Although it may share a bunch of parts with the Lotus Elise/Exige, and it may not be the fastest production car ever in the eyes of the Guinness World Records people, there’s no denying that...
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Over the last quarter-century-or-so, the state of the supercar art has been pushed to a level that was previously unimaginable. For example, two members of the current crop of “junior supercars” – the Ferrari 458...
Chevrolet’s new seventh generation Corvette is an exceptional car, even if you don’t factor in the substantial price advantage over most of its imported rivals. But it has left more than a few fans worried;...
The totally-new 2014 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray is still at least a couple months away from rolling into showrooms. Even so, tuners are already licking their collective chops at the prospect of transforming the latest (and...
For a company that got its start hopping up Mitsubishi 3000GTs and Dodge Stealths, Hennessey Performance Engineering has certainly done well for itself. The Texas-headquartered tuner has made a series of Jeffersons-esque moves to the...
The Hennessey Venom GT is already an outlandish, attention vacuum of an automobile. Remove the roof, as Hennessey did with the one-off Venom GT Spyderbuilt for rock deity Steven Tyler, and you’ll get even more...
Way back in 2007, it looked like the battle for the title of fastest, most outlandish street legal supercar on the planet was a two-horse race between Bugatti and Koenigsegg, with maybe occasional interference from...
John Hennessey’s first automotive tuning project was his own 1991 Mitsubishi 3000GT VR4, but the Texas hot rodder made his name (and built his company into what it is today) on the backs of hopped...
The four-digit horsepower car club is, unsurprisingly, one of the most exclusive in all of auto-dom. Boot eligible racing cars like top fuel dragsters, Turbo Era F1 cars (with their “Offerings to the Gods of...
As supercars go, the new McLaren MP4-12C is a spectacular performer, even if it isn't the most primal or angry exotic on the market. Its turbocharged 3.8L V8 and carbon fiber monocoque construction make it...