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Saleen hasn’t always been a manufacturer and tuner of high-performance cars. Back in 1986, just three years after the company was founded, Saleen entered the SCCA/Escort Endurance Championship with a version of its Saleen Mustang prepped for motorsport duty. One year later, Saleen took home the series’ Driver, Manufacturer, Team, and Tire titles. Saleen is now celebrating the 30th anniversary of winning the series with a special version of its 302 Black Label Mustang. And it’s once again partnered with the tire manufacture that helped secure the win all those years ago...
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How do you do a 4-wheel burnout in an 800-hp GT-R? Chain it to a truck
All-wheel drive is not conducive for a traditional burnout, but Hoonigan got creative to make it happen. Taylor Steffes, the owner of the Nissan GT-R in this video, drove her car from Arizona to California to just to say hello to the guys and gals at Hoonigan. But, really, she's also a participant...
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This 2,700-wheel-horsepower Nissan GT-R maxes out the dyno
The world of high-horsepower builds is an insane place. While production cars with 500, 600, and even 700 horsepower are considered wild, it's the aftermarket that takes things to the next level. And then past that level and into the stratosphere. Case in point is the Nissan GT-R from Extreme Turbo...
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Jack Roush takes delivery of Ford GT; we wonder what he’ll cook up
Jack Roush on Friday took delivery of a 2017 Ford GT. The gunmetal gray example wears white racing stripes and is the 15th car in the series. Incidentally, a previous-generation Ford GT Roush took delivery of 2005 was also the 15th car in the series. In the case of the modern GT, Ford Chairman Bill...
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This 1965 Honda S600 makes 1,200 hp and runs 7-second quarter miles
For two years back in the mid 1960s, Honda produced a fun little sports car that wore the name S600. You could get it as a coupe or a roadster, and power was provided by a 606-cc flat 4-cylinder engine. It produced a mighty 57 horsepower, and nobody at the time thought of it as a drag car. The...
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Icon builds a perfect retro-modern 1965 Ford F-250
There is a 1965 Ford F100 in my garage. I've owned it for a few years, performed a few mechanical fixes and upgrades over the years, and I love my truck. It's a good "ten footer" and a pleasure to take on cruises. Jonathan Ward of Icon doesn't build "ten footers." He builds amazing machines to his...
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Underground Racing is back at it, and it seems nothing can slow the shop down. Less than seven months after the performance house set the half-mile world record of 247 mph in a Lamborghini Huracán it built, it's back, this time with Gidi Chamdi behind the wheel of its latest Huracán built for smashing record. This time, Underground Racing, its twin-turbo Huracán and Chamdi smashed the previous record by clocking a 250.27 mph speed over the half mile at the recent WannaGoFast shootout in North Carolina. There aren't specific power figures but the car is said to be packing...
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Nissan GT-R-powered Ford Focus to tackle 2017 Pikes Peak Hill Climb
If there's one country other than the United States that has a bonkers relationship with power and oddball builds, it's Australia. Take this Nissan GT-R-powered Ford Focus for example. Okay, so it's not exactly a Ford Focus anymore—it only shares the windshield and A-pillars at this...
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This 1,700-hp Nissan GT-R has a trick to stage properly at the drag strip
Staging a car at a drag strip is an art form. You line up so you have your car exactly where you want it to try and extract tenths of a second as you blast off down the strip. Some like staging deep while others run shallow. However, for some, staging is now moving beyond the art form and into the...
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The 1-of-1 Mansory Linea Vincero Bugatti Veyron is for sale
If you missed out on the opportunity to own a Bugatti Veyron, you're in luck. However, this isn't any old Veyron: this is the Bugatti Veyron Mansory Linea Vincero that we first saw in 2010. We say "the" because this car is the only of its kind in the United States, and it went through an incredibly...
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This LS-powered BMW 2-Series is a sideways hooligan
HGK Motorsport is a Latvian race shop that is churning out some seriously powerful machines, and its focus is on a handful of BMW platforms. The crew over there has a soft spot for the E36, E46, and E92 M3s. Now, though, HGK has a new jumble of Bavaria's finest alphanumerics in its stable: the F22...
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Meet Blue Lightning: a Lotus Evora with Tesla Model S power
Remember Tesla's Roadster? That was a pretty neat little machine that paved the way for grander offerings from the electric car company. It was built on the bones of the Lotus Elise. The final version saw 288 horsepower and nearly 300 pound-feet of torque from its electric powertrain. Today...
