The American aftermarket blue oval tuner Roush has a long history of releasing their own brand of supercharged Ford Mustang that takes the already fun from the factory pony car and turns it into a track day special. The road car arm of Jack Roush Racing is continuing the trend with the all new 2010 Stage 3 Mustang, a special edition Ford Mustang limited to only 103 units and priced at just $59,945 each.
The stag 3 package is currently the highest of Roush’s upgrade kits for the new Mustang and boosts the pony car’s power plant up to a GT500 rivaling 540 HP and 510 lb-ft of torque. Aside from a tremendous amount of new found power under the hood, the 2010 Roush Mustang wears a full body kit from the aftermarket manufacturer and comes fully equipped with other go fast goodies like a free flowing exhaust, four piston brakes calipers biting down on oversized 14 inch rotors and a new grill that gets rid of the standard center lamps cleaning up the new car’s appearance and improving the air flow across the modified Mustang’s cooling elements.
On the inside the ROUSH Mustang is adorned with a set of leather seats complete with embroidered Jack Roush signature, a set of performance pedal covers including the all important dead pedal to support the driver’s left foot while turing into a tight right hander as well as signature ROUSH illuminated kick plates and a short throw shifter with either a black or white cue ball style knob. Of course, like all Roush Mustangs, the Stage 3 comes equipped with badges on the inside that identify the authenticate it as a Stage 3 Roush Mustang. Still, at under $60,000 a Roush Mustang is an affordable alternative to the factory tuned Shelby Cobra.
One of the men who can be held personally responsible for bringing General Motors to muscle car prominence in the 1960s is Jim Wangers. An automotive design hopeful turned advertising guru, Wangers is responsible for Pontiac’s performance enthusiast marketing campaigns of that foregone era of drag racing down Woodward Avenue and cars that you can take directly from the showroom to the race track and blow the doors off of just about anything. One particular Pontiac that Wangers was responsible for was the 1969 Pontiac GTO Judge, he even commissioned the rack band Paul Revere and the Raiders to take part in the car’s launch campaign and got George Barris to build the Monkees a modified GTO.
So it is only fitting that Big 3 Performance has decided to team up with the man himself in order to create an all new muscle car tribute to Jim Wangers and his Pontiac GTO. Starting from scratch, the team at Big 3 Performance have redesigned the 1969 Judge from the round up, including modern day running gear and other amenities. The body stays very close to the original, incorporating everything from the GTO’s three bar grills to the long sloping fenders to create a truly 21st century muscle car, after all why mess with perfection.
The Jim Wangers Edition GTO will be built using the highest quality materials available. The car’s interior will feature a set of heated and cooled Orthoped leather seats from the racing bucket manufacturer Recaro as well as a high tech audio visual package complete with touch screen navigation and fully powered accessories to complete the modern day muscle car experience.
Top Speed announced earlier this month that the 2010 Hurst Mustang Pace Car would make it just in time to lead the field of pupose built Ford Mustang FR500S race cars at the final race of Ford Racing Mustang Challenge Series season at the Miller Motor Sports Park in Salt Lake City, Utah. After serving out its duties on the track, the 2010 Hurst Mustang is going to make its way to Las Vegas at the beginning of November for the world’s greatest aftermarket car show, SEMA, and following its appearance at the south end of the Strip, the Hurst modified Mustang will be auctioned off in January.
The special edition BFGoodrich/Hurst Mustang pace car has been beefed up with a Roush supercharger that breathes in through a high flow K&N air filter and breathes out though an unrestricted Magnaflow stainless steel exhaust system that work together to increase the pony car’s output to 435 HP and 400 lb-ft of torque. The 2010 Mustang Peace Car is dressed up with features a unique white and gold paint job and sits on 20-inch Hurst polished forged aluminum wheels wrapped in a set of the obligatory BFGoodrich g-Force T/A KDW tires, because after all you have to represent your sponsors.
It is nice to finally see the 2010 Hurst Mustang Pace Car in the flesh, the car continues the sifter company’s dedication to creating truly impressive muscle cars wearing the traditional white and gold livery. The new Hurst Mustang is just another great example of those wild creations that we have come to love ever since the 1960s.
Hennessey Performance Engineering seems to have made a habit of turning fast and powerful cars into speed demons on the road. The performance tuners latest project, the 2010 HPE700 Camaro is no different from the rest.
Loaded with a supercharged LS9 V8 engine – the same engine that can be found under the hood of the Corvette ZR1 – the HPE700 Camaro produces around 717 ft-lb of torque and a horsepower of well over 700 hp. If you know your Camaros, that’s 300+ ft-lb of torque and 250+ horsepower more than the standard Camaros. For lack of a better term, the HPE700 is a Camaro on steroids.
It sounds appropriate too once you listen to the added power the HPE700 produces. Of course, Hennessey made all of that possible by tinkering with the car’s specifications including the addition of 15-inch carbon brakes and a customized suspension to make the car sturdier as it picks up speed. In addition to that, Hennessey also outfitted the HPE700 with a number of carbon fiber body panels to make it relatively lighter than standard Camaros.
From what we’ve heard, only 24 of these cars have been made retooled by Hennessey and 13 have already placed in their orders. The car, which will be on-hand at SEMA, costs around $120,000 so if you’re interested in purchasing one, we must warn you that only 11 cars remain up for sale.
Should you need more convincing, we invite you to check out the video of the car and listen to he rip-roaring power of the engine. Frankly, that’s all the convincing you’ll need.
To be clear, the original Bumblebee was a Volkswagen Beetle so we’ll get that matter-of-fact statement out of the way.
