Ken Block's videos showing him tearing through various settings in his rally cars are awesome but you know what is even awesomer?  Watching Travis Pastrana put the new Dodge Dart Rally Car through similar paces for the first time courtesy of the short video below. 

Since the new Dodge Dart rally program featuring championship rally driver Travis Pastrana was introduced last week, we didn't know exactly what the new Dart rally car would look like (or sound like) but thanks to the first video of Pastrana and his 600 horsepower all wheel drive Dart rally car in action--we know more about the new SRT Motorsports race program.

Today in New York, the Chrysler Group introduced the 2013 Ram 1500. It receives a handful of subtle exterior changes--but the most exciting news has to do with all the bits you can't see. There's a new V6 engine, an adjustable air suspension system, more horsepower from the Hemi and an 8-speed transmission for both engines. Hit the jump for all the details. 

The 2013 SRT Viper debuted this morning at the New York Auto Show, marking the return of the awesome American supercar after a three-year hiatus. The reveal was no secret, but after SRT CEO Ralph Gilles he announced the Viper's two trim lines, he dropped a big surprise: The Viper GTS-R will join this year's ALMS grid. Hit the jump for all the details.

This past weekend marked the 6^th event for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and the 2^nd event of the year for the Camping World Truck Series and while Team Dodge had a strong finish in the Sunday race - things didn't go quite so well for the Ram Trucks running on Saturday.

The Ram Truck managed to field 4 of the 36 starting position for Saturday's Kroger 250 Camping World Truck Series as the pickups made the second stop of the year - the first since Daytona Speedweeks.  The Ram brand was represented by Parker Kilgerman in the #29 Cooper Standard entry, Clay Greenfield in the #168 self-sponsored Ram, Dusty Davis in the #15 truck and Jennifer Jo Cobb in the #8 Driven2Honor.org race Ram.

Starting this past weekend, the Ram Truck brand began teasing the new truck coming to the 2012 New York International Auto Show, issuing four images of the vehicle described simply by the phrase "A Giant Awaits".  Ram issued four tightly cropped images of this new Ram pickup but these pictures (shown above) don't give us any idea as to what the Ram Truck brand might have to unveil this Thursday in the Big Apple.

Starting from the left, the first picture is pretty clearly a close up of the grille and brand logo, clad in lots of chrome.  The third teaser image from the left is obviously a badging - most likely the emblem found on the tailgate.  The second and fourth images are the tricky ones with the second image showing what looks to be a knob while the fourth and final (so far) image - it is hard to tell just what this one might be.