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Performance Vehicles (Page 77)

By John Goreham on August 9, 2018 - 11:49AM
A funny fact has emerged now that the Tesla Model 3 is America's top-selling luxury car. Taxpayers are subsidizing the price of the car regardless of the buyer's wealth.
By Patrick Rall on August 9, 2018 - 11:34AM
The TorqueNews/Camaros Unlimited Camaro of the Month for August 2018 is the LS9-powered 1969 Chevrolet Camaro shown above, owned by Gregg Dunkin.
By Mary Conway on August 8, 2018 - 9:51PM
Ford is creating new technology to help workers be almost superhuman in their work building vehicles.
By Patrick Rall on August 8, 2018 - 12:52PM
This morning, the 10,000,000th Ford Mustang rolled off of the assembly line at the Flat Rock, Michigan facility, marking an incredible milestone for the legendary American performance car that has become the world’s bestselling sporty car.
By Patrick Rall on August 8, 2018 - 10:52AM
The July 2018 Hellcat of the Month as picked by the members of the SRT Hellcat and Demon Facebook Group is the Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat shown above, owned by Leon Epling and raced by his son, Jason – making this Mopar muscle car a family affair.
By Marc Stern on August 7, 2018 - 8:29PM
The Volkswagen Andretti team of Scott Speed and Tanner Foust stood 1-2 on the podium during the weekend's ARX Rallycross race at Trois Riviers.
By John Goreham on August 7, 2018 - 4:15PM
IIHS has completed an initial study of Tesla's Autopilot and level 2 driver automation systems. Here's how Tesla compared.
By Patrick Rall on August 7, 2018 - 11:32AM
John Hennessey and his Texas-based tuning shop is best known for building high performance Chevrolet and Dodge products, but the company hit the 10,000-vehicle mark with a Ford Mustang – one which features a design that is available immediately for purchase in limited numbers.
By Denis Flierl on August 7, 2018 - 7:59AM
The three Subaru WRX STI Rallycross Supercars makes progress in ARX but no podium finish.
By Patrick Rall on August 6, 2018 - 12:45PM
After losing in the final round in each of the two events leading up to the CatSpot NHRA Northwest Nationals at Pacific Raceways, Ron Capps and his Dodge Charger R/T funny car beat Courtney Force in the finals this past weekend to grab his second win of the season and the 60th win of his career.
By Mary Conway on August 5, 2018 - 6:16PM
Ford is unveiling its Mustang race car for the NASCAR Cup Series, this week. It may give more clues about the future 2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500.
By Denis Flierl on August 5, 2018 - 8:07AM
According to J.D. Power, the Toyota Prius gets more love from new owners than the Subaru WRX/STI. Has excitement for the WRX/STI left the building?
By Marc Stern on August 4, 2018 - 4:12PM
With Audi's new Q3 creating quite a stir, there's a new report that a new RS model of the Q3 is in the planning stage and should be delivered sometime in the 2019 sales year.
By Mary Conway on August 3, 2018 - 11:08PM
Eight people are being sent to jail in Japan for selling fake Brembo brake covers.The surprising thing according to Brembo is that they don't make brake covers.
By Al Castro on August 3, 2018 - 11:05AM
Finding themselves in the same situation they were ironically in back in the 1970’s facing record loses toward bankruptcy, Harley Davidson, the storied motorcycle company had to swallow some bitter reality medicine and face up to changing times with a younger generation that the company turned off with motorcycles their fathers rode, and their Millennial sons (and daughters) never liked. And now here comes the Harley Davidson electric motorcycle.

By Denis Flierl on August 3, 2018 - 7:12AM
The 2018 Subaru WRX/STI loses power in a big way. It leads the brand in sales drop.
By Patrick Rall on August 2, 2018 - 10:23AM
Sales numbers from July 2018 are in and for the 5th month in a row, the Ford Mustang is the bestselling muscle car (and the bestselling 2-door sporty car) in the United States – leading the Dodge Challenger by roughly 1,100 units.
By Denis Flierl on August 1, 2018 - 7:18AM
Subaru gets a new driver for the upcoming ARX Rallycross series at the Grand Prix de Trois-Rivieres. The motorsports icon has lots of experience.
By Marc Stern on July 30, 2018 - 10:31PM
Here's what it takes to get busted in the U.K. and sent off to jail, try driving 189 mph on the public roads. The police do take exception to that particular occupation and as a result, the motorcyclist in question is now serving 21 months in jail thanks to a judge who didn't quite see it the rider's way.
By John Goreham on July 30, 2018 - 1:17PM
Mazda has announced its Miata RF prices for 2019. Here is how much of a price bump to expect due to the new changes.
By Al Castro on July 30, 2018 - 8:21AM
The first all electric Porsche since 1897 is having ramp up production issues but so far Taycan is on schedule with an assembly line timeline of 2019. Taycan will be Porsche’s first production all electric car and the second electric Porsche ever made, since the sports car company founder Ferdinand Porsche built the last one himself, the P1 which was the first Porsche ever built.
By John Goreham on July 26, 2018 - 5:19PM
Tesla delivered the first Model 3 cars to owners one business year ago today. Here's how Tesla stock has done in that year compared to the market and compared to Tesla's peers.
By Patrick Rall on July 26, 2018 - 10:48AM
Ford Motor Company announced this morning that the high output 3.5-liter EcoBoost from the Raptor will be available in the F-150 Limited for the 2019 model year – bringing class-leading power to the brand’s premium luxury truck.
By Marc Stern on July 26, 2018 - 12:53AM
Even hypercars have recalls. It is how you handle them that matters and for a Bugatti owner they are handled quite well, thank you .
By Patrick Rall on July 25, 2018 - 11:40AM
The news that many in the auto industry have been fearing since this past weekend was announced this morning – 66-year old Sergio Marchionne died overnight due to complications from a recent surgery.
By Patrick Rall on July 25, 2018 - 11:01AM
The 2019 Chevrolet Camaro has a new look and a variety of new features, but most importantly, it has new pricing, with the base model starting almost a thousand dollars less than 2018 while the 2LT package drops by $3,000 – but all of the V8-powered models appear to remain unchanged.
By Marc Stern on July 24, 2018 - 10:33PM
Lamborghini has recently been involved in the recall of a number of Aventador models. Specifically, one of them involves some brake-centering pins that can work loose, causing a problem. The automaker will fix each vehicle for free with a new set of centering pins.
By Patrick Rall on July 24, 2018 - 4:43PM
The Yenko name is being kept alive by Specialty Vehicle Engineering in New Jersey and their latest creation is the Yenko/SC Stage II Corvette – a 1,000-horsepower supercar based on the C7 Grand Sport, limited to 25 units and starting just north of $135,000.
By Patrick Rall on July 24, 2018 - 2:14PM
Saleen Automotive has announced the newest addition to their custom high performance vehicle lineup in the form of another Ford F-150 – this time named the Saleen Sportruck XR.
By John Goreham on July 23, 2018 - 6:16PM
The first Tesla Model 3 cars were delivered a year ago. We look back at Tesla's year including stock performance, business volume, Model 3 launch, and much more.