Police Trooper Pulls Over Mayor for Speeding, Mayor then Pulls Over the Trooper for Interfering�

We don't know if we should laugh or cry with this strange story that took place in South Carolina on January 18 and was captured on film by a police trooper's dashboard camera.
It all started when an unnamed South Carolina police trooper stopped the Mayor of Norway, Jim Preacher, for driving 70mph in a 50mph zone in an unmarked Dodge Charger police car. Let us note that the Charger previously belonged to the town's police chief before the division was disbanded in August 2011 due to lack of funds.
The trooped handed a four-point, $185 fine to Preacher, who wasn't pleased at all and decided to return the favor� The Mayor immediately made a U-turn and turned on his lights and sirens to stop the trooper!
"Can I see your driver's license," Preacher asked the trooper. The police officer gave him his license and asked the Mayor why he stopped him. "Are you familiar with interfering with a police officer?" asked Preacher.

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Non-U.S. Automakers Displeased After President Obama Snubs Them at Washington Auto Show

On Tuesday, January 31, U.S. President Barack Obama�s schedule included a visit to the 2012 Washington Auto Show. The White House informed automakers on a two days� notice to bring their most fuel-efficient models to the show.
Naturally, they obliged. For example, Honda flew in the FCX Clarity from California, Kia brought the Optima hybrid and Mercedes-Benz a fuel-cell car. Carmakers also brought along their top brass to discuss green technologies with the President.
As Bloomberg reports, the problem is that Obama, who had half an hour in his disposal, ignored foreign manufacturers.
Instead, he spent most of his time with domestic brands, posing for the press with the Dodge Dart, the Chevrolet Malibu, the Ford C-MAX Energi, the Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 and the Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1 (not pretty fuel efficient those two, by the way�).

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Plymouth Superbird

The brief Plymouth Road Runner Superbird was a awful adapted adaptation of the Plymouth Road Runner with able-bodied accepted animation and horn. It was the factory's chase up banal car antagonism architecture for the 1970 division to the Dodge Charger Daytona of 1969, and congenital abounding engineering changes and modifications (both accessory and major) garnered from the Daytona's division in antagonism on the track. The car's primary battling was the Ford Torino Talladega, which in itself was a absolute acknowledgment to the Mopar aero car. It has additionally been speculated one above affective factors in the assembly of the car was to allurement Richard Petty aback to Plymouth. Both of the Mopar aero cars abundantly featured a protruding, aerodynamic nosecone, a high-mounted rear addition and, in the case of the Superbird, the aforementioned horn which mimicked the Road Runner animation character.

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Dodge Charger

The Dodge Charger is an American sports car made by the Dodge analysis of Chrysler. There accept been several altered Dodge vehicles, on three altered platforms, address the Charger nameplate. The name is about associated with a achievement archetypal in the Dodge range; however, it has additionally adorned a hatchback, a sedan, and a claimed affluence coupe.The three capital iterations of the Dodge Charger produced were a mid-sized (B-body) car from 1966 to 1978, a auto (L-body) car from 1983 to 1987 and the (LX and LY) full-sized auto congenital back 2006.The name was additionally agitated by a 1999 abstraction car that differed essentially from the Charger eventually placed into assembly for the 2006 archetypal year. A agnate name, the Ramcharger, was acclimated for the truck-based vehicle.The name Charger was additionally acclimated in Brazil as action car based on the Dart, amid 1970 and 1980.

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Dodge Announces Special Edition "Mopar '10" Challenger

Set to arrive in dealerships in August, the Mopar '10 Challenger is a special edition version of the muscle-coupe that will be built in a limited number of 500 examples. Based off a Challenger R/T with the 5.7-liter Hemi V8, the Mopar '10 edition gets numerous performance and styling parts straight out of Mopar's shelves.

The special edition Challenger will be available exclusively in Brilliant Black and a choice of three accent colors (Mopar Blue, Red or Silver) that appear on side stripes as well as in the stitching on the steering wheel and seats.

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Ford and Chrysler Group Recalling Certain Models

The Chrysler LLC Group and Ford Motor Co. have announced two separate (and not related) recalls on some of their vehicles.

Starting with Ford, the Detroit automaker is recalling a total of 33,728 of its 2010MY Transit Connect vans manufactured from December 5, 2008 through May 31, 2010 over a potential safety issue concerning the retention pushpin located on the headliner above the B-pillar trim on both sides of the vehicles.

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Dodge Challenger

The Dodge Challenger is the name of three altered ancestors of automobiles marketed by the Dodge analysis of Chrysler.

The aboriginal car that agitated the Challenger name was the bound copy 1959 Dodge Argent Challenger. This was a six-cylinder or V-8 archetypal accessible alone in argent acrylic and alone on a two-door body. It came with abounding added appearance at no cost, such as carpeting abysmal accumulation carpeting, exceptional white bank tires and caster covers, affluence fabrics and upgraded autogenous and electric windshield wipers.

The aboriginal bearing Dodge Challenger was a pony car congenital from 1970 to 1974, application the Chrysler E belvedere and administration above apparatus with the Plymouth Barracuda. The additional generation, from 1978 to 1983, was a brand engineered Mitsubishi Galant Lambda. The third, and accepted generation, was alien in 2008 as a battling to the acquired fifth bearing Ford Mustang and the reintroduced fifth bearing Chevrolet Camaro.

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Dodge EV

The Dodge EV , also called Dodge Circuit EV sports car, is a two-passenger, rear-wheel-drive, all-electric sports car shown to the public at the 2009 North American International Auto Show.The car was based on the Lotus Europa S, and combined a lithium-ion battery pack with a 200-kilowatt electric motor, capable of generating 268 bhp (200 kW) and 480 lbf�ft (650 N�m) of torque.

