Category Archives: Automotive News

IRVINE, CALIF., AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURER HOPES TO ENTER LUXURY CAR MARKET

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

MOTOR TREND: 1998 S351 ROAD TEST REVIEW

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

SALEEN MUSTANGS NOW AVAILABLE AT BUDGET RENT A CAR

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

MOTOR TREND: 1996 S351 ROAD TEST REVIEW

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

MOTOR TREND: 1994 SALEEN SR 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