As it stands now, tuners are having a field day with VW products. Just last week, a tuner proved he could upgrade the Audi S5 and make it more powerful. Now, another tuning firm has decided to tune the Atlas SUV. The results are incredible as the engine turns out 350 hourspower and 350 pounds-feet of torque. The former torque figure from a curren SUV is 235 pounds-feet of power.
The 2018 Ford Mustang Cobra Jet drag racing package will make its formal debut this weekend at the Woodward Dream Cruise, but Ford Performance offered up all of the juicy details of the new race car earlier today – a car which is likely to run well into the low 8-second range in competition.
Hertz car rental service turns 100 years old in 2018 and to celebrate the company centennial, they will offer a special Hertz 100th Anniversary Edition Corvette Z06 at a handful of airports around the United States – making it easier to rent the 650 horsepower American supercar.
The 2019 Ford Mustang officially went on sale last month and it is already getting a price hike while the Chevrolet Camaro pricing is going down, although the Mustang’s hikes are nowhere near as dramatic as the Camaro’s price cuts.
At one time about 750 years ago, a bunch of guys called alchemists tried to turn lead into gold. That they didn't know anything about periodic tables and metals related to lead didn't deter them as they were convinced they could do it. It's too bad they didn't know, they would have saved lots of time. Today's conversions in the auto world work a lot better as this Tesla-Audi Swap. Read On.
Based on a series of patent filings from General Motors, the automaker is developing new active aerodynamic components for the Chevrolet Corvette, including a new rear wing, side skirts and unique ductwork in the front end and on the roof.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently revealed that Tesla’s battery development people have come up with a lighter weight and cheaper design of the Model 3 battery pack. This can be a game changer not only for the elusive Base Model 3, but across the entire present and future model range.
The Tesla news blindsided and shocked the world. A stock exchange wasn’t notified, neither was the Securities Exchange Commission. Not even the board of directors of the company that was affected by the news. Stock prices went crazy, its stock was eventually suspended, everyone who’s anyone about billions denied they were asked to help, and a moment of explanation finally came: Elon Musk wants Tesla to go private, he wants an equity leveraged buyout, and he wants the Saudis to finance it.
The folks at Hennessey Performance have published a video of the 2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 with the automatic transmission working out on the dyno in stock form and the numbers are pretty solid, with the 755-horsepower LT5 sending 654 horsepower to the rear wheels – a loss of about 13% between the crankshaft and the wheels.
The EPA has announced their official fuel economy ratings for the restyled 2019 Chevrolet Camaro and remarkably, fuel economy numbers of the new car are down among V6 and SS models, while the turbocharged 4-cylinders remain unchanged and the ZL1 gets a little better fuel economy.
A tuning firm, B&B Automobiletechnik, has managed a huge jump in power for the smallest member of the Golf GTI family. The Up! GTI has had its power raised from 100 horsepower to 145 horsepower. Of course, it took a lot of work and added equipment. Here's how they did it.
Like it was a few weeks ago when a Spanish designer took to Instagram to show his render of a proposed Tesla Semi 8 RV Camper, another artist has given us his vision of what a Tesla Model S next generation might look like with the present generation before its retirement sometime in 2021.
NASCAR fans finally know what the new Ford Mustang inspired race car will look like. How the new pony race car will help the Ford teams better compete.
A funny fact has emerged now that the Tesla Model 3 is America's top-selling luxury car. Taxpayers are subsidizing the price of the car regardless of the buyer's wealth.
This morning, the 10,000,000th Ford Mustang rolled off of the assembly line at the Flat Rock, Michigan facility, marking an incredible milestone for the legendary American performance car that has become the world’s bestselling sporty car.
The July 2018 Hellcat of the Month as picked by the members of the SRT Hellcat and Demon Facebook Group is the Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat shown above, owned by Leon Epling and raced by his son, Jason – making this Mopar muscle car a family affair.
John Hennessey and his Texas-based tuning shop is best known for building high performance Chevrolet and Dodge products, but the company hit the 10,000-vehicle mark with a Ford Mustang – one which features a design that is available immediately for purchase in limited numbers.
After losing in the final round in each of the two events leading up to the CatSpot NHRA Northwest Nationals at Pacific Raceways, Ron Capps and his Dodge Charger R/T funny car beat Courtney Force in the finals this past weekend to grab his second win of the season and the 60th win of his career.
With Audi's new Q3 creating quite a stir, there's a new report that a new RS model of the Q3 is in the planning stage and should be delivered sometime in the 2019 sales year.
Eight people are being sent to jail in Japan for selling fake Brembo brake covers.The surprising thing according to Brembo is that they don't make brake covers.
Finding themselves in the same situation they were ironically in back in the 1970’s facing record loses toward bankruptcy, Harley Davidson, the storied motorcycle company had to swallow some bitter reality medicine and face up to changing times with a younger generation that the company turned off with motorcycles their fathers rode, and their Millennial sons (and daughters) never liked. And now here comes the Harley Davidson electric motorcycle.
