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Performance Vehicles (Page 158)

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The folks at Hennessey Performance have cooked up a large collection of high performance packages for the 2016 Chevrolet Camaro SS, but the HPE750 package allows the 6th gen Camaro to lay down performance numbers that should beat the Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat.
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Subaru is suspending sales of the 2016 WRX in Russia. Why are the Russians getting the STI and not WRX?
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Molly Taylor will be driving the new 2016 Subaru WRX STI as they return to rallying in Australia. What does Subaru want you to do?
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Higgins and Pastrana get new 2016 WRX STIs for their return to the Rally America Championship.
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Is Subaru secretly testing a radical new mid-engine sports coupe based on the BRZ?
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The rumor is it will debut March 23rd in New York.
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We’d drop the last few words and just call it best, but here’s what Consumer Reports says.
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It’s called the BMW VISION NEXT 100 vehicle. BMW says it reveals 4 things to look for on future vehicles.
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Subaru’s newest motorsport involvement includes the Levorg sports tourer. It gets teased before its motorsport launch.
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Subaru unveiled their Global Platform and the next-generation WRX and WRX STI will benefit in big ways. Five new enhancements are coming.
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Watch an 81-year-old woman from Poland who owns a 2016 Subaru WRX STI. She likes to shift gears.
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The team at General Motors has just announced the 2016 Chevrolet Camaro 50th Anniversary Special Edition package, which brings in a collection of aesthetic upgrades to create what the company calls “the most epic Camaro yet” – available for coupes and convertibles in premium V6 and V8 form.
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According to a document unearthed by the Mustang6g.com community, the next generation Ford Mustang will enter production in May of 2020 – almost two years earlier than originally expected.
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What does mainstream brand Subaru have in common with luxury automakers Tesla, Ferrari and Porsche?
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Ken Block announced a while back that he would run the full FIA World RallyCross Championship this season and at that point, it was assumed that he would be running his familiar Ford Fiesta ST racecar, but he will actually campaign a brand new car based on the all-new Ford Focus RS.
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The Yenko Camaro is one of the best known special edition packages of the vintage muscle car era and New Jersey-based Specialty Vehicle Engineering has put together a new Yenko package for the 2016 Camaro – complete with a 427 cubic inch engine and the classic Yenko graphic package.
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A Jeep Wrangler powered by the 707 horsepower supercharged Hellcat Hemi may be among the unique offroading concepts introduced at the Easter Jeep Safari later this month – along with 6 other eye-catching custom rides from the Jeep and Ram brands.
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2016 Subaru WRX and WRX STI has best February ever. What’s next for WRX/STI’s evolution?
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The new BMW M2 is revealed at the Geneva International Auto Show alongside its spiritual successor, the BMW 2002. Why is M2 the biggest crowd-pleaser?
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A video has hit the internet showing the Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat racing the Ford Shelby GT350 Mustang on a half mile strip of runway – with the poorly driven Mopar muscle car winning some and losing some.
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The folks from Super Chevy recently published a piece detailing their experience of adding a cold air intake to the 2016 Chevrolet Camaro with pretty impressive results and with so many questions as to whether these intake systems are really worth the money – this seemed like an excellent chance to showcase their functionality.
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The Original Hoonigan Ken Block has rolled out the 8th chapter of his legendary Gymkhana video series, this time tearing up the streets of Dubai in his 650hp Ford Fiesta ST rally car with cameo appearances by a Ford F150 Raptor, the new Ford GT supercar and the incredible high performance exotics of the Dubai police force.
By John Goreham on
In the dead of winter, an affordable convertible outsells all Porshe car models, many of which come with roofs. Oh, and it outsold the FR-S and BRZ too.
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While the Dodge Challenger was once again third on the muscle car segment sales chart, February was still a great month for the Mopar muscle car – helping the new Challenger to post the strongest annual growth through the first two months and further proving that the 2015 refresh was a complete success.
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The Ford Mustang posted huge sales in February, badly beating the Chevrolet Camaro as sales of the 6th gen GM muscle car have remained inexplicably slow.
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The 2017 Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport debuted today at the Geneva Motor Show, introducing a host of upgrades to the Stingray that makes this C7 almost as quick around the test track as the 6th generation Corvette ZR1.
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I recently spend a week behind the wheel of the 2016 Hyundai Veloster Turbo Rally Edition and when that week was done, I had a new appreciation for a car that I really enjoyed when it was introduced in the lower performance Turbo package a few years back – while still loving the unique 3-door design of the funky little hatchback.
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Bucky Lasek’s 2016 Subaru WRX STI GRC race car is revealed in Geneva. The new livery looks good on the Subaru stand. Can Subaru compete?
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We have talked a great deal about the Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat laying down lightning quick quarter mile times with the new 8-speed automatic transmission, but today we bring you a video of the first manual transmission Hellcat Challenger that I have seen join the 10-second club – with a short mod list.
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Ford Motor Company is expecting the 2017 F150 Raptor to be very popular when it arrives later this year so to build the new high performance EcoBoost V6, the automaker is investing $145 million in the Cleveland Engine Plant that builds many of the current EcoBoost engines in the company portfolio.