Few models embodied the upsizing frenzy of the early aughts quite like the supercharged 1999-2004 Ford SVT Lightning. This F-150-based pickup launched with 360 horsepower (it would get another 20 ...

Ah, the mighty Ford F-150 SVT Lightning! Doesn’t it sound nice? Just saying this name could get any gearhead going. If you watched The Fast and the Furious, then you must recognize its shape and the ...

We have no idea if the Blue Oval wants to completely wipe out all traces of ICE supremacy from certain legendary nameplates, but just like it suddenly turned the Mustang into a five-door crossover, so ...

Decades before Ford created its soon-to-be-unlamented F-150 Lightning, a different Ford Lightning sparked across the landscape. Now younger buyers want them.

Eddie Yanez from San Jose, California, has a 2012 Mustang GT and a 2004 SVT Lightning. The GT was given more power with a ProCharger P-1SC (with 10 psi of boost) that Eddie and his dad spent three ...

Ford's Special Vehicle Team (SVT) has suffered through an apparent near-death experience since hitting its heyday in 2003 and 2004. SVT chief engineer Jamal Hameedi says the performance brand has ...

DETROIT - Ford Motor Co. will take its SVT high-performance brand upscale and drop the SVT Focus. The demise of the SVT Focus is part of Ford Motor's revision of its performance strategy. The company ...

In the 1990s, Chevrolet did something the mass-market world had never seen on a large scale. It took a run-of-the-mill Chevrolet C1500 pickup truck and shoehorned a massive, 454 CID V8 under its hood.

Meteorolog-ists have it all wrong. Lightning explodes not only from the pining between positives and negatives in anvil-shaped clouds, but also from a whirligig of combustion inside a supercharged V-8 ...

Remember the Ford F-150 SVT Lightning? The performance pickup lasted through two generations of the F-150 but eventually bowed out with the arrival of the 2004 model, never to return. That is, until ...