Performance Vehicles (Page 208)

On Tuesday we looked at a picture of the Hellcat Hemi engine that will power the next generation SRT Challenger sitting on a factory engine stand from our friend The Mopar Man and today, The Mopar Man has new, spicy shots of the Hellcat Hemi in the Challenger’s engine bay along with some spy shots showing what we believe to be the new SRT Challenger.

Last month, the Chevrolet Camaro moved more than 9,000 units for the first time since the first half of 2012 – allowing the Camaro to soundly pummel both the Ford Mustang and the Dodge Challenger in monthly sales while also giving the Camaro back the lead in annual muscle car sales for 2014.

When Ford Motor Company announced the Line Lock feature for the 2015 Mustang GT, they talked about how it would help benefit racers only to finish by saying that racing will void your engine warranty – leaving many people to wonder when you should be using Line Lock as to not void your warranty.

EVO Australia magazine has given the new 2015 Subaru WRX STI a “turbocharge tick”, rating it four and-a-half stars in their May edition.

The US Department of Energy and General Motors have teamed up with 16 universities around the country to make the Chevrolet Camaro more eco friendly as part of the EcoCar3 Advanced Vehicle Technology Competition.

Ford Motor Company is looking to market the 2015 Mustang to as many people as possible and through as many unusual channels as possible with the most recent (and most unusual) being this new 80s Dance Battle video by musicians Scott and Brendo– showing the Mustang from a variety of angles both moving and stationary.

2015 Dodge Challenger test mules have been running around the Metro Detroit area for months now, but with the New York debut of the new look, the camouflage is coming off of these mules and I recently stumbled across one in Milford – offering a good idea as to what to expect from the 2015 Challenger SXT Plus.

Subaru UK has announced pricing on the 2014 BRZ and it’s less than last years model. Why does Subaru want to differentiate it from the 2015 WRX STI?

The 2014 Chevrolet SS performance sedan has been marketed by General Motors as a 4-door Corvette and when the 2015 SS models begin arriving in dealerships later this year, they could feature a pair of new features to back up the Corvette relation of this full sized sedan.

While some images have caught what is believed to be the new Hellcat Hemi under the hood of a Dodge Challenger test mule, this image appears to be the first full engine image that we have seen of Chrysler’s new 600+ horsepower supercharged Hemi.

The Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 is one of the nastiest muscle cars ever sold for road use, but for those folks who need way more thrust than the standard 580 horsepower can provide, the Hennessey HPE1000 package pushes the output into the 4-figure range – and today we have a video of that thousand horsepower monster in action on the quarter mile.

Four-time World Rally Champion Tommi Makinen provides his thoughts on the all-new 2015 Subaru WRX STI.

The future Dodge Charger SRT and Dodge Challenger SRT will be powered by a new supercharged Hemi codenamed the Hellcat and the folks at Allpar have a video courtesy of automotive paparazzi Chris Doane showing the new supercharged V8 during acceleration testing in the new Dodge Charger.

General Motors has announced that the 2015 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray will be offered with the sexy Pacific and Atlantic packages that debuted at last year’s SEMA Show in Las Vegas – bringing a high performance look to the 2015 Stingray Coupe and a high end luxury look to the 2015 Stingray Convertible.

Ford Motor Company announced earlier this year that they were teaming up with the nail polish company Opi to celebrate the 50th birthday of the Ford Mustang and with the celebration well under way – we have a first look at the six shades offered in the Ford Mustang by Opi lineup.

An improved 2015 Subaru BRZ is coming but will we see a new Subaru BRZ STI?

Will we ever see a 5-door hatch in the performance 2015 Subaru WRX or WRX STI again? Subaru listens to their loyal fans. Here is a way to let them know.

The all-new 2015 Subaru WRX STI is at the New York International Auto Show along with the 2015 Global RallyCross STI. But who else brought a new STI?

While the $75,000 price tag and the limited quantities of the Chevrolet Camaro Z/28, there will likely be some folks who cannot acquire the real thing who will try to make a more affordable trimline of the Camaro look and drive like the Z/28 – but GM isn’t going to make it easy for dreamers to build a knock-off of the new super-Camaro.

Since the 2015 Dodge Charger R/T was introduced last week at the 2014 New York International Auto Show, there have been critics who hate the new look for a variety of different reasons – but Chrysler doesn’t care if you hate the 2015 Charger design because there really isn’t any competition for the brawny Mopar sport sedan.

Ford Motor Company announced earlier this week that the unique 2014 Ford Mustang GT that was built to serve as the hero car in the racing action movie Need for Speed sold at the Barrett Jackson Palm Beach Auction – with all of the $300,000 from the winning bid going to charity.

This weekend, visitors at the National Corvette Museum will get to meet the newest Callaway tuned C7 Corvette Stingray – with a supercharger package that helps this beast produce 620 horsepower and 600lb-ft of torque.

2014 Subaru BRZ is participating in the Japan Gazoo Racing series. Why is BRZ the perfect track car?

With only 100 slated for the US, these special Miatas will be instant classics.

During internal testing, General Motors used the Pirelli Trofeo R high performance tires that are standard on the Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 on the more powerful Camaro ZL1 – but the supercharged ZL1 was still slower than the naturally aspirated Z/28 on a road course.

Although General Motors pledged right away to fully restore all of the eight cars swallowed by the sinkhole under the National Corvette Museum, company officials will meet with members of the museum’s team to discuss the possibility of leaving one or more of the sunken cars in their damaged state to forever serve as a reminder of that unfortunate morning in Corvette history.

Since well before the 2015 Ford Mustang was introduced to the world last December, the motoring community has been debating what the next generation super-Stang would be called and according to a screen shot from the Ford Motor Company order bank software – the top of the line S550 Mustang could once again wear the SVT name.

The all-new 2015 Subaru WRX STI has been transformed into full Global RallyCross trim and may have two new drivers when it hits the track.

While the introduction of the new 2015 Dodge Charger R/T at the 2014 New York Auto Show focused on the striking new exterior design, but what went unmentioned in many reports on the facelifted Charger (including ours) is that 2015 Charger buyers cannot order the 5.7L Hemi with the advanced all wheel drive system after the option proved to be fairly unpopular in the current models.

Ford Motor Company hasn’t offered up the official pricing information for the 2015 Ford Mustang just yet, but thanks to a member of The Mustang Source who is also a dealership employee, we have our first good look at a great many of the S550 Mustang options – and what those upgrades will cost.