Sentences with phrase «pony cars for»

The V - 6 is no longer the engine of trailer - park mulletheads and those hosers who only buy pony cars for the looks.

Months after Dodge unveiled their Challenger Drag Race Package, the folks at Ford Racing decided to respond by prepping a pony car for the strip.

As part of Ford's mission to bring the Mustang into the racing paddock, Shelby was brought on board to prep the Pony Car for its competition debut.

Ford freshens its venerable pony car for 2018, and the latest Mustang gains more horsepower, more torque, better fuel economy and more.

This year, Roush Performance and Military AutoSource are bringing back a potent pony car for overseas members of the US military: the Roush Warrior Mustang.

Not exact matches

If your family has two cars, for example, it will make things much easier if you pony up for two booster seats.

Wizard World is an indoor fun fair extravaganza for kids, with stage shows, carnival rides — including a mini-coaster and bumper cars — inflatable jousting and inflatable Kidz Gym, pony rides, petting zoo, and a little tots area for kids under five.

«Millionaires are more likely riding to work in Escalades or Town Cars than on the No. 6 train, but New York City voters say that's all the more reason they should pony up funding to make commuting easier for the rest of us,» said Tim Malloy, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll.

«Millionaires are more likely riding to work in Escalades or Town Cars than on the Number 6 train, but New York City voters say that's all the more reason they should pony up funding to make commuting easier for the rest of us,» Malloy said.

The difficulty is getting energy companies to pony up for the stations before the cars hit the roads.

But for about the same price, Ford and Chevrolet offer stylish rear - wheel - drive pony cars with 300 - hp V - 6s.

Hoping to build some buzz for the movie and the highly - anticipated 2015 Ford Mustang, «Need for Speed» director Scott Waugh put together a new co-branded TV ad featuring America's favorite pony car.

Plus, this sporty coupe's back seats provide easier access for baby duty than all current pony cars except possibly the Dodge Challenger.

You know how it goes: On one hand, you can't even fathom buying a pony car — or a sports car, or even a minivan, for that matter — with the smallest engine on offer.

For the past forty years, six - cylinder pony cars have been both embarrassing and practical, weak sisters that made lots of sense but little in the way of tire smoke.

Not since perhaps the Mustang SVO from the mid-1980s has a non-eight-cylinder pony car offered such an attractive package for enthusiasts.

I guess it doesn't much matter: the Mustang fans out there who are forever on the hunt for the newest, latest, greatest, most different Mustang variant will love it, and enough of them will pony up (pardon the pun) whatever it takes to have one of these over-the-top pony cars in their garage to make the exercise worthwhile for Ford to have undertaken.

Mustang was the first American «pony car» and the inspiration for a small field of affordable sporty coupes with long hoods and a wide stance that grew to include the Camaro, Pontiac Firebird, AMC Javelin, Plymouth Barracuda, and Dodge Challenger.

The Mustang has proven that a retro - look pony car can sell not just to those nostalgic for muscle cars but to a new generation as well.

Unfortunately for Ford, though, as nice as the 526 - horsepower 2017 Mustang Shelby GT350 is, Chevrolet's ZL1 has the clear, latest advantage in the 50 - year Pony Car wars.

To get all 260 ponies, you need to opt for the manual transmission; the engine in the automatic - equipped car is detuned to 235 hp, in deference to the four - speed automatic's fragility.

The team at MT described their initial doubt as to whether a pony car, let alone a new Camaro, could possibly be in the running for the best car of 2016.

One glaring question remains: Why would muscle - car fans pony up for these parts rather than simply buying a more capable Camaro, or heading to the aftermarket?

Some cars beg for additional inches on the hips and engines stuffed with more ponies.

I can't vouch for its contention that the Chevy «pony» car was quicker around Barber Motorsport Park's 3.6 kilometres (like many of you, I have always found it suspect when the magazine anoints yet another American - made machine superior to the imports), but author Jonny Lieberman was completely correct in saying that «never in one million years» would one have predicted that a Camaro could compare, favourably or not, to two of sportscardom's most iconic hot rods.

While it was a car born of gas crises and government regulations, the Fox Mustang launched a new era of performance for the beloved Pony car.

50, But Challenger is the «personal luxury cruiser» of pony cars, and a couple people I know bought them for that reason.

