| December 29, 2003 |
BFGoodrich Tires Key To Victory in 2004 Paris-Dakar Rally
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BFGoodrich® Tires is pursuing its 3rd straight victory in the Paris-Dakar rally, one of the most challenging rally races in the world. Baja 1000 Trophy-Truck champion and 2004 Paris-Dakar driver Mark Miller discusses the approaching race....  |
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| October 10, 2003 |
Gone in 9.75 Seconds |
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| You're more likely to see Ali Afshar as an actor on your TV screen than you are to catch him at the drag strip. That's because his drag strip performances in his Subaru WRX are brief — recently under 10 seconds — while his frequent TV and movie screen appearances under his stage name Alex Dodd are of considerably more duration.... |
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| October 10, 2003 |
How to Avoid Getting Stuck in Your Truck |
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| Ever worry about getting your pickup stuck on the way to your favorite back-country campsite or fishing hole? Or wondered how the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management guys know how to drive and survive over rugged, sometimes desolate terrain far from the nearest paved road?... |
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| October 10, 2003 |
The 6 Best Mods You Can Make to Your Truck |
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| Chris Robinson has been winning off-road races for over two decades -- as a mechanic, a driver, a builder and parts supplier. He drove and crewed for a number of top off-road racing teams before hanging up his helmet to build his business, California SuperTrucks (CST), located in Riverside, into one of the foremost suppliers of off-road high performance suspension kits: CST suspension.... |
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| September 22, 2003 |
Catching Their Drift |
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| Known as X and XL (for Extra Large) Fumiaku Komatsu and Kazuya "Chunky" Bai are stars in the fast-growing motor sport called drifting. Komatsu and Bai drive the Drift Twins -- matched Nissan 180SX's with Silvia S15 front bodywork -- in tandem routines of smoking slides, controlled drifts and snap spins in formation at speed.... |
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| September 22, 2003 |
BFGoodrich® g-Force T/A®KD Tires Win 2003 "Car and Driver" Shootout |
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| On the cover of the August issue of Car and Driver is a yellow Comptech Honda S2000 -- overall winner of the magazine's 2003 shootout for modified production cars. Make that 16 sweet sport compacts from some of the leading tuner shops. The competition is a continuous one-lap run on a special configuration of California Speedway in Fontana.... |
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| September 22, 2003 |
We're Ready for Our Close-up |
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| California car builder and stunt man Eddie Paul is fast becoming famous as builder of the cars in "XXX" and "The Fast And The Furious" films, both of which have been huge successes, and other Hollywood productions featuring fast, great-looking cars. Besides the latest film credits, Eddie is a bestselling author. His book "Cars of The Fast And The Furious" (Motorbooks/Universal) sold out a first edition of 19,000 copies in three weeks. It's already gone into its fifth printing and Eddie has a second book on the way.... |
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| September 22, 2003 |
Nissan Armada Latest Premium SUV on BFGoodrich® Tires |
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| The Armada is Nissan's entry into the full-size SUV market, a ruggedly elegant 8-passenger, V8-powered sport family hauler. Sharing the boxed frame and V8 with the full-size Titan pickup, the Armada completes Nissan's SUV lineup. With three-row seating, the Armada is unquestionably a family vehicle.... |
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| September 22, 2003 |
Flight of the Rumble Bee |
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| The Dodge Rumble Bee is an ultra pickup with a supercharged, intercooled Hemi V8 powering a short bed, standard cab Dodge Ram. It's a concept vehicle from the southern California shop of Larry Weiner, designed on commission for DaimlerChrysler. The theme of the Rumble Bee is the heavy-breathing excitement of late '60s muscle cars, particularly the '69 Dodge Super Bee Hemi. It's set to debut at the 2003 SEMA show.... |
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| September 22, 2003 |
"Tiny" is the Biggest News in Rock Crawling |
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| Rock Crawling is a rapidly evolving sport. Only a short time ago, the Karnivore, a radical V8, front-engine/four-wheel drive crawling machine, led the field. Now the Karnivore, with its street-sedan weight and massive construction, has been upstaged by another radical vehicle called Tiny.... |
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| June 25, 2003 |
Leading SUV Makers Choose BFGoodrich® Tires |
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| Original equipment tires must meet stringent standards for quality, traction, long tread life, ride comfort and other important characteristics. Which is why more and more SUV makers are selecting BFGoodrich® tires as original equipment on their pickups and SUVs.... |
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| June 25, 2003 |
Plus Sizing Made Easy |
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| First, the good news: BFGoodrich® Tires offers a range of g-Force T/A®KDW plus-size tire packages specifically designed to enable you to bolt on larger diameter wheels to most late model pickups and SUVs without fender well clearance problems or throwing off your speedometer by more than a few percent.... |
