Performance Vehicles (Page 213)

After discussing the rumor based possibilities that the new Hellcat Hemi which will power the future Dodge Challenger SRT would debut at this weekend’s big LX meeting in Southern California – but new information suggests that the Hellcat will definitely NOT debut at the 2014 LX Spring Festival.

The 2015 Subaru "WRX STI vs StickBomb" video is just too good to pass up and its received 3.0 million views already. Have you seen it?

This 2014 Mercedes-Benz CLA-Class from Brabus is the fastest compact luxury CLA in the world. You can own one of these performance cars.

Word on the street is that the Chrysler Group will introduce the new Hellcat Hemi that is expected to power the next Dodge Challenger SRT this coming weekend at the 2014 Spring Festival of LXs in Irvine California – which could be the first official information on the supercharged Hemi as we wait for the introduction of the next generation Challenger.

The Chrysler Group has announced that the Connor Avenue Assembly Plant where the SRT Viper is built will be idled for 9 weeks starting next month to help the company burn through inventory already on hand while also performing any changes that need to be made for the start of the 2015 model year Viper production run.

The 2014 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28 is a street legal muscle car designed for serious road racing and to help promote racing among new Z/28 owners, the 5 year, 100,000 mile warranty will cover problems which occur during track racing sessions.

Ford has shown us the 2015 Ford Mustang and they have shown us the 2.3L EcoBoost engine on a stand at the various auto shows, but we haven’t gotten a very good look at the engine bay of the EcoBoost’d 2015 Mustang – until now.

Porsche will replace all of the engines in all of its top street/racing 911 model, the GT3. The engines have a catastrophic defect that can cause the engine to be blown and catch fire.

The newest AMG has just been revealed, the all-new 2015 Mercedes-Benz S63 AMG Coupe is here.

It has been expected since the sinkhole under the National Corvette Museum swallowed up 8 historic American sports cars last month that they would be fixed, but a great many people believe that not all of the cars should be fixed – and I agree.

It has taken the new Chevrolet Camaro Z/28.R race car just two tries to score its first win – with the Stevenson Motorsports Z/28.R piloted by Robin Liddell and Andrew Davis winning the warm-up race ahead of the 12 Hours of Sebring.

The all-new 2015 Subaru WRX STI Nurburgring 24-hour race car runs a 2.0-liter engine. Why not the 2.5-liter that the production model runs?

For the second time in the 2014 Tudor United Sports Car Championship, an SRT Viper GTS-R finished on the podium as the #93 Viper finished 2nd in the GTLM class at the 12 Hours of Sebring race – also beating the Corvette Racing program for the second in two races.

The two teams campaigning a new Chevrolet Corvette C7R headed into this weekend’s 12 Hours of Sebring endurance race with the hopes of improving on a slow start to the 2014 season, but those hopes were dashed by mechanical issues for the second race in a row.

The Ford F150 EcoBoost V6 continues to show that it really can do everything as this powerful twin turbocharged engine helped win the 2014 12 Hours of Sebring endurance race – marking the first endurance racing win for the EcoBoost in only its second try.

The new 2014 Subaru BRZ GT300 race car completes its first official test. Is it ready to compete in SUPER GT Series?

The all-new 2015 Subaru WRX STI is going to be a film star as Bucky Lasek plays a mysterious drifter in “The Ride of Her Life!”

Tetsuya Yaman, driving the 2014 Subaru BRZ wins the opening round of the All Japan Gymkhana Championship.

The qualifying runs have finished for the 2014 12 Hours of Sebring race and after being among the quickest cars in practice, the Chevrolet Corvette C7R teams have secured solid starting spots – but the same cannot be said for the SRT Viper GTS-R teams.

The field for the 2014 12 Hours of Sebring race have completed all four practice sessions and for the first time this season, the Chevrolet Corvette C7R race cars look to be the teams to beat in this weekend’s historic endurance race – while the cross town rival SRT Viper GTS-R teams struggled throughout most of the four practice runs.

During the internal track testing of the 2014 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28, the engineering team found that the new Z/28 accelerates and brakes so hard that it was spinning the tires on the rims – forcing GM to come up with a way to keep the tires where they belong during high performance driving.

It has been more than a week since we posted an update on the National Corvette Museum sinkhole repair program and that is because no more cars have been removed since last week – but there has been plenty of progress in the effort to remove the final three buried Corvettes from the massive pile of rubble.

The 2014 Mercedes-Benz G63 AMG has plenty of power as seen in this new video release from Mercedes.

The all-new 2014 Subaru LEVORG 2.0 GT-S sports tourer launches in Japan. But it’s limited in supply.

Watch Travis Pastrana and co-driver Chrissie Beavis take the 2014 Subaru WRX STI at high speeds at Missouri's 2014 Rally in the 100 Acre Wood. What's it like to ride along?

I recently had a chance to speak with an individual who has seen the next generation Dodge Challenger and while he wouldn’t give me any real details, he assured me that anyone who loves Mopar muscle cars will love the next Challenger – stating that it was going to “blow my socks off”.

The Chevrolet Camaro enthusiasts’ community is eagerly awaiting the debut of the 6th generation Camaro for the 2016 model year and while some are expecting a radically different GM muscle car with the next generation – rumors indicate that the next Camaro might not look all that different from the car in dealerships right now.

Linari and Arena finish 2nd in the Subaru WRX STI in Production Cup category of WRC Round 3 in Mexico.

Subaru Technica International could be expanding to include mainstream cars like the Subaru Forester. Could we see a new Forester STI in the future?

Bucky Lasek and the 2015 WRX STI are going to star in a new film called “The Ride of Her Life.” Is Lasek an actor or RallyCross driver?