Performance Vehicles (Page 147)

Will BMW chop the top on the M2 performance coupe? According to reports, they are.

General Motors has announced that those folks who buy a brand new Cadillac CTS-V or ATS-V will get a free two-day course at Spring Mountain Motor Resort in Las Vegas, where they will learn from skilled racing instructors how to best handle their high performance luxury cars – and it is free (for the most part)!

The folks at Shelby American have rolled out the information on their new Ford Mustang GTE package and while I love the look of the appearance-heavy package, I don’t like the price – as for $17,999 for the components alone, the new Mustang GTE is a pricey option for someone who wants a unique pony car.

FCA featured an all-wheel drive Dodge Challenger Concept called the GT AWD last year at the SEMA Show and according to the crew at Automotive News, that all-wheel drive muscle car will become a production reality starting later this year – although it is unclear which engine will be tucked under the hood.

The Subaru WRX STI rallycar has always been the traditional Subaru World Rally Blue. Why is Subaru Australia changing it?

There has never been a Subaru Crosstrek rallycar until now. Where does Subaru race it?

Subaru of America and Subaru Canada both set sales record for their entire lineups. Canadians seem to be more passionate about the WRX/STI.

In a bold move that may surprise those that don’t follow the ever evolving escapades of Honda Performance Development, and the race teams that power up with the assistance and support of Honda’s racing arm, American Honda puts its money where its mouth is.

In addition to offering up the bulk of the information on the 2017 Dodge Charger and 2017 Dodge Challenger in their high performance SRT Hellcat forms, FCA also posted a pair of videos showing the two 707 horsepower muscle cars tolling around the handling track at the Chelsea Proving Grounds – along with giving us the best look yet at the new 5Deep Hellcat wheels.

Performance fans will get to see the 2017 Nissan GT-R NISMO supercar for the first time in California.

The sales numbers are in for August 2016 and even though muscle car sales slumped a bit last month, the Ford Mustang continued its remarkable 22 month streak of leading the monthly sales race – beating both the Chevrolet Camaro and the Dodge Challenger by sizeable amounts once again.

Since the Fiat 500 Abarth was introduced, it has been my favorite car in the subcompact class without any real competition, but with the introduction of the automatic transmission for the Abarth, could the turbocharged 500 be as much fun? Not quite – but it is very close.

FCA has rolled out all of the vital information for the 2017 model year Dodge Challenger and Dodge Charger, with a new infotainment system across the entire model range and new features for Hellcat models including more Hellcat logos inside and out, new lightweight wheels and an SRT steering wheel logo that glows red at night.

After all sorts of speculation over spy shots over the past few months, the 2017 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT is here and as you can tell from the image above showing a new SRT Jeep, the spy photos all over the internet insisting that this is the 707hp Hellcat model are incorrect – although this new Jeep is a whole lot sportier up front.

Ryan Millen and his Toyota RAV4 earned a first place finish at the Ojibwe Forests Rally.

The 2017 Chevrolet Camaro 1LE SS is being billed as the GM muscle car which will knock out the Ford Shelby GT350 Mustang and while only some of the preliminary performance numbers for the new 1LE have been announced, I have compiled a list of vitals on each of these two muscle cars to see which car has the advantage on paper.

The 2017 Chevrolet Camaro configurator has gone live at Chevrolet.com and in a surprising move, General Motors has added a price increase of $605 to every trimline and – sadly – there is no mention of the new Camaro 1LE or ZL1 just yet.

After the dual mode exhaust system on the likes of the Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat and the Dodge Charger R/T Scat Pack has proven to be so popular, the high performance brand will make a loud, dual mode exhaust system standard on every 2017 Challenger and Charger with a Hemi V8.

Toyota’s North American Engineers picked an odd car to race, but it worked out well.

Mazda updates its prices for the car many consider the most popular race car of our time.

Since discussing the introduction of the new 2017 Dodge Challenger T/A, I have received a handful of questions about which trimlines it will be replacing and since there has been no word on any of the existing trimlines from 2016 being killed off for 2017 – I wanted to do a piece detailing what the 2017 Challenger trimline lineup should look like when it goes on sale later this year.

Based on some dealership allocation paperwork posted on Camaro6.com, the first examples of the 2017 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 with the new 10-speed automatic transmission may not reach dealerships until next spring – with the entire first phase of production dedicated to ZL1 coupes equipped with the manual transmission.

The Subaru Levorg BMR Racing team stays on fire and gets two more podium finishes this weekend.

All eyes were on Chris Atkinson in the new 2017 Subaru WRX STI at Atlantic City GRC. How did the new STI perform?

Ford Motor Company plans to offer a 670 horsepower version of the Ford Mustang GT with a Roush supercharger package at Australian dealerships with a full warranty, but the Australian regulatory process has caused a delay in the automaker launching these high performance models – forcing owners of the popular new Mustang to search elsewhere in their quest for more power.

In a lengthy comment posted on what is a now-debunked article about the future of Cadillac, the brand’s boss Johan de Nysschen stated that there is a non-sedan flagship coming and as I have speculated in the past – I believe that we could be getting a Corvette-bases supercar.

Leading up to the Woodward Dream Cruise, Dodge introduced the new 2017 Challenger T/A with either the 5.7L Hemi or the 392 Hemi and while some will complain that these new trimlines are not elaborate enough – I think that this new Challenger T/A is a perfect package for the current muscle car market.

David Higgins and Craig Drew secure their sixth Rally America Championship. What happened to Pastrana?

The 2016 Subaru BRZ GT300 gets its first win of the season. The team overcame a lot to get the victory.

Is a US-spec 2018 Subaru BRZ tS coming to US shores? New trademark applications suggest it could.