A news story has been traveling around social media which talks about a 19-year old Ford Mustang driver in Oklahoma who was clocked going 208mph and while it certainly makes for an interesting story – there is almost no way that he was going 208 miles per hour.
This past weekend, a 2016 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat with absolutely no power modifications ran a 10.56 quarter mile – setting the record for the quickest Dodge Hellcat car running on 100% stock power.
The big news from Chevrolet at the ongoing LA Auto Show is the debut of the new Colorado ZR2 – a midsized pickup designed to conquer the nastiest off-road situations featuring the first application of a high performance suspension setup previously reserved for supercars and race cars.
FCA has announced the pricing for the new 2017 Ram 2500 Power Wagon and with a price starting just over $53,000 and climbing up around $57,500, the heavy duty, Hemi-powered Ram truck is priced very comparably to the 2017 Ford F150 Raptor.
This past weekend in Pomona, California, Ron Capps and his Don Schumacher Racing Dodge Charger R/T claimed the 2016 NHRA funny car championship for the first time in the driver’s storied career – and his 3 DSR teammates all joined him in the top 5 of the final season standings.
A Michigan Trans Am owner poses an interesting question, which would fans rather have a high powered 2017 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 or the 2017 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport. The answers are surprising.
I spend a week in the seat of Honda’s grown up hot rod coupe. And frankly, this HFP equipped V6 manually shifted Accord Coupe brings the kid out in me.
To show off some of the best-looking and highest performance Chevrolet muscle cars on the internet, I present you with our first ever Camaro of the Month, with the first winner being Steve Walker and his beautifully restored 1985 IROC Z.
The folks at Roush Performance used the 2016 SEMA Show to introduce their new P-51 Mustang – a 727hp package designed to sit atop the Roush Mustang lineup in terms of power and performance.
FCA doesn’t officially break down the Challenger and Charger sales by trimline or engine choice, but a company representative has confirmed that during the course of 2016, 33% of the Dodge muscle cars sold were fitted by either the 485hp 392 Hemi or the 707hp Hellcat Hemi.
While the 1950 Dodge D100 shown above doesn’t preface a future high performance model, this crate Hemi-powered rat rod pickup was among the most popular old school rides at the 2016 SEMA Show – with a crowd gathered around this patina-clad machine all week long.
The crew from Black Horse Racing was the first to put a 6th generation Chevrolet Camaro SS in the 9-second quarter mile range and at the 2016 SEMA Show, they were showing off their new Fireball 900 package – with 827 rear wheel horsepower and a price starting around $90,000.
While the Charger was the less popular of the Dodge Hellcat cars for the second year in a row, there more than three times as many Hellcat Chargers built for 2016 than were built for the previous model year – with more than 4,000 examples of the 707 horsepower super sedan offered up to dealerships around the country.
The 2017 Ford F150 Raptor is still more than a month away from reaching the first buyers, but those folks looking to secure one of the new 450 horsepower pickups are flowing into dealerships – creating an early waiting list for the next gen Raptor.
Looking to Road & Track’s recent assessment of the best overall high performance sports car, 2017 Acura NSX came out on top of an astoundingly exceptional field of supercars, effectively redefining how we measure high performance.
The configurator page for the 2017 Ford F150 Raptor has gone live on Ford.com, giving us a full rundown of the pricing for the new off-road monster – with prices starting at $49,250 and topping out up over $70,000 when you tack on all of the options and accessories.
