It had been awhile since NHRA Funny Car driver Ron Capps had stood on the winners’ podium. Seventeen events, to be exact, stretching back to August 2013. Capps had driven his Mopar-powered Dodge Charger R/T to five Funny Car semifinal rounds this season but came up short every time. The drought ended Sunday, when Capps
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Cool cars lead to a hot job
On a warm week day in early June, the minds of middle and high school students tend to be fixed on the countdown to the start of summer vacation, not their future careers. But fill a school parking lot with more than two dozen brightly colored cars, trucks and concept vehicles and it plants seeds
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Texas man loves his Mopar cars
Texan Lance Green is a fan of two things — rock musician Tom Petty and Mopar. So, it’s no surprise that Green’s music player is loaded with Petty songs and his garage holds four Mopar cars. That stable includes a Mopar ’10 Dodge Challenger that won a Mopar Top Eliminator trophy in 2013 based on
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2015 Dodge Challenger SRT By The Numbers
A look under the hood of the 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT with its Supercharged 6.2-liter HEMI Hellcat V-8 engine. It’s easy to get transfixed by the big number for the new 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT — 600-plus horsepower coming from the new 6.2-liter Supercharged HEMI Hellcat V-8 engine. But SRT engineers and designers worked on
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Dodge and SRT: You complete me
Among the moves unveiled during the recent Investor Day program for Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, shifting the Street and Racing Technology (SRT) group into the Dodge brand perked up the ears of driving enthusiasts. The change means the Viper high-performance sports car returns to the brand where it was born in 1993. Also, throughout SRT’s history
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World Class Manufacturing focuses on people
Manufacturing plant team leaders work on the assembly line in the World Class Manufacturing Academy to refine tools and procedures. We know from years of experience that when the topic of discussion turns to manufacturing strategies, eyes will glaze over rapidly and in high volume. Which is a shame, really. Because building complex machines such
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Saturday is HEMI Day
Got plans for Saturday, April 26? Did you know that it’s HEMI Day? Huh? Yes, HEMI Day. April 26 – 4/26 when expressed in numbers – happens to match the cubic-inch displacement of the Generation II HEMI racing engine that debuted at the 1964 Daytona 500. So, not only is it HEMI Day, this year
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