By: N.A. on March 11, 2002 Original Article: AUTOWEEK, VOL. 52, ISSUE 10 One of the players in the sweepstakes to build Ford’s GT40 is Steve Saleen, maker of GTS-class S7R race cars whose company is currently hustling to get the street-legal S7 supercar to customers this month. Sources say Saleen is among the companies … Continue reading GT40 TO SALEEN?
By: N.A. on January 1, 2002 Original Article: TIRE BUSINESS, VOL. 19, ISSUE 20 November shipments off 6% AKRON—Industrywide shipments of replacement consumer and commercial truck tires fell 6 percent from year-ago levels, Goodyear said in its monthly report to investors. The company acknowledged that its own tire shipments were down even more. The tire … Continue reading NEWS IN BRIEF
By: N.A. on January 8, 2001 Original Article: AMERICAN METAL MARKET, VOL. 109, ISSUE 5 Metals in Motion Titanium, magnesium in powerful V-8 DETROIT — Titanium valve retainers and magnesium intake manifolds and throttle bodies are employed in the aluminum-block/aluminum-head 7.0-liter V-8 engine used in the high-powered Saleen S7 sports car built in Irvine, Calif., … Continue reading MATERIALS OUTLOOK
By: N.A. on December 4, 2000 Original Article: AUTOWEEK, VOL. 50, ISSUE 51 DECEMBER 4, 2000 To misquote Shakespeare, all the world’s a rally and we’re putting you center stage. World Rally driver Richard Burns topped the competition in the Britain (apge 50) and Subaru is already dreaming about what it–and you– will do with … Continue reading THE NEWS
By: CHRIS KNAP on Aug 20, 2000 Original Article: ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER, THE (SANTA ANA, CA) Aug. 20–Specialty-vehicle builder Steve Saleen will expand his business next year with the production of a $375,000 supercar intended to challenge Ferrari, Lamborghini and Jaguar. Saleen was to unveil the prototype of the Saleen S7 at the Monterey Historic … Continue reading IRVINE, CALIF., AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURER HOPES TO ENTER LUXURY CAR MARKET
Car Reviews Tuners: 1998 Saleen S351 By: JOHN PEARLEY HUFFMAN on May 02, 1998 Original Article: MOTOR TREND Saleen’s supercharged S351 Mustang would be inexcusable if it weren’t so fast. It’s a fiend with so much brute torque the driver feels as if he could pull both the Titanic and the ocean floor beneath it … Continue reading MOTOR TREND: 1998 S351 ROAD TEST REVIEW
By: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS on December 27, 1997 Original Article: AP ONLINE LOS ANGELES (AP) For sale: exotic antique car owned by silent film star Rudolph Valentino and a rip-roaring race car driven by “Home Improvement” star Tim Allen. A 1927 Isotta Fraschini Tipo roadster commissioned by Valentino and built in Italy for $25,000, along … Continue reading FOR SALE: STAR CARS
By: DAVE BURNETT on November 1, 1996 Original Article: AFTERMARKET BUSINESS, VOL. 106, ISSUE 11 Saleen Performance is offering its own fully serialized Saleen S281 Mustangs through Team Budget Rent A Car franchises. Like the collectible Shelby GT-350H cars, each S281 will have its own serial number beginning at 01B, with the “B” designating it … Continue reading SALEEN MUSTANGS NOW AVAILABLE AT BUDGET RENT A CAR
Car Reviews A Thundering, Plundering, Viper-Eating Monstrosity Writer: JEFF KARR; Photographer WESLEY ALLISON on April 02, 1996 Original Article: MOTOR TREND For the first four seconds, you feel like you’re at the wheel of a dragster with a stuck throttle in a giant pan of cooking oil. Slipping and sluing, the tach builds revs in … Continue reading MOTOR TREND: 1996 S351 ROAD TEST REVIEW
Car Reviews Just Your Basic 480-Horsepower, Magnesium-Wheeled, Carbon-Fiber-Fortified, Scooped, Spoilered, and Supercharged Mustang Writer: C. VAN TUNE; Photographer: RANDY LORENTZEN on January 02, 1995 Original Article: MOTOR TREND It’s as subtle as a 20-megaton bomb in a whoopee cushion. As conventional as Jeffrey Dahmer at a Kiwanis father/son picnic. And about as charming, erudite, and … Continue reading MOTOR TREND: 1994 SALEEN SR ROAD TEST REVIEW
