2014 Harley-Davidson Breakout Is Full of Mean Attitude
4 Sep 2013, 10:16 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Rumored as a new bike full of true drag character, the Breakout FXSB is anything but disappointing: muscular, long and low and screaming the attitude of the '60 Grasser dragsters, this machine ...
Diesel-Powered Chevrolet Chevelle Blows 9 Seconds of Quarter Mile Smoke
3 Sep 2013, 15:34 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Claimed to be one of the greatest musclecars ever built by GM, the 7.4-liter V8-powered Chevrolet Chevelle SS 454 makes for a heck of a dragster even when used in its stock factory spec. But how ...
2014 Ford Mustang Cobra Jet Production Commences
7 Aug 2013, 11:53 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Production of the 2014 Ford Mustang Cobra Jet, the last of its kind before the redesigned 2015 Mustang arrives next year, has begun at Watson Engineering in Taylor, Michigan. With the first proto...
Classic Rolls-Royce Gets Blown GM Engine, Becomes Luxury Dragster
5 Aug 2013, 12:38 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Do you recall the outrageous Hemi-powered Volvo Amazon we showed you back in May? Well, we just stumbled across another one of those weird dragsters that were built out of base cars that were never ...
2014 Victory Vegas 8-Ball, the Black Menace
4 Aug 2013, 10:58 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / As part of their 2014 line-up unveiling schedule, Victory announces the new model year Vegas 8-Ball. If it's an 8-Ball then it's all black, mean, darkened looks for this nifty affordable ...
Willys Drag Race Goes Terribly Wrong
1 Aug 2013, 13:02 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Out of production for nearly 70 years, the Willys Coupe is still an important name in the drag racing business. Once a reputed player, the Willys Coupe is now usually raced during nostalgia meetings...
Zero Engineering Samurai Type5 Custom Platform
1 Aug 2013, 11:42 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / How about a Japanese Harley-Davidson? For some, this sounds like heresy, but if top-notch, jaw-dropping custom bikes are your game, then Zero Engineering is the place to go to. Old-school drag ma...
Pro Mod Dragster Hits Christmas Tree
30 Jul 2013, 14:09 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Drag strip accidents are known to happen. Big horsepower, driver errors and various vehicle failures can lead to heavy, yet spectacular crashes on quarter mile tracks. As you might have already g...
Snake & Mongoose Movie Trailer Released
21 Jul 2013, 08:23 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / While anxiously waiting for the "Rush" movie to arrive in theaters in September, and watching the three trailers already released, we almost forgot there's another cool flick to make ...
Insane Twin Turbo C6 Corvette at the Dragstrip
19 Jul 2013, 13:00 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / While most of us are waiting for the 2014 Corvette Stingray to hit dealerships, some enthusiasts out there are putting a lot of work into turning their older Chevy Corvettes into drag strip monsters...
Star Bolt Gains 5 HP with the New TBR Exhaust
10 Jul 2013, 13:05 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Teased for quite some time, Yamaha's Star dragster-ish machine Bolt surfaced earlier this spring and enjoyed a warm welcome. And since the Bolt was already a respected presence in the line-up ...
Insane 10.4-liter Chevy Pickup Does Wheel Stand
7 Jul 2013, 07:49 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Long before the Silverado was introduced in 1998, Chevrolet had another successful work mule: the C/K series. Introduced in 1960 and retired in the late 1990s, the C/K became a legendary truck thank...
Chevrolet Performance to Sponsor NHRA US Nationals
3 Jul 2013, 15:57 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Chevrolet Performance has signed a multi-year contract to become the title sponsor of the NHRA US Nationals, the company revealed today. This means that starting this year, the largest and most p...
Walz Shows 2013 Benchmark Dragster Priced at €195,000
2 Jul 2013, 12:30 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Marcus Walz shows his 2013 iteration of the Benchmark, a drag-style beast which should inspire both awe and fear when met on the road. The 2013 Benchmark packs in a whopping 124cui (2,031cc) v-tw...
"Hate Tank" Roadrunner is One Mean-Looking Dragster
28 Jun 2013, 13:54 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The classic Plymouth Roadrunner was one of the greatest musclecars built by the Chrysler corporation. Introduced in 1968, the two-door coupe was not just an awesome road car, but also a famous NASCA...
Blown Holden Torana Runs 7-Second Quarter Mile
25 Jun 2013, 16:18 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / As we previously noted, there’s something about Australia and big muscle. Drag races, burnouts and just about anything related, but with Holden-badged cars. One thing’s for sure, the Aus...
“Green Goblin” Mustang by Evolution Performance Sets New Quarter-Mile Record
21 Jun 2013, 13:03 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / The guys over at Evolution Performance seem to be unstoppable on the drag strip. Just one month after setting an impressive 8.94-second quarter mile record run with a beefed-up 2013 Shelby GT500, th...
2,000+ HP Chevrolet Camaro on the Dyno
11 Jun 2013, 16:09 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / For a while now, we’ve seen a lot of insane musclecars putting more than 1,000 HP on the dyno, ranging from Foxbody Mustangs to bare metal hot-rods. And we really start to thing that horsepowe...
Supercharged Dodge Challenger SRT8: the Sound of Evil
3 Jun 2013, 16:11 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / When it comes to engines and horsepower figures, there’s nothing like high-displacement we always say. Maybe that’s why we love American muscle, especially if the mill has a supercharger...
3,500 HP Camaro Dragstrip Testing Goes Terribly Wrong
2 Jun 2013, 08:03 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Dragstrip accidents are not uncommon, especially when we're talking about quarter-mile monsters that pack four-figure horsepower ratings. And unfortunately some of those crashed have resulted i...