Dodge Ram 1500 Rebel TRX

Time for another post, here it is,

The Dodge Ram 1500 Rebel TRX
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The Rebel TRX is Dodge's (BETTER) competition to the Ford RaptorPack. It has a 6.2 liter supercharged HEMI V8 under the hood. The huge big-block develops 575 horsepower, making for great off-roading. It's got a link-coil suspension system in the back, like baja trucks! I am pretty sure that the shocks are from Bilstein, like the ones on the new Power Wagon. The body is sort of hourglass shaped, Dodge says it gives an off-roading advantage, I think it looks cool. Because this truck is built for off-roading, the soft springs and dampers make for a comfortable ride. I'll conclude this here, if you want more on the Rebel TRX, click here.

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Jaguar XF

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The Jaguar XF

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The Jaguar XF is a very good example of a sport sedan. The "sport" part is really there, it does 0-60 in 5 seconds. The Jag also can hit an impressive top speed of 129 miles per hour. You can get it in all-wheel drive, which makes it very popular where I live because people like to get full-size, all-wheel drive cars. This cat has 340 horsepower (~253 kilowatts) and 332 pound-feet (~450 Nm) of torque. The XF gets its power from either a supercharged V-6 (statistics shown in the sentence above) or an I-4 turbodiesel. People will say "Superchargers aren't efficient, they waste gas!". Blasphemy! Superchargers take a large blow to fuel mileage, but they are cool. If I am going to spend 60 grand on a V-6, it better be cool. However, enough ranting, because the Jaguar has some truly amazing equipment on board. Car and Driver says "The cabin is delightfully modern and houses a variety of gadgets suitable for James Bond himself, including forward-collision alert and a driver-drowsiness alert." The suspension is excellent, it can come with adaptive dampers, this means you can firm up the suspension for the racetrack, or soften it for gentle cruises on the freeway.

(this post was for last week, I ran out of time to post it)

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GMC Sierra

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The GMC Sierra 1500

(credit: www.caranddriver.com)
The GMC Sierra is a fantastic pickup truck. It looks really good, and with 365 horsepower, it can tow just as well as it runs. it also has 12,000 lbs of towing capacity. This means that the Sierra can tow roughly 3 Ford Crown Victorias! It can come in short crew cab, like the above image, long crew cab, short and long extended cab, and in short cab. As an option for the V-8 engines, you can get them bolted to an eight-speed automatic transmission.
We now present our guest-blogger (no, not Cory Doctorow), Stephen Buck!

Well, folks, coming from the south,  the only thing important about pickup trucks is the ability to hold water.  If you don't know what I mean you haven't driven around town with ten hot girls in the back, singing "luv me some Kailas" in 64 cubic feet of hot water.  So pay attention to the suspension in the back because no one wants a droopy rear end.

I will never let Stephen write a blog article again. I have shoved him into the bed of the truck we have on road test. I have also added bubble bath to the truck.

Take that, Stephen!

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Dodge Challenger

Time for a new era,
The Dodge Challenger

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The Dodge Challenger is a spectacular piece of machinery. The Challenger still looks the way it did in the '60s which is pretty cool. It is no slouch in the performance department either. A stock SXT does 0-60 in 6.1 seconds! The Challenger can embarrass cars that cost three times as much, and as for the SRT Hellcat, it is one second slower than a Lamborghini Aventador down the dragstrip. the Lamborghini costs half a million dollars, the Dodge costs $64,000. The English say we are brash and uncivilized with our big block V8 muscle cars. If 702 horsepower makes me brash and uncivilized, I am fine with that. It comes in lots of different trim package options. The Challenger is also available in  in the "Shaker" pack, in case 485 isn't a sufficient amount of horsepower for you (the above photo is a Shaker). The Dodge Challenger RT Scat Pack Shaker has a 392 cui HEMI producing 485 horsepower, all for the same price as a Toyota Sienna. The Scat Pack has the Challenger Appearance Package, which makes it a little slimmer in the front as well as giving the car cool badges:

(credit:www.dodge.com)
This little guy was the Super Bee logo for its production run. Why isn't this the Dodge logo? Also, completely unrelated, why did the Super Bee go out of production? look at it! It is fantastic!

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