Monthly Archives: March 2014

New World Record: LMR’s C7 Corvette Makes 1121WHP With A Stroker, Boost and Nitrous

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Just when we thought the C7 Corvette horsepower wars were put to rest yesterday with Vengeance Racing’s 1000whp C7 Stingray Corvette, Late Model Racecraft goes and nudges the bar further with an impressive showing of 1121whp and 992 lb-ft at the rear wheels on N20 and 990whp and 942 lb-ft on boost alone. Now granted, the [...]

The P in Porsche Stands for Profit

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Porsche and its parent company Volkswagen had a great 2013.  Picture it this way: Every time someone drove a P-car out of a dealer’s lot, they left behind a bag with $23,000 in it.  The Stuttgart company then booked that as pure operating profit. While Porsches are relatively low-production cars, at 18 percent, they’re high-margin. [...]

Stalking an Aston Martin One-77

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Owners of low-production hypercars with stratospherically high horsepower ratings must always feel as if they’re in a spy movie.  “I’m being tailed… Again.”  Luckily, the person in pursuit in the video below is only armed with a video camera. We, as viewers, are also fortunate.  Youtuber DLMphotos brings us surveillance footage of an Aston Martin [...]