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...
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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...
Exactly 12 months ago, we assembled a list of the 10 tuner vehicles from 2011 that really floated our proverbial boat. Privately, we didn’t think that 2012’s crop of tuned and modified cars, trucks and...
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...
Not about to let the Germans monopolize the crazy-fast SUV market, Jeep is just now beginning to roll the second generation Grand Cherokee SRT-8 into showrooms. The Hemi V8 is bigger (6.4L) and brawnier...
It should go without saying that the average new car buyer is interested in, above all else, value for money. Of course, there are above average (in terms of budget, anyway) car buyers out there...
As recently as 10 years ago, if you had told us that Cadillac would someday build and sell a visually striking family of midsize cars (sedan, coupe and station wagon) featuring rear-wheel-drive, Nürburgring-tuned suspension and...