Last week, Dodge unveiled what it's calling "the future of electrified muscle." The Charger Daytona SRT is an electric performance coupe meant to carry the torch passed by the outgoing Charger and Challenger. This new EV is touted as being faster than a Hellcat.
When video games come to life! McLaren has announced plans to build (in real-life) the Solus GT, a car inspired by their "Vision GT" creation for Gran Turismo.
Cadillac has been in need of a halo car to carry the torch for the brand and allow GM’s luxury brand to go toe-to-toe with luxury brands like Audi, Lexus, and BMW for some time. A large sedan platform clearly fits that bill, and with the current XTS on the way out, there’s been quite a bit of speculation about what might fill its place. It turns out that General Motors global product chief Mark Reuss also feels the same way, and has said that a new vehicle, codenamed the LTS, is currently in development.
In the horsepower-flush times we currently live in, it’s becoming less and less of a Herculean task to take a capable chassis that already exists and stuff a proven performance powertrain in it and call it a supercar. However, it’s quite another thing to take the iconic silhouette of the Shelby Daytona Coupe and create enough all-electric motivation for it to proclaim it as “the first American all-electric supercar.” But that’s just what Renovo has done, and their new car has all the right numbers to back up that claim.
Up until now, McLaren Automotive has been building supercars like the 650S (pictured) and P1 that are engineered – and priced – to go directly toe to toe with the likes of Ferrari and Lamborghini. But with the P13, which is rumored to landing in showrooms early next summer and badged as the 500S, McLaren looks to be taking the fight to more mainstream sports cars like the Porsche 911 Turbo, the Nissan GT-R, and the upcoming Mercedes-AMG GT.
At the 2014 Management Briefing Seminars in Traverse City, Michigan, Tim Mahoney, Chevy’s global chief marketing officer, revealed plans to show off the new 2016 Volt in Detroit. Mahoney also showed off a teaser image of the redesign plug-in, giving us a look at the more sculpted decklid of the next car.
At today’s opening reception of the Concours D’Elegance, Jaguar’s Special Operations division unveiled the Lightweight Continuation E-Type cars that their team has set out to build. Between 1961 and 1975, a mere dozen Lightweight examples of the E-Type were built by the factory, and they remain some of the most coveted Jags in history. Jaguar had originally planned to build 18 of the Lightweight E-Types, and the Special Operations team has set out to make good on that initial goal while staying as faithful to the original build process as possible.
Recently we heard rumors about a Hellcat flavored Charger making its debut soon, and today Chrysler made its existence official. Normally we’d spare you the superlatives, but this new four door Dodge boasts some particularly notable ones, as it is officially the quickest accelerating, fastest, and most powerful sedan in the world.
McLaren GT has taken the wraps off their latest track dedicated creation ahead of its official debut later this month at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance. The 650S Sprint, which replaces the outgoing 12C Sprint, will slot above the standard road-going 650S and below the 650S GT3. While the 650S Sprint is a track only vehicle, it’s also not homologated for any particular race series, making the Sprint more of a track day toy than a competition-focused racer.
It might not seem like so long ago that Cadillac introduced an all-new CTS to the motoring public, and in fact, it was only last year that we first saw Cadillac’s new mid sized sedan. Regardless, the company saw fit to tweak a few things for 2015, and we have the details on what’s in store.
Back in March we got wind of a motorcycle-meets-track-day-car project in the works from Polaris by way of a patent filing. Presented as something like a cross between a Morgan Three-Wheeler and a KTM X-Bow, details were pretty scarce at that point. But now Polaris has revealed the Slingshot in production form, along with the official specifications for this sporty crossbreed.
For just about any industry, 100 year anniversaries are a rare occurrence, and hitting that milestone is certainly cause for celebration. For most auto manufacturers that typically equates to a special trim package or similar treatments applied to an already existing flagship model. But BMW, which is set to hit triple digits in 2016, is rumored to be cooking up something particularly interesting to mark the occasion.
