It’s no secret. Even golf club swinging, blue-hairs in plaid pants have wised up to the fact that Honda currently dominates the import-performance tuner market. The show scene reveals a ...

These hot sport compacts have the competition reaching for the nitrous bottle. [This story originally appeared in the June 2003 issue of MotorTrend] The streets of America, as it turns out, are an ...

There are some days when we sit in the office and think back about the good ol' days; back when cars were all about American muscle versus Japanese technology. Things like the enchanting gargle of a ...

Ford is adding five more doors to its SVT lineup in 2003. The company’s Special Vehicle Team is adding the five-door Focus to the performance car mix, which currently includes a 170-hp three-door ...

Although Ford cancels the SVT Focus in the shift to a revamped 2005 range, it won't abandon the compact performance segment. Consider the ZX4 ST, a sport sedan using chassis bits-notably struts, ...

Mention "Ford Focus" to a European and he'll probably think of a mud-splattered World Rally Championship (WRC) car sliding sideways through some forested two-track. Mention those same words to an ...