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Aston Martin shoehorns 430-hp V8 engine into Cygnet city car

Posted on July 12, 2018November 2, 2022 by Dan Mihalașcu

It’s basically a 4.7-liter naturally aspirated V8 with wheels attached to it Just when everyone had forgotten about Aston Martin’s experiment with the Cygnet city car, the company itself is…

Posted in Car News, Spectacular carsTagged aston martin, aston martin cygnet, bespoke, engine swap, Goodwood Festival of Speed, q by aston martin
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Gutted Tesla P100D races turbocharged LS V8 all-wheel drive pickup

Posted on December 28, 2017November 2, 2022 by Andrei Nedelea

It’s done in the dead of night with a $4,000 pot Teslas usually annihilate everything they come across in short drag races, thanks to their instant power, traction and no…

Posted in Car News, Drag RacingTagged drag race, electric vehicles, engine swap, evs, pickup, tesla, tesla model s
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Electric-swapped Toyota AE86 drift car has a manual gearbox

Posted on November 7, 2017November 2, 2022 by Andrei Nedelea

Owner says he even drifted it around Laguna Seca and it was a blast For drifting you need a lot of torque and power available immediately so that you can…

Posted in Car News, Electric CarsTagged drift, electric vehicles, engine swap, evs, Toyota
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ICON-modified 1958 Rolls Royce Silver Cloud goes like stink

Posted on October 24, 2017November 2, 2022 by Andrei Nedelea

It sits on an all-new chassis, motivated by new LS7 V8 ICON is known for its restomod projects and its line of Derelict models is meant to hide all of…

Posted in Car News, TuningTagged engine swap, restomod, rolls royce, Tuning
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This Rolls Royce Phantom has a six-pot swapped secret under its bonnet

Posted on October 16, 2017November 2, 2022 by Andrei Nedelea

Rolls Phantoms usually have one Jay-Z on board, but this one has a 2JZ and that’s even better Rolls Royce Phantom (the previous generation, not the latest one) is the…

Posted in Car News, TuningTagged engine swap, japan, rolls royce, rolls royce phantom, sedan, Toyota

7 most interesting engine swaps of 2017

Posted on June 6, 2017November 2, 2022 by Adrian Mihălțianu

How to make the ultimate sleeper cars Engine swap is an art, and you have to know very well what you're doing. Well, these people seem to know what they're…

Posted in Car News, Spectacular carsTagged engine swap, fiat 500, toyota gt86, volkswagen golf

First-gen Honda Insight gets rear-mounted six-pot for autocross

Posted on May 23, 2017November 2, 2022 by Andrei Nedelea

It’s basically just a gutted Insight shell with Subaru boxer in the back Before you go out and accuse the people who created this rather unfinished looking Honda Insight for…

Posted in Car NewsTagged engine swap, honda, honda insight

NSX-Swapped Honda S2000 is a trackday weapon if we’ve ever seen one

Posted on May 9, 2017November 2, 2022 by Andrei Nedelea

With 450 hp and extensive track-focused mods, saying it looks like fun is an understatement Honda S2000s are shooting up in value, and the fewer mods they have the more…

Posted in Car NewsTagged engine swap, honda, honda nsx, honda s2000

Who’d Buy This 1.4-liter Renault-Engine-Swapped Mazda RX8?

Posted on March 14, 2017November 2, 2022 by Andrei Nedelea

It’s up for sale in Lithuania for €3,500, if you’re interested Usually, when people do an engine swap for a sporty coupe, it’s all about the performance gain. However, that’s…

Posted in Car NewsTagged engine swap, Mazda, mazda rx8, rx8

Ludicrous Is too Kind a Term to Describe This Porsche 911-Based Hot Rod

Posted on February 27, 2017November 2, 2022 by Andrei Nedelea

It’s powered by a front-mounted Ford V8 Knowing the behind-the-rear-axle engine placement of Porsche 911s, the degree to which this particular 964-gen has been modified is beyond belief. The rear-mounted…

Posted in Car NewsTagged 911, crazy modifications, engine swap, hot rod, porsche, porsche 911

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A brief history of the Porsche Speedster

Dragoș Băltățeanu May 21, 2019
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Six decades of open-top driving pleasure Porsche has recently added a Speedster version to the 911 model range. But the Speedster is something deeply embedded in the Porsche DNA. Speedster…

Car history: the incredible cars of Giuseppe Figoni

Adrian Mihălțianu February 11, 2019
1938 Talbot-Lago T150-C SS Teardrop Coupe by Figoni et Falasco 06

The Italian car designer created some of the most beautiful cars ever made Giuseppe Figoni started as just another car designer, in the 1920s. But when he met Ovidio Falaschi,…

In pictures: 50 years from the first Mercedes-Benz E-Class coupés

Adrian Mihălțianu December 8, 2018
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A story of German beauty and power Mercedes-Benz has a delightful picture gallery for its fans, and it's especially pleasing for those loving its classic coupés Fifty years ago, Mercedes-Benz…

Test Drives

Citroën C4 Cactus 1.2 PureTech 110 Shine review: personality crisis

Andrei Știrbu August 28, 2018
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By calling itself a 'hatchback', the C4 Cactus proves it's not afraid of challenges; and not just any challenge, but one of the toughest Overall Score 79/100 In a quite…

2018 Porsche 911 Carrera 4 Cabriolet review: not just a Jack of all Trades

Andrei Știrbu August 6, 2018
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Porsche 911s keep on breaking records and live up to their names. But what about the least powerful 911? Is it a proper sports car, or just an entry-level everyone…

2018 BMW X4 xDrive 25d review – Straight outta Spartanburg

Andrei Nedelea July 24, 2018
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It's BMW's latest midsize SAC Overall Score 85/100 BMW proved just how much beauty really is in the eye of the beholder with its first generation X6 (which it called…

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