Performance Vehicles (Page 72)

The 2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 has proven itself as one of the greatest road-handling street cars of all time, turning in the second-quickest time in the Car & Driver Lightning Lap event, trailing only the Porsche 911 GT2 RS Weissach in the 12-year run of the magazine’s annual shootout.

For the last couple of years -- okay, it seems like that long -- Bugatti has been hinting that it would be building an SUV. However, any comments in that direction were just left hanging in mid-air as the commenter moved on to other topics. Now, though, it looks a little more likely. But -- there's always a but -- it will only come if VW (Bugatti's parent) can find the bucks to do the job.

One of the best known driving schools in the country has filed for bankruptcy protection. Bondurant advertises its school as the "Official Racing School of Dodge SRT.

The 2018 BMW X3 M40i is a family performance Sports Utility Vehicle. M stands for marvelous.

With no podium finishes in 2018, the first ARX Rallycross season was a bust for the Subaru WRX STIs. Will the beatings continue in 2019?

The folks from Car & Driver published the results of the 2018 Lightning Lap competition in this month’s issue of the magazine and the 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Widebody finished in the middle of the pack – an impressive placement for a car that is often pinned as being nothing more than drag strip dominator.

Porsche continued its winning ways in sales for the first nine months of the year as it set another record mark by topping last year's number. For the month, it also edged the sales record also.

FCA announced this afternoon that production of the 797-horsepower Dodge Challenger SRT Redeye began today in Brampton and while we don’t know for sure when the first units will reach dealers – we do know for sure that the newest Mopar muscle car is about to hit the streets.

OPINION: As the Tesla Model 3 becomes less of an exotic out in the American wilderness to soon become a common domesticated pet, its oddness will continue to stick out while its familiarity will acquaint the many verses the few. Until then getting stopped by police for a giant screen on your dash should not shock everyone. Here’s what the do’s and don’ts are of getting stopped by police while we give the cops time and patience, please, thank you, to wrap their heads around it.

It was announced yesterday that former Dodge boss Tim Kuniskis is taking over the lead position of the Jeep brand and after his success in rolling out a variety of high performance Challengers and Chargers, he could play a key role in improving the performance resume of the Trail Rated brand.

The sales numbers for September and for the third quarter of 2018 are in and once again the Ford Mustang was the bestselling two-door sporty coupe in the US market, beating the Dodge Challenger by about 300 units while the Chevrolet Camaro continues to fall well behind both of its rivals.

Scott Speed held off a hard-charging Tanner Foust to cement his driving championship in the ARX. Though Speed finished on of the Semifinals to set the stage for his COTA points win, Foust managed to win the fourth ARX of the season.

The TorqueNews/Camaros Unlimited Camaro of the Month for October 2018 is the aggressive 1968 RS named Dark Matter, owned by Mike Whitney.

Three of the late Burt Reynolds' movie car re-creations sold at the Barrett-Jackson Las Vegas Auction. One of the vehicles brought in big money.

There are rumors out there about Subaru producing a new mid-engine hybrid sports coupe. Here’s why the rumors are just wishful thinking.

The Subaru BRZ GT300 gets its first win of the season. Check out the BRZ race car specs.

It seems Tesla Corporation has another crisis at hand that they seem able to, in the end, solve one way or another, their way of course, and this time in the opposite of extremes. They are up to their necks with Model 3’s all around them that they can’t deliver them to customers on time. Actually because of either apparent poor planning or lack of a good relationship with several transportation companies to plan ahead, Tesla fabricates its own car carriers so they can ship their inventory.

Just a day after I published my full drive review of the 2019 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye, the Build & Price feature for the 797-horsepower Mopar muscle car has gone live on Dodge.com – allowing everyone to find out how much they need to save to bring one home.

After not being able to meet a target production date this year due to evaporated funding, Lucid Motors recently did all the things it needed to do to ensure it can meet its next target production date for its first car by 2020. And unlike other electric car companies, it did it quietly without much fanfare.

All the cool trucks now have big honkin' snorkel options. Will Ford's Ranger follow the leaders?

I recently had the extreme pleasure of spending a week driving the 2019 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye and it should come as little surprise that daily driving a 797-horsepower Mopar muscle car is just as fantastic as you might expect – combining the comforts of the original Hellcat with 90 extra ponies.

Vaughn Gittin Jr recently took his Ford Mustang RTR drift car to the Nurburgring in Germany and the legendary sideways-driver became the first-ever person to drift the entire 12.9-mile road course – with the amazing run captured on video, of course.

The first-ever Nitro World Rallycross “Hell Track for cars” lived up to its name. All three Subaru WRX STI Supercars finish DNF.

The President of the United States took delivery in New York City recently of the first of twelve “one-off” handbuilt vehicles which will routinely switch off to be designated the US Presidential State Car, Cadillac One, “the Beast.” Expected to be delivered for his inauguration two years ago, no explanation for why it was apparently late. But with no noteable Secret Service action required lately, its absence wasn’t apparently missed.

The Dodge Challenger Widebody has a unique design that is in need of this easy addition.

Toyota will sell you a snorkel for your 2019 Tacoma TRD Pro, but only if you live near a desert.

Saleen Automotive is celebrating 35 years of tuning the Ford Mustang, so as the company has done in the past for significant birthdays, a limited edition package has been introduced with monster power and a long list of other upgrades.

In what could be a tuneup for the final American Rallycross festivities this weekend, the drivers of the VW Andretti Rallycross team put on a hard-fought display of driving that saw one of them -- Scott Speed -- knocked out of the racing in the Final and the other -- Tanner Foust -- claw his way back to a well-earned third place in last weekend's Nitro Rallycross.

Robert Hight drove his Chevrolet Camaro funny to to win #3 of the 2018 season this past weekend at the AAA Insurance Midwest Nationals at Gateway Motorsports Park in Illinois, propelling him into the top spot in the championship race, but the big win had a scary ending – with Hight’s race car exploding as it crossed the finish line.

Finnish Rallycross Ace Toomas "Topi" Heikkinen joins Subaru at ARX Finale at the Circuit of the Americas.