On this day 52 years ago, more than 22,000 people had purchased the new Ford Mustang which had been formally introduced at the World’s Fair on April 17th, 1964 – marking the start of the longest-running car and one of the most famous American cars in the history of the industry.
Last year, Koenigsegg announced they would be tackling the Nürburgring lap record with the One:1, a model that has a one to one ratio of horsepower to kilogram, making it the most powerful production car in the world at the time. But those plans were scrapped.
Torque News takes a closer look at what many believe to be Honda’s best Civic offering yet. We spend a week in the seat of Honda’s best selling 2016 Civic Sedan Touring.
The new Ford Mustang is the first ever to be sold in South Africa with the preferred right hand drive configuration and like every other RHD market that has just gotten the new Mustang – the American muscle car is sold out well into the foreseeable future.
After an hour or two in the seat of 2017 Acura NSX, a plot developed in my sensory overloaded brain to attempt to justify the purchase of Acura’s $158,000+ rolling automotive art piece. In short, Acura NSX redefines performance dynamics, I want one.
The configurator page for the new Ford GT supercar has gone line on Ford.com, allowing us all to burn a few minutes picking our favorite combination of wheels, stripes and exterior colors, but those folks hoping to buy a new GT will have to apply through the unique purchased process – with only approved buyers getting the green light to take one home.
The Dodge Viper, Hellcat Challenger, Hellcat Charger and the rest of the many Hemi-powered vehicles in the brand’s lineup makes it the leading American brand in terms of high performance vehicles and in their newest advertisement, the company shows off all of these powerful vehicles as they storm through the streets of Detroit.
I recently spent a week driving the 2016 Chevrolet Camaro 1LT RS Convertible and while I liked a great many aspects of my first CamaroSix experience, I was most impressed by how well General Motors embraces the 3.6L V6 – making their “base mode” muscle car better than the previous version and maybe better than any V6 muscle car before it.
It seemed slightly odd that Porsche would introduce a second-generation of the 911 GTS in 2015; less than a year before the updated 911 with turbo flat-six engines would be revealed. But it seems it was meant to be a short production run.
The pricing has been announced for the 2016 Chevrolet Camaro in the United Kingdom, and even though the new GM muscle car isn’t right hand drive and the new Ford Mustang is – the Camaro still costs more than the Mustang in both 4- and 8-cylinder form.
The Ford Mustang is so popular in Australia that the American muscle car is technically sold out until the middle of 2017, but the Motor Company is trying to help shorten the waiting list by allocating an extra 2,000 units for the Aussie market – although those extra cars won’t arrive until late this year.
Jon Sipple and his record-setting Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat were back at the track this past weekend with a tune engine tune and the result was yet another record run – making the world’s quickest manual transmission Hellcat Challenger even quicker.
The folks at Hennessey Performance took their Venom GT Spyder to the Naval Air Station in Lemoore, California for a run at the convertible top speed record and they achieved that goal – shattering the Bugatti Veyron’s convertible top speed record in hitting 265.6 miles per hour with an engine borrowed from the Corvette Z06 and the Camaro Z28.
This past weekend, we see new a new record for the quickest Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat set at the Modern Street Hemi Shootout and after Ricky Ellison set the record with a 9.59, he backed up his record with a 9.58 – in less than ideal conditions and without the aid of nitrous oxide.
This past weekend in Palm Beach, the first examples of the 2017 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport and the 2017 Chevrolet Camaro 50th Anniversary Edition hit the Barrett Jackson auction block, and while they didn’t bring the crazy amounts that past “first units” have brought – they both still raised an impressive amount of money for their respective charities.
Mopar lovers in Australia have been pleading with the Chrysler Group for a right hand drive Dodge Challenger to compete with the Ford Mustang and the rumored arrival of the Chevrolet Camaro, and based on new reports, the future is looking brighter than ever for a proper Mopar muscle car to be sold Down Under – just not during this generation.
In case you needed a clear sign as to how popular the new Ford Mustang is in Europe, here it is – the Ford Mustang was the bestselling sports car in Germany last month and on the year, it is the second bestselling sports car in Germany so far this year.
The very first Chevrolet Camaro ever was introduced for the 1967 model year so with the 2017 model year comes the official 50th anniversary of the fabled muscle car and GM is celebrating the occasion with the 50th Anniversary Edition 2017 Camaro – the first of which will be auctioned off tomorrow to benefit the United Way of Southeastern Michigan.
