Category: Automotive
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Track-Day Checklist: 8 Ways to Get Your Car Track-Ready
So, you want to drive your own car on a racetrack? Well, here are 8 tips on how to get your car track-ready. Whether you’re planning to drive your car “factory stock” or you want to get it prepped for ultimate performance with some upgraded parts, these 8 tips will be a good starting point…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…