New SRT-4! (maybe)
Dodge's new SRT-4 may not be out yet, but we actually got the chance to drive one-sort of. Dodge said that the Targa Newfoundland Rally-prepped Caliber we drove wasn't, in fact, the SRT-4. If this car isn't the next SRT-4, it sure seems like it. Powering this front-drive race-prepped Dodge is a lightly-modified 300hp, 2.4-liter turbocharged inline four. Surprisingly, we didn't notice gross amounts of torque steer. Of course, that may be due to the fact that this particular Caliber has a fully Mopar-tuned suspension and drivetrain. -Justin Kaehler
D 1/10
The good people at Groovy Drift commandeered part of the parking lot at the Super Autobacs in Stanton, CA for their recent drift event. While parking lot drift events are nothing new, the Groovy Drift dilly was actually an R/C car drift competition. We saw Mike Chung from GReddy getting his R/C fix at the event and we promised not to say anything so he wouldn't be outed as a dork. Ooops, sorry Mike. But truth be told, we were the only dorks at the show because we didn't have the chops to navigate the Groovy Drift course, much less drift it in the heat of a tandem battle. Check out www.groovydrift.com if you think you have the 1/10 Zen.
Ignition On
THQ invited us out to Hollywood to check out its latest game, Stuntman: Ignition, and in typical Super Street fashion, we arrived to the shindig way late. We missed the main presentation, but we did get to participate in some eight-car vehicular mayhem with Samuel Hubinette and go for a ride-along with stunt driver Russ Swift. The vehicles in Stuntman: Ignition all seem to be inspired by muscle cars, but that's okay. This game lets us launch Trans Am clones through buildings, and that is just all kinds of awesome. -JK
Say what?
It's been a year and [we're] still here... We've gone from the small, unknown, snotty, obnoxious startup rag to a huge, well-known, snotty obnoxious rag. And you've got no one but yourselves to thank, or blame, depending on your point of view."
Matt Pearson
("Holeshot: True to Form," Super Street, October 1997)
Street Smart
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