[3] Initial planning done by Honda for what would become the Accord was for a sporty competitor in the pony car market, at roughly the size of a contemporary Ford Mustang, powered by a six - cylinder engine.

The original pony car kicks harder than ever these days, offers more advanced technology, and has refined bodywork for 2018.

If you go to Google right now, type in «Shelby GT500,» and hit Search, one of the top results comes from Ford.com, reading «2017 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 The Cobra of Performance Cars...» This suggests that the high - powered pony could go on sale one model year earlier than we'd assumed, and possibly make its way to the Detroit North American International Auto Show this January for its debut.

Those with weaker dispositions can opt for the «detuned» 662 bhp car, but our motto at GTChannel is «Go big or go home,» so this bad pony is right up our alley.

Speaking to Hagerty at the Detroit Auto Show, Oppenheiser outlined some of his next goals for the Chevy pony car.

It is, however, the only pony car with seating for five, and although it can pull decent performance numbers, it still is a step off its smaller competitors when it comes to hustling around a track — which doesn't mean we didn't enjoy it.

«The result of their covert efforts is available to order now and will reach North American showrooms this spring when pony car enthusiasts can get the new 2018 Ford Mustang GT with Performance Pack Level 2, a collection of drive - enhancing components designed for — and by — people who love the thrill of taking the wheel of a true performance car,» added Barnes.

After covering more than a hundred miles in a car equipped with Airmatic, it's a feature I would get, but surprisingly, Benz officials say they're only expecting about 10 percent of buyers to pony up for it.

With the demise of the other pony cars the previous year, Camaro and Pontiac's Firebird were now the only traditional pony cars left on the market, giving GM 100 percent penetration of this segment for the first time ever.

It still has a few issues, but if I were shopping for a pony car, I'd take it over a comparable Ford Mustang or Dodge Challenger.

For example, there's the 2016 Mustang Shelby GT350R, a hardcore track - oriented version of the sixth - generation pony car, or the debut of the new Tacoma, one of the most popular and reliable trucks ever made.

It's powered by a 2.0 - liter four - cylinder good for around 250 ponies and should prove to be an awesome family car.

Most cars that aren't too performance - oriented will be front - wheel drive, and your typical sports or pony car is rear - wheel drive — the Dodge Challenger, for example.

Fifty years ago, with the Beatles playing one of their weekly hits over my static - ridden AM radio and my reading light on, I, a scrawny and gawky kid, traded precious sleep time for all the information I could glean in Motor Trend and Car and Driver regarding the Shelby GT350, the «grooviest» Ford Mustang ever during the opening days of what would become the pony car wars between the Big ThrCar and Driver regarding the Shelby GT350, the «grooviest» Ford Mustang ever during the opening days of what would become the pony car wars between the Big Thrcar wars between the Big Three.

Ford is reviving its California Special trim level for the 2019 Ford Mustang, which harkens back to the first Golden State - themed model of America's pony car that went into production in 1968.

Relative to the other pony cars like the Ford Mustang or Dodge Challenger, the Camaro performs athletically, although it gives up some outward visibility for the chunky, bold design.

To rival the Ford Mustang and Chevrolet Camaro, Dodge released its own pony car, the Challenger, for the 1970 model year.

It took Chevrolet three years to enter the «pony car» market (named for Ford's 1964.5 Mustang), but the all - new, 1967 Camaro proved worth the wait.

While not truly a fair comparison — a V6 version of the Camaro would have been a better match for our Mustang, and may have even won out — in the battle of the four - cylinder pony cars, it's the Ford that feels like the most well - rounded option.

Add in the five - speed automatic transmission ($ 995), the «pony package» ($ 750) that gets you upgraded 17 - inch tires and wheels, a low - key rear spoiler, fog lamps and a beefier suspension, an «interior upgrade package» ($ 460), Sirius satellite radio ($ 195) and leather upholstery (usually $ 695), which, on this car, was thrown in for free, and with shipping, the bottom line is $ 23,320.

The market's ardor for this former hot - seller has cooled somewhat, perhaps because the new pony cars are so appealing.

The Green Hornet, a storied Shelby Mustang prototype that many pony car enthusiasts assumed was destroyed decades ago, will come up for auction early next year.

That's nothing but good news for the pony car fan; throw in the Dodge Challenger and it's hard to make a bad choice in the current market.