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  • Hennessey HPE1000 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat

    The motto at Hennessey Performance must be something along the lines of: "There's no such thing as too much power." From Vipers and Corvettes to Raptors and the Venom GT, Hennessey will slap on turbos, superchargers, or whatever else you can afford to give you more power. The latest creation? A Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat with 1,032 horsepower. ALSO SEE: Hellcat Vs. Hellcat: Tires Shredded, Faces Melted, Internet Broken We're pretty sure no one will argue that Hellcats are lacking in the power department, but that didn't stop Hennessey from working up a turbo upgrade kit for those feeling...

  • SpeedKore Performance Dodge Charger Tantrum On Jay Leno's Garage
    SpeedKore Performance throws tantrum in Jay Leno's Garage

    Take one part heavily modified 1970 Dodge Charger and add in one part massively massaged Mercury Marine racing engine and you wind up throwing one hell of a Tantrum. In fact, that's this car's name. It's the Dodge Charger Tantrum, and it's the product of SpeedKore Performance out of Wisconsin. The...

  • Nissan GT-R Shoots Flames From Its Exhaust
    Can You Light A Cigarette With A Nissan GT-R?

    The Nissan GT-R, as it comes from the factory, is quite a beast. It's capable of accelerating to 60 miles per hour from a standstill in less than three seconds. This Japanese two-door has tremendous lateral grip, and it will show you just how much on its Gran Turismo-designed center screen display...

  • Volvo Amazon Fitted With A 2-Stroke Marine V-8 Engine
    Volvo Amazon Packs A Two-Stroke Marine V-8 Surprise: Video

    We love engine swaps, especially when the owner is thinking a bit differently. Everyone and their grandmother can swap an LS motor into a car. It takes a special type of thinking to work with a different set of parts. One man in Sweden is going in a direction we never would've considered, but now...

  • Rolls-Royce Drift Car
    Classiest Sideways Shenanigans With A Rolls-Royce Drift Car

    We've recently shown you that drifting is a bit harder than you might think. Imagine doing this tire-killing deed in a car designed to keep its occupants cossetted in supreme comfort and luxury. Imagine doing it in a vehicle that has engineers who enjoy adding in more weight rather than trying to...

  • 2016 Mazda MX-5 Miata V-8 conversion
    Flyin' Miata Almost Ready With V-8-Powered Fourth-Gen MX-5

    You knew this was coming... The mad minds at Flyin' Miata must've been wringing their hands and drooling ever since the fourth-generation Mazda MX-5 Miata, the ND, came into production. After all, these are the folks who taken previous generations of the small Japanese convertible sports car and...

  • Modder Dominic Le’s custom 1974 Datsun Sunny Truck

    A very unusual vehicle is featured in this latest episode of Jay Leno’s Garage. It’s the creation of vehicle modder Dominic Le and it was a surprise star at last year’s SEMA show. So what exactly is it? The vehicle started out life as a 1974 Datsun Sunny Truck, a tiny pickup truck derived from the Datsun 1200 range and never offered in the United States. This one was sourced from Japan, hence the right-hand-drive setup. MUST WATCH: Valet Takes Lamborghini Aventador For Joyride, And Of Course It Catches Fire Le has extensively modified the vehicle, though. Key among the...

  • 2016 Chevrolet Camaro SS at the drag strip
    2016 Chevy Camaro SS Breaks Into The 9s: Video

    General Motors Company [NYSE:GM] has really hit the ball out of the park with its sixth-generation Chevrolet Camaro. Not only is the car Motor Authority’s Best Car To Buy 2016, it’s also putting down some serious power straight out of the box. And if you’re the type that likes to...

  • Twin-turbocharged Lamborghini Aventador built by Underground Racing
    This Might Just Be The Quickest Lamborghini Aventador In The World: Video

    The Lamborghini Aventador is a quick car in any form. But hand it to the men and women at Underground Racing of Charlotte, North Carolina, and it becomes a completely different beast, one capable of outpacing virtually any other car on the planet--at least in a straight line. A Lamborghini...

  • Modified 1942 Dodge Power Wagon at Jay Leno’s Garage
    Jay Leno Drives A Six-Wheeled Dodge Power Wagon Restomod: Video

    Before there was the Dodge Ram, there was the Dodge Power Wagon. The versatile light truck was built in various forms from the mid-1940s right up until 1981 when the first Ram was introduced, and today the vehicle has a little bit of a cult following, especially among collectors and history buffs...

  • 2017 Kia Sportage inspired by ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’
    Kia Gears Up For ‘X-Men: Apocalypse’ With Special Sportage: Video

    There’s a new X-Men movie coming next year and Kia is taking advantage of the popular comic book franchise with a special version of its 2017 Sportage inspired by one of the characters, in this case the shape-shifting character known as Mystique. The new movie is X-Men: Apocalypse, and it...

  • 2016 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350 on a dyno
    2016 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350 Gets Strapped To Hennessey's Dyno: Video

    We’ve been seeing lots of independent tests of the new Chevrolet Camaro but what about the Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] Mustang? Well, here’s the latest Shelby GT350 variant undergoing dyno and acceleration tests conducted by tuning house Hennessey Performance. This is a stock version...

