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Banks and Ryan ready for Pikes Peak

Gale Banks, part-time stunt driver Mike Ryan and the diesel wizards from Gale Banks Engineering will return to Pikes Peak this year with the Freightliner Cascadia that finished ninth in 2012. Competing in the Pikes Peak Open class, the team has been furiously working on the truck at the Banks Performance home base in Azusa, Calif. To get the semi tractor up the 12.4 mile road, Banks is installing its Super-Turbo setup on the 14.7-liter, Detroit Diesel-equipped truck.

Jaguar XF to get 2.2 Diesel: Did Jaguar tell us Porkies?!

The Jaguar XF 2.2 Diesel Spy Photo Back in April – and not for the first time – rumours began to circulate that Jaguar were planning on dropping the 2.2 litre diesel used in the Freelander in to the Jaguar XF. Which did make sense. And the source for the rumour this time round was Top Gear, who we’d expect to have pretty sound sources before they spout speculation.

SSC Ultimate Aero II: More stuff

SSC Ultimate Aero II It’s a completely different ethos to the Bugatti Veyron, but the Shelby Supercars Ultimate Aero has been a thorn in the side of Volkswagen’s ultimate statement almost from the beginning. Not a technical tour de force in the way the Veyron is, the SSC is, nevertheless, an astonishing car. And it’s about to get more astonishing as the SSC Ultimate Aero II draws closer.