Performance Vehicles (Page 181)

About a month back or so, a video hit YouTube showing a Tesla P85D beating the tar out of a poorly driven Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat, but a new video showing that same 707 horsepower Challenger has it running proper quarter mile times – and reportedly wanting a rematch with the 691hp Tesla.

General Motors has only offered up the base pricing for the 2016 Cadillac ATS-V sedan and coupe, but a posting in an enthusiast forum has offered up a look at some of the options for the high performance compact luxury car, as well as the pricing for those options.

The 2015 Ford Mustang has gotten a great deal of attention for being the fastest, the most powerful and the most efficient Mustang ever, but with the announcement of the NHTSA crash test scores for the new pony car – the 2015 Mustang is also the safest ever.

General Motors hasn’t given us much to talk about with regard to the 2016 Chevrolet Camaro, but the devout Chevy muscle car lovers at Camaro6 have gotten ahold of an image that gives us our best look yet at the basic profile and the rear quarter panel of the 6th gen car.

BMW Motorsport and Shell work together to produce high-performance oil for the BMW M4 DTM race cars.

Subaru Rally Team USA uses Method wheels on the new 2015 Subaru WRX STI rally car. Can it really run on the rim only for extended periods?

BMW reveals the M4 MotoGP Safety Car that will be the “Official Car of MotoGP” in 2015. BMW says it will feature new water injection?

Subaru Japan announces improvements for the 2015 BRZ and a new customization model.

The 2015 Subaru WRX STI rally car is getting ready for the Peno-2015 Russia rally race this weekend.

If you have been holding off on ordering your 2015 Corvette Z06 until the normal build page was live on Chevrolet.com, your wait is over as the full configurator tool has been added to the website with a full list of options and prices.

The 2015 Ford Mustang is selling very well in its first few months and while the Motor Company hasn’t offered up any official take rate numbers for the three engine options, a Ford dealership representative explained that the EcoBoost is moving quicker than the V8, while V6 sales are nearly nonexistent.

The Chrysler Group has announced that they are now accepting orders for the 2015 Dodge Challenger R/T Shaker models, bringing even more retro styling to the already extensive Challenger lineup – with orders for the more powerful Scat Pack Shaker beginning next month.

Subaru brings a new BRZ tS Concept to the Auto Messe 2015 in Osaka Japan. Don’t expect to see this BRZ STI in production.

We have seen plenty of videos showing the Hellcat Challenger and the C7 Corvette Z06 racing other cars and each other, and today we have a new clip of these two heavy hitters going head to head on the open road – along with a Mustang GT500 that is badly outmatched by the blown Mopar muscle car.

The 2015 Chicago Auto Show opened to the media this morning and as was the case in Detroit, the next generation Chevrolet Camaro was only shown in a brief background video during a presentation for an unrelated vehicle – leaving us hoping that the 2016 Camaro will debut in New York in April.

We have previous looked at the detailed pricing on the 2015 Dodge Charger in SXT, R/T and Hellcat form, but today, we take a look at the prices and options for the SRT 392 Charger – a model which will likely end up being the stronger-selling of the SRT packages.

The folks at Hennessey Performance have added their HPE700 package to a 2015 Ford Mustang GT, and the result is a blue oval-clad pony car that will cruise up past the 195 mile per hour mark – and they made a video showing the amazing run.

Subaru of America sells its 7 millionth new Subaru from Gillman Subaru of Houston South, a 2015 WRX.

Lexus just made a very odd move in the Australian Supercars race series that has us wondering.

After winning the GTD class in the Rolex 24, the Riley Motorsports Dodge Viper GT3-R team had hoped to take a run at the GTE Am class of the 24 Hours of LeMans, but when the official entry list was announced late last week, the Viper team finds themselves on the outside looking in.

The 2015 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 is marketed as the most track capable Corvette of all time by General Motors and today, we bring you a first look at a lightly modified C7 Z06 in action on the quarter mile as it beats up on an Audi R8.

Autocar’s new video answers the question.

We can always expect to see dealerships adding their own price increases over MSRP for limited edition models, but even though the 2015 Ford Mustang has been in dealerships for months now – there are still some dealerships adding massive markups on the special 50th Anniversary Mustang GT.

We haven’t seen the 2016 Chevrolet Camaro in anything other than spy shots thus far, but it looks like one of the driver’s side headlights has already shown up as used on eBay.com – which leads to a great many questions about this very unusual situation.

The 2015 Toyota GT86 is getting some improvements and a new 86 Style Cb Edition for Japan is announced.

Subaru Rally Team Canada wins the first round of the 2015 Canadian Rally Championship at Rallye Perce-Neige in the new 2015 Subaru WRX STI.

The 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat is the most powerful muscle car of all time, but those Mustang Shelby GT500 owners who want to be able to knock off the 707hp Mopar can turn to the folks at Blue Collar Performance, where their “Hellcat tamer” package will add more than enough power to knock off pretty much any production car in America.

The configurator tool for the 2015 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat is live, meaning that you can build and price the world’s most powerful sedan and begin planning the necessary financial position to buy the fastest 4-door production car ever.

Lexus will be supplying three RC F and RC 350 cars as track support vehicles first, then…

General Motors has announced the pricing for the 2016 Cadillac ATS-V and with a price starting at $61,460 for the sedan or $63,660 for the coupe, the new high performance Caddy costs less than the comparable BMW M3 and M4 – while also packing more power than the German competitors.