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| June 25, 2003 |
Turn Your Truck Into A Baja 1000 Champion |
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| Ever wonder what the difference is between your truck and a Baja 1000-winning Trophy Truck? The Enduro Racing Team's F-150 Trophy Truck driven by Dave Ashley & Dan Smith has won the big race in Baja overall two of the last three years, extending BFGoodrich Tires' winning streak in the fabled off-road event to 17 straight years.... |
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| June 25, 2003 |
Anatomy Of A Karnivore |
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| John Gilleland's Karnivore can do all kinds of things with rocks that no automobile was ever expected to do. Like navigate over head-high boulders, climb sideways at impossible angles, and trek up near-vertical slopes. After competing successfully in more conventional vehicles, Gilleland went to Avalanche Engineering to work out the design for a radical new rock crawler.... |
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| June 18, 2003 |
"The World's Quickest Street Supras" |
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| Last year, the Titan Motorsports Toyota Supra dominated the NHRA Summit™ Sport Compact Drag Racing Series on BFGoodrich® Drag Radials, setting new import Street Tire records for E.T. (9.002) and MPH and demolishing the previous record by more than 1.3 seconds -- an eternity in the millisecond world of drag racing.... |
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| June 18, 2003 |
7-Second E.T.'s on Street Radials! |
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| Dwayne "Big Daddy" Gutridge can do a trick in his drag racing Mustang that thrills fans. His black 1989 Mustang LX puts the power down — all 986 horses at the rear wheels — so efficiently that he can get all four wheels off the pavement — running momentarily on the rear bumper. But there's nothing tricky about his quarter mile times. His best so far is an 8.47 sec at 167.20 MPH at Englishtown that makes his car the fastest Mustang on street radials in drag racing. The car is street legal, too. And Gutridge likes the BFGoodrich® T/A® Drag Radials so much that he wouldn't run slicks even if the class allowed them. ... |
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| June 18, 2003 |
BFGoodrich® Tires help 2004 Grand Prix Win "Best-Handling Sport Sedan" Title |
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| Remember the excitement of the GTO? The 2004 Pontiac Grand Prix GT keeps the Pontiac tradition alive with letter designations signifying special performance capability, in four stages of excitement: Grand Prix GT1, GT2, GTP — and GTP with Competition Group Package. Known as Comp G for short, that's the hot setup that enabled Pontiac to claim title to best handling sport sedan in its class. One that comes exclusively on BFGoodrich® Comp T/A tires.... |
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| May 16, 2003 |
The Hot New Mustang Is In Our Stable |
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| The 2005 Concept Mustang GT, which has lit up the 2003 auto show circuit and countless magazine covers is an enthusiast's dream Mustang. The design deliberately evokes the original Mustangs that started the whole "pony car" thing back in the mid '60s, but in a stunningly modern way.... |
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| May 16, 2003 |
Put Your Mind At Ease About SUV Tires |
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| SUV tires have been the subject of some alarming news reports over the past few years. With BFGoodrich® Tires you can drive with confidence. Longtime product engineer Ed Dunlap sheds some reassuring light on an important topic.... |
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| May 16, 2003 |
5 Steps To Turn Your Stock Truck Into A Sport Truck |
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| Californian Dean Sears could write a book about turning a stock pickup into a sport truck. But instead of that, here's what the master behind "SporTrucks by Dean" says are the five basic steps you can do for under 3 large.... |
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| May 16, 2003 |
5 Steps To Turn Your Stock Truck Into A Sport Truck |
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| Californian Dean Sears could write a book about turning a stock pickup into a sport truck. But instead of that, here's what the master behind "SporTrucks by Dean" says are the five basic steps you can do for under 3 large.... |
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| May 8, 2003 |
Making History On Four Wheels |
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| Seven-time Supercross motorcycle champ Jeremy McGrath is the proud owner of a champion hot rod - a '33 roadster that won the 2003 Oakland Rod, Custom & Motorcycle Show, the biggest event on the hot-rod show circuit. Jeremy's gleaming silver '33 hi-boy was built by Dominator Street Rods in Brentwood, California. It's powered by a stout V8 and rides on BFGoodrich® g-Force T/A® KDW tires on Colorado Custom Wheels, 17s in front, 20s in back.... |
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| May 8, 2003 |
Streaking Across The Desert |
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| Last fall, BFGoodrich® tires racked up their unprecedented 17th straight overall victory in the SCORE Baja 1000, on Dan Smith and David Ashley's race truck. In January, BFGoodrich tires scored a fourth straight win in the Paris-Dakar Rally, where Hiroshi Masuoka and Andreas Schulz drove to victory. Between the Baja 1000 and Paris-Dakar, BFGoodrich tires dominate the longest, most-grueling off-road races in the world.... |
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