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Took a quick road trip and went up to Daytona Beach to check out the upcoming ROLEX 24 race.  On the way back I decided to monitor the MPG during my return as I dont take many road-trips or commute far during the week.  The trip was right about 60 miles from Daytona Beach to Orlando, straight-shot with no tolls.  Before the start home I reset the MPG and once finished I averaged 49.3 MPG.  I noticed when the RPM exceeded 2k the MPG would start to suffer and decline.  When the RPM was right at or below 2k the MPG held steady and would slowly go up.  Enjoy the images.  For an added bonus you may notice the image of the all new Mazda6.  This is a pretty cool car which will be making it's debut at the 2013 ROLEX 24.  The Mazdaspeed6 features a clean diesel skyactiv engine with a turbo.  This race should be a lot of fun, as usual.

In a press release, GM has officially announced the 2013 Chevy Sonic RS suggested retail price.  The entry RS model will start as $20,995 with the manual transmission, and $22,280 for the automatic (1).  In the same press release GM announced the production is expected to begin sometime in October (1).  The new Sonic line will feature RS interior and RS body package.  The engine will come with a very small bump in power as well and added rear disk brakes.

Reference:
Chevrolet Website.  2012.  Chevrolet Sonic RS Priced From $20,995. Retrieved August 22, 2012 from: http://media.chevrolet.com/media/us/en/chevrolet/news.detail.html/content/Pages/news/us/en/2012/Aug/0822_sonic.html

Here is your latest chance to win an all new Chevy Sonic!  Hershey's, parent company of the Twizzlers brand is currently sponsoring the "Summer's Favorite Sidekick Contest" which features a grand prize of an all new 2013 Chevy Sonic and a bunch of Twizzlers (1).

For the contest page please visit this link for a complete list of rules and entry: http://www.hersheys.com/twizzlers/promotions/sidekick-summer/

Reference:  (1).  Hersheys Twizzler web page.  2012.  Summer Sidekick Contest.  Retrieved July 03, 2012 from: http://www.hersheys.com/twizzlers/promotions/sidekick-summer/

Watching the Chevy Sonic whip it up down in the Brazilian Stock Car racing series got us thinking about what an aggressive looking Sonic might look like here in an American racing circuit.  Obviously, we are seriously lacking in the funds department to build an actual race team so we went with the next best option, a photorealistic rendering.  For this project we contacted our trusted rendering artist, Mike Creighton of Rampant Renders.  Mike helped us in the past develop a wonderful street styled Sonic rendering.  For this project we asked Mike to design a Sonic geared toward the GRAND-AM series.

The Brazilian Stock Car series is using the sedan model Sonic for the body.  The Sonic sedan racer looks great, no arguments there but for this rendering we wanted to see how a Sonic hatchback would look.  The Sonic hatchback racecar features a number of styling options we are sure you will enjoy!  Be sure to look it over and discover all of the fine work.  Mike supplied us with a base rendering so one can really see all the details, and the second is a corporate car.  We hope you enjoy these Sonic racers and if any of you are interested in some renderings of your own, by all means contact Mike Creighton!


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2012 Chevy Sonic Racer Rendering, by Mike Creighton of Rampant Renders. www.rampantrenders.com