Soichiro Honda’s S600 roadster of the 1960s established the company’s identity of super light weight, sporty and high revving (9500rpm) cars, with experience from the motorcycle division transferred into the sports car. This Australian example is very far removed from the compact philosophy though. Instead of a 531cc four-cylinder with […]
Conversions
Lightweight Performance creates BMW M2 ‘CSR’
BMW may be working on a more focused, faster M2 ‘CS’ version, with over 300kW and some suspension upgrades, but we might not see that car until 2018. If you have an insatiable hunger for power and not enough patience to wait that long, Germany’s Lightweight Performance will sort you […]
Volvo 240 GL LS1 V8 conversion project: Part 12 – final fabrication
It’s been a while since our last update on the Volvo 240 GL V8 conversion project, but that’s mainly because we want to get the turbocharged LS1 just right. If you’ve forgotten what we’re doing; we’ve taken a stock, pension-spec 240GL and given it a respray in the standard maroon […]
For Sale: Hyundai Genesis converted into a pickup/ute
Hyundai is trying very hard to establish its luxury offshoot ‘Genesis’ as a serious player in the premium sphere, so it’s fair to say at this stage it probably couldn’t get away with launching a ute variant. That hasn’t stopped this American car butcher from making his own, using a […]
Mitsubishi celebrates 100 years, gives first Model A a PHEV conversion
Mitsubishi Motors is celebrating its centenary, with its first series production car of Japan, the Model A, turning 100. To mark the occasion, the Japanese company has teamed up with a very unlikely partner; West Coast Customs. As a lot of you would remember, WCC sprung into the public consciousness […]
Video: Remembering the BMW 1 Series with 12,000rpm V8
We absolutely love insane engine conversions that put genuine race car engines into more conventionally bodied cars, such as the TAG F1 swapped Porsche 911, the Peugeot rally car with the Renault F2 V6 and this BMW 1 Series hill climb car with a 12,000rpm Judd V8 from a Le […]
Ferrari 250 GTE with Chev V8 is sure to stir controversy (video)
If you thought you saw the most unholy example of Prancing Horse sacrilege in our Top 10 cars with the strangest engine conversions feature, you’re probably right. A Magnum P.I spec Ferrari 308 had its Italian heart ripped out and replaced with a pushrod GM V6 from the 1980s. This […]
Ford XD Falcon with 894kW 4.0 Barra turbo – Australia’s best sleeper?
To build a sleeper car that looks completely innocuous with no external hint that something monstrous is hiding underneath is a clever achievement. To build an eight-second sleeper that looks like an ordinary grandpa-spec XD Falcon is another level above that. That’s precisely what Tunnel Vision Turbocharging has created. A […]