Chevrolet SS

Pontiac G8 enthusiasts take note: the 2014 Chevrolet SS performance sedan is set to arrive in Chevy showrooms late in 2013, GM announced today. The highly anticipated four-door will wear the SS, or Super Sport, name we suggested over two months ago and will serve as Chevy's NASCAR Sprint Cup racecar, debuting at the 2013 Daytona 500. While we're thrilled the 2014 Chevy SS exists at all, the rear-drive sedan is really a placeholder car until an all-new North American model debuts, likely for the 2016 model year. In the meantime, the 2014 SS model will be built in Australia alongside the new Holden VF Commodore (the present-generation VE Commodore SSV is pictured below). As expected, the 2014 Chevy SS will be underpinned by a version of GM's...

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Carroll Shelby

Carroll Shelby, a Texas chicken farmer turned hot-rodder who went on to build innovative sports cars like the Cobra that challenged Europe’s longtime dominance of road racing as well as high-performance versions of production cars like the Ford Mustang, died on Thursday in Dallas. He was 89. Collecting: The Shelby Cobra at 50, an Icon of Sex and Power (April 1, 2012) Carroll Shelby, here in 1960, raised the profile of American racing machines on the international sports-car circuit. His death was announced by his company, Carroll Shelby International. In the 1960s, Shelby raised the profile of American racing machines on the international sports-car circuit by packing powerful Ford V-8 engines into lightweight British roadsters, and...

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