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  • 1933 Plymouth hot rod does a burnout

    Hot rods are good for a couple of things: looking really cool, making the driver really cool, and doing cool things. They're just downright cool. One of those cool things hot rods do really well is performing incredibly smokey burnouts—this 1933 Plymouth sedan pulls the task off in spades. The driver stopped by the headquarters of the Hoonigan crew to show off the creation and spill a bit of knowledge on how the car came to be. It actually began life as a movie car and was featured in "The Great Debaters," a film from 2007 featuring Denzel Washington. Washington actually drove the...

  • 2017 Roush P-51 Mustang
    2017 P-51 Mustang is Roush’s most powerful road car ever

    It’s been almost a decade since Roush Performance unleashed its last P-51 Mustang. The wait has been well worth it as the tuner’s latest P-51 Mustang, unveiled on Friday, is the most powerful yet. Heck, it’s the most powerful road car Roush has ever launched. The car was previewed...

  • 2017 Ford F-150 Raptor equipped with Alcon brake upgrade
    Alcon has a powerful brake upgrade for the Ford F-150 Raptor

    Alcon likes big brake kits, and it cannot lie. That's why it's created such a kit for the Ford F-150 Raptor. This is a big rig that manages to haul itself down from speed nicely, but there's always room for improvement. That's what the Alcon brake kit provides. If you upgrade to this kit, you'll...

  • Lotus Elise with a V-8 is a great example of a wild hillclimb car
    This Lotus Elise hillclimb racer packs a V-8 secret

    In our continuing exploration of the world of hillclimb race cars we present a new mighty, maniacal machine for your enjoyment. This time around we're working with a Lotus Elise. This is a car built on the idea of added lightness, but this one also has a V-8 engine. This particular V-8 isn't a...

  • 2JZ-swapped 1997 Jeep Wrangler
    This Supra-powered Jeep Wrangler seeks a new owner

    There are few Japanese engines that gain the recognition Toyota's 2JZ inline-6 does. Not only was this 1990s-era Toyota Supra engine over-engineered for the time, it's also incredibly reliable and can handle oodles of power when the aftermarket touches it. Does it have any business in a Jeep...

  • HPE VelociRaptor 600 vs stock F-150 Raptor
    How much quicker is a 2017 Hennessey VelociRaptor 600 vs a stock Raptor?

    Hennessey Performance Engineering unveiled its VelociRaptor 600 this past March as a considerable update to the stock 2017 Ford F-150 Raptor, but how much quicker is it? HPE will answer that question directly. The performance house set up a simple quarter-mile drag race to see how its modifications...

  • Hyabusa-powered Seat 600 is a hill climb beast

    We've been saying this a lot lately...hillclimb events are an exercise in automotive awesomeness. You have mad geniuses applying their knowledge of go-fast parts to create vicious vehicles bent on pure speed. As mad as the builders are, the drivers are even worse. Take, for example, the pilot of this particular SEAT 600. The SEAT 600 is the Spanish-market version of the Fiat 500. This one has been given a wide-body treatment that would make Japanese Lamborghini tuner Liberty Walk blush with jealous anger. More important, however, is the powerplant nestled beyond that bodywork. While the SEAT...

  • The Chevrolet Colorado pre-runner build is no-holds barred
    This custom Chevy Colorado pre-runner is an exercise in off-road excess

    An off-road racer's pre-runner truck is a tool for making sure that the course to be tackled is first thoroughly investigated. You want your co-driver to know where the bumps, ruts, and other pitfalls are. This way when you're blasting across the desert at 100 mph in the dark of night, you have an...

  • Hennessey tests his 850-horsepower Dodge Challenger Hellcat
    John Hennessey tests his HPE850 Dodge Challenger Hellcat

    Did you buy a Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat? Good for you! That means you have an entertaining 707-horsepower mean machine parked in your driveway. A question though, if we may. Do you ever wish you had more horsepower on tap?As you might expect, Hennessey Performance has a power package for you...

  • Saleen 302 Black Label Mustang 30-Year Championship Commemorative Edition
    Saleen builds a special Mustang to celebrate a championship win from 1987

    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...

  • Nissan GT-R four wheel burnout
    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...

  • Heavily modified Nissan GT-R maxes out the dyno
    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...

  • 2017 Ford GT delivered to Jack Roush

    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 Ford Jr. got the first example off the line while the second went to ex-Ford CEO Mark Fields. Jay Leno was also among the first few people in the world to take delivery of the stunning supercar. With his deep ties to Ford, it’s hardly a surprise Roush is also in this group. He’s the...

  • 1965 Honda S600 makes 1,200 horsepower and runs 7-second quarter miles
    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...

  • The Icon Ford Crew Cab Reformer
    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...

  • Underground Racing Huracán 1/2 mile record run
    Twin-turbo Lamborghini Huracán sets new 1/2 mile world record of 250 mph

    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...

  • Pace Innovations hill climb car
    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...

  • A 1,700-horsepower Nissan GT-R hiding a trick for staging while drag racing
    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...

  • 2008 Mansory Linea Vincero Bugatti Veyron - Image via Dirk A. Photography/SupercarFocus

    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 bespoke transformation handled by Mansory. Listed for sale on duPont Registry, the car is surprisingly clean for a Mansory-tuned product. If features a complete carbon fiber exterior and leather interior developed by the German tuner. A new steering wheel and exterior mirrors were also added. The...

  • HGK BMW M2 features LS V-8 power
    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...

  • Speed Academy builds a Lotus Evora with Tesla Model S power
    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...

  • 5,000 horsepower shot of nitrous
    Here's what a 5,000-horsepower shot of nitrous looks like

    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...

  • Peugot 106 Turbo
    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...

  • 1977 AMC Pacer X Treme - Image via KC Classic Auto
    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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