Mustang One

Automakers shuffle option packages all the time, for reasons both obvious and obscure. For the 2021 model year, many changes are coming to the Ford Mustang lineup—and yes, that’ll affect its options. The most notable change is the introduction of the 2021 Mustang Mach 1, a special performance model that pulls double duty and takes over for the Bullitt and Shelby GT350, incorporating bits from both, as well as the Mustang GT Performance Pack 2. With some good comes the bad, however: like the Mach 1’s other parts donors, the Mustang GT Performance Pack 2 is now dead, too.

The changes were discovered on Blue Oval Forums and reported by Muscle Cars and Trucks, and a Ford spokesperson confirmed the discontinuation of the Performance Pack 2 to Automobile. And the important takeaway here is that the Mach 1 is going to be the only way you’re

Back in the 1960s, the 1965 Ford Mustang Fastback looked totally boss. Fifty-five years later and a major upgrade at Kindig-It Designs, that same pony car is now totally bitchin’. Watch the super-sleeper’s transformation as Dave Kindig, owner/designer, and his crew make more muscle car magic in the season seven premiere of Bitchin’ Rides.

The Salt Lake City, Utah-based custom-car fabrication shop is run by Kindig, who is the star of the show and he even has a bitchin’ beard to prove it. The client for the Mustang makeover is muscle car enthusiast Cesar Romero, who is not to be mistaken for TV’s Joker from the campy Batman series. You may recall the bitchin’ Camaro Kindig-It Design built for Romero in 2017—the super-clean 1969 Chevrolet Camaro took nine months to complete and currently cranks out 500 horsepower.

This Mustang Fastback is not original, but Romero wants to take

Bentley is following a very specific formula with its new-vehicle launches these days. Step one: Reveal a high-dollar, highly-luxurious car (or SUV) with the brand’s unique twin-turbo W-12 engine under the hood; step two: wait a year; and step three: add a twin-turbo 4.0-liter V-8 to the mix as a lower-cost, lighter-weight option. It, therefore, should come as no surprise that Bentley has just announced the latest Flying Spur, introduced last year, will gain a new entry-level twin-turbo V-8 engine option for the coming 2021 model year, to be named, predictably, the Flying Spur V-8.

The V-8 is the now familiar (for followers of the Volkswagen Group) twin-turbocharged 4.0-liter unit you get in cars as varied as the Audi RS6, Porsche Panamera Turbo, and Bentley’s own Continental GT (the Flying Spur’s two-door sibling). In the Flying Spur, the V-8’s output isn’t as high as in some of those

Volkswagen today pulled back the curtain fully on the all-new 2022 VW Taos, a prototype of which we drove recently. The 2022 Taos is the third compact SUV to join VW’s growing lineup of crossover SUVs, including the new ID.4. Arriving in dealerships during summer 2021 and aimed at a younger customer base, the 2022 VW Taos enters the most dominant U.S. vehicle segment, a market expected to grow to nearly 30 percent of passenger cars sold here by 2030. Other than final specs, by now everyone just wants to know the 2022 VW Taos’s price, and while Volkswagen predictably won’t announce the exact sticker until closer to the model’s release, the company indicated the Taos will be priced “very competitively” against other contenders in the segment. We expect the 2022 VW Taos’s price to start at about $23,000.

In terms of the 2022 VW Taos’s core

I love old crappy cars. I love watching drivers perform feats of derring-do. And if I can find a film that combines both, I’m in heaven. Today, I found two!

It’s possible you’ve seen this already, as it’s probably one of the better-known classic car videos on YouTube—a demo piece from Chevrolet intended to show the world just how tough its new rear-engine Corvair was. The scene of the hapless Corvair rolling over has been widely seen out of context—truth was, the car was rigged to roll, as the film explains—but there is far more entertaining stuff in this video.

This short film starts out sedately enough, with beauty shots, tepid footage from Lime Rock and a slalom course marked with a big banner that says “HANDLING”. My favorite bit from this section is when the announcer urges you to “watch how the Corvair stays