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It was a concept car in 2009, and now it is a real car being manufactured in California. It’s called the Fisker Karma and it is a plug-in hybrid that should be able to compete with cars like the Chevy Volt and Tesla Roadster. Here’s a look: More info: First Drive: 2012 Fisker Karma And [...]
Supercar – The Priapism – Featuring two 450 HP V8 engines
by Marshall Brain | March 2, 2011
What if you can’t get all the horsepower you want from a single v8 engine? One option is to combine two V8s in a single car. That is the design idea behind the Priapism from Sire Custom Performance. You can see the car and hear about its design philosophy here: These videos show the car [...]
The 2011 Audi R8 with its optional 5.2 liter V10 engine already has 525 horsepower. It can go zero to 60 in 3.7 seconds. What if you add a supercharger with 7.5 pounds of boost (along with some better tires, etc.)? Zero to 60 time drops to 3.1 seconds. It is truly a supercar. See [...]
A review of the 2012 McLaren MP4-12C: According to this article: The MP4-12C has achieved all its performance targets in the same calculated fashion of its winning F1 team. It appeals to “in-the-know” car enthusiasts who prefer their supercars understated, a different path than Ferrari, which wows its customers with more emotional appeal. With a [...]
John Hennessey is a tuner whose tuning hobby turned into an incredible niche business. He takes fast cars and makes them much faster. Here he describes how the business got started. The video also shows an attempt at setting a new world record using a Hennessey-tuned 1,450 HP Viper: Now it looks like Hennessey is [...]
Many Supercars easily could be viewed as sculpture. So imagine a house with a nine-car garage. Now imagine that garage in the basement, with an elevator that lifts one car up into the living room for display. You would have this house, located in Japan: – KRE House – Driven by Enthusiasm This is not [...]
As supercars go, the Tramontana R has it all – exotic looks, incredible specs, amazing performance. This video describes it as a combination of a Formula One car and a fighter jet: See also this ad: And this montage : Motor Trend reviewed the car and listed its amazing specifications: The Ultimate Toy? Meet the [...]
The Lexus LFA is scheduled for delivery in 2011. It will be a carbon/aluminum bodied, 4.8 liter V-10 powered, 552 HP supercar in the $400,000 range. One of the more interesting things about the LFA is the behind-the-scenes technology going into its production. For example, there is this amazing rotary loom for weaving graphite strands [...]
It is claimed that the MP4-12C from McLaren will be able to blow away everything that Italy or Germany have to offer when it appears in 2011: Factory tour with Jay Leno: Features: – 3.8 liter V8 with twin turbos – 600 Horsepower – 440 pound-feet torque – One-piece carbon fiber tub for the chassis [...]
If the thought of a “four-door Porsche” makes your skin crawl, then the Porsche Panamera is not the car for you and it is time to move on. But for a lot of people (e.g. people with kids, business-people with clients, etc.), a four-door Porsche would be handy in the same way that a four-door [...]
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