Performance Vehicles (Page 221)

The 2015 Ford Mustang was designed to compete on a global level like no American muscle car before it and the first step to global domination took place yesterday with the opening of the 2014 Geneva Motor Show – marking the grand European debut of the next generation Mustang.

What happens when you take a 2015 Subaru WRX STI radio control car vs a StickBomb toy? Who wins?

With Honda S2000 fans hoping for the return of a convertible roadster to the lineup, we re-visit the Honda Performance Development S3000 project. Think a 350 hp rear drive two place convertible. We like the idea.

The crew responsible for extracting all of the historic American performance cars from the sinkhole under the National Corvette Museum was hard at work today – this time removing the black 1962 Chevrolet Corvette which was perched precariously along the side of the hole in the Earth with a 10,000lb slab of concrete pressed against the front end.

Ford Motor Company announced today that as part of the 50th anniversary Mustang celebration, the automaker has teamed up with OPI Nail Lacquer to commemorate the original pony car with a new Race Red nail polish – marking the first time that an automaker has worked with a beauty products company to create a exterior paint themed nail polish color.

The all-new 2015 Subaru WRX STI makes its European debut at the Geneva Motor Show 2014.

After removing the 2009 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 Blue Devil Prototype from the National Corvette Museum sinkhole this morning, the crew spent the afternoon successfully lifting the 1993 Ruby Red 40th Anniversary Edition Chevrolet Corvette out of the hole as well – although the damage to this classic Corvette is far too bad for it to drive away from the scene.

Finally the people at the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green Kentucky had some good news today as the first of the historic Corvettes to be swallowed by the sinkhole has been exacted – marking the start of a careful auto-archeological dig that is expected to take several weeks.

General Motors will use high performance to capture attention at this week’s Geneva Motor Show with the 2015 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 and Corvette C7R race car serving as the collective center piece of a display which focuses on American muscle.

The 2014 Ford Mustang is the final model year for the S197 generation and a typical late-run sales rush helped to push the Mustang ahead of the Chevrolet Camaro and Dodge Challenger in February 2014 sales – although the Camaro still leads the sales race for the 2014 calendar year.

Subaru gave five lucky winners the chance to drive the new 2015 WRX before anyone else. And one went home with a free 2015 WRX.

Subaru brought the all-new 2015 WRX STI and the WRX STI NBR racecar to Laguna Seca. Watch both as they take on the famous racetrack.

We have some good news about the tragic sinkhole which swallowed up 8 historic Chevrolet Corvettes at the National Corvette Museum – extraction of the damaged cars is scheduled to begin on Monday March 3rd.

Ford Motor Company put more than twice the research and development time into the aerodynamics of the 2015 Ford Mustang and to show off the slippery form of the newest muscle car – Ford invited a select group of media to their wind tunnel facility for a closer look.

The new 2014 Dodge Challenger Shaker was made available for orders on January 7th and by January 10th all 2,000 units planned for production this year had been spoken for – and those vintage themed Mopar muscle cars are headed to dealerships around the country right now.

Corvette Racing confirmed recently that they will be sending a pair of Chevrolet Corvette Z06-based C7R race cars to the fabled 24 Hours of LeMans race in France for the 15th consecutive year – with the hopes of winning their 8th class victory over that 15 year span.

Consumer Reports drove the 2014 Lexus IS 250AWD and panned it. This is great news for Lexus. Here’s why.

Ford Motor Company designed the 2015 Ford Mustang Convertible canvas top assembly to answer every consumer concern about the current drop top Mustang – with the most significant change being the top-down time being 50% faster than the current models.

All Subaru vehicles except for BRZ use Subaru’s Symmetrical AWD, but the 2015 WRX STI gets a special system called Driver Controlled Center Differential (DCCD). What’s so special about the 2015 WRX STI DCCD system?

The 2015 Ford Mustang will make its big screen debut in the upcoming action racing flick Need for Speed so it should come as no surprise that the newest – and most exciting – 2015 Mustang is themed after the fast paced movie starring Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul.

The 2015 Ford Mustang recently debuted at the 2014 Spokane Auto Show in Washington and one attendee took it upon himself to do a quick walk around video of the new S550 Mustang in Competition Orange – which looks as great as we expected.

The new Chevrolet Corvette C7R race teams met up once again with the many Corvette Daytona Prototype teams this past weekend for the winter testing session for the 12 Hours of Sebring and while the Corvette DP teams continued to shine – the Z06-based Corvette C7R teams continued to struggle.

The 2014 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 is the best performing Camaro of all time so it should come as no big surprise that the new Z/28 actually has a feature called Flying Car Mode – an addition that helped the GM team to cut 5 seconds off of their Nürburgring lap time during testing of the newest Super Camaro.

The all-new 2014 Mercedes-Benz CLA-Class is selling well for the German automaker and the CLA45 AMG could be the best performance car under $50K.

Since a massive sinkhole swallowed up 8 historic Chevrolet Corvettes at the National Corvette Museum, fans around the world have wondered just how badly damaged those rare American sports cars are and due to the popularity of that discussion – the museum will have these Corvettes on display in their damaged state for a short time before the cars are sent off for repairs.

The incredible Hennessey Venom GT has once again set a top speed record with the help of the Corvette ZR1’s LS9 V8 – but even though the Venom GT turned in the highest top speed run of any street legal car ever, a set of restrictions prevent this recent record run from counting with the Guinness Book of World Records.

This past weekend marked the on-track debut of Ken Block’s 2014 Hoonigan Racing Ford Fiesta ST race car at Rally America’s 100 Acre Wood rally and with the help of co-driver Alex Gelsomino – Block claimed victory in the 100 Acre Wood rally race for the 7th time in 8 years.

The all-new 2015 Subaru WRX STI comes with as a six-speed standard gearbox only. Why doesn’t Subaru offer an automatic in the performance car?

MotorWeek’s winner for “Best Sport Sedan” is the perennial favorite, the 2015 Subaru WRX in the annual Drivers' Choice Awards. 

In his return to Rally racing, Travis Pastrana driving the 2014 Subaru WRX STI finished second behind Ken Block at Rally in the 100 Acre Wood.