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Thinking about doing some wrangling in your Wrangler? Well, maybe you’d best just stick to the streets and leave the wrangling to capable 4×4s.

Read on, to see how close one phenomenally unlucky weekend warrior came to discovering an alternative way to drive stick.

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A recent Chrysler announcement has us pondering a HEMI-less future. In an interview with Automotive News, Chrysler co-president Jim Press stated that, “The HEMI is not the powertrain of the future”.

The future is never easy to predict but there are two issues that we know for certain will continue to change the face of the motor vehicle – the rising price of oil and the need to reduce green house emissions. In the U.S. and Europe there are of course the continually tightening fuel economy requirements of government to contend with as well, none of which bodes well for large capacity V8’s.
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Hennessey is not a company well known in Australia but their reputation in the States is well known by car enthusiasts. Hennessey specialise in taking factory performance cars from mild to wild with the development and fitting of purpose built tuning parts. They have waved their tuning wand over a number of America’s best known performance cars, including the recently released Dodge Viper SRT10 and Ford GT. They are not shy about dabbling with Euro exotica either with the Audi R8 being the latest Euro supercar to receive the Hennessey once over.
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Dodge have recently confirmed the manufacturing launch of their 2008 SRT10 Viper. As if the Viper wasn’t already crazy enough Dodge have equipped the 2008 SRT10 with an 8.4-litre 600-horsepower (450kW) V-10 engine, enough to see it accelerate from 0-60mph (96kmh) in less than 4 seconds and 0-100-0mph in the low 12-second range. Click through for the official video, image gallery and press release.
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