Have you had your fill of pumpkin-flavored whatever yet? Nope? Good, because there’s still at least another month of everything under the sun flavored like a jack-o’lantern before the Annual Turkey Coma, “Beat-Other-Shoppers-Senseless” day, and then the Month of Mint leading up to the night a fat burglar in a red coat breaks into your house and dumps stuff into your living room. The flavors might not vary that much until the beginning of next year, but every week we bring you a new flavor that is primarily composed of the week’s leftover clippings. We roast it until it’s tolerable and serve it with a side of hot sauce, just to make sure you don’t taste the bad parts. This is Scrapple…eat up!
1. Tasty bite: Meet the Ford F-150 MRT in all of it’s hot rodded, six-speed packing glory
With SEMA rapidly approaching, the concept vehicles that will be in attendance are being unveiled quickly. Most are simply appearance packages, but the F-150 by MRT is our kind of rig. Starting with a 3.5L turbo V6 model, MRT swapped in a Tremec six-speed manual transmission, something that Ford certainly does not offer anymore! Dropped and appropriately prettied up, the F-150 has been tuned by SCT to be something interesting. Here’s hoping they tore off the speed limiter!
2. Back to the basics, Toyota!
The DeLorean wasn’t the only vehicle being celebrated on the day Doc and Marty were supposed to make a surprise entrance. Toyota built up a 2016 Tacoma to look like the 1985 Toyota 4×4 that Marty winds up driving at the end of Back To The Future, Part II. Toyota…BUILD THIS. LOTS OF THIS.
3. Turkey SAAB, anyone?
National Electric Vehicle Sweden, who currently owns the crumpled ball of metal formerly known as SAAB, sold the rights and intellectual property surrounding the 9-3 sedan to Turkey, specifically Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBITAK), who will complete a minor refresh of the nose and tail and sell it as Turkey’s national car. We wish them the best of luck with the project, because it seems that SAAB is a curse for any company that tries to keep the name afloat.
4. Tesla’s Autopilot semi-autonomous system may be out, but it ain’t perfect. Check out the first speeding ticket written for one!
Drag Times managed to get pinged in Florida for speeding while using Autopilot. Whoops!
5. The pizza will be hot and fresh, but you’ll still look like a Noid driving it
Meet the Domino’s DXP. No, that’s not a misprint in the least. This severely re-worked Chevrolet Spark is the result of crowdsource designing hosted by Local Motors meant to create the perfect pizza delivery vehicle and a partnership between General Motors, Roush and Domino’s to bring the DXP (Delivery Expert) to life. The party trick is a warming oven built into the back half of the car that is accessible from the outside, though Domino’s is claiming that 80 pizzas will fit inside one DXP. We’d pay good money to see that stunt take place. The first 100 DXPs are rolling out in select cities across the country, including Dallas, San Diego, Indianapolis, and Boston. Maybe Lohnes can do a road test of one?
TUBITAK – that’s easy for you to say!
Turkey’s national car – does that mean it will screech to a halt every time it sees comely young boys and take its driver to a particularly foul prison cell every time he lights up a sweet smelling cigarette..
If Domino’s doesn’t have chicken fingers, Brian’s not interested BMT.
They have chicken wings…that should help.
The Toyota truck looks good! They should build them!
I’ve seen something like the DXP concept before. It just needs a battery pack with enough potential energy to fire a pound of bacon into the asteroid belt and tires with contact patches as big as a fat lady’s thighs.