Ford Motor Company has announced that the 2016 Focus RS will officially feature 350 horsepower and 350lb-ft of torque, but more importantly, the wicked hot hatch will feature a new “stall recovery system” that will make dealing with the clutch pedal a little less painful for unskilled drivers.
The tuning experts at Diablosport have finally finished their packages for the Dodge Challenger and Dodge Charger with the 6.2L Hellcat Hemi – lifting the wheel horsepower up over the 700 horsepower mark at the push of a button.
The 2016 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray and Z06 are on sale now and with the 2015 model year being wrapped up, our Chevy dealership friend has sent over the final production numbers for the 2015 Corvette in Stingray, Z06, Coupe and Convertible form.
We have gotten more accurate details on the limited edition Neiman Marcus supercharged Ford Mustang GT Convertible and while it doesn’t have all-wheel drive, Lexan windows or lightweight race seats – it is still a 700 horsepower drop top Mustang speedster with a long list of unique appointments and production limited to just 100 units.
The Nissan GT-R wrapped in electric blue and featuring characters and scenery from the classic Nintendo game Duck Hunt is now for sale. Get your light gun and go buy this 884 horsepower one of a kind Godzilla.
General Motors still has not announced the complete pricing for the 2016 Chevrolet Camaro, but thanks to a source who wishes to remain nameless, we have a more expanded list of Camaro Coupe pricing than the official numbers that we covered a few weeks back.
When the newest supercar from British sports car building TVR hits the market for 2017, it will be powered by the same 5.0L V8 that is under the hood of every new Ford Mustang GT – except the 5.0L mill in the new TVR will pack a few extra ponies courtesy of the folks at Cosworth.
Subaru is the only automaker with the IIHS Top Safety Pick for their entire lineup for 6 straight years. Now 2016 Subaru WRX achieves Top Safety Pick+ award.
We still don’t know for sure if the Hellcat-powered Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk will become a production reality, but a Chrysler patent filing discovered by Allpar.com reveals an interesting piece of technology that could play a big part in the high performance capabilities of a 707 horsepower Jeep.
In the modern world of endurance racing, no American team is better known than the factory backed Corvette Racing program and as the crew continues to roll through the 2015 WeatherTech United SportsCar Championship, the team has resigned all four of their core drivers for the 2016 model year – helping to guarantee the continued success that has rung up a handful of championships around the world.
The newest Neiman Marcus Christmas book includes a limited edition Ford Mustang GT Convertible with 700 horsepower, 600lb-ft of torque, a handful of unique appearance upgrades and all-wheel drive – although the all-wheel drive technology is either a mistake in the listing, or a groundbreaking announcement for the muscle car world.
There are a great many rumors floating around the internet insisting that there are some changes coming for the 2016 Dodge Challenger and 2016 Dodge Charger, but there are actually very few changes for the new model year – shy of some new option packages, the return of Plum Crazy purple and increased production of the Hellcat Hemi-powered models.
The 2016 Chevrolet Camaro hasn’t reached showrooms yet, but General Motors has already rolled out a list of 5 performance accessories for the next generation muscle car that will improved the acceleration and handling capabilities – with 3 items available this year and 2 hitting the market early in 2016.
Some critics insisted that the 2015 Ford Mustang with the new 2.3L EcoBoost 4-cylinder engine would flop, but with the new Mustang posting sales numbers that we haven’t seen from a muscle car in nearly a decade - the EcoBoost package has proven to be incredibly popular, particularly in Southern California
The folks at Callaway have rolled out their new Corvette C7.R GT3 race car and I believe that this might be the meanest looking C7 Corvette we have seen thus far – and this beast will debut in a variety of road racing circuits around the world in 2016.
This past weekend was another big one for the Dodge Charger funny car team and driver Jack Beckman, as “Fast Jack” set a new NHRA funny car ET record in route to winning his 7th event of the season and the 15th of the year for Don Schumacher Racing – all while moving the 2nd spot in the championship race, just 16 points out of 1st with two events left.
The 2015 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution Final Editions are rolling off the assembly line. Watch this production video saying goodbye to the last models ever.
Randy Pobst recently took to the hills of Laguna Seca Raceway in the 2015 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 as part of Motor Trend’s Best Driver’s Car testing process and the results were shockingly bad – with the Pobst slamming the LT4 V8 for a lack of power on the straightaways caused by unknown engine problems.
The 2016 Ford Focus RS will be the first “RS” badged vehicle sold here in the United States and today, we have the first ever advertisement for the high performance all-wheel drive hatchback – featuring a whole lot of tire smoke and drifting.
