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DECATUR, Ind. -Lingenfelter Performance Engineering (LPE) is pleased to announce the Lingenfelter 2009 C6 Corvette ZR1 recently made three 9 second runs, hitting a best of 9.813 quarter-mile at 145.74 mph at the Maryland International Raceway, Budds Creek, Md.

Another Ford video of the 2011 Mustang GT 5.0 V8 was released on YouTube. This time on the dyno. Listening to the audio, you can definitely tell the new 5.0 has more power than the current 4.6 V8.

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A new video was released on YouTube of the new 2011 Mustang GT 5.0 liter V8 in action. You’ll see it driving around the roads of Michigan. In the video you can hear the awesome purr of the new 5.0 liter as well as how the new car handles.
And yes, the 5.0 is back! The 2011 Ford Mustang GT arrives with an all-new advanced 5.0-liter V-8 engine, developed by a passionate cadre of enthusiastic engineers who rallied around the common goal of delivering more than 400 horsepower.

The modern 5.0-liter four-valve Twin Independent Variable Camshaft Timing (Ti-VCT) V-8 engine in the new Mustang GT will deliver 412 horsepower and 390 ft.-lb. of torque. At the same time, fuel economy is projected to be better than the previous model and unsurpassed in the segment.

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Dodge pulled the cover off the newest special-edition model of the 2010 Viper SRT10 lineup. The Dodge Viper SRT10 ACR-X is a turn-key, non-street legal race car that is slated to make its on-track debut in the summer of 2010.

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Motor Trend’s compares nearly every combination of modern American muscle cars on the market. Now it’s time for the ultimate showdown – Hennessey’s Camaro HPE650 vs Shelby’s GT500 Super Snake vs SpeedFactory’s Challenger SRT8. They head to the dyno, the test track, and the racetrack to determine which of these will win the battle.

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Here is a video with the biggest thrills and spills from the 2009 season of the NMCA Edelbrock Muscle Car Nationals. Originally shown at the Awards Ceremony @ PRI.

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“Four passionate gamers who have burned rubber on the race track through their video game consoles have brought their racing dreams to life at an actual speedway for the eighth installment of the Mustang 10 Unleashed campaign.

Ford called upon the gaming community and staged a tournament with the best Need for Speed™ players and determined four gamers that would face the ultimate challenge: racing a real 2010 Ford Mustang. The selected gamers competed against each other in the critically-acclaimed Need for Speed SHIFT™, which includes the new 2010 Ford Mustang.

With the help of driving teachers from Fast Lane Racing School, the gamers had the opportunity to learn the in and outs of the actual sport of racing. The whole point of the Mustang Unleashed Campaign is to intersect the passions of our life-long Mustang lovers with their most creative, wildest, most impossible dreams, said Steve Ling, car group marketing manager for Ford Motor Company.