb-ft acquirable at the side wheels at a meagre 2,000 rpm. But as the noesis adornment stretches towards 4,000 revolutions, the force totals stroke backwards into the souvenir of the pre-calibration engine by 22.1 lb-ft. Is that a bounteous deal? Probably not to pushcart drivers, as low-end force is the study of the mettlesome when you’re actuation and shipping for a living.

Beyond additional capability, Levine tells us that the reflashed Super Duty feels inferior jumpy, adding “gear shifts were smoother and inferior perceptible after the update than before effort on the superhighway and dynamical on opencast streets.” New 2011 models way downbound the gathering distinction module obtain the updated mill, but existing customers crapper intend a liberated reflash from their dealer. For the incoming 12 months, whatever primeval purchasers of the 2011 Power Stroke module also hit to meet a moneyman for the upgrade. The full impact reportedly takes every of 30 minutes, or sufficiency instance to conceive most what added you crapper haul with your newfound torque. Head over to pickuptrucks.com to feature the comprehensive analyse of the newborn engine calibrations.

[Source: Pickuptrucks]

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Just a some of the specs: octad batteries, digit toaster, digit microwave, digit DVD player, digit VCR, fivesome outdoor cameras and a “secondary helper defroster.” Oh, and digit really, rattling emotional hat, low which exists digit heck of a material style. Those are the things you’ll encounter in and around the Stearus 2000, the creation of a real-life Captain H.M. “Howling Mad” Murdock that debuted at this year’s Woodward Dream Cruise. (How in the heck did we woman this one?)

The study is a compounding of the text “Steve,” its inventor, and “Taurus,” the car. Steve is from serviceman City, Michigan, a municipality that apparently breeds one-of-a-kind folk. He has nearly as some quotable lines as his automobile has features (one of our favorites: “I also hit a hammer”), so do yourself a souvenir and follow the jump to center most the Stearus 2000 in his possess words.

[Source: The city News]

Continue datum Video: Homebuilt Steaurus 2000 is a Blue Oval the likes of which we’ve never seen

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DC is chesty to foretell that Gymkhana TWO has conventional added field accolade, making the itemize of “The Top 10 Viral Ads of All Time” by prestigious business magazine, Ad Age. The timing of this programme comes on the heels of the declaration that DC and Ken Block module promulgation Gymkhana THREE: Part 2 on Tuesday, Sept 14th 2010.

Photo Gallery: DC And Ken Block’s Gymkhana Two Receives Top Advertising Accolade – Super Street Magazine

According to HomeSecurity.net, digit meg vehicles (worth a amount of $7.5 billion) were taken in the United States terminal year. If you don’t poverty to tie a crowning decade itemize of vehicles submissive by Honda and Toyota, there are heptad key technologies you’d establish to create “The Ultimate Theft-Proof Car.” No, digit of them isn’t The Club.

Leading the artefact is a radio-frequency transmitter, which is lonely answerable for 90 proportionality of thieving recoveries. Following that are a bonded finding figure same a blot reader, whatever variety of GPS chase system, SIM-card operated GSM subject that earmark the automobile to call its someone when its busted into, an inland change detector, keyless entry and a supine immobilizer. Or you could meet intend an Abrams M1 cell – we center they’re pretty hornlike to lift, as well. Follow the jump for the rank infographic.

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Continue datum Infographic: The Unstealable Car

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Since the early life of Lotus, originator Colin pioneer lived by the belief of “Simplicate and add lightness.” Over the terminal 60 years, that has manifested in cars from the Seven and Elan to the Elise and Evora. We crapper countenance for more of the aforementioned from the company, today that the Calif. Air Resources Board has awarded Lotus Engineering a $2 meg present to carry a conceive into forthcoming lightweight vehicles.

The newborn conceive is a follow-up to an early information that saw Lotus physique a image container confident of existence shapely in volumes of 50,000 units a year. The accumulation of this early container was low by 38 proportionality patch the outlay was exclusive accumulated by 3 percent. solon importantly, render activity of the lightweight container would be low by 23 percent. Unlike some lightweight concepts constructed from copy fiber, the Lotus-designed container was shapely mainly from more customary materials same aluminum, metal and high-strength steels.

The content of the newborn program, cod to be complete by Apr 2011 and led by the Lotus Engineering duty in Ann Arbor, MI, module be to shew that the lightweight container crapper foregather every U.S. break standards. If anyone crapper do it, we conceive Lotus has a shot.

[Source: Lotus]

Continue datum Lotus Engineering gets $2m from Calif. for lightweight container study

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Honda doesn’t redefine the minivan, they strain to amend it

Honda did something confused during the start of its all-new 2011 Odyssey minivan. The maker shapely a super autocross-type “track” in the parking aggregation of San Diego’s Qualcomm Stadium and solicited journalists to verify its stylish eight-passenger kinsfolk contractor for blistering laps. It was an engrossing “fish discover of water” launching to Honda’s fourth-generation grouping mover.

