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1 week ago | 
grassrootsmotorsports.com | Colin Wood |Keith Tanner |Austin Cannon
By David S. Wallens Jun 13, 2025 | Ram | Never miss a review Trucks, like all vehicles, run on math. But Truck Math is special math. How’s that? Some possible examples: Payload vs. economy over MSRP. Towing capacity divided by selling price multiplied by seating capacity. Purchase price minus expected selling price divided by both number of USB plugs and gross vehicle weight–then factor in recharge times.
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3 weeks ago | 
grassrootsmotorsports.com | Colin Wood |Chris Tropea |David S. Wallens |Keith Tanner
By David S. Wallens Jun 3, 2025 | Jeep | Never miss a review My wife and I were bumping along one of the many dirt roads that cross the nearby Ocala Forest. Hey, this is kinda fun, we agreed. Just us and nature. "Do we want a Jeep?" My wife asked. My reply: Our old 2000 Subaru Impreza wagon could have handled all of this–and without the challenging entry and exit, lackluster highway manners and, finally, the $73,095 price tag.
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1 month ago | 
grassrootsmotorsports.com | Chris Tropea |Tom Suddard |David S. Wallens |Keith Tanner
Eating quick, cheap food for a week straight doesn’t do your digestive system any favors. Call it an unexpected impact of competing in the Tire Rack One Lap of America Presented by Grassroots Motorsports. Despite that, our One Lap team, Tom Suddard and Andy Hollis, carry on the good fight from behind the wheel of their Hyundai Ioniq 5 N. For Day 6, participants had not one but two venues of competition: hot laps at Pitt Race followed by a drag racing session at Quaker City Motorsports Park.
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1 month ago | 
grassrootsmotorsports.com | No Time |J.A. Ackley |Keith Tanner
By J.A. Ackley May 7, 2025 | Chevrolet, Corvette, Chevrolet Corvette Photography courtesy Chevrolet This might be the rare case where fewer buttons and one more screen might be a good thing. Hear me out on the refreshed interior for the 2026 Corvette. If you’re spiritedly driving a sports car around, you don’t want to be fumbling for climate controls. The 2025 edition had a comical number of buttons for that.
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1 month ago | 
grassrootsmotorsports.com | Keith Tanner |JG Pasterjak
Update by J.G. Pasterjak to the BMW 435i project car May 2, 2025 | BMW, Powerflex, BMW 435i Photography by J.G. Pasterjak “This is not surprising,” notes BimmerWorld’s James Clay while looking at the cracked and worn bushings.
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1 month ago | 
grassrootsmotorsports.com | David S. Wallens |Colin Wood |Andy Hollis |Keith Tanner
SOUTH BEND, Ind., April 30, 2025 –Hyundai Motor America announced today that it is partnering with Grassroots Motorsports magazine to compete in the 2025 Tire Rack One Lap of America presented by Grassroots Motorsports. Hyundai Motor America has also been named Official Automaker of the 41st running of this fabled annual motorsports gauntlet, which will see teams competing in a series of racetrack challenges around the U.S. from May 3-10, 2025.
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2 months ago | 
grassrootsmotorsports.com | Colin Wood |Keith Tanner
Normally, when “investment firm” and “race track” appear in the same sentence, it’s because another venue is getting leveled in favor of a housing development or a strip mall or wherever else the cool kids hang out these days. So consider us worried when news broke that CrossHarbor Capital Partners, an investment firm, had acquired the iconic Willow Springs International Raceway.
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2 months ago | 
grassrootsmotorsports.com | Paris Van Gorder |Keith Tanner
By Paris Van Gorder Apr 2, 2025 | $2000 Challenge | Posted in Features | Never miss an article “I don’t think I had done an oil change when I started this build,” admits Derek Penner, builder of this unlikely mashup between a Volkswagen Beetle and a Mazda Miata.
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Mar 17, 2025 | 
grassrootsmotorsports.com | JG Pasterjak |Keith Tanner
Update by J.G. Pasterjak to the BMW 435i project car Mar 17, 2025 | BMW, BMW 435i Photography by J.G. Pasterjak For a car that usually operates at 12-15 psi of turbo boost, 0-3 psi wasn’t doing our BMW 435i any favors on track. One good thing about a large, catastrophic boost leak like this: It should be fairly easy to locate. [What’s causing our BMW 435i’s boost problems?]A few other assumptions would also guide our search.
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Jan 28, 2025 | 
grassrootsmotorsports.com | Keith Tanner |JG Pasterjak
Update by J.G. Pasterjak to the BMW 435i project car Jan 28, 2025 | BMW, BimmerWorld, BMW 435i Photography Credit: Tradd Slayton/Racing for ALS During the second week of January, we passed the one-year mark wince we brought home our 2015 BMW 435i project car. And while we’ve detailed the performance modifications we’ve done, we haven’t talked that much about the more mundane tasks of simply maintaining the car for daily use.