  • Lamborghini Huracán N-Largo by Novitec

    It turns out the mystery wide-body Huracán spotted in northern Italy recently wasn’t the oft-rumored Superleggera version of the latest Lamborghini supercar but rather a modified version developed by German tuner Novitec. Famous for tinkering with Ferraris, Novitec recently started offering upgrades for Lamborghinis and its latest is a package for the Huracán LP 610-4 called the N-Largo. The most obvious upgrade is the new wide-body kit, which Novitec says boosts the width of the Huracán by 120 millimeters. Filling the extra wide wheel arches are a set of light...

  • 1970 Dodge Charger Tantrum by SpeedKore Performance
    SpeedKore Tantrum: a 1970 Charger restomod with 1,650-HP 9.0-liter V-8

    Everyone wants that Pro Touring look right? That's certainly what the folks at SpeedKore Performance in Wisconsin think, and they're quite good at crafting precious metal mixed with massively powerful engines. Car and Driver caught wind on one such machine. It's a 1970 Dodge Charger that's been...

  • Car pimped with cardboard - Image via Max Siedentopf
    The Cardboard Car Pimper Strikes At Night

    Max Siedentopf has to work quickly and under the cover of nightfall. His medium for the task at hand is cardboard, and his subjects lie motionless under the dark sky. He is the cardboard car pimper. A photographer by trade, it seems that Siedentopf has taken to the streets of Amsterdam armed with a...

  • Lightly modified 2016 Chevrolet Camaro SS
    2016 Chevy Camaro SS Already Into The 10s: Video

    It’s looking like General Motors Company [NYSE:GM] has unleashed a real beast in the form of its 2016 Chevrolet Camaro SS. For just $37,295, including shipping, you get a car that’s officially rated at 455 horsepower and 455 pound-feet of torque—though those figures might be a bit...

  • Chevrolet Corvette Modifed By Karl Kustoms
    You Can Get The Split-Window Look Grafted To A C6 Chassis

    ...but should you? If we could make the title of this piece a little longer, those are the words we'd add. Yes, the second generation Chevrolet Corvette is one of the great all-time automotive designs. It's an icon, and Larry Shinoda deserves our unending love and respect. He crafted a design that...

  • Hoffmann & Novague R200 track video
    Audi R8 Turned Into A Skoda Hits The Track: Video

    Remember the Audi R8 that Czech prototype and low-volume manufacturer Hoffmann & Novague turned into a retro take on the Skoda 130 RS rally car of the 1980s? Well, just in case you thought it was nothing but a mockup, here’s the car being flung around a race track. The video comes to us...

  • 2016 Mercedes-AMG GT S by Renntech

    Having already impressed us with its initial tuning for the Mercedes-AMG GT S, which we might add saw the car creep into the 10s over the quarter mile, America’s Renntech used the recent SEMA show to announce a new round of upgrades for the stunning sports car. CHECK OUT: Porsche To Build Mission E Electric Super Sedan: Official Tuning firms will do whatever they can to extract every last bit of performance possible—it's their nature. Nevertheless, what Renntech has managed with the GT S in the short time that the car has been on sale is impressive. Previewed on the GT S presented...

  • BMW i8 V-8 conversion by Gabura Racing Technologies
    BMW Rules Out Centenary Supercar But Tuning Firm Steps Up To The Plate

    BMW turns 100 next year but it looks like the celebrations won’t involve the unveiling of a new, standalone supercar. Speaking with Auto Motor und Sport, BMW product chief Klaus Fröhlich said the automaker isn’t interested in a traditional supercar with a heavy V-8 or V-10 engine...

  • ‘FuguZ’ Nissan 240Z - Image via Sung Kang Facebook page
    Meet Fast and Furious star Sung Kang’s dream 240Z

    Remember the custom 240Z Fast and the Furious actor Sung Kang and his pals were building for the recent SEMA show? The car’s Vegas unveiling was featured in a final episode of a five-part series from FOX Sports documenting the build. In case you missed the series, all five episodes are...

  • Tune It! Safe! Chevrolet Corvette Stingray by TIKT Performance, 2015 Essen Motor Show
    Tune It! Safe! Chevy Corvette Impresses At Essen Motor Show

    No, German police aren’t about to enlist a Chevrolet Corvette among their fleet of patrol cars. Rather, this particular Corvette, dressed in police livery, has been built to help promote safe and legal vehicle modification. CHECK OUT: 2017 Porsche 911 Turbo Packs More Power, New Infotainment...

  • 2015 Toyota Hilux 6x6 by Vromos
    Bulgarian tuner builds Toyota Hilux 6x6

    It appears Mercedes-AMG started a new trend when it first rolled out its G63 6x6 back in 2013. Since then we’ve seen British firm Kahn Design come out with its own 6x6 based on the Land Rover Defender, and now a firm from Bulgaria has one based on the Toyota Hilux. According to Motor1, the...

  •  Underground Racing Twin-Turbo Lamborghini Huracan
    Twin-Turbo Lamborghini Huracán Sets New Half-Mile Record: Video

    To put it mildly, the 601-horsepower Lamborghini Huracán isn't exactly slow out of the box. But after the mad scientists at Underground Racing work their magic on the 5.2-liter V-10, the performance goes completely ballistic. With the help of the company's twin-turbo X package, power climbs...

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