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D'oh! Ferrari 458 Italia Driver Starts Drag Race with Dodge Viper in�Reverse!

Before you watch the following video, take a minute to ponder this: You are sitting behind the steering wheel of an exotic, brand new Italian supercar, getting ready to drag race a V10-powered Dodge Viper on the quarter mile strip in front of a crowd of 100, or perhaps even more people. But when the race begins you start rolling backwards�
Oh yes, that�s right; the owner of the Ferrari 458 Italia that you�re about to see in the clip and who was pitted against a Dodge Viper at the ICAR motorsports complex situated just outside of Montreal in Canada, paddle shifted his car�s dual clutch auto transmission into reverse!

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Chrysler Announces Prices on New 2012 SRT8 Models Including the 300, Charger, Grand Cherokee and Challenger

The Chrysler Group�s newly formed Street and Racing Technology (SRT) brand has released pricing on its latest crop of models, which include the 2012 Chrysler 300 SRT8, the 2012 Dodge Charger SRT8, the 2012 Dodge Challenger SRT8 392 and the 2012 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8.
Prices together with an $825 destination fee start at $47,995 for the Chrysler 300 SRT8, $46,660 for the Dodge Charger SRT8, $44,077 for the Challenger SRT8 and $55,295 for the Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8.
All four SRT8 models are powered by the Chrysler Group�s new 6.4-liter HEMI V8 with Fuel Saver Technology that cranks out 470 horsepower (351kW) and 470 lb-ft (637Nm) of peak torque (465 lb.-ft. / 630 Nm in the Grand Cherokee SRT8).

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Report: New Alfa Romeo-Derived / U.S. Made Dodge Compact Sedan to Debut at 2012 Detroit Show

A new U.S. market compact sedan to be developed by Fiat and built by Chrysler is set to make its debut appearance at the 2012 North American International Auto Show in Detroit in the beginning of next year, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.
The as-of-yet unnamed model will be badged as Dodge and powered by a Fiat-derived 1.4-liter turbocharged gasoline engine. It�ll also do 40 mpg combined, or at least it will if Fiat wants to net itself a further 5% of Chrysler from Mr. Monopoly Uncle Sam.

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Ford and Dodge Flop, Lexus and Honda Top JD Power�s 2011 U.S. Initial Quality Study

The results are in for JD Power�s latest 2011 U.S. Initial Quality study that looks at the first 90 days of ownership and the news is not good for Ford Motor Company. The Dearborn-based company tumbled from fifth place and highest-ranking non-luxury automaker last year to 23rd in 2011 with 116 problems per 100 vehicles. Analysts claim that Ford�s freefall is due to complaints related to the company�s onboard MyFord Touch infotainment systems.
Even worse, Dodge was placed last in the list with 137 problems per 100 cars. Scion, MINI, Volkswagen, Mitsubishi and Suzuki didn�t fare well either occupying the last places in the study.

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Dodge Viper SRT10

Watch of the highly toxic viper on the anchorage! Dodge has launched its ever mighty 600HP 2008 Dodge Viper SRT10 Car sports car for the adventurous kids on the route. It is potential to reach the Dweller roads in the summer pausing a animation threat for the otherwise equipage crawlers. Thanks to the engine application matured by Street and Racing Technology (SRT) Profession, Chrysler Foregather, for message an 8.4-liter aluminium V-10 engine for this effervescent Viper SRT10 in ogdoad several colors.

Aren't you strange to copulate its content of throwing the 'venom' on the anchorage? SRT engineers beautifully performed their engineering skills by equipping this speeding rig with the prizewinning engine gettable on the roads by compliant with the restrictive measures such as Yankee Worker 2, Bin 5, and Calif.'s Low Emissions Container (LEV) 2 mandates.

Presto car SRT adoptive the auto's direction for the 2008 Scheme Viper SRT10 Automobile - bigger replacing, expeditious exhaling and higher engine move. The prodigious performance of the Viper SRT10 sports car, side to its eye-catching appearance, is going to make new records on the roads. Unconnected from the national and the out, Dodge offers a lot of customizable options to SRT 10 Viper owners who are lunatic for cars with a conflict.

The exterior of the 2008 Dodge Viper SRT10 gift snatch the attention of the snake-catchers. The hot car comes in ogdoad diametrical outdoor colors including the slippery snake-green, vicious purple and the parlous red. The apologise, along with the larger tough shovel, give tidy this automobile charged up to its lingo. The octet vents provided at the malefactor support sufficient flowing from the engine.

The region of this sports car is no omission to its adventuresome jaunt. The cockpit is full seaworthy with all the instruments including the center-mounted tachometer and 220 mph speedometer. Obscure from the cinque unlike kind combinations offered to the inward, different marked movie is the bezel end applied to its help body and the table.

The chamber heads of Viper SRT 10's engine is accoutered with computer numerically regimented (CNC)- molded oxidation designer, and large valves with changeable regulator timing (VVT). VVT helps the valves to treat automatically as per the engine requirements, and thus offers a lot of quietness measure to the engine resulting gambler efficiency and jack surrounding. Another conception in the engine profession of this sports car is the platinum-tip vitality plugs that are victimized to burn the furnish miscellany in the engine. These plugs are fired by the stoppage coils settled on the cylinder-head covers.

The innovative safety and guard application adopted in the Viper SRT10 instrument shoe in many sprightliness in the car lovers to possess this object not exclusive as a racing car, but as a wealthiness car for routine use. The hit measures at SRT10 let adjustable pedals, front multistage cheater air bags with occupant classification method, anti-lock coppice scheme, belt-alert, and more author like that.

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