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Seven Wishes With a push of a button you can transform Fusion Sport driving dynamics By Steve Turner Photos courtesy of Ford Motor Company Packing a 2.7-liter EcoBoost engine and all-wheel drive, the 2017 Fusion Sport might just be the perfect sleeper. For those that want a stealthy sedan with...

Keep Your Cool Mishimoto offers a bolt-in, high-efficiency radiator for the Focus ST By Steve Turner Photos courtesy of Mishimoto Right off the dealer lot the Focus ST is one of the most fun cars Ford has ever offered. It offers a balanced package of power and handling that makes it a blast...

Big Moves Start planning your 2017 vacation because Mustang Week has new dates By Steve Turner Since its inception Mustang Week has been held at the apex of the summer in the July heat, but coming in 2017 there are some big changes on the horizon for one of the premier Mustang events in the...

R is for Raffle With $20 in raffle tickets, you could win a new Shelby GT350R By Steve Turner Photos courtesy of TRI Industries NFP At the moment, the Mustang that most of us dream of owning is the race-ready version of the modern Shelby. Dubbed the GT350R, this version of the top-line Mustang...

Adrenal Plan SVTP chatted with Ford about the hottest hatch’s complimentary school By Steve Turner Owners of the Ford Performance’s new hot hatch, the Focus RS get a lot of performance in a small package. Not only does it deliver 350 horsepower, four driving modes, and more. One feature...

Magic Show Hellion will debut its Voodoo twin-turbo system on Engine Power TV By Steve Turner Photos courtesy of Hellion Power Systems Ford Performance engineered the Shelby GT350’s Voodoo engine for spine-tingling rpm on a road course, but that hasn’t stopped the industrious people in the...

Second Chance Ford is extending Ford GT supercar production for two more years By Steve Turner Photos courtesy of Ford Motor Company Are you one of the 6,006 Ford GT applicants that didn’t get approved to buy the carbon-fiber super car in the first two years of production? Well, you can...

Surrounded & Astounded Ford can now share its racing efforts and more in virtual reality By Steve Turner Photos by Steve Turner and courtesy of Ford Motor Company Have you ever wished you could be at a race thousands of miles away. Better yet, have you ever imagined that you could...

Fire Truck A month-old EcoBoost Ford F-150 mysteriously burns to the ground By Steve Turner Photos courtesy of Alex Dial We come across a lot of interesting posts on our forums. Most of them are filled with tales of modifications, dyno numbers and track times. It’s usually a place for...

Education in Excitement Focus RS owners to receive a free Ford Performance Racing School By Steve Turner Photos courtesy of Ford Motor Company As if there weren’t already 350 reasons to want an all-wheel-drive ride like the 2016+ Focus RS, Ford gives you one more—the RS Adrenaline Academy...

Big Thumper The first look at Ford Performance’s new 572-cube, big-block crate engine By Steve Turner Photos courtesy of Ford Performance Amongst all the excitement at this year’s Mustang Week we spotted something distinctly retro under the canopy at the Ford Performance trailer. Yes, the Blue...

Real Winner Race Forza Motorsport 6 online and you might win a 2017 Focus RS By Steve Turner Photos courtesy of Microsoft Your parents probably told you that playing too many video games is a waste of time. Well, if you put that time into racing Forza Motorsport games, you might just be...

Sound & Fury Here’s the first video of the forthcoming GT500 test mule in action By Steve Turner Photos by KGP Photography Last week dedicated spy photographers captured out-of-captivity shots of a 2018 Shelby GT500 prototype roaming the streets of Dearborn, Michigan. With so much anticipation...

Hot Streak The Multimatic Shelby GT350R-C makes it three in a row at Road America By Steve Turner Photos courtesy of Ford Motor Company We aren’t sure if drifting Lethal Performance’s new Focus RS was good practice for Road America, but Billy Johnson and his teammate Scott Maxwell scored...

Tour of Duty A Shelby GT350 is traveling the country to raise money for wounded veterans By Steve Turner Photos courtesy of the High Five Tour How cool would it be to take a new on a four-month, cross-country drive? How about doing it in a new Shelby? That would be the trip of a lifetime...

Flat-Out Aggressive Borla’s GT350 ATAK system delivers aggressive sound and more power By Steve Turner Photos courtesy of Borla Performance Industries There is no doubt that the factory exhaust system on the latest Shelby GT350 sounds fantastic, especially with its adjustable valves...

What’s Your Focus? Ford Performance is giving away the hottest hatch in its lineup By Steve Turner Photos courtesy of Ford Motor Company You never know what you might discover on an event midway. While prowling the aisles of Formula Drift’s Uncharted Territory event at Orlando Speed World, we...

Six-Figure Shelby Ford’s one-of-a-kind GT350 raises $295,000 for EAA Young Eagles By Steve Turner Photos courtesy of Ford Motor Company As we recently shared, Ford Motor Company again donated a unique Mustang for auction at the annual Experimental Aircraft Association Gathering of Eagles held...

Special Delivery Billy Johnson puts Lethal Performance’s RS in Drift Mode on the dealer lot By Steve Turner Regular readers know the last time Lethal Performance picked up a new project vehicle at Weikert Ford in Lake Wales, Florida, that the company did so in smoking style. So, when Team...

The Gathering Mod Motor Mustangs presents a drag race dedicated to modular machines By Steve Turner Photos courtesy of Mod Motor Mustangs It’s hard to believe that there was a time when Ford’s modular engines didn’t get a lot of respect. When the Two-Valve 4.6-liter engine took over in...

MagnaFocus Magnaflow releases its cat-back exhaust system for Ford’s hottest hatch By Steve Turner Photos courtesy of Magnaflow If you watched Ford Performance’s Rebirth of an Icon documentary series, you know that engineers put a lot of effort into giving the new Focus RS and aggressive...

Packed With Power Ford Performance Parts releases the first of three Mustang GT Power Packs By Steve Turner Photos courtesy of Ford Motor Company Owners of 2015-2017 Mustang GTs who have been waiting for a naturally aspirated power package from the factory can start to rejoice. Ford...

Win Again Another Shelby GT350R-C win makes it two in a row for Multimatic By Steve Turner Photos courtesy of Ford Motor Company Fresh off a win at its home track in Canada, the Multimatic Motorsports Shelby GT350R-C team chalked up its second win in a row for Ford Performance at Lime Rock...

Yellow Streak Ford continues supporting EAA Young Eagles with a unique Shelby auction By Steve Turner Photos courtesy of Ford Motor Company For the past eight years Ford has constructed some amazing, one-off Mustangs destined for the auction block at the annual EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh...

Friday, July 22nd: SVTPerformance Presents: The 3rd Annual Pizza at The Cruise-In For our third annual Pizza at The Cruise-In at Mustang Week we’ve decided to try something a little different. Instead of slinging the Mellow Mushroom Pizza on Tuesday after the Palace Theater Cruise-In, with help...