General Motors still hasn’t acknowledged that there is a mid-engine Chevrolet Corvette on the way, but according to the crew at Car & Driver, the upcoming super-Vette will only come with one variety of transmission – and it doesn’t include a clutch pedal.
The excitement over the 2017 Dodge Challenger T/A and the 2017 Dodge Charger Daytona caused everyone to look over the fact that FCA has promised one more special edition muscle car this fall – but what will it be?
One of my favorite moments in the history of cars is the muscle car wars in the mid 60's and early 70's. Detroit's assembly lines were pumping out high horsepower cars that were marketed towards the youth of America (Baby Boomers). The race was on to see who could be the fastest.
The full pricing schedule for the 2017 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray and Grand Sport has arrived online and the price increases for the new model year Stingray are fairly minimal at just $50 extra across the entire model range – while the new 2017 Corvette Grand Sport starts at $66,445.
While lots of vehicles turned in impressive times at Car & Driver’s Lightning Lap 10, the Dodge Viper ACR turned in the quickest time among production cars in this year’s field.
There she sat in my driveway planted firmly on 18 inch black alloy rims and performance tires. This RDX looked just a bit sinister. Would its performance live up to the look?
A video has surfaced online from a non-General Motors YouTube account showing what is alleged to be the 2017 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 in action on the Milford Proving Grounds, with the video captured via the Performance Data Recorder system – although we don’t get to see a full lap.
Yesterday we reported that the Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat had turned the quickest lap among 4-door cars in their years Car & Driver Lightning Lap shootout and after digging deeper into the results of one of the most rigorous track tests in the industry, I found that the Tesla Model S P85D was also in the competition – and it didn’t do very well at all.
The results for the 2016 Car & Driver Lightning Lap are in and both of the Ford vehicles in the field turned in solid times – with the new Shelby GT350T turning in the 2nd best time ever among American muscle cars and the quickest time ever for the LL2 class while the new Ford Focus RS set the best time ever by a 4-cylinder car in the 10 years of the Lightning Lap shootout.
The folks at Car & Driver have published the results of their 2016 Lightning Lap tests at Virginia International Raceway and among the most impressive cars on the track were the new Corvette Grand Sport and both of the new 1LE Camaros – with the V6 model nearly matching the new all-wheel drive Ford Focus RS.
After all of the talk about the All-Wheel Drive Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat in the past two weeks, I polled the folks on the large Hellcat Group and asked if they would have gotten an AWD Hellcat when they purchased their cars, and the results were pretty evenly split between the “yes” and “no” camps.
Granted, Peter Cunningham may be the most amiable team owner and driver engaged in Pirelli World Challenge Series racing. He has a lot to smile about these days.
The Subaru WRX S4 was the first. A 2017 Subaru Legacy is the latest Japan-only model to get the upgraded SporVita leather interior. Will we see it in other global markets?
We already learned what colors the Dodge Challenger and Dodge Charger will wear when the 2017 model year vehicles arrive, but today FCA offered up a few cool graphics showing all of the available colors on the silhouette of each Mopar muscle car.
It’s not every day that Honda fans have the opportunity to order an affordable out of the box race car. Such is the case with the Brit built 10th generation based Civic Type-R.
After a bunch of outlets misread or simply disregarded the information on the upcoming Dodge Challenger all-wheel drive and American Drag Racing models, it was incorrectly reported that the Challenger street legal drag racing package would have all-wheel drive, but that is incorrect – as has been clarified by the folks at Automotive News.