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Drag strip loss got you down? There's a quick remedy for that: nitrous oxide. But how much? How does a shot of nitrous worth about 5,000 horsepower sound? That's sure to do the trick. This isn't anything like Brian O'Conner's request ("I need NOS, one of the big ones"); this is a kick in the pants, hold on tight kind of blast we can't imagine. The video comes from YouTuber Torqueline Garage during what looks to be an aftermarket parts convention of sorts. We see an older gentleman who darts his eyes back and forth, casing his surroundings. Then, he counts down for the big shebang. And a...
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This 500-horsepower Peugeot 106 is awesome, horrible
The humble Peugeot 106 makes a paltry 118 horsepower in its most vicious trim. This one makes 500, all thrashing through what began life as a stock 1.6-liter inline-4. Built to take on time attack events, the car has abandoned all of its former life as a commuter. There's a massive turbo sticking...
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This 1977 AMC Pacer wants your mom's number
There's nothing wrong with a 1977 AMC Pacer that a 351 Windsor can't fix. These things came from their Kenosha, Wisconsin manufacturing facility with one of two inline-6s: a 238 or a 258. The latter, more potent mill produced an unflattering 114 horsepower and 192 pound-feet of torque. At around...
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Wild Toyota Land Cruiser hits 230.02 mph
Toyota’s Land Cruiser is one of the most capable vehicles for going off-road. Toyota, however, has built one that’s right at home on a race track. Called the Land Speed Cruiser, the wild SUV was first shown at the 2016 SEMA show, and last week it was driven to a top speed of 230.02...
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'Scrape' custom 1939 Lincoln Zephyr Coupe heading to auction
Not every custom build becomes an icon, but this 1939 Lincoln Zephyr Coupe transcended all and has become a superstar. It even has a name: "Scrape." And if you like what you see, RM Sotheby's will see the iconic Lincoln off at the Santa Monica auction June 24-25. Why is the Zephyr Scrape so iconic?...
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Meet the F-150 Raptor's big brother, the F-250 MegaRaptor
The new Ford Raptor is a wicked machine right from the factory. It has switched to a smaller displacement twin-turbocharged V-6 engine, but it makes more power than the V-8 versions before and it seems to be an all-around better truck. For some, perhaps, it's a bit on the small side. That sounds...
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A big guy needs a big truck. Simple math, really. Except, Shaquille O'Neal isn't your average big guy. He's pretty freaking tall by any standard. Measuring 7-foot-1-inch tall and weighing in at a few biscuits more than his 325-pound playing weight, Shaq was on the hunt for a new daily driver. He found it, and it's a really big truck, not a Buick LaCrosse like the retired NBA star used to endorse. In fact, it's a Ford F-650 Extreme from Wade Ford and custom mammoth pickup builder SuperTruck, both situated in the state of Georgia. SuperTruck specifically states it builds quite a few of these...
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This Camaro ZL1's exhaust is so loud it blows the airbags at speed
There are exhaust modifications, and then there are exhaust diverters. The latter is responsible for some pretty loud noises in this 2017 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1. In fact, it's so loud, it caused the side curtain airbags to deploy. Here's the backstory. YouTuber GuitarmageddonZL1 ordered a pretty...
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BMW 2002 restomod stops by Jay Leno's Garage
The BMW New Class of automobiles are a group of wonderful boxy beauties. This is the generation of car built between 1962 and 1977 that's given us the BMW 2002, which remains a cherished part of any BMW fan's dream car garage. The New Class cars included the 1500, 1800, 1600, and the 2000 models...
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This Volkswagen Golf Mk2 can beat the 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon in the quarter mile
Yes, yes, we know. The 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon comes straight from the factory and can clip off incredible achievements such as a 0-60 mph time of 2.1 seconds (with a catch) and a quarter-mile time of 9.65 seconds. But, there's always going to be someone, somewhere, who's faster. In this...
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'The Fast and the Furious' liveries applied to modern equivalents still look good
When "The Fast and the Furious" debuted in 2001, Universal likely never expected it would ignite a love affair with fast cars and the underground street racing world. Its effects on car culture persist to this day as the franchise has grown to a multi-billion dollar saga. That's billion with a big...
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Now you can get your G-Class modded by Kahn Design
British tuning firm and budding coachbuilder Kahn Design is famous for its modifications for the Land Rover Defender. The company’s even gone as far as developing a V-8-powered, six-wheel-drive Defender pickup. But with Land Rover ending Defender production last year, Kahn Design has decided...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran