A new 2012 Chevrolet Camaro COPO – a dedicated drag racing car from the factory – has run an incredibly quick 8.88-second pass down the quarter mile. The company has previously said the car will run under nine seconds, and now there’s proof. This video is apparently the first eight-second […]
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Switzer P600 PKG Nissan GT-R tuning upgrade with 450kW
Renowned Nissan GT-R tuner Switzer has announced its P600 PKG tuning upgrade package for the 2012 Nissan GT-R. As you’d expect, engine power is given a good kick in the pants. Starting with the 3.8-litre twin-turbo V6 engine, the P600 PKG kit includes a new intake setup with freer flowing […]
Video: Velos Designwerks Mercedes-Benz C 63 AMG Black Series
Straight out of the US comes this Velos Designwerks 2012 Mercedes-Benz C 63 AMG Black Series. If you’re into modded Mercs, you’ll be in in heaven. Just look at it. The project begun by stripping off the Black Series’ wheels and swapping them for a set of HRE P44SC items […]
Overfinch Range Rover Sport GTS-X with 429kW
Range Rover aftermarket specialist Overfinch has created a new package of the Sport, called the Overfinch Range Rover Sport GTS-X. It showcases vast revisions to the interior and exterior, as well as a modified engine. Under the bonnet the Sport GTS-X features a 5.0-litre supercharged V8. In standard form the […]
Speedhunters Toyota 86 drift car shows off 600kW 2JZ power
Here at PerformanceDrive we love aftermarket tuning, especially crazy engine conversions. This Toyota 86 built by enthusiast website Speedhunters has to take the cake as one of the most wanted dream builds of this year. The team recently completed the project, giving it a big dose of 600kW, vast body […]
DDMWorks Ariel Atom 700 is a bullet on wheels
In terms of raw acceleration and agility, the Ariel Atom 3 is hard to go by. Unless you have the DDMWorks Ariel Atom 700 of course. It comes with the same lightweight (657kg) platform, only it has a 522kW engine in the back. Yes, an Ariel Atom 3 with a […]
Romeo Ferraris 2012 BMW M5 tune to offer 483kW
Renowned tuning company Romeo Ferraris from Italy is developing a tuning package for the awesome new 2012 BMW M5. Full results are yet to be finalised but they are talking around 483kW. In its standard form the 2012 BMW M5 is a weapon already, featuring a 4.4-litre twin-turbo V8 producing […]
Video: Pulse Performance ‘6B’ six-rotor engine sounds incredible
You may have heard of the Mazda 787b Le Mans car from the early Nineties, featuring a quad-rotor Wankel engine. Well, the guys over at Pulse Performance Race Engineering in New Zealand have just finished building an insane six-rotor rotary engine. Yes, a rotary engine with six rotors. It is […]