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Performance Vehicles (Page 187)

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Matt Hagan brought his 2015 Dodge Charger funny car into the Carquest Nationals in Phoenix Arizona looking to back up his season opening win in Pomona and the champ didn’t disappoint – winning every single round with a better reaction time and an awesome time.
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Among the many 2015 Ford Mustang GT fastbacks at the 2014 SEMA Show in Las Vegas was the brilliant blue supercharged muscle car built by the Petty's Garage and, in conjunction with Ford Motor Company, Petty’s team is producing 143 examples of this 627 horsepower beast for sale through your local Ford dealership.
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Based on the GM release looking at the history of the Chevrolet Camaro engines, today we continue our in-depth look at the history of the Camaro engine lineup – this time focusing on the 3rd generation which ran from 1982 through 1992.
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Nissan has parntered with Always Evolving to enter the 2015 Pirelli World Challenge season with two NIssan GT-R GT3 cars. A NISMO and an AE driver will pilot each.
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Watch a 2002 Subaru Impreza WRX with Dominator tracks and some coil spring upgrades take on the snow.
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The 2015 Subaru Levorg is popular in Japan and makes its launch in Europe this fall. Will we see the sports tourer in the U.S.?
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Subaru engineers used the BRZ sports coupe to develop the new generation 2015 WRX and WRX STI. What did they learn from BRZ?
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Now that the 2015 Dodge Challenger Hellcat has proven itself as the most powerful muscle car in the world, the only true gap in the Dodge lineup is a Challenger TA inspired by the Viper TA and powered by the Hellcat Hemi – which would be ideal for the prospective Mopar muscle car buyer who wants high performance without the luxury goodies.
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Ford Motor Company has introduced some incredible performance models over the past few months, including the new Raptor F150, the Shelby GT350 Mustang and the Focus RS, but they have only offered up estimated power figures on all of those models – a decision which has quickly gotten to be very played out in the modern performance vehicle segment.
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As part of our ongoing series detailing the engine history of the Chevrolet Camaro, we move to the second generation, which was the longest running era of the Camaro, covering the 1970 through 1981 models.
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Subaru's goal: Create the best handling WRX and STI ever. The only question was, how.
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Back in December, we talked about the European pricing for the 2015 Ford Mustang and while that pricing applied specifically to the German market, it looks as though new Mustang buyers in the UK will be paying an even bigger price to rule the road in the newest American muscle car.
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Since the day that the 2015 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat was introduced, the Chrysler Group has insisted that it was the quickest, fastest and most powerful 4-door production sedan in the world – but a new video shows the Hellcat Charger backing up that claim against five of the highest performance sedans in the world.
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While General Motors has been unfortunately quiet about the upcoming 6th gen Chevrolet Camaro, the automaker has seemingly begun the slow teasing process for the 2016 model, running through a list of the engines that have motivated the classic Chevy muscle car since it was introduced for 1967.
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While the Mustang community has turned all of its attention to the new Shelby GT350 and GT350R models, we should all keep in mind that there is plenty of room left in the company lineup for a new GT500 Mustang that would compete with the Hellcat Challenger.
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In an effort to spur sales by improving performance capabilities, the Chevrolet SS sedan – the car once referred to by GM as the 4-door Corvette – could get a new handling package similar to the 1LE setup for the Camaro.
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The image shown above of what is stated to be the 2017 Dodge Charger is not an image from the Chrysler Group and I can say without question that the car shown above will not be coming to your local Dodge dealership in 2017 – or ever.
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The 2015 Subaru WRX STI rally car wins Peno 2015. What’s up with the skinny tires?
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About a month back or so, a video hit YouTube showing a Tesla P85D beating the tar out of a poorly driven Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat, but a new video showing that same 707 horsepower Challenger has it running proper quarter mile times – and reportedly wanting a rematch with the 691hp Tesla.
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General Motors has only offered up the base pricing for the 2016 Cadillac ATS-V sedan and coupe, but a posting in an enthusiast forum has offered up a look at some of the options for the high performance compact luxury car, as well as the pricing for those options.
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The 2015 Ford Mustang has gotten a great deal of attention for being the fastest, the most powerful and the most efficient Mustang ever, but with the announcement of the NHTSA crash test scores for the new pony car – the 2015 Mustang is also the safest ever.
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General Motors hasn’t given us much to talk about with regard to the 2016 Chevrolet Camaro, but the devout Chevy muscle car lovers at Camaro6 have gotten ahold of an image that gives us our best look yet at the basic profile and the rear quarter panel of the 6th gen car.
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BMW Motorsport and Shell work together to produce high-performance oil for the BMW M4 DTM race cars.
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Subaru Rally Team USA uses Method wheels on the new 2015 Subaru WRX STI rally car. Can it really run on the rim only for extended periods?
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BMW reveals the M4 MotoGP Safety Car that will be the “Official Car of MotoGP” in 2015. BMW says it will feature new water injection?
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Subaru Japan announces improvements for the 2015 BRZ and a new customization model.
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The 2015 Subaru WRX STI rally car is getting ready for the Peno-2015 Russia rally race this weekend.
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If you have been holding off on ordering your 2015 Corvette Z06 until the normal build page was live on Chevrolet.com, your wait is over as the full configurator tool has been added to the website with a full list of options and prices.
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The 2015 Ford Mustang is selling very well in its first few months and while the Motor Company hasn’t offered up any official take rate numbers for the three engine options, a Ford dealership representative explained that the EcoBoost is moving quicker than the V8, while V6 sales are nearly nonexistent.
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The Chrysler Group has announced that they are now accepting orders for the 2015 Dodge Challenger R/T Shaker models, bringing even more retro styling to the already extensive Challenger lineup – with orders for the more powerful Scat Pack Shaker beginning next month.