Frankie’s Garage: Hot Wheels Ford Fiesta Drift Short

snowkhana5legohotwheelsIt’s Snowkhana 5!  This fun stop-motion short film has the Hot Wheels 1/64 scale die-cast car drifting around toy town.

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Frankie’s Garage: Fiesta ST200 Hot Hatch

fiestast200The Fiesta gets another limited edition run from Ford with the Fiesta ST200 hot hatch.  This Fiesta gets 200 horses, upgraded suspension, performance brakes and the ST200 badges if you’re into that stuff.  Carfection reviews this limited run fast Ford hatch.

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Frankie’s Garage: The Focus Black Edition

fordfocusblackeditionWhat is the Ford Focus Black Edition?  It’s not the hardcore Focus RS AWD or the peppy fun ST hot hatch.  It’s an affordable offering based on the Zetec S model with upgraded bits and parts with a mildly aggressive look.  The Black Edition features a 1.5L EcoBoost 180 horsepower engine and around 51mpg estimated.

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Frankie’s Garage: 2016 Ford Focus RS vs the World

fordfocusrs2016The flavor hot hatch of 2016 is the Ford Focus RS.  How will the new Ford Focus RS handle on track and the road against it’s rivals?  The challengers are: Audi RS3 Sportback, BMW M135i Auto 3DR, Honda Civic Type R, Mercedes AMG A45, Peugeot 308 GTI, Renault Sport Megane 275 Cup-S, Seat Leon Cupra 290 5DR and Subaru WRX STI.  Auto Trader takes a look at all these pocket rockets.

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Frankie’s Garage: The New Hot Hatches

fordfiestast2002016There maybe a plethora of supercars at the 2016 Geneva Auto Show, but also the working man’s hot hatches.  The Ford Fiesta’s big brother, the 2016 Ford Focus RS is taking all the press coverage and car talk, but this new Ford Fiesta ST200 is no push-over.

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Frankie’s Garage: Ken Block Drifting in Dubai

kenblockgymkhana8dubaiOne of my favorite Ken Block Gymkhana’s was in San Francisco about 3 years ago.  He was drifting up and down the hills of SF and it was awesome and now he’s back drifting in his special Ford Fiesta AWD on the Dubai city roads.

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Frankie’s Garage: The King of Hot Hatchbacks

fordfocusrs2016The early reviews are in for Ford’s 2016 global 5-door hot-hatchback and it’s positive.  It’s ready to take on the Subaru, Honda and Golf hatches of the world.  The 2016 Ford now has an AWD drive system that acts like a RWD with drift capabilities.  The hatch can handle the roads and perform on the track.

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Frankie’s Garage: Camaro Z/28 vs Mustang GT350R

chevyz28vsfordgt350rAmerican muscle that are super track spec cars battle it out.  Motor Trend’s latest Head 2 Head episode takes a look at the outgoing Chevrolet 2015 Camaro Z/28 versus the Ford 2016 Mustang Shelby GT350R.

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Frankie’s Garage: The Hot Ford RS Hatch

fordfocusrsNorth America will finally get a Ford Focus RS hot-hatch, due to a global launch of this all-new 2016 AWD rally-style street legal Focus RS.  If you’re a car fan, rally fan, Ford fan, RS fan or hot hatch fan, then check out this official Ford 8-part documentary of building and the making of the 2016 Ford Focus RS.

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Frankie’s Garage: The Ford Focus RS is Coming!

fordfocusrsThe rumors are true, the Ford Focus RS looks to dominate the hothatch world with global release.  No more Front-Wheel Drive, but this RS will be All-Wheel-Drive system.  EVO mag takes a look inside at the all-new Focus RS 5-door hatch.

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Frankie’s Garage: The Brand New Ford GT

fordgtKicking-off all auto shows for 2015 is the NAIA held in Detroit this week and one car manufacturer is making headlines!  Ford announcing it’s brand-new Ford GT.  The new Ford GT does have the sexy supercar looks and will be have a 3.5L V6 Ecoboost twin-turbo that will crank out 600 horses.

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Frankie’s Garage: ReCap of SEMA 2014

SEMA2014The aftermarket of tuning cars and trucks is alive and well.  The SEMA 2014 show last week was bigger than ever and if you weren’t there to see some of the hot tuned rides and products, here’s some fun re-cap videos from this past SEMA 2014!

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Frankie’s Garage: Ken Block’s ’65 Mustang

65mustangkenblockIf you’ve seen the Gymkhana videos on YouTube then you know what’s it all about.  Ken Block is getting ready for Gymkhana 7 and will use a custom 1965 Ford Mustang that is AWD V8.  The engine is tuned by Roush Yates.  And this is the Hoonicorn RTR:

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Frankie’s Garage: 2014 Chevy Camaro Z/28

camaro z28 00Ignition takes a look at the Mustang-killer – the 2014 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28.  This street-legal track car has 505 horses, a NA 7.0L V8, 6-speed stick and comes with wide-sticky tires.  Now the Camaro can fight head-to-head against the Ford Mustang BOSS 302 Laguna SECA and Ford Shelby Mustang GT500.  This sticker price of this Z/28 is pricey at upwards of more than $75,000.00USD.

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Frankie’s Garage: Ford Fiesta ST

fiesta stXcar Films takes a look at Ford’s mini-hot-hatch, the Ford Fiesta ST.  In North America, we only get the 4-door ST, hopefully a 2-door model here or an Fiesta RS would be nice.

Frankie’s Garage: The 2015 Ford Mustang

2015 Ford MustangFord hopes to take the iconic Mustang pony car into the global markets with the 2015 Ford Mustang.  Motor Trend takes a sneak peek at the 2015 Ford Mustang.

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DC Shoes, Ken Block and a Ford Fiesta in SF

kenblockfordfiestastI still remember watching Steve McQueen in the film Bullitt ripping up the hills of San Francisco with a green Ford Mustang Fastback.  Now it’s Ken Block with an AWD WRC-style Ford Fiesta.  The video was just released yesterday by DC Shoes and it already has over 4.5 million views!

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