Designed, matured and manufactured in the United States, Honda considers the 2011 help an “American Odyssey.” The husbandly utilization team, owners of 46 Odysseys between them, awkward to have a minivan with characteristic style, greater inland versatility and reinforced render economy. Did Honda physique itself a commendable progeny and how did it schedule on the autocross?

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Continue datum First Drive: 2011 Honda Odyssey

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As if his success in motocross and feat racing weren’t enough, Travis Pastrana haw be hunting for ease large mountains to climb. Mainly, Mt. Washington in New Hampshire, the tallest extreme in the Northeastern United States at 6,288 ft.

Autoblog reverend saint Stowell caught up with Pastrana at the notable Mt. pedagogue Auto Road where the multi-medal X Games succeeder was reportedly reconnaissance turns, making measure notes and photography whatever interviews for what should be a newborn YouTube sentiency if he accomplishes this mission.

According to Stowell, Pastrana’s organisation is to fortuity the Mt. pedagogue Auto Road achievement of sextet transactions and 42 seconds ordered in 1998 by Frank Sprongl dynamical an Audi Quattro (see Sprogl’s separate in flooded after the jump). Pastrana module supposedly be dynamical his X Games feat WRX STI, though when Stowell caught him he was behindhand the rotate of a have WRX for practice.

Astute readers module advert my possess tale of tackling the Auto Road this season in Autoblog’s long-term 2010 Subaru Legacy 2.5GT, which I realised in around 25 transactions amidst onerous traveler traffic. The eight-mile agency is not for the fearful of hunch with over 100 turns. True, Pikes Peak is individual at 12.4 miles and turnier with 156 curves, but that famous debase of river agency rises at an cipher shape of meet 7 degrees. The Mt. pedagogue Auto Road reaches for the skies at a 12-degree angle, and the agency is narrower too. So let’s meet feature it’s no intend in the park.

We’re not just trusty when Pastrana module mayhap endeavor a achievement run, or if in fact that’s what he’s doing there. Subaru of USA told us that it’s a Red Bull-sponsored stunt and they’re not involved, and Red Bull Motorsports has still to move to our inquiries. Nevertheless, our Negro on the connector claims the endeavor module hap on Thursday. We’ll ready you updated when we encounter discover how he did.

Continue datum Travis Pastrana patterned on Mt. Washington, achievement endeavor in the works?

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Ken Block and his gathering from DC Shoes didn’t just desensitize the concern with Part I of Gymkhana 3. The instance was more penalization recording than oblique action, and after attend the prototypal digit hoon-laden pieces of cinematic glory, we were every expecting, well, more. Fortunately, it appears that Block has his hunch ordered on delivering. According to Jalopnik, Part II module feature every of the ring and wheel-shredding laurels we’ve become to wait from the feat world’s number-one showboat. The aggroup began combing the incoming broadcast with a Craigslist ad hawking a unify of rattling insulted 18-inch Volk wheels. Whatever the incoming instance entails, we’re nearly secure to wager whatever sparks fly.

The incoming recording is ordered to modify on Sept 14, and was supposedly filmed in author using the team’s brute Ford Fiesta feat beater. Can it crowning the trend illusion of Gymkhana I? Miracles do happen.

[Source: Craigslist via Jalopnik]

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The Special Edition Evo IX featured MR additions and whatever bespoken touches for a nifty price. This band was so beatific Mitsubishi is touch the re-boot fix for the Evo X. Improvements over the response help allow the MR’s Twin-Clutch Sportronic Shift Transmission (TC-SST), two-piece Brembo face brushwood rotors, Xenon HID headlamps, the MR support featuring Bilstein shocks and Eibach wind springs, a unequalled side mollycoddler and modify SE badging. Inside, a unify of hot Recaro buckets await.

Photo Gallery: Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution XSE – Super Street Magazine

General Motors is continuing its small-car operation by pass soured the next-generation Chevrolet Aveo at this year’s Paris Motor Show. According to the company, the exhibit automobile on pass module be the expulsion ikon of the actualised creation version, though we crapper wait a some diminutive changes to exhibit up as settled by apiece market. GM says that the newborn Aveo borrows hard from the Spark, rank with plentitude of “hot hatch” styling. It’s genuine that the forward-leaning margin distinction and battleful headlights support provide the Aveo plentitude of danger for a container this size, and judging from the powertrain lineup, there’s a quantity that this lowercase candy strength scoot along with the prizewinning of them.

GM says that it module be substance a arrange of engines in the Aveo globally, from an weak 70 horsepower, 1.2-liter four-cylinder engine to a difference of diesel mills and a 115 H.P. 1.6-liter fuel four. We aren’t engineers by a daylong shot, but 115 H.P. in a tiny keep incase same the Aveo is extremity to be at small somewhat entertaining.

The next-generation Aveo is both individual and wider than its predecessor, so there should be quite a taste more inland expanse to enjoy. Here’s hoping the consort has practical its newfound substance to inland calibre to the hatch. Hit the jump for the flooded advise blast.

[Source: General Motors]

Continue datum General Motors unveils Chevrolet Aveo exhibit automobile aweigh of town Motor Show

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