Category: Automotive

  • 6 Racetracks Where You Can Drive Your Own Car

    Across the Southeast, there are several racetracks where you can drive your own car; you just need to know where to look to find them. Lucky for you (and us), most are within a short drive of the Triangle, offering various ways for you to participate in a motorsports event. Whether it’s attending a high-performance…

  • Getting the Most Out of Your VIR Experience

    Nestled along the twisting banks of the Dan River in south-central Virginia, just a stone’s throw from the North Carolina state-line sits a historic road course. This is where your VIR experience begins. On this same hallowed ground, famed racecar driver and builder, Carol Shelby won the inaugural featured event in 1957 in a Maserati…

  • Luxury Has a New Home for Leith Dealerships in North Raleigh

    NEWS PROVIDED BY LeithCars.com  Jan 06, 2020, 10:15 ET RALEIGH, N.C., Jan. 6, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — 2019 was a year of tremendous growth for Leith Automotive Group, headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina. During the company’s fiftieth year in business, Leith opened three new luxury franchises on property along Capital Boulevard, just north of Interstate-540. The most recent openings…

  • New Charger and Challenger Coming in 2023?

    It’s been a long road for two of America’s favorite muscle cars currently in production, the Dodge Charger and Dodge Challenger. Both are headed toward the end of their respective life cycles. Will there be a replacement for these two rear-wheel-drive monsters? Or, to be more specific, will there be a new Charger and Challenger…

  • Youth Revisited, Road Trippin’ a Red Hot Camaro to Richard Petty Motorsports

    When you get a call from Richard Petty Motorsports to come by the garage in Welcome, N.C. (near Lexington) to interview their hot-shot NASCAR Cup driver Bubba Wallace, you first say, “absolutely.” Then you ask yourself, “where can I get my hands on a nice, used Chevy Camaro for the road trip?” That second question…

  • A Twelve Foot Tall Monster Truck + Friday Night Racing = LeithCars.com Night at Wake County Speedway

    NEWS PROVIDED BY LeithCars.com  Jul 10, 2019, 10:12 ET RALEIGH, N.C., July 10, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — To show its support for grassroots racing in North Carolina, LeithCars.com, (a part-time sponsor of MBM Motorsport’s NASCAR Xfinity Toyota driven by Timmy Hill), partnered with two area short track ovals this race season. Southern National Motorsports Park near Lucama and Wake County Speedway south of Raleigh have been…

  • Test Drive a Jeep Wrangler and You’ll Be Hooked Too

    In this companion to our May, 2019 blog: “A Jeep Wrangler Test Drive? That’ll Hook You, But Good”, we take you from a 48 hour test drive in a new 2018 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Sport S to buying one from our “Can Do” Jeep store in Raleigh, N.C., Leith Chrysler Jeep.   You see, a test drive…

  • A Jeep Wrangler Test Drive? That’ll Hook You, But Good.

    You might say it was nearly as bright as the sun, a yellow 2018 Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Sport S in what Jeep calls “Hellayella.”  The 4×4 of all four-by-fours was parked in front of  our Leith Jeep HQ on a beautiful Saturday morning. She had a black hard-top and 17 inch silver alloy wheels.  The “ready…

  • Maserati, Porsche, Jaguar…LeithCars.com Brings Luxury & Performance Brands to VIRginia International Raceway for Spring Charity Laps Event

    NEWS PROVIDED BY LeithCars.com  Apr 13, 2019, 16:15 ET RALEIGH, N.C., April 13, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Nestled along the banks of the Dan River in south-central Virginia is a legendary motorsports road course known to race fans and drivers simply as “VIR.” Besides the hundreds of racing events held each year at Virginia International Raceway, the track also holds…

  • 2020 Kia Stinger GT Wagon – Isn’t She a Beaut?

      You already know, at least I hope you know, that the 2019 Kia Stinger GT is a world-class sports car worthy of your consideration. It’s like nothing Kia has ever built before, a low-slung rear-wheel (or all-wheel-drive) four-door sports car with a hatch in back. Its thrust provided by a twin-turbocharged three-hundred-sixty-five horse V6…