Let’s cut to the chase – EngageSportMode doesn’t really do cycling. Too much Lycra; not enough internal combustion engines. However we’re willing to make an exception to entertain another cool product from the Jaguar Land Rover Special Vehicles Operation team. If you’re a cyclist, you’ve probably just got in from a quick “30k ride” and need a shower. But, before…
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2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Pricing Announced
What could make a seven hundred and seven horsepower modern muscle car better? Ridiculously low pricing, that’s what! Which, if you’re lucky enough to live on the other side of the Atlantic, is what’ll you’ll be offered. We’ve made almost as much noise about the Hellcat as the car itself does. But our love for the badass 6.2…
New – 2014 Mercedes-Benz S 65 AMG Coupé
How much is too much? More specifically, just what constitutes too much when it comes to torque? The latest AMG version of the S Class Coupé might just have the answer. One thousand. 1,000. It’s a fairly significant number whatever the usage, but for Mercedes-Benz it symbolises the torque output for the AMG models at the…
New – Revised Ford Focus ST
In all the Goodwood Festival of Speed and British Touring Car Championship excitement, the full details of the revised Ford Focus ST were also announced. So here they are, with lots of Tangerine Scream paintwork action. Did you know, ST stands for Sports Technologies. We’ll admit that we didn’t, until writing this, but consider us all…
Friday Photo – 2014 Goodwood Festival of Speed
EngageSportMode wasn’t at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, instead spending last weekend at Croft Circuit for the British Touring Car Championship. But that doesn’t mean we can’t bring you photo highlights from Goodwood. We promise there’s no flamboyant trousers or Red Arrows content contained within. Drawing in over 200,000 spectators across the four days, this…
New – 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat – 707 HP! Yes, really!
Forget what you heard; Detroit isn’t dead just yet. Dodge, as part of the Chrysler group has had a rough ride through the global recession recently. But forget all that because, to celebrate the company’s 100th anniversary year, it’s produced the seven hundred and seven horsepower Hellcat. Trying to write an opening paragraph without turning to expletives…
New – Peugeot 208 GTi 30th Anniversary Limited Edition
Let’s be honest, we’re probably best off adding the phrase “at the Goodwood Festival of Speed” to anything regarding hot hatches this week. After Ford and Honda, here comes Peugeot with their special edition GTi launched there today. There’s more than meets the eye with this one though. 1984 was a particularly good year although, with this…
News and photos – Jaguar F-Type Project 7
At last year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, Jaguar showed off a lightweight concept version of the F-Type Roadster. Public response was so good that they’ve decided to build it as a limited edition to showcase JLR’s new Special Operations team. Enter the fastest and most powerful production Jaguar. The overarching aim of the car is to…
2015 Honda Civic Type-R Video – R-Rated
Along the Goodwood Festival of Speed, this week also seems to be the one for teasing trailers of forthcoming hot hatches. Following on from Ford, and their revised Focus ST, is this video from Honda. When we first saw the concept for the new Civic Type-R Concept at the Geneva Motorshow, we knew it was going…
New Ford Focus ST to debut at Goodwood Festival of Speed
You know it, we love the Ford Focus ST here at EngageSportMode. So much so that we awarded the ST Mountune Estate the prestigious ESM ‘best car driven in 2013‘ prize earlier this year. So news of a new one has got us understandably excited. Excited, and in suspense, as so far Ford is keeping tight-lipped…
Ford Zetec S – Red / Black Special Editions
Special editions of Ford’s supermini get bold colours, distinctive styling and a 1.0 litre engine with 140 PS! Yes, you read that right. A 1.0 litre engine producing 138 brake horsepower. I know; the mind just truly boggles. Think back only a few years and the Fiesta ST, with its 2.0 litre engine, was making only…
News: Lexus RC F – Crowdsourced paint colour name
Rather than just dip into the regular big book of paint clichés, Lexus decided to take a slightly more different tactic with the forthcoming RC F coupe when it came to picking colour names. In a thoroughly modern Web2.0, social media, #trend way, it asked Facebook to come up with a name for the distinctive orange hue. From…
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