This Cuda can be yours. One problem, it’ll set you back $2.75 million.
- This is what happens when you get on the bad side of the NY Times
- The “smoking hot” market for used cars is happening now
- American-built Toyotas are being sent to Russia
- The diesel in the new 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee is “overkill”
There was a flurry of vehicle unveilings at the NAIAS and the Corvette Stingray was one of them.
- The Lincoln MKC concept was unveiled and it looks a lot like a Range Rover Evoque
- The 2014 Mercedes Benz CLA250 is a luxury compact coming to America
- This is the new Honda Element
- Predictions about how car buying will change in the future
The latest Tom Cruise action flick is Jack Reacher where he plays protagonist Jack Reacher, a former military cop wandering from one city to another. If you haven’t seen the movie, you might want to avoid reading this blog post as there are some spoiler alerts. If you have seen the movie, you know it wasn’t an all-out action movie like of Shoot ‘Em Up, but it is an action movie nonetheless with senseless murder, car chases and twists.
The movie opens with a sniper picking off presumably innocent people walking along the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh. The man charged with the crime, Barr, is a former military sniper. While in police custody for questioning, he writes on a piece of paper, “Get Jack Reacher.” And so the movie begins and Tom Cruise in all of his 5′ 7″ glory comes to town to find out who is responsible for the murders.
Reacher believes Barr doesn’t have the skills as a sniper to kill all those people so the lawyer defending Barr teams up with Reacher to find the real sniper. In the process of trying to find who framed Barr, Reacher discovers corruption in the city’s government and a gang using a construction company as a front.
There are a handful of cars in the movie including a 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle SS, a 2012 Mercedes Benz C250 CDI Coupe, a 2012 Ford Transit Connect, a 2006 Audi A6 C6 and a really old Silverado pickup from the late 70′s, early 80′s. Similar to the film Drive, cars driven by characters in the movie Jack Reacher serve as a reflection of the people who drive them. [keep reading]
Motor Trend recently published Top 10 New Car Wheel Designs on Wide Open Throttle. These are the cars that can be driven right off the lot with wheels that don’t fail to impress. This means that a new car buyer won’t need to contribute coin to the auto aftermarket for a new set wheels which MSN Autos estimates to be a $295 billion business.
So what if you’re not in the market for a new car? No worries, here’s our Top 10 list of wheels found on used cars between 2000 and 2012 that have designs standing the test of time so hopefully the previous owner took care of their wheels. Make the jump to see if you agree with our picks. [keep reading]
I assume anyone reading this post has been to at least one car show. There are just as many categories of car shows as there are types of cars. I’ve been to a lot of different ones but the nostalgic feeling and genuineness found at the local car shows can’t be found anywhere else. And the knowledge you gain from talking to the folks who actually owned and worked on these cars is different from the MPG and HP ratings you find on a sheet at the large international shows. But before I get all sentimental over these local events, I’d like to take some time to explain how these opinions were formed.
About 10 years ago, I went to my first car show with my uncle and his family. This wasn’t a run of the mill local car meet; this was the New York International Auto Show…one of the largest automotive enthusiast events in the world. With hundreds, maybe thousands of cars at display, there was something for everyone to see. From insanely priced and powerful exotics such as the Ferrari Enzo and Porsche Carrera GT to the grocery getters we’re more likely to drive in our lifetimes, all were parked and glistening on what would be the equivalent of a red carpet for cars. [keep reading]
Have a great weekend and start it right by watching how our friends down in Texas deal with road rage or lack thereof.
- Fiat will offer in-car espresso machines in the Fiat 500L
- Audi digital dealership is basically like shopping online
- Chevrolet Corvair with AWD and a Porsche engine
- The military can still sponsor sports and more importantly, Dale Jr.
Just because MojoMotors.com helps dealerships sell their used cars and trucks at discount prices doesn’t mean we can’t appreciate used cars that aren’t on our website. That’s why we started Unsloppy Seconds on Tumblr. As the name would suggest, we post cool used cars for sale across the world that are clean or weird or pretty and mostly unsloppy. . .sometimes we can’t help ourselves though.
Check out some of our favorites below for a sampling of what you kind find.
There’s a little town in Ravenna, Ohio that replicates the “Cobra Killer” at the Mongoose Motorsports garage. What’s the “Cobra Killer,” you ask? Time to get yourself ready for an history lesson. Back in the early 1960′s, the Shelby Cobra was one of the premier sports cars in racing. Chevrolet couldn’t let the Cobra go unmatched so they created the Corvette Grand Sport.
Feather-light at 1,900 pounds, the Grand Sport proved to be faster and more apt at taking corners than the Cobra. Unfortunately, only five Grand Sports were built after GM cancelled the program which meant the ultra rare American sports car had to compete in the prototype class against Porsche and Maserati. Almost 50 years later, the only kind of Grand Sport you’re bound to see is a Mongoose Motorsports replica in both coupe and roadster variations. Keep reading for the specs and more pictures.
The weekend that was November 18-20 gave us time to prepare for a short three-day week and, of course, the latest Nascar Sprint Cup champion Tony Stewart. Read more by following the links below.
- Chevrolet’s proves that “Chevy Runs Deep” aint no joke
- Tony “Smoke” Stewart took the Sprint Cup Championship over the weekend at Homestead in Miami
- ESPN’s Ed Hinton calls Tony Stewart a Nascar legend
- The VW Caddy got some cred from Hooniverse’s “What the Truck Weekend”
Closing out the week is “Putting it into park,” a collection of the best stories, news and links from the past week.
- ESPN recaps the career of Sprint Cup racing team owner Richard Childress
- The fifteen most memorable Chevrolet Camaros
- The Ford F-150 has been named the Truck of Texas
- Convicts get rehab by restoring cars
- Jimmie Johnson’s streak of five straight Nascar Cup Championships will probably end this year
- Formula 1 will invade Jersey Shore, err, Port Imperial, New Jersey in 2013