This article was originally published on Josh Welton’s “Watch the Pretty Light” Kinja/Oppositelock blog on December 1, 2015, and was reposted on Jalopnik with over 30,000 views and lots of reader engagement. The Kinja/Oppositelock platform is now defunct. Josh Welton, December 1, 2015 The 2016 Viper ACR is mostly a burnt offering to the Gods … Read More
First thing’s first, Darla and I pointed the Durango SRT® towards Beale Street as soon as we hit Memphis on Friday. The day was young, a bit early yet for the street performers, grifters, live musicians and drunk tourists to flood the four blocks downtown between Front and 4th Street. We took advantage of the early afternoon … Read More
To paraphrase Englishman, Winston Churchill, the Dodge Durango SRT® 392 is a hot rod, wrapped in a luxury SUV, wrapped in an enigma. It’s a loaded question to ask exactly what it is, but it’s easy to tell you what it is not: an appliance. There are fascinating incongruities that eventually reveal themselves, but frivolous they are … Read More
The Bonneville Salt Flats, the Badlands, blizzards in the mountains and more awaited us on our return voyage! Vegas is OK for a couple of days, but the circus kind of wears on your soul before too long. Ironically enough, “Leaving Las Vegas” pumped from the Beats by Dre system as we headed northeast and … Read More
Now on to Vegas, baby, the halfway point of our 5,000-mile trek in the widebody Dodge Challenger SRT®Hellcat. We were there for the SEMA Show, one of the largest trade shows in the world. It’s a gearhead paradise, as anything with a motor and wheels (from drift cars to rock crawlers and literally everything in between) is … Read More
The United States of America is a magnificent chunk of land filled with natural wonders and populated by unique creatures. From the Atlantic coast to the Pacific Ocean, it’s all connected via rivers of asphalt, best navigated by marvelous mechanical devices of our own invention. The idea that so many of the organic beings we … Read More