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Autoline After Hours with Sandy Munro, Munro & Associates

This week we’re back with another episode of Autoline After Hours as well as one our audience’s all-time favorite guests. You asked for it, and now you’ve got it: the irrepressible, always knowledgeable Sandy Munro of Munro & Associates. He’ll tell us about a new material he’s working with called “covitic aluminum,” which could be a major manufacturing breakthrough. We’ll also see how much info we can get out of him about the top secret work he’s doing for Chrysler. But, don’t worry, we’ll have plenty of the week’s news to talk about as well. In particular, we’ve got a bone to pick with Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, who just won’t call unintended acceleration what it really is: driver error. Plus, we’ll get into the huge number of automotive Super Bowl commercials seen on Sunday’s game. Did they hit the mark? John McElroy is joined in studio by Gary Vasilash of Automotive Design & Production as well as the Autoextremist, Peter De Lorenzo.

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Chevy’s New Hotness: ZL1 Camaro

The name ZL1 Camaro is one of the most reveried in the GM history books.  The COPO special was a hand assembled aluminum block 427, and only 69 were ever built.  It was in the day when horsepower ratings were done with a wink and a nod in conjunction with the NHRA to slot into different catagories in either Stock or Super Stock racing.

This time the ZL1 name is pulled out as a 550+ horsepower LSA engine is slotted under the hood.  The LSA engine is the same one that that powers the CTS-V series of cars, itself a slightly detuned version of the engine from the ZR1 Corvette.

This new ZL1 isn’t just designed for the drag strip, it is built to carve corners and tear up road courses.  It comes with larger tires, a much larger brakes, short throw shifter, magnetic ride shocks, and a new limited slip rear end.

Pricing was not announced but we’d guess that this Camaro will come close to, if not surpass $50,000.

 

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Autoline After Hours with with John Waraniak, SEMA

Tonight it’s “Home Sweet Home” as the After Hours crew returns to the studio for another outspoken edition of your favorite LIVE webcast. We’re joined by special guest John Waraniak, SEMA’s vice president of vehicle technology. We’ll be asking him if performance cars can survive the CAFE crunch. We’ll also get into the other news of the week including Ford’s plummeting profits, January sales figures and GM’s incentive pricing and what Dan Akerson has to do with it. John McElroy is joined in studio byFrank Markus of Motor Trend and Mr. Autoextremist, Peter De Lorenzo.

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Lamborghini Reventon Comes To Jay Leno’s Garage

With as big of a fan as Jay Leno is, we are a bit surprised that he doesn’t own a Reventon.  He owns other very low production supercars like the McLaren F1, but up to this point he has resisted.

Jay does his usual show, talking about the car, the history of the company, the lineage of the machine then takes it out for a drive.  We must say this car does make beautiful noises!

OK enough of that, go watch the video, after you get a paper towel to wipe up your drool!

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First Drive 2012 Ford Focus

We had the chance to head out to Los Angeles to drive the new 2012 Ford Focus in this hills and canyons of Malibu and the surrounding area.  Ford is looking to completely take over the c-segment section of the market from Honda, Toyota and others.  Chevy and Hyundai have new competitors in this market as well with the new Cruze and the Elantra which should keep everyone on their toes.

Have a look at our first impressions of the Focus and some pictures as well.  Provided the Snowmageden coming later in the week doesn’t postpone it, we shoud be getting a chance to drive the Elantra later in this week as well, should make for a nice back to back comparison.

 

 

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Autoline After Hours from Washington D.C.

In the final installment of our mobile AAH series, we go straight into the belly of the beast: Washington D.C. And, for this special edition John McElroy has gathered a group of newcomers and old friends alike. He’s joined by USA Today Columnist Jayne O’Donnell, Kimatni Rawlins from Automotive Rhythms and our pal from the Wall Street Journal, Columnist Joe White. We’ll be asking this trio about what’s been going on in the automotive world and get their unique Beltway perspective.

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Autoline Detroit LIVE At The Washington D.C. Auto Show

The Auto Show in the nations capital has become an important event in the last few years as automakers show off new products and new ideas in front of the law makers and lobiests who influence and make the rules and laws that effect the industry.

Some of the people who will be on the show today include:

MARK REUSS

President, North America

General Motors

 

SUE CISCHKE

Group VP, Sustainability, Environment & Safety Engineering

Ford Motor Co.

 

JONATHAN BROWNING

President & CEO

VW of America

 

There will be others as well.  There will be a chat room for the show as well.  The show kicks off at NOON EST, and will run till 2:30-3PM.

 

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Imola 200 Revival

Perhaps you’ve heard the stories about the legenday Imola 200.  It was a non-championship race for a few years that drew the elite of motorcycle road racing and saw a wide variety of of machinery from Grand Prix two strokes to big bore Superbikes of the day.

The Paul Smart replica Ducati, takes it’s cues from the bike in this race.  It was the first taste the Europeans would have of the man we call King Kenny, and the Spanish called “The Alien”

This past fall, many of the racers and their bikes were brought back to the track to have some fun, and let everyone remember what it was like “back in the day”.

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RoAb #68 – The ‘Not Your Father’s…’ Episode

This week peer inside the wonderful world of progress.  Behold fantastic innovations from the future.  This is definitely not your father’s episode of RoundAbout.  Find out what a certain septuagenarian converted his mobility scooter into.  Hint: it’s pretty hot.  Learn about one California city that’s taking advantage of advanced social-networking services to deter intoxicated motoring.  What kind of artistic masterpiece did one Michigan woman create out of dryer lint?  We’ll cover these burning issues plus many more.  And don’t miss out on the latter-half of the program when we sit down with Heather Heughens (that’s pronounced hyoo-ins) and Scott Vandekerckhove (you’re on your own with this one), both of Event Services International, to talk about Dodge’s Hemi Highway Tour, a 40-day, 8,000-mile trek across the United States.  Join us for all of this, and a whole lot more, on this week’s installment of RoundAbout, #68, the “Not Your Father’s . . .” episode.


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Toll HRT Shows Off 2011 Car

The Factory Holden team showed off it’s new car today with Garth Tander and their new driver, 2010 Australian V8 Champion James Courtney, who moves over from the Dick Johnson Jim Beam Ford team.

The first laps in the cars will be later in the week as the series has an official test secession at the Eastern Creek track.

After the jump you can see more pictures of the car, including two from the reveal.

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