New Cars Brock Racing Celebrates 40th Anniversary with New BRE 370Z

A little while back - forty years ago - Peter Brock's Brock Racing Enterprises won the SCCA National Championship at Road Atlanta with a 240Z driven by John Morton.

Now, on the 40th anniversary of the original win, BRE is celebrating the first official ass-kicking Japanese racer on American soil with a special new 370Z.

Based on the Nismo 370Z Coupe, it will be "built to current SCCA T2 racecar regulations and will see track duty later this year." It will also feature a distinct red, white, and blue BRE paint scheme.

The BRE 370Z is set to debut April 29 at the Classic Motorsports Mitty at Road Atlanta. If you can't get down there, the car will also be making appearances a Z Club events nationwide.

By Phil Alex

Chrysler and NASA partner

Now here's a partnership we didn't see coming: Chrysler and NASA have jumped into bed to share research on things like radar, materials and robotics. While we can't imagine Chrysler has too much to add to that discussion, the partnership could have a wide-ranging impact on the company's future products. Neither NASA nor Chrysler is exactly willing to say how the government agency will benefit from joining up with the smallest of the Big Three, but the mind reels...

It's also worth noting that NASA will be sharing some of its battery tech with the Penastar people, including "other energy storage mediums." That's good news for a company that just put its ENVI electric-vehicle program out to pasture. While hybrids still make up a small portion of the total vehicle sales here in the US of A, any manufacturer without a decent hybrid showing would seem to be at a serious disadvantage going forward.

If nothing else, we may see more Velcro, memory foam and freeze-dried ice cream in our Chrysler products of the future, although there's no word on sending a Sebring into space.