Performance Vehicles (Page 170)

The Torque News Best Cars of the Year are all about getting your heart rate up. The BMW M4 will give you a heart attack.

The 2015/2016 Ford Shelby GT350 was designed to be the ultimate road racing muscle car so when building up the new Shelby Mustang, the folks at Hennessey aimed to add power without adding weight over the front end and they succeeded – lifting the output to 575 horsepower and 511lb-ft of torque through exhaust and tuning efforts.

The first practice session for the Roar Before the Rolex 24 kicked off this morning, but the #4 Corvette driven by Tommy Milner didn’t get off to the start that the team had hoped – with the car being carted off of the track on the wrecker after the car burst into flames on the track.

After driving scores of new cars, trucks and SUVs in 2015, my top vehicle of the year was the Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat.

The fourth generation BMW M3 E92 was the most powerful to date. Why will the E92 forever be the classic in the M3 family?

The Dodge Viper ACR and the Chevrolet Corvette Z06 recently went head to head thanks to the crew at Motor Trend and not surprisingly, the most track capable Dodge of all time absolutely destroyed the most track capable Corvette of all time – with the Viper beating the Vette by almost 3 seconds around Laguna Seca Raceway.

The Jeep brand posted its best sales year ever in 2015, with more than 865,000 new sport utility vehicles sold across the United States leading the way for the entire Chrysler Group – and the controversial Cherokee was the top seller within the brand.

We reported earlier this week that the Ford Mustang had claimed the bestselling muscle car title for 2015 and now that we have had time to dig through the numbers from around the industry, we can officially say that the mighty Mustang leads all 2-door sporty cars sold in the good ol’ USA.

The Chevrolet Camaro fell short of beating the Ford Mustang in the 2015 muscle car sales race, but the Chevrolet Corvette had no problems running away with the title of America’s bestselling premium sports car once again – selling more than twice as many cars as the runner-up Lexus RC.

The Dodge Challenger is not offered in the Australian market but based on the massive popularity of the new Ford Mustang coupled with the large local Mopar enthusiast crowd – there certainly seems to be a strong business case for Dodge shipping the industry’s most powerful muscle car Down Under.

The 2016 Chevrolet Camaro has only been available for roughly two months, but RPM Motorsports has already gotten one of the 6th gen Camaro SS coupes very near the 9-second quarter mile range – running a 10.00 at 137 miles per hour and turning in what I believe to be the quickest quarter mile run by the new Chevy muscle car.

BMW sees record sales for 2015. With the new BMW M2 and M4 GTS coming, the future is even brighter.

The 2016 Subaru WRX and WRX STI stable mates had the best year ever in 2015. Why are the performance sedans so hot?

The sales numbers for the entire 2015 calendar year are in and last year was officially the best sales year for the modern Dodge Challenger and the second best sales year in the history of the Challenger nameplate – trailing only the 1970 Challenger.

Ford Motor Company and the 2015 Mustang did what General Motors and the Chevrolet Camaro have not been able to do over the past few years – with the mighty Mustang claiming every single monthly sales title during the course of 2015 in route to a dominating win in annual muscle car sales.

The Ford GT will make its on-track debut at the upcoming Roar Before the Rolex 24 event at Daytona International Speedway, but the Motor Company has already offered up a short video of the new GT race car in action and if you liked it sitting still – you will love it in action.

The 2016 Chevrolet Camaro is already selling like hot cakes and as a result, General Motors has added a third production shift at the Lansing Grand River facility to build the new muscle car – with more than 500 jobs being created as a result of the increased production volume.

Fuji Heavy, maker of the 2016 Subaru WRX STI, also develops passenger jets. How does it benefit your STI?

Is it hype or will the 2016 BMW M2’s overboot really make you feel like you are sitting in a masterpiece? Check out the new video from BMW Magazine and see for yourself.

The 2016 Rally America schedule is out and the 2016 Subaru WRX STI will have less challenges. What changes did officials make?

BMW has released the M3 E46 video for performance enthusiasts. You may even entertain the thought of buying one.

BMW has just revealed the new M2 Coupe in a new online brochure. Discover everything you need to know before it arrives.

There has been tons of speculation as to whether or not the 2016 Chevrolet Camaro SS actually makes more power than the C7 Corvette Stingray with the same LT1 engine, but thanks to the folks at JDP Motorsports – we know that the 6th gen Camaro definitely makes more power than the Corvette.

A Dodge Challenger owner in Pensacola, Florida recently smashed his muscle car through a coffin business and a tax service office while making an attempt to travel through time – seriously!

The Subaru brand is flying high with record sales and things look rosy for the automaker. The top story for 2015 will surprise you.

The new 2016 BMW M2 is about to makes its global debut. The M235i is already in BMW showrooms. Should you wait for the M2?

As part of the new Lego Ideas program, there is a chance that a Dodge Viper Lego kit could become a retail piece and those who want to see it happen can support this Viper build kit for free – with 10,000 supporters needed to make it to the next phase of the creation process.

Ford Motor Company has teamed up with Revell to offer up free Ford GT supercar model kits to kids at the 2016 North American International Auto Show in Detroit’s Cobo Hall – marking the third straight year where little gearheads can score a free toy from Ford.

Although the 2016 Chevrolet Camaro has only been shipping to dealerships for a few weeks now, the folks at Rick Hendrick Chevrolet have already cooked up a special edition package that is exclusive to the list of Hendrick-owned Chevy dealerships around the southern United States.

Watch the Toyota GT86 Limited Edition GRMN at the Nurburgring. Why does Subaru need a BRZ like this tuned by STI?