By: SUE ZESIGER on March 2, 1998 Original Article: FORTUNE, VOL. 137, ISSUE 4 Unless you’re a racing-team owner like Roger Penske, chances are you don’t keep a few hand-tweaked, high-powered Chevy Suburbans in your stable, good for bigtime hauling as well as for sinful joy rides. For the rest of us 4×4 plebes, real … Continue reading THE NEW SUV: BIG, BAD, LOUD… AND FAST
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: LARRY ROBERTS on November 07, 1997 Original Article: www.theautochannel.com Almost every major auto racing event has one or two of what’s called for lack of a better name, “warm-up” races. They are events that fill in time before the major race of the day, and are designed to maintain spectator interest before the main … Continue reading SALEEN / SATURN WIN WORLD CHALLENGE CUPS
By: N.A. on February 17, 1997 Original Article: AUTOWEEK, VOL. 47, ISSUE 7 First lady. Desire Wilson, whose credits include stints in F1, Indy cars, prototypes and Trans-Am, will be the first woman to compete in the North American Touring Car Championship. She’ll drive a Mazda Xedos campaigned by Schader Motorsports. A new horse at … Continue reading LATE RACING NEWS
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
By: MICHAEL J. AGOVINO on October 1996 Original Article: ESQUIRE, VOL. 126 ISSUE 4 Steve Saleen takes garden-variety Ford Mustangs and turns I them into street rods. But not very many of them. His motto is unabashed: “Power in the hands of a few.” Not long ago, we decided to join those few behind the … Continue reading MUSTANG PLUS MUSCLES
By: PARNELLI JONES on September 23, 1996 Original Article: FORBES FYI, VOL. 158, ISSUE 7 The Saleen Mustang may be street legal, but it feels every inch a race car I HAD BEEN AT INDIANAPOLIS FOR THE 500. It’s always a great week down on pit row, or sitting up there in the stands watching … Continue reading SALEEN S351: PONY EXPRESS
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
For Immediate Release IRVINE, CA – Saleen Performance, the new company formed to oversee the production of new Saleen automobiles, has moved their headquarters to 9 Whatney in Irvine, California. The company has moved to a new facility at the high-tech “lrvine Spectrum” complex. The new building encompasses 28,000 square feet and provides separate modules … Continue reading SALEEN PERFORMANCE EXPANDS TO NEW FACILITY
For Immediate Release Having produced more than 3,500 Mustangs, Saleen Performance has carved a niche for itself in the emerging specialty car manufacturing sector. Saleen reaches customers throughout North America via a franchised new car dealership network of more than 75 locations, all staffed with a “Team Saleen” member who is versed in all aspects … Continue reading SALEEN PERFORMANCE: DEFINING SPECIALTY CAR MANUFACTURING
