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Most of Saleen sold to Michigan group

The future of specialty carmaker Saleen Inc. is getting a little clearer: Most of the company was sold to a Michigan group last week after being on the block since November. An entity called MJ Acquisitions, which owns parts and engine companies in Michigan, bought Saleen’s performance street-car program, supercharger and aftermarket business from Los Angeles private-investment firm Hancock Park Associates.

New Mercedes A45 AMG has 105 years of 4WD on its side

With the new Mercedes A45 AMG on the horizon – complete with 4WD – Mercedes chart the history of all wheel drive on their vehicles. We tend to think of 4WD road cars as a modern innovation, and certainly very few 4WD road cars hit the road in a mainstream way much before the 1980s (the Jensen FF was hardly mainstream before someone points out that was in the 1960s). But the history of 4WD goes back, certainly in the case of Mercedes, a surprising 105 years when Daimler built the Dernburg-Wagen, a 4WD vehicle that not only got all-wheel drive but all wheel steering too.

Hennessey HPE700 Twin Turbo Corvette to bow in Boca

If you saw the 455-hp Chevy Corvette Stingray and thought, “I’ll hang on to my money for something faster,” and then you saw the 625-hp Corvette Z06, and said, “It’s a little too wild-looking for me,” the Hennessey HPE700 Twin Turbo Corvette might be just right The Texas-based tuner will reveal its latest, surprisingly tasteful offering at the Boca Raton Hangar Party that kicks off the Boca Raton Concours on Feb. 21. Hennessey claims 707 hp at 6,400 rpm along with 661 lb-ft of pavement-shredding torque in this new modified ‘Vette.