Performance Vehicles (Page 199)

The sales numbers from around the American automotive industry are in and for the 7th consecutive month, the Chevrolet Camaro has comfortably outsold both the Dodge Challenger and the Ford Mustang – which pushed the Camaro’s lead in the annual muscle car sales race to almost 10,000 units.

Among the large, centralized General Motors display at the 2014 SEMA Show is a 2015 Chevrolet Corvette Coupe that has been customized by Kiss guitarist Paul Stanley and while this C7 Stingray isn’t as outrageous as others around the show – the Starchild’s little red Corvette is impossible to miss.

Among the many vehicle debuts at the ongoing 2014 SEMA Show in Las Vegas is the 2015 Dodge Charger R/T Funny Car – a purpose built drag car that will help Team Mopar go after another championship in 2015 with 10,000 awesome Hemi horsepower.

Mazda announces an exciting new race series with identically prepared 2016 Miata racecars

Apparently, the “boring” label no longer works, but critics are hard at work trying to find a way to downplay the most exciting Toyota/Lexus product ever.

Ford Racing has unveiled their first big power added for the 2015 Ford Mustang GT at the ongoing SEMA Show and with help from the folks at Roush, the new Ford Racing supercharger lifts the output of the new Mustang from 435 horsepower to over 600 horsepower – enough power to push the 2015 Mustang down the quarter mile in the 10 second range.

Mark Higgins who set the record at Isle of Man driving the 2015 Subaru WRX STI, came close to a victory at ERC round 10. This time he did it in Switzerland.

The first Chevrolet Corvette to be repaired after falling into the National Corvette Museum sinkhole is the 2009 Blue Devil ZR1 and as a surprise accompaniment to the highly modified new models at the 2014 SEMA Show – the good-as-new Blue Devil test car made its world debut before heading back to its home in Bowling Green Kentucky.

Toyota is working hard to inject some fun into their brand and what they did to this new 2015 Camry for a trade show is pretty outrageous.

Last month we announced the MSRP of the new 2015 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat and thanks to the Mr Bob Frederick, we have a detailed look at the options and pricing for the world’s most powerful sedan.

General Motors is once again using the SEMA Show in Las Vegas to show off the new model year Chevrolet Camaro COPO race car, with the 2015 COPO Camaro getting a unique appearance package and the buyer’s choice of four different engines that apply to unique NHRA Stock and Super Stock classes.

Among the many Ford Mustang show cars debuting today at SEMA is the Ken Block Hoonicorn RTR – a super modified 1965 Ford Mustang featuring the all-wheel drive system that Block will require when he films Gymkhana Seven with this wicked pony car.

The 2015 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution is getting ready to make its dealer launch, but it will be missing one important component.

The 2015 Subaru WRX STI performance cars are helping Subaru hit record sales. But why are buyers unhappy?

Ford has offered up a video that talks about high performance in a way that leads me to believe that this is the first official teaser for the 2016 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350, including a reference to the date of November 17th, 2014 – leading me to believe that the next generation Super-Stang will make its world debut in a few weeks.

The 2014 SEMA Show begins tomorrow and among the big debuts is the 2015 Chevrolet Camaro Commemorative Edition – a sort of “end of the line” package to celebrate the final year of the immensely popular 5th generation Camaro.

After hearing a rumor on the internet that over 5,000 examples of the 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat I checked with the folks at the Chrysler Group and they have confirmed that more than 5,000 orders have indeed been received for the 707hp Mopar muscle car.

Subaru of America employees get some extremely fun perks for working at company headquarters. Do you have this much fun at work?

The 2015 Subaru BRZ/FR-S and 2015 WRX are both desirable sports cars. Why did Consumer Reports rank them highest on the fun-to-drive meter?

The 2015 Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution will be the last one ever build for performance fans. But fans will continue to make it even faster.

The Toyota GT86 CS-V3 sports car wins the TMG GT86 Cup 2014. Take a ride with TMG and experience the start from the driver's seat of their GT86 CS-V3 [video]

Even though Subaru sales in Japan have fallen, 2015 Subaru WRX STI sales are booming and one group couldn’t be happier.

Our latest look at the 2016 Chevrolet Camaro comes from automotive artist chazcron and while we have seen some excellent artwork depicting the next generation Camaro – this work might just be the most accurate in predicting what the new Chevy muscle car will look like when it hits the street.

Among what is likely to be more than a few 2015 Dodge Challenger show cars at the upcoming SEMA Show in Las Vegas will be the customized Mopar muscle car shown above, which features unique body work, a striking paint job, more than a few performance modifications and – best of all – the name Rapture.

Scion unveiled its lineup for SEMA with 4 FR-S models and one is a turbocharged Targa Top. FR-S T1 shows why the brand desperately needs a new convertible FR-S.

I frequently see people posting on forums and social networks about how muscle cars should only be offered with V8 engines, but production statistics for the 2014 Chevrolet Camaro paint a very clear picture as to why all three American automakers offer their muscle cars with smaller engines in addition to the powerful V8.

The very first 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat built for public sale was auctioned off for charity and as the Chrysler Group was building that deep metallic red muscle car, they filmed the process and made a cool video showing the most powerful muscle car ever come to life in a minute and thirty five seconds.

The 2015 Ford Mustang will almost surely be the belle of the ball for the 2014 SEMA Show and the latest next gen pony car teaser comes from the folks at Classic Design Concepts, who will be showing off two versions of their new Outlaw package for the 2015 Mustang in Vegas – one of which will be on display in the official Ford Motor Company area.

Subaru took to the circuit at the Japan Motorsport 2014 event to demonstrate the capabilities of the 2015 WRX STI. Get a sneak peak at the the new STI in this video.

We have talked in the past about how the 2.3L EcoBoost engine from the 2015 Ford Mustang could power a new high performance Focus RS and while the Motor Company hasn’t had much to say about the formally Europe-only hot hatch, there are some new rumors floating around on the arrival of the highest performance Focus for the US market.