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February 23, 2009
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My Turn with the Lancer GTS
Weston Henderson
Last week I was staring at the Lancer like that annoying little kid across the isle from you on the airplane. Finally I got the chance to take it for a day and see what this car is all about.
With the $18K sticker price, I was happily surprised at the solid thunk the door made as I slid into the relatively roomy sedan. The interior follows many of the earlier Lancer styling cues, with a long sweeping dash that bulges slightly towards you in the center. The instrument cluster has received a refresh with a new HUD (Heads Up Display) placed in between the standard tach and MPH gauges, whereas the earlier model’s display consisted of the standard four gauges, with temp and fuel making up the remaining two spots. I find this addition a welcome one, as I found it very similar to many of the European designs that I have grown fond of. The HUD displays fuel, time and even says hello and goodbye as you enter and exit the vehicle. Ahhhhh, like the girlfriend I never had.
Continue reading after the jump!
Nathan's S10
By Rob Einaudi
Editor-in-Chief
The location of the sub cracks me up. Check out Nathan’s ride page for a ton more pics!
February 22, 2009
Project Vega
By Rob Einaudi
Editor-in-Chief
Does this thing look tough or what? What a cool father-son project! Check out Joe’s dad’s ride page for a ton of pics. They are definitely making good progress on this race car!
February 21, 2009
K & N Challenger
By Rob Einaudi
Editor-in-Chief
Somehow I managed to totally miss this car at SEMA. What’s up with that? Anyway, K & N built a great ride page for this wicked Challenger on CarDomain, so check it out!
February 20, 2009
Top Gear to Build 70-mpg Car for $7,000
By Rob Einaudi
Editor-in-Chief
It actually seems like kind of a lot to build an old diesel Rabbit, but then again they are also going for a sub 7 second 0-60 time. More at TopGear.com
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Lancer GTS Owns the Jetta S on CarDomain
By Rob Einaudi
Editor-in-Chief
The Lancer pretty much crushed the Jetta, winning this week’s Showroom Showdown by a 2-to-1 margin. Hey, it’s an impressive car for the money. I was definitely sad to hand back the keys for our test car today.
GM Performance Division Disbanded: Not as Drastic as First Reported
By Brian Lohnes
BangShift.com
After a day of burning up phone lines, sending e-mails, reading other online reports, and launching flares up into the sky, we’ve got some more information for you with regard to Wednesday’s announcement about the disbanding of GMPD.
The good news is that things seem to suck far less than we were led to believe with the story we were working off of from Automotive News.
GM Performance Division has not, in fact, been completely disbanded. The engineers that were focused on performance-car development have been reassigned to other areas and projects in the company. The positive seems to be that when things are back on track, this unit will be reconvened. Continue reading at Freiburger’s Junkyard
Is Pontiac History?
By Rob Einaudi
Editor-in-Chief
I was holding off writing about this cause it seemed kind of vague and, well, unreal. But on Tuesday GM announced that Pontiac will be demoted to a “focused niche brand,” and that it will no longer be a separate division. Plans for any future models are vague at best. This prompted Jalopnik to write a eulogy on Wednesday.
Truthfully, I wasn’t very sad when Chrysler killed off Plymouth, cause they’d already reduced the brand so much. But Pontiac has the new G8. I thought there was hope… Maybe not. Awesome rides like Joe’s ’67 GTO below will live on. But still, it’s a sad time for fans of American iron.
SHO vs. GTO
Atomicalex
Now that the new SHO is a reality, it’s time for a reality check. GM pretty much bombed the new GTO, which was too bad because it was a great car in spite of the baggage that the GTO name brought with it. So how does the new SHO stack up to its original? The new SHO keeps to the guidelines: high output V6, solid transmission, and a fancy leather interior, all set up as a trim package, just like the original (GTO). At the same time, the SHO doesn’t have to live up to a foggy flashback image, so there’s no confusion about what it’s supposed to be. Advantage: SHO. Face it, the SHO was the GTO of the 80s, and the new one is much closer to John DeLorean’s vision of a hopped up family car than GM’s snappy Holden rebadge was. I feel for GM, but Ford wins this round hands down. What do you think?