While the two companies have had a working relationship for many years now, this most recent development sees that partnership expand to an entirely new level, one which could yield “perhaps hundreds” of factories world wide designed to produce the cylindrical lithium-ion cells used in Tesla automobiles.
Porsche has been taking its time developing the hardcore version of the already potent 991 generation 911 GT3, which is understandable given the latest GT3’s inclination to spontaneously combust. Some lightly camouflaged GT3 RS test mules were spotted testing in Nürburg earlier this year, but these photographs, used for patent filing and discovered by CAR, now show us the new GT3 RS in full form.
Jaguar is in the midst of a bit of a renaissance, and one of the most important products in the works is the upcoming 3-Series fighter, the XE. We’ve seen teaser images and renderings of the chassis, motor and front exterior in the past, but as part of today’s FEEL XE announcement, which will be an “audio-visual spectacle” that’s set to start on September 8th to mark the arrival of the new model, we’re now getting a look at the front of the sports sedan in production form.
Perhaps best known for luxurious and fast sports cars like the V12 Vantage S Roadster, on rare occasions Aston Martin has also thrown their hat into the four door ring with cars like the Rapide S. But the forthcoming “strictly limited production” Lagonda, Aston Martin assures us, is something else entirely.
Recently discovered SAE documents indicate that the 707 horsepower, supercharged 6.2-liter Hellcat motor used in the top spec 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT is also bound for at least one other engine bay in the Dodge lineup.
Production time frames for the introduction of the new Acura NSX have been vague, but rumors had been circulating earlier this year that a production-based test mule might was expected to make an appearance at Goodwood last month, but those speculations never became a reality. This week, spy photographers at Nurburgring caught a glimpse of an NSX prototype lapping the ‘Ring in what appeared to be near-production form, reigniting hopes that the hybrid supercar might soon break cover. Unfortunately, events seen today at the track seem to indicate that the NSX might not be quite ready for primetime just yet.
The pony car wars show no signs of letting up any time soon. While the new Dodge Challenger, and particularly the 707hp Hellcat variant, have been stealing the limelight as of late, Ford has just announced the official specifications and output figures for its all-new Mustang, which is set to hit showrooms later this year.
The concept of the Aston Martin Vantage S coupe was pretty simple – take the smallest platform your portfolio and stuff the biggest engine you have in the engine bay. It resulted in a fairly fantastic sports car that we found to be quite pleasing to the eye and a lot of fun on the racetrack. So what could Aston Martin do to make it even better? Chop the top off, of course, and create the fastest roadster in the company’s history in the process.
When we reported that the Challenger SRT Hellcat was officially the most powerful production muscle car ever made, we all knew the performance numbers were likely to be impressive. Still, given the Challenger’s mass, there were some reservations about just much sporting prowess 707 horsepower could provide to a car that is expected to weigh in north of 4200 pounds. Well, Dodge continues to exceed our expectations – the Hellcat is a 10 second car. But there’s a catch.
Mazda has been teasing us with tidbits on the long-awaited fourth generation Miata for quite some time now, but it looks like our wait is nearly over. We saw the chassis and drivetrain at the New York Auto Show earlier this year, which promises weight reduction, a revamped multilink rear suspension, and a bump in power. What we didn’t get was a proper debut of the complete car – or even a promise of when that might be.
Dodge caused quite a stir among muscle car enthusiasts when they took the wraps off the Challenger SRT Hellcat, the new top-spec offering of the brawny coupe. While the Hellcat boasts massive six-piston Brembo brakes, uprated suspension, a new optional 8-speed gearbox (a six speed manual is standard), and a host of aero tweaks to go along with its refreshed styling, the centerpiece of the model is the all-new, 6.2-liter supercharged V8 engine. But they remained vague about horsepower specifics, only offering “over 600 horsepower” as any indicator of what to expect. Turns out Dodge was being rather coy.
