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Jesse James’ new stunt series is alive and kicking on Spike TV, with a premiere episode that set new ratings records for the network.

“Jesse James Is a Dead Man” debuted Sunday night at 10 p.m. and drew the largest audience ever for an unscripted Spike TV series. “Dead Man” was seen by 2 million viewers — including 900,000 among the network’s target demo of men 18-49.

In the premiere episode, the former “Monster Garage” personality rode a 1,000-horsepower motorbike powered by highly combustible nitromethane fuel…  Details

If the movie industry was the entertainment king of the 20th century, the video-gaming industry is where disposable income is headed for the 21st century. Nowhere was this more apparent than the Electronic Entertainment Expo–E3 for short–going on right now in Los Angeles.

True, the vast majority of the games at E3 involved vixens and/or steroid-shot musclemen shooting and/or chainsawing bad guys and/or zombies. Actual zombie video-game quote overheard at E3: “And when the bullets run out, there’s always the chain saws.” (Another actual quote, “. . . and spray giant pieces of poo!”)

But there were plenty of car-related games, and that was why we went.

The first one we saw was the coming Forza Motorsport 3. We saw that one first because …  Details

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Action sports are nothing if not flashy, and the types of folks who surf, skate and ride for a living generally have (shall we say?) a lot of personality. Nowhere is this more evident than in the cars they drive, which tend to be more conspicuous than conscientious. With this group, the old adage “Drive it like you stole it” should be replaced by “Drive it like you bought it on a whim with your contest winnings.” Read on … Details

Chrysler doesn’t exactly have a reputation for having the most fuel efficient lineup in the industry, but the Michigan automaker hopes to change that with a proposed $448 million plan to spur the development of plug-in hybrids and electric vehicles.

Chrysler submitted three different plans to the Department of Energy on Wednesday with the hopes of landing funds from the department’s Electric Drive Vehicle Battery and Component Manufacturing Initiative and …  Details

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