Performance Vehicles (Page 72)

The new 2019 Subaru WRX STI Type RA-R is already sold out in Japan and it should tell Subaru Corporation what performance fans want. They want more power.

Here's an interesting tidbit: as you may suspect, automakers like to tease their special models. It's a way of hooking gearheads with the new iron well before the official release of the vehicle. That's exactly the way Audi has been handling the release of its EV E-Tron GT.

Ford officials have gone on the record saying that there will be no U.S.-Market 2019 Ford Ranger Raptor.

Subaru set another world’s record in the WRX STI Type RA Time Attack machine in July. Watch two Transfagarasan Highway videos.

We have all known for many moons that Ford is working on a new Shelby GT500 Mustang and today, we have what appears to be our first look at the Motor Company’s newest muscle car from what appears to be a private media or dealer network function.

The Dodge Charger R/T Scat Pack is often overshadowed by the supercharged Hellcat, but the 392 Hemi-powered sedan is no joke and the car shown here is proof, running an 11.61 quarter mile with nothing more than some weight reduction and drag radials.

Specialty Vehicle Engineering has cooked up a set of Yenko/SC performance packages for the 2019 Chevrolet Camaro SS 1LE and their Stage 2 kit is a showstopper – packing 1,000 horsepower and a base price in the range of $112,000.

In a strategy to keep them viable in what definitely will be an intensely competitive pickup truck market with the addition of several electrics by several makers, Bollinger Motors adds a sole purposed dedicated 1 ton Pickup truck based on its SUT it plans to put into production late next year, early 2020.

We will soon see classic Chevy muscle cars cruising the streets with the 755-horsepower LT5 from the C7 Corvette ZR1, as Chevrolet Performance will soon be offering supercharged V8 in the crate engine portfolio – with the official announcement coming later this month at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas.

The Sublime 2015 Dodge Challenger R/T Scat Pack shown here recently ran a 10.21 quarter mile with a manual transmission, making it the quickest manually-shifted Scat Pack in the world – and today we bring you the details and a look at the record-setting run.

Only 518 of the Shelby GT500KR convertibles were originally produced, and one of the most rare combinations is roaring to the auction block later this month in Chicago.

Ron Capps and his Don Schumacher Racing Dodge Charger R/T funny car grabbed their third win of the 2018 this past weekend in North Carolina, moving him into the third spot in the championship battle with just two races left on the season.

Chevrolet has previewed the first of their customized Camaro show cars that will debut later this month at SEMA and in addition to a handful of components from the brand’s accessory catalog, this car introduces the world to the new “Shock” exterior color – coming to dealers early next year.

Subaru is being hit with a 4th WRX/STI engine lawsuit. This time claiming they installed “secret software” and now engines are stalling or surging. It also includes the Forester 2.0XT.

Four years in the making and now its second year of production, the first European full production full electric response to Tesla is a British SUV already on its way in Jaguar fashion toward iconic status. If this represents the latest theater of battle in the cultural British invasion of America between David Beckham, tea and toast, the Mini, Elton John, James Bond, Range Rover, fish and chips, the BBC, Duran Duran, Bentley, the Beatles and so forth, then bring it on!

If you have always wanted a C2 Chevrolet Corvette, but you want it to be smaller, less powerful and, well, built on the underpinnings of a Mazda Miata, you are in luck, as the Japanese body kit company Mitsuoka is now offering an elaborate body kit for the MX-5 that transforms it into a sort of tiny classic Vette.

Both Mazda and Porsche are known as car companies, but they both only dabble in cars now. Here's a look at how our perceptions trail our realities.

The Specialty Equipment Market Association Show known affectionately as SEMA kicks off October 26th and every year automakers try to outdo each other with new aftermarket and specialty vehicles. Ford is hoping to wow the crowd with five special Mustangs.

They are some of the fastest and most beautiful supercars ever built. Ford is now recalling some 2017-2018 GTs because they could start on fire.

Audi has announced the recall of 1,916 R8 Coupe and Spyder supercars to fix a potential fire problem. Because of problems with the transmission vent hose, it is possible that transmission fluid can leak out and fall on the hot engine, potentially causing a fire.

A Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk equipped with Hennessey’s HPE1200 package covers the quarter mile in just 9.66 seconds and with a speed of 145 miles per hour, making this is quickest and fastest Trackhawk in the world at the quarter mile distance.

Although the annual Orange County International Auto Show is the eighth largest auto expo in the world, it’s not the show New York, Geneva, Paris, Frankfurt, Tokyo has. What the show does do, however, is it gives you quality time for serious car shopping, and for us all a preview of the chicks to hatch without giving away the auto henhouse. That’s what the annual LA Auto Show is for, just eight weeks and 30 miles way.

The Acura RDX is all-new for 2019. We compare it to the Lexus NX 300 AWD and share what we found so you can decide which is right for you.

A new Ford F-150 Raptor with a combination of 300 horsepower and 550 lb-ft of torque from the 3.0-liter PowerStroke diesel is now available through the Texas-based tuning company and it isn’t as expensive as you might expect.

The supercharged 6.2-liter Hemi from the Dodge Challenger, the Dodge Charger and the Jeep Grand Cherokee has already brought in more than $3 billion through the first four model years of availability and that number is going to keep climbing over the next few years.

Patrik Sandell’s #18 Subaru WRX STI rally machine is unstoppable. See how he gets 3 wins in 3 starts.

Chevrolet has made the Malibu progressively sportier with each modern refresh, but those owners who wish that their mid-sized sedan was as aggressively designed as the Camaro ZL1, you are in luck, as a company named AeroNine now offers a body kid for the Malibu that has a front end styled after the supercharged muscle car.

Shhh. (Whisper). Have you ever seen a Rivian? In a way I hope not. Be careful if you have. At this stage don’t tell anyone. The electric truck startup might have to execute you for being exposed to company secrets moments away from their LA Auto Show reveal!

This past weekend, Leah Pritchett drove her Dodge Challenger Drag Pak to a 3rd straight win in the class, also securing the Factory Stock Showdown championship title and leaving no question as to which brand is the leader in the world of modern stock-based drag racing.

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.