What’s better than playing a cool car game like Midnight Club: Los Angles while enjoying a great pizza?! Picking up that pizza in a new Saleen Mustang inspired by the game Midnight Club: Los Angles. Rockstar Games and Pizza Hut are teaming up to give away a Saleen S302 Extreme Ford Mustang, worth an estimated $100,000. All you have to do is enter at Pizza Hut’s website before November 10th.
Ok, that last paragraph was a little too much shameless promotion, but the fact remains that it is a cool giveaway. Just please forgive all the cheesiness – but you’ll never have to forgive Pizza Hut for all the cheesiness on their delicious pizzas (oh crap, there I go again.)
The crew at Saleen is saying goodbye to this generation of Mustang by going out with a BIG bang. Earlier this week, they unveiled a special edition car they call “Dark Horse”, and TopSpeed was given some exclusive time with the 620 horsepower beast.
The menu for the engine is a good one. Start with a 302-cu-in Ford V8; add a Saleen Port Matched Series VI Integrated Screw type supercharger with 12 psi of boost; top with SuperShaker scoop that sticks up through the hood; and garnish with forged aluminum pistons, forged steel connecting rods and forged steel crankshaft. The result: 620 horsepower with 600 ft.-lbs of torque.
Saleen gave us an opportunity to get some track time with the Dark Horse at the Streets track a Willow Springs Raceway in California. The super pony had no trouble smoking the tires all the way through first gear and was a blast through the whole track. As expected from a high-horsepower car, it had no trouble pulling away at any point, even uphill.
What was surprising was that Saleen chose the Streets track to unveil the car. This is a course known less for its high-speed ability and more for providing some serious twists and turns – something that can be scary in a live rear axel Mustang. What is most amazing about the car (besides the massive engine) is that out on the track, the car rarely tried to break loose during hard cornering. Saleen reworked the live axel rear end of this car so that the “wild pony” characteristics are modified to the point it is almost like having an independent rear suspension.
The styling of the car is exactly what you would expect from a car of this name: black. The metallic black paint and body kit is accented by matte black graphics as well as black chrome wheels. The theme is carried over into the interior with all black instruments and black Alcantara sport seats. The only piece of color is the red gearshift knob and surround – very cool.
It takes $90,000 to put a Dark Horse in your garage, but that may be the least of your worries - production will be limited to 25 units.
Remember that Saleen doesn’t just work with Mustangs, but a whole host of Ford products. To help squeeze a little more performance out of a budget car, Saleen has turned its attention to the Ford Focus coupe. The new vehicle called Racecraft Focus RC2 includes a new front fascia, a new grille, side sills, a new rear spoiler and a rear apron with integrated exhaust system. The new suspension system was also upgraded and together with the new 18 inch alloy wheels the stability was improved.
Under the hood a power boost of 15 hp was obtained with the help of the new exhaust system and the cold air intake. With a price under $20,000 the new Saleen Racecraft Focus RC2 promises to be a best-seller comparing it with the Saleen N2O.
Saleen announced at the New York Autoshow a new partnership with the famous video game maker ’RockStar’. Saleen cars will first appear in the next edition of the franchise Midnight Club. This time Rockstar is offering the apprentice racer to prowl Los Angeles city streets in a dubbed out Mustang Saleen. Check our video preview while we wait for the official release date of the game later this fall of 2008. Note that the Saleen model in the demo is one of many cars and motorcycles that will be playable and fully customizable once the game is released.
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Steeve Saleen, founder of the Saleen Autosport, announced the birth of another brand, the SMS Limited. Apparently this launch of the new brand gives Mr Saleen plenty of joy because SMS enables him to use the freedom along with technology in order to develop world world-class specialty vehicles.
The SMS brand will develop ultra high performance vehicles addresed to the new American Mucle Cars. A good news to the fans because the vehicles equipped with the new technology will meet the demands of the world’s most challenging race tracks. One thing is for sure, that the new brand will bring a new automotive lifestyle experience and why not...maybe the perfect supercar.
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In its first year of production, the 2007 Saleen S331 Sport Truck revived the diminishing performance truck segment with the first fully-functional, high-powered sport truck to the market in several years. Many performance trucks quickly followed, but none came close to offering the same combination of functionality, performance and aggressive styling.
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