Mopar is bringing in their new iconic Dodge Challenger muscle car to National Hot Road Assocation drag-racing competition. Mopar built the first two Challenger Drag Race Package Cars for development and testing for its new Challenger Package Car program. To accentuate the weight savings, they have also featured an added composite, polycarbonate and lightweight components and systems.

Mopar will build a minimum of 100 Challenger Drag Race Package Cars to meet the NHRA requirements. Basing on the production of the Dodge Challenger SRT8, Mopar’s modern factory-prepped Challenger Drag Race Package Car will begin as a special Body-in-White from Chrysler’s Brampton, Ontario, Canada, assembly plant.

To accentuate weight savings, the Package Car program includes: composite lift-off hood with functional scoop, Viper-style front seats, polycarbonate door windows, lightweight cooling module with electric fan, manual rack and pinion steering, special cable-operated deck lid release, special lightweight front brake assembly and special cable-operated throttle linkage and pedal assembly.

With the newest addition to the Mustang legacy, Ford Racing has introduced the 2009 Cobra Jet Mustang. The Mustang FR500CJ, also, known as the Cobra Jet was unveiled on Nov. 4 at the 2008 SEMA Show in Las Vegas. “The Cobra Jet is the newest offspring of the Ford Racing lineup of race cars,” said Jamie Allison, manager of the Ford Racing Performance Group. “We started with the FR500C in 2005 and then.

“All along the way, we worked with Brian Wolfe, who, at the time, was really in the calibration activity. He oversaw worldwide calibrations, and he was a big supporter of Ford Racing, both professionally and personally,” Allison said.

Continuing on, she mentioned, “He had always kind of asked us about our plans to do a drag race car and the time had just come early this year to, indeed, take all of the lessons we learned, all the processes, all of the relationships that we have inside with the plant and with the team and put together a sportsmen-destined drag race Mustang. Clearly, what we did in 1968 is the impetus for it, and we felt that it was time to bring back the Cobra Jet.”

The Chevrolet Camaro has been designed to highlight the capability of the new Camaro as the weekend warrior, the Camaro has been combined with a GM Performance Parts’ LS7 crate engine and targeted bolt-on upgrades to deliver the wheels-up spirit of the legendary COPO Camaros. The LS7 crate engine uses a high-tech camshaft from GM Performance parts to produce approximately 550 horsepower.

The Camaro LS7 concept is painted Victory Red, with matte black accents on the hood and tail lamp panel. It has been delivered as a fully automated, production version of the engine, complete from the intake manifold to oil pan. An oil reservoir has been set-up for the standard dry sump system and GM Performance Parts’ LS7 engine controller, with more than 500 lb, -ft of torque.

The Corvette 427 Limited Edition Z06 is manufactured by Chevrolet in a limited version.

The car contains a Crystal Red Tincoat exterior and graphics on the cover, front face and the 427 badge. It consists of a LS7 V8 engine with 7011 cc that delivers an output power of 505 bhp at 6300 rpm and 470 lb-ft torque at 4800 rpm. The interiors in the car are covered mostly with leather.

A total of 505 cars have been manufactured in this model and the cost of the car is about $84,195 with an optional navigation system that costs around $1,750.

Specifications

Vehicle Type: -Production car, two doors coupe
Configuration: – Front Engine/ RWD
Engine: – V8
Displacement: – 7011 cc
Mileage: – 16/26 mpg
Transmission: – 6-speed Manual
Torque: – 470 lb-ft @ 4800 rpm
Horsepower: – 505 bhp @ 6300 rpm
Max RPM: – 7000 rpm
Width: – 75.9 in
Length: – 175.6 in
Height: – 49.0 in
Weight: – 3162 lbs
Wheelbase: – 105.7 in
0-60 mph: – 3.7 sec
Top speed: – 198 mph
Price: – $84,195

Being one of the most ideal cars of this legendary Trans Am road racing series of the distinct blue-and-yellow Camaro of Mark Donuhue. With the help of GM’s High Performance Vehicle Operations, North Carolina-based Riley Technologies re-created the look and the homeliness with its contemporary car competitors.

It is the latest and earliest prototype for the Grand Am Koni Challenge GS racing class. All in all this racecar is the many hours spent on the racetrack as Riley team members worked to dial-in the chassis and power train.

The GS Racecar Concept is shown at SEMA is just as last driven off the track, with the grime, brake dust and body imperfections commensurate with a day’s work of racing. The car has been spent hundreds of hours in the body shop in order to perfect the sheet metal perfection. It has been displayed with bruises of competition and wears them as badges of honor.