In May 2016, the Chrysler Group posted its 74th consecutive month of year over year gains, with major contributions from the Jeep lineup, the Dodge Challenger, the Chrysler 300, the Dodge Charger and all three of the company’s existing minivans.
Ford Motor Company has rolled out a new list of vehicles affected by the global Takata airbag recalls, with the newest batch including the Ford Mustang, the Ford GT supercar, the Ford Fusion, the Ford Ranger and a collection of Lincoln and Mercury vehicles.
Sales numbers were down across the board in the muscle car segment for May 2016, but the Chevrolet Camaro posted the biggest slide, trailing both the Ford Mustang and the Dodge Challenger as sales of the 6th gen GM muscle car remain inexplicably slow.
New insider information suggests that when the next generation Dodge Charger arrives around 2021, a new twin turbocharged 4-cylinder engine could serve as the fuel-sipping entry level option under the lineup of powerful Hemi V8s while the entire model line stands to lose some 500 pounds.
Hyundai has put one of their development vehicles for their upcoming N performance division through the ringer by running Nürburgring 24 Hours this past weekend.
For the second year in a row, the team from Ohio State University was named the winner of the Chevrolet Camaro-centric EcoCar3 competition – beating teams from 15 other universities around the country with their custom Camaro hybrid.
There has been speculation that the next generation Dodge Challenger and Dodge Charger would arrive for the 2018 or 2019 model year, but according to insider information from Allpar, the next refresh will be another minor one and the next generation with the new platform might not arrive until 2021.
The Chrysler Group has once again expanded the list of vehicles recalled for the Takata inflator failures, with every pre-2013 Dodge Challenger and Dodge Charger that has been registered in select areas with high humidity – with the total scope of this new recall announcement adding almost 1 million cars, trucks, SUVs and van to the already massive recall.
The Chrysler Group has just announced the winner of their FCA US LLC 2015 National Sweepstakes and of the 1.2 million entries received, firefighter Kevin Arias of Oswego, Illinois won the prize and took home a 2016 Dodge Challenger R/T Scat Pack.
The folks at Hennessey have rolled out a video of their HPE1000 package for the C7 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 and while the output of more than 1,000 horsepower is impressive – the most exciting part of this video just might be the sound.
Ford Motor Company is celebrating its dominating win of the 1966 24 Hours of LeMans race with a limited run of specially decorated performance cars including the Mustang, the Focus ST, the Focus RS and the Fiesta ST – but these unique high performance Ford products will be offered in France, only.
There has been speculation as to whether the next generation Dodge Charger and Dodge Challenger would continue to be built in Canada, comments from Sergio Marchionne suggest that the two Mopar muscle cars will continue to be built in Brampton when they transition to the next generation – even if they are on a platform shared with Alfa Romeo.
Following Ryan’s high speed wall kiss in Ontario, Canada last Sunday, the #43 Acura TLX-GT car is out of commission. RealTime Racing’s Peter ( P.D.) Cunningham has a plan.
