Filed under: Coupes, Sports/GTs, Chevrolet, Dodge, Ford, GM

Credit goes to our friends at Jalopnik for orchestrating the shot you see above, which took some quick planning and a lot of luck. General Motors recently held a sneak peak media drive for the Chevy Camaro V6 out in San Diego, and unfortunately only the biggest buff books and Edmunds Inside Line were invited (tsk, tsk). Jalopnik decided to crash the party the best way they know how - by showing up driving the Camaro’s two biggest competitors, the Ford Mustang and Dodge Challenger. Classic Jalopnik, and how they managed to find two black ones we’ll never know.

This is the first published picture of all three modern muscle cars together, at least that we know of. Jalopnik EIC Ray Wert and his team weathered an extremely miffed GM PR person to get it, and word is we’ll have video later of the heated exchange. What GM got miffed about is unknown, since last we checked San Diego had no laws against driving your car and parking it on public streets. Now if you’ll excuse us, we have to rummage through our junk folder to find the invitation to this event that we’re sure GM sent and we somehow never got.

[Source: Jalopnik]

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Filed under: Minivans/MPVs, Etc., Dodge, Canada

Click above for gallery of the Car Camel

You need something to carry a car, but you don’t want just any old pickup truck or SUV because anybody could do that. And since you do have that vintage Dodge Caravan lying around… why not grab the chainsaw and make something really special?

Allow us to officially introduce the Car Camel. Apparently plying the highways of Ontario, Canada, it’s a shortened minivan with a car hauler stuck to its backside. It ain’t pretty, and it probably ain’t too fast, but we have to admit that it is pretty neat… if you’re into that kind of thing. Have a look at the gallery of images below, but if any of you get the idea to make a Car Koala… please, don’t. Thanks for the tip, Zak!

UPDATE: Jackpot! Autoblog reader Paul H found the owner’s personal blog on which he explains how, and more importantly why, he built the Car Camel. Also check out more pics of the Car Camel, including it actually carrying a car, in the gallery below.

[Source: Photobucket]

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Filed under: Hybrid, Chrysler, Dodge

Click the Aspen Hybrid for a high-res gallery

This week Chrysler launched full scale production of the new Aspen and Dodge Durango hybrids at the Newark, DE assembly plant. The SUVs are Chrysler’s first production hybrid vehicles and they use the same Two-Mode hybrid system that’s installed in GM’s full-size SUVs. The plant began building pilot production vehicles earlier this year to iron out any production issues and hybrid Durangos and Aspens should start appearing at dealerships in the next few weeks. Chrysler isn’t indicating how many hybrids they plan to build but they have priced the SUVs very aggressively compared to the GM equivalents. The Chryslers are only available as four wheel drives and those are priced $8,000 below the four wheel drive GM models. The Durango has a sticker price of $45,340, including $800 for destination, while the Aspen runs $45,570. Check out our first drive of the 2009 Chrysler Aspen/Dodge Durango 2-Mode hybrids.

[Source: Chrysler]

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