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Performance Vehicles (Page 157)

By Patrick Rall on December 7, 2015 - 12:15PM
The wicked looking Chevrolet Corvette Stingray police car shown above made its grand debut at the Essen Motor Show and this German police car was built to help promote a program in Germany which encourages those folks customizing their cars to add modifications with safety in mind.
By Patrick Rall on December 7, 2015 - 11:33AM
The Chrysler Group is using the popularity of the new Star Wars movie to promote their vehicles and in a new TV commercial, the Dodge Viper plays the role of Darth Vader while scores of Hellcat Challengers and Chargers serve as the black and white Stormtroopers.
By Denis Flierl on December 7, 2015 - 8:13AM
Subaru will introduce a new Global Platform in their entire lineup starting next year. Will Subaru put the 2.0-liter turbo engine the U.S. spec 2017 WRX STI?
By Denis Flierl on December 6, 2015 - 7:45AM
A new-generation Subaru BRZ / Scion FR-S is coming. They need essential performance improvements to make the sports coupe exciting again.
By Parks McCants on December 5, 2015 - 9:16PM
Shooting hundreds of auto photos per week is only one of the perks connected to automotive journalism. Sorting through them? daunting !
By Denis Flierl on December 4, 2015 - 11:19AM
In BMW M’s promotion of the new 2016 BMW M2 Coupe, they show the car drifting in photos and videos. Why won’t M2 owners every do this?
By Aaron Turpen on December 3, 2015 - 3:29PM
The latest Bugatti model will be the Chiron, named for a big part of the company's race history. Bugatti has already sold 100 of the cars before production.
By Patrick Rall on December 2, 2015 - 3:17PM
General Motors will break ground later this month on a new solar panel system at the Chevrolet Corvette plant in Bowling Green, Kentucky, and when the 850-kilowatt array is completed, the facility will generate enough power each year to build 850 Corvettes.
By Patrick Rall on December 2, 2015 - 1:42PM
This first shipment of right-hand drive Ford Mustang coupes and convertibles reached Australia yesterday morning with 173 new pony cars destined for eager owners who ordered the car months ago – and those who preordered the new Mustang will be the only ones getting their American muscle car until at least early 2017.
By Patrick Rall on December 2, 2015 - 1:12PM
The online configurator tools for the 2016 Dodge Viper have gone live at both Dodge.com and DriveSRT.com, giving prospective buyers and dreamers alike a chance to build and price their ideal Mopar supercar – with both a simple, traditional configurator tool and the expanded Viper Customizer for the track terror ACR.
By Denis Flierl on December 2, 2015 - 8:29AM
The 2016 Subaru WRX/STI saw increased sales in Canada and a downturn in the U.S. Have WRX/STI sales reached their peak?
By Patrick Rall on December 1, 2015 - 5:39PM
The C7 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray officially went on sale for the 2014 model year back in October of 2013, so with the new Corvette beginning its 3rd year of sales, we wanted to take a look at the first two years of sales figures for the newest generation of the all-American sports car.
By Patrick Rall on December 1, 2015 - 12:50PM
The Ford Mustang posted its worst sales month of the 2015 calendar year, but the Motor Company still moved almost two thousand more Mustangs than Chevy sold Camaros – allowing Ford to maintain its 13 month winning streak on the sales charts.
By Patrick Rall on November 30, 2015 - 2:51PM
Late last week a bright red Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat hit the track at Cecil County Dragway and when the day was over, this blower-only 4-door sedan had claimed the title as the quickest Hellcat Charger in the world – marking the first time that one of the supercharged Chargers got into the 9 second barrier while obviously setting the record for the quickest Hellcat sedan in the world.
By Patrick Rall on November 30, 2015 - 12:09PM
If you are shopping for a very special person in your life who is rebuilding a classic Chevrolet Camaro, Corvette, Chevelle or El Camino and you want the most bang for your buck, the new LT4 crate motor package injects C7 Corvette Z06 power into any old school GM muscle car.
By Denis Flierl on November 29, 2015 - 7:25AM
Why will the new BMW M2 be one of the leading cars of 2016? There’s 5 reasons why it will be absolutely unbeatable.
By Denis Flierl on November 28, 2015 - 7:11AM
Subaru’s 2016 WRX 2.0-liter engine is a returning winner. Can it make Wards 10 Best Engines again?
By Denis Flierl on November 25, 2015 - 8:55AM
The new 2016 BMW M2 is coming and performance fans can drive it on the Nurburgring. There is one catch though.
By Patrick Rall on November 24, 2015 - 1:56PM
If you are one of the people who loves the look of the new Corvette Stingray front end, but you still revoke the idea of anything other than round taillights on a modern Corvette, meet the Corvette C67 – a C6 Corvette chassis fitted with a customized front end featuring the headlights from the new C7 Stingray.
By Patrick Rall on November 24, 2015 - 1:19PM
We have already discussed leaked pricing for the 2016 Dodge Challenger last month, but now that the 2016 Challenger configurator page has gone live on Dodge.com, we have positive confirmation of all of the pricing figures – with the 707hp Hellcat Challenger starting at $65,190 with gas guzzler tax and destination fees.
By Denis Flierl on November 24, 2015 - 11:08AM
Toyota Australia announces new 2016 GT86 Blackline Edition sports coupe. Will it be anything special?
By Denis Flierl on November 24, 2015 - 7:38AM
Watch a driver take his BMW E92 3 Series and drive it up a hillside and flip over hard.
By Denis Flierl on November 24, 2015 - 6:40AM
Mitsubishi is dropping the EVO after the last 2015 Lancer Evolution rolls off the assembly line this year. Why is Mitsubishi making a monumental mistake?
By Patrick Rall on November 23, 2015 - 3:49PM
The configurator page on Dodge.com for the 2016 Dodge Charger has finally gone live and while the majority of the numbers we reported last month have proven to be accurate, there are a few differences from those leaked numbers and most importantly, we know that the 2016 Hellcat Charger has an actual base price of $68,640.
By Patrick Rall on November 23, 2015 - 1:18PM
The folks at Hennessey have converted the 2015 Ford F150 into their VelociRaptor 650 and to show the difference in performance, Hennessey lined up their supercharged F150 against a factory-stock 2015 F150 on the drag strip – and they filmed the matchup to display how much quicker their F150 is than the Ford version.
By Patrick Rall on November 23, 2015 - 12:21PM
This past Friday, the very last 5th generation Chevrolet Camaro was built at the Oshawa Assembly Plant and with the 2016 Camaro being built at GM’s Lansing Grand River facility in Michigan – the last 2015 Camaro marks the end of Canadian production for the Chevy muscle car.
By Denis Flierl on November 23, 2015 - 8:02AM
Mitsubishi Motors North America auctioned off the first 2015 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution Final Edition #0001. What did the Final Edition EVO sell for?
By Denis Flierl on November 21, 2015 - 7:33AM
The 2016 Subaru WRX STI production car is a top seller for the brand and sales are up in the U.S. How does Subaru use motorsports to keep sales hot?
By Patrick Rall on November 19, 2015 - 11:33AM
A video has surfaced on YouTube showing a new Ford Shelby GT350 Mustang making a few quarter mile runs and with the help of a set of drag radials, this road course-ready pony car blasted through the top end traps in the high 11 second range – which is pretty solid for a car engineered to be the best-handling Mustang of all time.
By Denis Flierl on November 19, 2015 - 8:17AM
Why didn’t BMW M GmgH bring the new 2016 M2 to the LA Auto Show? It’s taking a back seat to another M model.