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Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Yahoo
Stolen C7 Corvette Gets Battered By Arkansas Troopers
Read the full story on The Auto Wire By this point we don't know what to say to people like the guy driving this stolen C7 Corvette, trying to flee Arkansas troopers. Considering the reputation of Arkansas State Police, we would think by now everyone knows running from them can come with extreme this guy acts like he's in control after the sports car gets pitted out into a semi-truck and he's ordered at gunpoint to exit the vehicle as about a dozen cops surround him. It's almost like he just doesn't want to understand how bad of a decision he's made. The dashcam footage of this chase is quick and brutal. Troopers jump into the ongoing chase with West Memphis Police and put an end to the foolishness as the suspect pushes the Corvette down the highway at triple digits. At first, troopers try boxing the guy in and slowing him down. But this suspect drives extra aggressive, making it clear he'll wreck out troopers and himself just to try getting away. One might think he just has nerves of steel, but his behavior after the PIT helps us realize he's really just a stubborn idiot. When the second box-in attempt doesn't work, the trooper following behind takes advantage as the back end of the C7 Corvette breaks loose a little bit. He just PITs the Chevy out so hard it hits the semi-truck next to it, just glancing off the wheels instead of submarining under the trailer. Thankfully, the trooper already knows this guy won't go down without a fight, because he just keeps pushing the 'Vette sideways down the highway. You can tell the suspect is still trying to drive out of the PIT but the trooper keeps him moving in the wrong direction until it's over. How is it that people keep running from Arkansas troopers? Do they really think they're good enough to get away? Clearly this guy wasn't and he became a K9 chew toy as he refused to get out of the disabled sports car. Maybe that's a clue about what kinds of people test out ASP's skills. Image via Arkansas Chases/YouTube Join our Newsletter, subscribe to our YouTube page, and follow us on Facebook.
Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Yahoo
Stolen C7 Corvette Gets Battered By Arkansas Troopers
Read the full story on The Auto Wire By this point we don't know what to say to people like the guy driving this stolen C7 Corvette, trying to flee Arkansas troopers. Considering the reputation of Arkansas State Police, we would think by now everyone knows running from them can come with extreme this guy acts like he's in control after the sports car gets pitted out into a semi-truck and he's ordered at gunpoint to exit the vehicle as about a dozen cops surround him. It's almost like he just doesn't want to understand how bad of a decision he's made. The dashcam footage of this chase is quick and brutal. Troopers jump into the ongoing chase with West Memphis Police and put an end to the foolishness as the suspect pushes the Corvette down the highway at triple digits. At first, troopers try boxing the guy in and slowing him down. But this suspect drives extra aggressive, making it clear he'll wreck out troopers and himself just to try getting away. One might think he just has nerves of steel, but his behavior after the PIT helps us realize he's really just a stubborn idiot. When the second box-in attempt doesn't work, the trooper following behind takes advantage as the back end of the C7 Corvette breaks loose a little bit. He just PITs the Chevy out so hard it hits the semi-truck next to it, just glancing off the wheels instead of submarining under the trailer. Thankfully, the trooper already knows this guy won't go down without a fight, because he just keeps pushing the 'Vette sideways down the highway. You can tell the suspect is still trying to drive out of the PIT but the trooper keeps him moving in the wrong direction until it's over. How is it that people keep running from Arkansas troopers? Do they really think they're good enough to get away? Clearly this guy wasn't and he became a K9 chew toy as he refused to get out of the disabled sports car. Maybe that's a clue about what kinds of people test out ASP's skills. Image via Arkansas Chases/YouTube Join our Newsletter, subscribe to our YouTube page, and follow us on Facebook.
Yahoo
30-04-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
These Ford Mustang Concepts Are Dog Water
Read the full story on The Auto Wire We've seen several automotive publications express excitement over what quite frankly are dog water Ford Mustang concepts designed by international students. We get these kids probably have no idea what America's pony car is really all about, but the fact Ford then showcased these design concepts and will be building full-scale models of each is cause for held a design contest in collaboration with China's College for Creative Studies, which expanded to other countries like Germany, we guess to show off how cosmopolitan the Blue Oval has become. That's fine, but none of the three finalist designs are truly recognizable as the pony car so many love. The first is called the Mustang Mach-S Concept and it looks like the C7 Corvette and Porsche Panamera had a love child. There's absolutely nothing Mustang about its shooting brake shape, which is supposed to be more practical for road trips. It's not that the design is bad, it's that it doesn't fit with the Mustang aesthetic or philosophy at all. The Mustang Hyper Tandem Concept looks like those crazy Hot Wheels cars we played with as kids, only an automaker is touting this as a possibility now. Designed as more of an endurance racer, other than the taillights and badge, we couldn't peg this thing as a Mustang (which we could also say about the Mach-E). Why couldn't Ford launch a new model line like this? What's the point of slapping a pony badge on this thing? This feels cheap and disingenuous. We think people are becoming increasingly wary of this sort of thing as automakers seem more willing to rob the past to sell the half-baked modern vehicles. Then there's the Mustang Super Utility Concept, something which looks straight out of a gritty sci-fi movie like Blade Runner or maybe Robocop. It's apparently supposed to be an off-roader, which you could've fooled us with the low ride height. What we want to know is why Ford would make an off-road Mustang that looks like this melted candy bar on wheels when it has the Bronco lineup? We're not going to applaud this thing like the trained seals are doing, because it's objectively stupid and ugly. One would think after the whole Probe debacle, which was supposed to be the new Mustang, Ford would've learned its lesson. But more recently it applied the Mustang name to the Mach-E grocery getter, so we don't have a lot of faith these concepts won't foreshadow some weird vehicle that's nothing like the Mustang wearing its badge. Images via Ford Join our Newsletter, subscribe to our YouTube page, and follow us on Facebook.
