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Thursday, July 21st: The 1st Annual SVTOA Breakfast at the Beach SVTP is bringing back one of our old Mustang Week traditions, but with a twist. We will once again be hosting a breakfast rendezvous. However, this one is only for SVTOA Members. A few weeks back SVTP completed our merger with...

Monday, July 18th: The 4th Annual SVTPerformance Welcome to Mustang Week Happy Hour For the fourth year, SVTP will be hosting a Welcome to Mustang Week at Myrtle Beach Happy Hour. Over the past few years we’ve met at a couple different locations around the Myrtle Beach area, but this year we...

Waving the Flag A US Focus RS customer shares his thoughts on Ford’s hottest hatch By Steve Turner Photos courtesy of Ford Motor Company From the moment we learned the Focus RS would arrive on US shores, we’ve been excited for the hot hatch to usher in a new era of Ford Performance in the...

Wind Speed Ford puts the Ford GT’s bodacious body to the wind-tunnel test By Steve Turner Photos courtesy of Ford Motor Company There is no doubt that the Ford GT is a beautiful automobile. And, based on its on-track success, it seems that function definitely follows form on this...

Isn’t That Crate Borla built its new mufflers to maximize your Coyote 5.0 engine swap By Steve Turner Photos courtesy of Borla Performance Industries Crate motors are all the rage when it comes to revitalizing an aging project or powering a ground-up build. It’s easy to understand why because...

Greater Grunt The 2017 F-150 packs more power, more torque and a 10-speed auto trans By Steve Turner Photos courtesy of Ford Motor Company Wondering how Ford would improve the performance of its eternally popular pickup truck? Well, the company has just announced that the 2017 model’s new...

Seventh Wonder Bart Tobener was the first to pilot a 2015 Mustang into the 7-second zone By Steve Turner Photos courtesy of Bart Tobener and the NMCA With the launch of every new performance car platform, the race begins for tuners and drivers to push that hardware to new milestones. When...

Gold Standard Hurst and Kenne Bell join forces on a turnkey, 750-horsepower Mustang By Steve Turner Photos courtesy of Ken Latka/Television Motion Picture Car Club Performance West Group is the builder of limited runs of Mustangs and other performance vehicles that wear the Hurst brand. This...

Time Machine Now you can order a Coyote-powered 1967 Shelby GT500 from Revology By Steve Turner Photos courtesy of Revology Cars Classic Mustangs with a Shelby lineage are highly sought after collectibles. As a result, it’s extremely rare to see something like a 1967 Shelby GT500 running...

Watkins Win Back to IMSA competition, the EcoBoost-powered Ford GT takes first again By Steve Turner Photos courtesy of Ford Motor Company As if in celebration of the extension of the Ford GT racing program for at least three more seasons, Ford Performance racers finished one-two at...

Keep On Runnin’ On the heels of its Le Mans success, the Ford GT will keep racing into 2019 By Steve Turner Photos courtesy of Ford Motor Company Against all odds, Ford was able to go from announcing a new Ford GT to winning Le Mans on the 50th anniversary of the 1-2-3 GT-40 win in 1966...

Rock the House Attend the party of the year Powered by SCT & Fueled by Monster Energy By Steve Turner When Friday night, July 22nd rolls around it’s time to party like tomorrow is the end of Mustang Week. That’s right. We look forward to the weeklong ’Stang celebration at the beach all year...

Speed Hunter An Alabama police department added a supercharged S550 patrol car By Steve Turner Photos courtesy of the Huntsville Police Department If you like to put the pedal to the metal on I-565 near Huntsville, Alabama, you might want to think twice now. The city has a new patrol...

Strong Magic ProCharger readies supercharger systems for the Voodoo 5.2-liter By Steve Turner Photos courtesy of ProCharger For most people, 526 naturally aspirated horsepower from a 5.2-liter engine that revs past 8,000 rpm would be plenty. If you are reading this sentence, you probably...

Royal Treatment Petty’s Garage offers 500 King Edition Mustangs, including an 825hp model By Steve Turner Photos courtesy of Petty’s Garage To celebrate Richard Petty’s 80th birthday next year, Petty’s Garage embarks on its third year building custom Mustangs with 500 limited-edition 2017 King...

Limited Tradition If a Ford GT wasn’t exclusive enough, there’s a retro-themed limited edition By Steve Turner Photos courtesy of Ford Motor Company Those lucky enough to be one of the few selected by Ford for the chance to purchase a 2017 Ford GT, you have the option to truly make your...

Speed Showcase The Blue Oval put its hardware on display at the UK’s Festival of Speed By Steve Turner Photos courtesy of Ford Motor Company Right now in the United Kingdom a bucket list event for automotive enthusiasts is taking place—the Goodwood Festival of Speed. This event, which kicked...

Smart Shifts Support your Coyote engine swap with an auto trans and controller By Steve Turner Photos courtesy of Performance Automatic When it comes to engine swap support, Ford Performance does a stellar job supporting modern engines in other vehicles thanks to its crate motor program...

Weekend Warriors Blue Oval machines took several wins over the weekend, including Le Mans By Steve Turner Photos courtesy of Ford Performance If your dad is a Blue Oval fan, he undoubtedly had his Father’s Day wish granted over the weekend. Not only did Ford Performance return to the 24 Hours...

The Road to Le Mans The Ford GT series closes out with a look at its racing goal in France By Steve Turner Photos courtesy of Ford Motor Company Tomorrow the day is upon us. The Ford GT makes its historic return to the 24 Hours of Le Mans. In celebration of that milestone, Ford Performance is...

Channel History The Ford GT is on the pole, so don’t miss its historic return to Le Mans By Steve Turner Photos courtesy of Ford Motor Company After a strong showing in qualifying, the Ford GT will start on the pole in Saturday’s 2016 24 Hours of Le Mans. Driver Dirk Müller put the number 68...

The Driver’s Perspective The fourth installment of the Ford GT series looks at the race drivers By Steve Turner Photos courtesy of Ford Motor Company With the Ford GT’s historic return to the 24 Hours of Le Mans on the 50th anniversary of the car’s historic finish looming, Ford...

Truck Traction Ford details the performance tires that let the new Raptor dig its claws in By Steve Turner Photos by Ford Motor Company As we await the arrival of the 2017 F-150 Raptor, Ford is slowly giving us more details about this next-gen performance truck. We know it will be lighter and...

The New STyle If you live in Europe you can get ST handling and styling on a budget with the ST-Line By Steve Turner Photos courtesy of Ford Motor Company For a while now, Ford has told us that performance cars are selling well. Apparently they are quite popular in Europe, but not everyone has...

The Big Boss Replace your worn out 4.6 with a robust, 5.3-liter modular short-block By Steve Turner Photos courtesy of Ford Performance If you own a 1996+ Mustang or other modular-powered Ford, you might be ready for a fresh engine. Or, perhaps, you just want to crank up the performance with...