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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 [...]
It is well-known that a Formula 1 car is about the fastest car in existence in terms of acceleration, braking, cornering ability, etc. This video shows just how fast an 800 horsepower V-10 F1 car can go. But no “normal person” is ever going to get to drive an F1 car, and certainly not on [...]
In many cases, when the words “cool” and “car” get used together, it usually means a supercar like this… Jet Set Go: Jaguar’s amazing C-X75 Or this… Mercedes-Benz BIOME Concept – could cars be grown in a lab? But today’s car isn’t like that. This car has a cloth body, plastic zip up windows, and [...]
Lamborghini Sesto Elemento – a carbon fiber masterpiece
by Marshall Brain | October 25, 2010
These beauty shots of the Lamborghini Sesto Elemento show the stunning looks of the car… But the real beauty of the Sesto Elemento is in the power to weight ratio, made possible by carbon fiber. One of the things that makes the Lotus Elise so much fun is its ratio, as seen on this page: [...]
The Jaguar C-X75 Concept is gorgeous to look at, and it is also innovative. It is a plug-in hybrid car with a twist. Instead of using a piston engine to recharge the batteries like the Prius or the Chevy Volt, it is using gas turbine engines (jet engines) instead. These should be much smaller and lighter than piston engines, and could in theory be more efficient. The engines are developed by Bladon Jets and can be seen here…
This article describes an interesting idea – designing your own concept car…
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 [...]
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