For $80,000, Dale Earnhardt Chevrolet will build you its new series car, the Camaro Intimidator, with 704 hp and 695 lb/ft at 11psi of supercharged boost. Intimidation, thy name is spending eighty grand on a Camaro[...]
The Audi R8 has offered tuners a near-perfect canvas to work their dark arts, with a pleasing shape that can take a little tweaking, but not too much. German tunerhaus Anderson's Hyper Black R8 V-10 is more dark than art.[...]
Right on schedule, like the 3:10 to Yuma, John Hennessey's dropped a blower kit into the new Camaro SS Convertible and found 602 horses. Just try and keep the eviscerated rubber particles out of your teeth.[...]
Discontent with just one assault on visual acuity, Mansory also unleashed the Siracusa, which wraps the slightly-tweaked guts of a Ferrari 458 Italia in a carbon-fiber puff pastry painted a color I call radioactive urine. What has been seen cannot be unseen.[...]
Yesterday, we droppedthe press photos of the Mansory Cormeum. Today? The live shots. [...]
Each time we've passed by the B5 BiTurbo Touring, the Alpina-tuned 5 Series wagon, here at Geneva, we've let out a little whimper. And why shouldn't we? With a 507 HP and 516 lb-ft o' torque BMW twin-turbocharged 4.4-liter V8 powerplant under the hood, it's hard for your pants not to tighten when you see this power wagon.[...]
Kourosh Mansory is insane — for weight savings! There's no other explanation for his carbon-fiber makeover of the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG, called the Mansory Cormeum. It's 200lbs lighter than a regular SLS, and looks like something Boeing threw up.[..]
Ever wonder what it would be like to go pickup your newly tuned and turbo-ed Lamborghini? Full of price justification, awesome noises, unreal acceleration, school girl giggling and exhaust flames, for most of us this Underground Racing video is the closest we will ever get.
Billionaire T. Boone Pickens tried to convince the world CNG was the fuel of the future, but the possibility of a Civic-heavy future excited no one. He should have started the conversation with this — the Speedriven 800-hp CNG-powered V12 Mercedes roadster.[...]
TS-V Sport Wagon parked outside of the Hennessey headquarters in Sealy, Texas I knew a quarter-mile run video was coming. But a Porsche 911 Turbo versus a 650 HP Hennessey-tuned Caddy station wagon? Ridiculous.[...]