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Lochmandy Motors is proud to be a part of the Michiana community since 1954. They launched with the founding of Lochmandy Buick, by Michael Lochmandy, in 1954.

Their current site was built in 1995 and is home of one of the biggest brand-new car dealerships in Elkhart county.

Lochmandy Motors has a team of over one hundred individuals and sell over 1500 vehicles a year.

Lochmandy Motors was started on the principle of a "Tradition of Caring". This is the approach of treating the customer as you would wish to be dealt with.

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2016 Ferrari 488 Spider: The 661-hp 488GTB Dons a Folding Roof

The least-interesting thing we can say about Ferrari’s new 488 Spider is that it’s little more than a 488GTB with a retractable hardtop

Nor is the alfresco Ferrari much of a surprise—we’d be more shocked if Ferrari had announced the 488GTB would stay a fixed-roof coupe only. Everything else about the 488 Spider (no GTB in its name), however, is supremely interesting and exciting.

Boring, of course, is a difficult achievement for any lithe, lightweight Italian supercar motivated by a 661-hp, twin-turbocharged, mid-mounted V-8 engine. Slathering an extra layer of wow over the 488GTB’s already wow-inducing aura is the 488 Spider’s retractable roof, which grants access to that wailing exhaust note and the sun, stars, and wind.

Each trip up and down takes the 488’s roof 14 seconds, and the compact assembly pancakes into a shallow nacelle behind the seats. According to Ferrari, the retractable hardtop weighs 55 pounds less than an equivalent soft top, although there’s no word on whether said soft top was soaked in water or maple syrup before the numbers were crunched on that weight comparison.

A small glass rear window operates independently of the top and can be lowered to three separate positions to either let more exhaust sound in with the top up or, more usefully, to act as a wind blocker with the top down. The speedster-style rear-deck humps behind each passenger’s headrest bring some much-needed flair to the 488GTB coupe’s toned-down surfacing (relative to the old 458 Italia), making the Spider pleasantly more dramatic in appearance. As with the 458 Spider and 458 Italia, the 488GTB’s transformation into the 488 Spider isn’t expected to carry much of a weight penalty. Which means the Spider should be able to maintain the GTB’s epic performance envelope.

We’re told to expect the 488 Spider to appear next summer after making its auto-show debut this fall in Frankfurt; the price tag will be in the neighborhood of $275,000, roughly $30,000 dearer than the 488GTB’s base figure but slightly below that of the McLaren 650S Spider.

700-HP Blade Is The World’s First 3D-Printed Supercar

Plenty of auto manufacturers are making various attempts to make their cars greener and better for the environment. Hybrids, electric vehicles, and biofuel are just a few current advancements that are making ripples in ending dependence on fossil fuels. Now, showcased by the phenomenally light and quick 3D-printed Blade supercar,Divergent Microfactories, wants to not only make a splash, it wants to create a game-changing tidal wave.

Billed as the world’s first 3D-printed supercar, the Blade is currently showing off in San Francisco at the Solid Convention. It’s a gathering to display disruptive new products and technologies birthed from mixing ideas and services from the worlds of software, hardware, and data. The Blade is Divergent Microfactories’ contribution. Let’s look at its makeup and specs before explaining DM’s ultimate goal.

The Blade is built with a completely new type of tech. The chassis is made of modular 3D-printed metal alloy pieces called nodes. They are connected with carbon fiber tubes to create a super lightweight frame that DM claims could be built in 30 minutes. It’s kind of like K’Nex for adults. In the video below, it even shows the circus trick of carrying the full arrangement of nodes in a backpack. The total weight of the chassis is only 102 pounds (61 from the nodes, 41 from the carbon fiber). The total weight of the Blade is 1,388 pounds. For a quick bit of reference, the Ariel Atom weighs 1,350, and a Bugatti Veyron weighs more than 4,000.

If we’re to believe DM, the Blade is powered by a 700-horsepower turbocharged engine that runs on compressed natural gas or regular gasoline. DM claims it’ll go 0-60 in “about two seconds.” An Atom 3 (which has 230 bhp) goes 0-60 in 2.9 seconds, and a Veyron Super Sport (which has 1,200 hp) goes 0-62 in 2.5. All very different machines with different approaches.

So what’s the point? Why haven’t I mentioned any MPG figures or alternative fuel options? Well, DM wants to cut the emissions from a different angle by completely changing the process of car manufacturing. CEO Kevin Czinger points out that 80-90 percent of environmental damage comes from the manufacturing process.

“Our focus is to radically reduce the materials, energy use, pollution and cost of car manufacturing, and to put new tools of production and innovation into the hands of small teams around the world,” DM says in a release. “To achieve this, we will provide the necessary tools for people to set up a microfactory, and the technologies to allow them to build vehicles. We will also sell a limited number of high performance vehicles that will be manufactured in our own microfactory.”

That means DM doesn’t simply want to produce cars, it also wants its technology and approach to spread to other products and services, as well. As for the Blade, though, DM is thinking it could build about 10,000 annually. By building them in smaller factories that require less machinery and less energy, consumption and pollution would, as a result, go down.

Link to original source article - https://www.yahoo.com/autos/700-hp-blade-is-the-worlds-first-3d-printed-122429370682.html

This Will Be Awared To One Lucky Winner

Long before the Hellcat moniker adorned the Dodge Challenger or Charger, it found itself attached to a plane, flying high over the Pacific Ocean. That aircraft was the storied Grumman F6F Hellcat, and it gave United States airmen in World War II a fighting edge against swift Japanese Zero fighters. 

While its fighting ability may be decades old by today’s standards, its legend is still very much alive, and today it forms the inspiration between this hulking muscle car brute–the sinisterly named Challenger Hellcat X.

It’s simply a beast. The Dodge retains its supercharged 6.2-liter Hemi V8 but now complements it with Hellion twin turbochargers to generate a massive 805 horsepower of grunt. And best of all, it’s free. The Hellcat X was created by the 2015 Dream Giveaway sweepstakes and will be awarded to one lucky grand prize winner.

The outrageous power figures don’t end there either. Whereas the standard Dodge Hellcats wallop 650 lb-ft of torque, the Challenger Hellcat X pushes that number to 800 lb-ft. Yikes. Dream Giveaway says it hasn’t tested its acceleration on track yet, but given the massive energy lying under that hood…it’s almost guaranteed to be fast. Its newly applied rear spoiler and sizable front splitter would suggest it is.

But if one muscle car giveaway weren’t enough, the organization will also throw in a 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T, which comes complete with a 440 cu. in. V8 and a pistol grip four-speed manual–all in the name of charity.

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Link to original source of article - https://www.yahoo.com/autos/s/dodge-hellcat-x-800-hp-tribute-wwii-legend-110038859.html