What we are talking about of course was the first incarnation of Bumblebee in the movie Transformers and if you’ve seen the movie, you know it’s not the 2010 Chevy Camaro but rather a dilapidated looking 1977 Camaro. We’re saying all of this because it’s been brought to our attention that the said car – yes the one that chased Sam Witwicky while he was riding his mother’s pink bicycle – is now up for sale.
The car, naturally, is far from peak condition, but it does have all the necessary equipment to make it functional. Plus, it also comes with a certificate of authenticity from Bay Films, which means that this specific car was, in fact, the one that was used in the first movie and the very same one Mikaela (Megan Fox) called a ‘piece of crap Camaro’forcing Bumblebee to upgrade his model.
We don’t have a price on the car yet, but we’re hearing that it’s being sold for around $12,000 – to $15,000. Considering the world-wide fame – or notoriety – this car was able to garner from being in the movie, we think that it’s a bargain worth looking into.
If you ever find yourself arriving out of the Los Angeles International Airport – or LAX, as its more affectionately called – in the coming days and you’re in need of a rental car to take you around the City of Angels, it’s better to do it in style, don’t you think?
Budget happens to have a location just outside the airport and while they do have a roster of reliable rides to choose from, what got our attention was those glistening 2010 Camaros waiting patiently for renters to take them out of the lot.
The Camaros for rent come in either the V6 version or the V8 SS and Budget has priced their Camaro rentals at $139.99 for the V6 and $149.99 for the SS.
We figure that the popularity of the Camaro these days, mixed with the thrill-seeking allure of Los Angeles, would be enough reason for people in need of a rental car to pick those brand-new and beautiful Camaros out from the rest.
But we don’t need to tell you that. We’re confident you already know what awaits you when you’re seen around Hollywood in a 2010 Camaro.
With only 45 models ever built, it’s easy to see why there’s such an uproar over the Iacocca Silver 45th Anniversary Edition Ford Mustang. First of all, its limited run makes it, well, a prized collector’s fantasy. Second of all, seeing as the car has been decked with the insanely cool ‘Iacocca’ silver hue, it’s bound to get its fair share of onlookers, wishing they were the ones sitting behind the wheel of this car.
And if there’s proof that this car is being fought over by car nuts all around, you don’t need to search very far to know that despite being officially priced at just a shade under 90 thousand – it’s $89,950, to be exact – the car is still being fetched at over six digits in a number of car auctions, including one where a bidder actually bid $125,000 for one the 45 Iacocca’s.
We here at Top Speed recently had the opportunity to get behind the wheel of an Imperial Blue Metallic 2010 Chevrolet Camaro RS for an extended period of time and we have to say that we enjoyed every minute of the modern day muscle car experience. The Camaro RS combines the fuel efficient 300 HP direct injected V6 that gets as much as 29 MPG with the aggressive styling as the powerful Chevrolet Camaro SS with its 20 inch wheels wrapped in high performance rubber, high intensity discharge headlamps, rear spoiler and polished taillight bezels as well as unique RS badges all for only $31,530.
Back when we spoke with the car’s lead Exterior Designer Luciano Nakamura, he assured us that the 2010 model is not a retro Camaro, but instead a 21st century muscle car inspired by the classic bow tie wearing pony car with its strong shoulders and classic Coke bottle shaped waistline while the interior is quite a different story, including touches like a flat rimmed steering wheel and a four pack of accessory gauges to give the new Camaro a 1960s Americana feel.
The 2010 Camaro comes complete with all the amenities we have come to expect from a modern car like dual stage frontal and side curtain airbags as well as Stabilitrak traction control, four wheel disc brakes with ABS, tire pressure monitoring system and of course, General Motor’s fabulous OnStar system complete with convenience features like turn by turn navigation and a very peace of mind granting automatic crash response.
Ford’s ’10 Unleashed’ Mustang campaign has found another lucky winner, and this time, it just so happened to be that the guy is a big Mustang enthusiast. 24-year old Daniel Verlarde has long been a card-carrying fan of the Ford Mustang so you could expect his elation after finding out that he had won for himself a brand-new 2010 Ford Mustang.
Apparently, Verlarde’s giddiness from winning the car gave him the idea to immortalize his Mustang obsession by having a stallion tattooed on his arm. But that’s not where the fanaticism ends. Verlarde also had his new Mustang air-brushed with the same image to show just how much of a Mustang nut he is.
"I wanted a tattoo artist to design a 2010 Mustang tattoo and I wanted the creation to be brought to life with the customization of an actual 2010 Mustang," said Verlarde. "This way, I could be a part of the car and the car would always be a part of me. My dream came true."
The 2010 Mustang GT Verlarde won comes with the high-end premium package. Not only that, the car was also outfitted a number of other features including a FR3 Handling pack, 20-inch wheels, a Ford accessory hood scoop, side scoops, side window louvers, and a rear deck panel.
It’s no secret the lengths people will go through to show the world their fanaticism. Daniel Verlarde is living proof of that.
We won’t fault you if you can’t. This charred remnant was once a 2005 Dodge Viper and if there was ever any car accident that you don’t want to be in the middle of, this should take the cake. The driver of the car was cruising along the streets of Laurel, Mississippi when he lost control of his Viper while passing another car. As a result, his rear end gets dislodged, loses control of his vehicle and goes off to the side of the road.
If that wasn’t enough, he crashes his Viper into a tree, after which, it catches fire. The photo of the once-proud American muscle car is a gruesome sight, unrecognized beyond despair.
Now you’re probably wondering what became of the poor man behind the wheel of this car. Well, judging from the severity of his crash and burn – literally speaking, of course – he suffered two broken ankles and a broken right arm. Considering the extent of the crash, three broken bones in his body would probably be considered a blessing in disguise because quite frankly, it could have been much worse.
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