Driveline Blog

Proving that there’s still life in the discontinued (but soon to be rebooted as a 2012 model) Dodge Viper, Chrysler’s Street and Racing Technology (SRT) division teamed up with the Viper Club of America and Tomball Dodge’s ViperExchange to recapture the fastest production car lap time at the world-famous Nürburgring Nordschleife racetrack. Professional driver Dominik Farnbacher [...]

Well, not really, but the automaker is making a strong patriotic statement in support of the American team playing against the English team in an upcoming World Cup soccer (football to the rest of the world) match. The company has put together a TV ad showing General George Washington riding to battle in a Dodge [...]

Despite announcing a while ago that the Dodge Viper was getting the axe, the Chrysler Group LLC just announced it has decided to reverse that earlier decision and will continue with production of the Viper. The Viper was scheduled to cease production in December 2009, but it appears that production of the V-10 powered monster [...]

photo: © The Chrysler Group We’ve just posted a review of the all-new 2008 Dodge Grand Caravan over at the About.com Minivans site. Written by my About.com colleague Aaron Gold (who heads up About.com Cars), this review points out some of the key features of the new vehicle, including the good (the new dual-screen entertainment [...]

Kevin Smith (and photographer Marc Urbano) over at Edmunds Inside Line have an excellent write-up on the reaction they received when cruising some SoCal hot rod hangouts in the Dodge Challenger Concept car. The vehicle is still in concept form — note Smith’s remarks about the excessive tire size and other iffy elements — but [...]

  Although he finished second in round 2 of the drifting Formula D racing event — held last weekend (May 13-14) at Road Atlanta in Braselton, Ga. — driver Samuel Hubinette has managed to stay atop the overall Formula D driver standings for the year. (You’ll have to take our word for it, though, as [...]

While many of us may sit in our pens at the cubicle farm and daydream of motoring into the office carpark in a Ford GT or Dodge SRT-10, we can at least have a replica of one on our desks. One of the more memorable car toy concepts to hit the shelves over the last [...]