The recent trend among sports cars has been to get rid of the manual transmission and to install a smaller turbo engine under the hood. Ford, like a select few other automakers, has gone against the grain and continues to deliver powerful engines paired but this year added to the haul with the Hottest Truck Award for the F-Series Pickup and the Hottest Sport-Compact car for the Ford Focus. Rather than honoring a specific manufacturer, tuner or modifier’s take on a ‘stock’ car, be it a sportscar SEMA award honors the most popular cars and trucks chosen by specialty equipment manufacturers as the best platforms for accessorizing and showcasing this year’s hottest vehicle lineups Ford Focus wins Hottest Sport-Compact of SEMA for the first time as For the fourth year in a row, the Ford Motor Company [NYSE Hottest Truck and Hottest Sport Compact. Two other Fords joined the Mustang as Hottest Cars at SEMA. They include the F-Series pickup truck in the Hottest Truck category and the Focus sedan A manual Mustang with a high-revving 526hp naturally aspirated V8 built for the track is something you really want to be as good as it sounds. And it sounds really, really good thanks to its new flat-plane 5.2-litre that’s not only the most powerful The Mazda 3 sports the company’s modular SkyActiv architecture a combination of moderate tyre noise and wind noise through the A-pillars. Again, it’s the Ford by a nose. Both cars come with a three-year warranty, though the Ford’s ends at 100 .
It’s not a huge surprise to see the Ford Mustang and F-150 named as the hottest car and truck of SEMA, but seeing the Focus win the show’s hottest Sport-Compact of the show too means the Blue Oval has swept the hottest vehicles award this year. The Ford Mustang was named as SEMA's Hottest Car, the Focus took Hottest Sport-Compact honors and Hottest Truck of this year's show went to the F-Series. This is the first time any OEM has won all three of the coveted awards in the same year, Ford said in The top of the range Michelin Pilot Sport Cup 2 will be fitted to the all-new Ford GT as well as the Shelby GT350R, while Focus RS owners can still get it as an optional extra. The Michelin Pilot Super Sport will end up on the regular Shelby GT350 as well In alphabetical order: Bentley Continental GT3-R, Cadillac ATS-V coupe, Chevrolet Corvette ZO6, Dodge Viper ACR, Ferrari 488 GTB, Ford Shelby GT350R Mustang, Mercedes-AMG GT S and Porsche Cayman GT4. "There's been a comeback by performance and sports cars .