Monthly Archives: May 2013

Mopar Muscle Thursdays: Dodge Neon SRT4 tickles the 8 second barrier

While most folks are quick to associate Mopar Muscle with a big old American V8, the Chrysler Group has put together an impressive resume of high performance 4-cylinder performance cars that offered both stunning performance and incredible potential – like the crazy fast Dodge Neon SRT4 shown in the video below. The Neon SRT4 was ...

Design Vision GTI Unveiled at Wörthersee Festival

Those of us being made to wait around for the 2015 GTI now have even more to drool over with this wild concept, unveiled this week at VW’s Wörthersee Festival in Reifnitz, Austria. The AWD super rabbit is powered by a twin-turbo V6 good for 503 hp and 413 lb-ft of torque. VW claims a [...]

Invasion of Supercars!

This video looks like a warm-up lap for an English Cannonball Run. There are 50 supercars leaving a charity event via one on-ramp to the M6 Motorway. Which supercars you ask? All of them, we think. Check out the video, that’s why you’re here…

Manhart’s M5 is Hot Enough to Ruin Relationships

You’d think that tuning the M5 to 646 horsepower and 570 lb-ft of torque would be enough. A car like that shouldn’t need a dramatic commercial to show it off. And if you’re doing something like that, you need to at least be clever. This isn’t really either of those. It’s the opposite. In fact, it’s so [...]

Mopar Collaborative Hits and Misses

The Chrysler Group has enjoyed collaborating with many different car companies mostly because it has owned (and been owned by) so many of them. Unfortunately, those relationships produced mixed results. In the 1980’s Chrysler collaborated with Mitsubishi Motors which led to two great Mopars: the Chrysler Conquest and later, the Eagle Talon. Both were fun, ...

Rumormill Update: Hellcat Hemi could offer 550-640 horsepower in Challenger, Cuda

Back in January we talked about the rumored “Hellcat” 6.2L Hemi that is expected to serve as the engine of choice in the next generation of the 8-cylinder powered Street and Racing Technology vehicles beginning with the new Challenger in 2014. Rumors originally indicated that the Hellcat Hemi would pack roughly 600 horsepower and 550lb-ft ...

2014 Scion tC Priced at $19,210

Scion has announced pricing for the refreshed 2014 tC. The base manual transmission car will list for $19,210, not including $755 for destination. Add $1,000 if you want the auto. This represents an $485 increase over least year’s car. Besides the obvious visual changes, Scion says that tweaks to the suspension and electric power steering [...]