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Zac Palmer

Reporter · US

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Sep 29, 2026
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  1. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Zac Palmer

    Tested: The 2026 Ford Mustang Dark Horse SC Moves the Game On (opens the original)

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    The Ford Mustang Dark Horse SC is almost painfully loud. I instinctively covered my ears as somebody banged off the 7500-rpm limiter performing a burnout before lining up to run yet another sub-11-second pass down Sonoma Raceway’s drag strip. Engineers tell me that they decided it needed to be even louder than the already-ear-shattering previous-generation Shelby GT500. The exhaust is a perfect metaphor for almost every facet of the Dark Horse SC. In every area Ford thought the Shelby could have

  2. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Zac Palmer

    The McLaren W1’s Ground-Effect Aero Design Will Blow Your Mind (opens the original)

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    When you examine the McLaren W1 from a numbers perspective, it doesn’t really look like it’s pushing any special hypercar boundaries. It has plenty of horsepower (1258 hp) from a fancy hybrid powertrain, is super-lightweight (3084 pounds), and has the “1” suffix to denote it as the top-dog McLaren of current times. But for the most part, what makes this hypercar special is what you don’t see, and it all lies in the wizardry world of aerodynamics. The W1 is a ground-effect car. Not in the sense t

  3. Article · Sep 24, 2026 · Zac Palmer

    GM’s Huge 8.3-Liter ‘Mongoose’ Diesel for Chevy and GMC’s HD Trucks Cranks Out 1230 LB-FT of Torque (opens the original)

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    The 2027 Chevrolet Silverado HD and GMC Sierra HD trucks may look the same as the last model year, but they sure won’t drive the same as before. On Thursday, General Motors revealed a clean-sheet, in-house-designed 8.3-liter Duramax turbodiesel V-8 and both an electric power steering system and electronic brake-boost system for its Heavy Duty pickups. Starting with the Mongoose, which is how GM refers to the enormous diesel engine—well, the sheer size of it is simply mind-boggling. Both the Ram

  4. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Zac Palmer

    Honda Reportedly Fast-Tracks Next-Gen CR-V, More Hybrids After Killing EVs (opens the original)

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    Honda took the axe to its whole EV operation earlier this year, leaving it with a few holes in its lineup. Now, it could be fast-tracking the development and launch of next-generation hybrid vehicles, starting with the CR-V. As reported by Nikkei, Honda is moving up the launch and production of its next-gen CR-V to February 2027. The current model isn’t especially old, considering it went on sale in late 2022 as a 2023 model year vehicle. That said, it’s Honda’s most popular vehicle here in the

  5. Article · Sep 17, 2026 · Zac Palmer

    Deep Dive: GM’s New 6.6-Liter Small Block V-8 Has the Power, Promises the Reliability (opens the original)

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    The new 2027 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 and GMC Sierra 1500 have a host of updated engines to go with the new generation, but none of them are more exciting than the 6.6-liter Gen 6 small block V-8. We had a feeling a bigger V-8 was coming, given the C8 Corvette is now rocking its own version of the Gen 6 small block—this being the 6.7-liter LS6. In case you were wondering why the Corvette has a 6.7 and the trucks have a 6.6, it’s because GM wanted the Corvette to have bragging rights in the Gen 6

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