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Performance Vehicles (Page 187)

By Denis Flierl on
European Auto Source says they swapped the I6 turbo in the new BMW M4 for a S65 V8 powerplant. Or did they?
By Patrick Rall on
While the 2015 Ford Mustang is being priced extremely high in many global markets due to high import costs, those new Mustang buyers in Australia will be paying a much smaller price than those muscle car lovers in the other non-North American countries we have discussed in the past few months.
By Patrick Rall on
The 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat driver who took a beating from a new Tesla Model S P85D a few months back has gotten his rematch and this time, the 707 horsepower muscle car handed the world’s quickest EV a proper beating.
By Patrick Rall on
While there isn’t likely to be new official news on the 2016 Chevrolet Camaro until Thursday, the introduction of the new Cadillac CT6 with a new version of the 3.6L V6 with 335 horsepower has us thinking that the 6th gen Camaro base model will pack the same 335 horsepower – if not more.
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With help from BMW’s performance division, BMW is sitting on top as the luxury car leader in the U.S. What is attracting buyers to BMW M?
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With the help of the 2015 Subaru WRX, WRX STI and BRZ sports cars, KBB ranks the Subaru brand the best performance brand in America. Who did Subaru beat?
By Denis Flierl on
In the first round of the SUPER GT Series, the 2015 Subaru BRZ GT300 finishes 17th. What happened at the rain-soaked Okayama opener?
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The 2015 Subaru WRX STI has a long and storied race history. Check out the video as STI is on the stage at NYIAS.
By Patrick Rall on
The 2015 Ford Mustang is headed to India with a factory right hand drive layout for the first time and while this new Mustang will be less expensive at the local Ford dealerships than it was through importers – it is still more expensive in India than in the other foreign countries getting a new Mustang for the first time.
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The 2015 Chevrolet Camaro SS Convertible will serve as the official Festival Car of the 99th running of the Indy 500 and for the first time ever, a small collection of those specially equipped Camaros will head straight to area Chevy dealers – with the first examples already at Bill Estes Chevrolet.
By Denis Flierl on
The new BMW i8 wins another award and sprints away with the World Car Award in the World Green Car category. What other World Car Award did i8 narrowly miss?
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Subaru’s 2015 WRX STI Global Rallycross car will launch from 0-60 in a lightning quick 2 seconds. What part is STI playing in the new cars development?
By Patrick Rall on
The 2015 Dodge Charger funny car continued its domination of the 2015 Mello Yello Drag Racing Series, as Jack Beckman was the first car driver across the line in all three rounds of the 2015 Four Wide Nationals – making it four wins in four events for the new Charger race car.
By Patrick Rall on
There hasn’t been any exciting news on the 2016 Ford Mustang coming out of the 2015 New York International Auto Show, but a new report states that there will be a new GT/California Special package offered for the 2016 model year.
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The Chevrolet Camaro had a fairly slow month in March 2015, but just when it looked like the popularity of the new C7 Corvette had started to fade, the new Stingray and Z06 posted the second best sales month of the generation – trailing only the very first month that the C7 was available and beating the Porsche lineup by a massive margin.
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Subaru fans have a lot to be excited about after the Japanese automaker revealed the new BRZ STI Concept at NYIAS. What’s next for Subaru?
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The Dodge Challenger did something in March 2015 that it has not done before, outselling the Chevrolet Camaro for the first time since the 5th generation Camaro was introduced for the 2010 model year – showing just how big of a difference the light refresh and the extra injection of Hellcat horsepower made as Challenger sales numbers continue to grow.
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Subaru unveiled a turbo Subaru BRZ STI Concept car at the New York International Auto Show today. Will this vehicle ever make it to production?
By Patrick Rall on
This is not an April Fool’s Day joke – the 2015 Ford Mustang outsold both the Chevrolet Camaro and the Dodge Challenger combined in March 2015, posting the best March sales since 2007 and the best overall sales month for any muscle car in the past 4 years.
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The official word has surfaced that there will only be 250 examples of the 2017 Ford GT supercar built annually for the entire world, guaranteeing sales success but also guaranteeing that this car will never pose a real threat to the likes of the Chevrolet Corvette or Dodge Viper in terms of real world performance credentials.
By Denis Flierl on
Subaru will debut the new 2015 WRX STI Global Rallycross race car at the New York International Auto Show. What new changes will be coming for 2015?
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The “Official Car of MotoGP”, the 2015 BMW M4 with innovative water injection took to the track for the first time. How much more power does it get?
By Patrick Rall on
The 2015 Dodge Challenger and Dodge Charger powered by the 707 horsepower Hellcat Hemi remain locked out of the order banks at dealerships around the country, but in an effort to meet the crazy high demand of these record-setting muscle cars, Dodge has ordered 1,000 examples of the supercharged Hemi to be built – although it is unclear what number that 1,000 is being added to.
By John Goreham on
Bridgestone’s new tire designed for cars like the ISF and RC F
By Patrick Rall on
When the Ford Shelby GT350 Mustang was first introduced last year, the Motor Company promised that the new flat plane V8 engine would deliver at least 500 horsepower and 400lb-ft of torque, but new comments made by a Ford exec indicate that it will be at least 520 horsepower.
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The new 2016 Ford Focus makes its official debut at NYIAS this weekend. How will this new competition from Ford affect Subaru’s 2015 WRX STI?
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The BMW M4 DTM Champion Edition is super expensive and ultra-exclusive. The first customer took delivery of the Marco Wittmann model.
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The new Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat is the quickest and fastest 4-door production sedan in the world, but when the newest Alpina version of the BMW M5 arrives later this year with 591 horsepower and 590lb-ft of torque, it will have a top speed that will challenge that of the 707 horsepower Charger.
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We have seen the new Ford Shelby GT350 Mustang in person at a couple auto shows and we have even gotten a chance to hear the new high performance pony cars rev their engines in and around the displays, but this new video showing a Shelby GT350 test car out in the wild still grabs my attention.
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General Motors offered up their newest batch of details on the 2016 Chevrolet Camaro today and the most important bit of information is that the 6th generation Camaro will weigh at least 200 pounds less than the comparable outgoing model – which could put it in the same weight range as the 2015 Ford Mustang.