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Sure, the Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 boasts 755 horsepower, but is that really enough power to keep you happy? If your answer is "no," look no further than Specialty Vehicle Engineering's Yenko/SC Stage II Corvette upgrade. It takes a standard 460-horsepower 2019 Corvette Grand Sport and cranks it up to 1,000 horsepower.
While plenty of aftermarket companies can offer ludicrously powerful cars, what's interesting about this Yenko upgrade is that it can be ordered directly through any Chevrolet dealership when you order your new Corvette. The car goes from Chevy to Specialty Vehicle Engineering, and then back to the dealership for you to pick it up completed. Specialty Vehicle Engineering, which was formerly known as SLP, has a 25-year history doing this type of "Second Stage Vehicle Manufacturer" business with General Motors dealerships. It also offers supercharging packages for the Camaro, Tahoe/Suburban and Escalade.
Source: https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/yenko-supercharged-chevrolet-corvette-1000-horsepower/
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02 2018, @11:11AM (6 children)
Like a few muscle cars means shit to the environment. Get some fucking persperctive. Why don't you let the few people to enjoy something you are not interested in and not harass them like it's your religion?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by acid andy on Thursday August 02 2018, @11:52AM (1 child)
I'm a major environmentalist and even I agree with that. Sort out the container ships and aircraft instead.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 03 2018, @11:29AM
About those container ships: They run on fuels which contain loads and loads of sulphur. So they emit more sulphur that a countries fleet of cars. People who want to justify their use of cars then take that as an excuse to continue driving. That is wrong, cars emits way more CO2 than container ships. Sulphur is a classical pollutant, responsible for acid rain. But it isn't a greenhouse gas - if anything it reduces insolation at the surface. CO2 overproduction is the problem, thus driving a car is problematic.
The weird thing is people latch on to the container ship meme... self delusion... in its most reprehensible form.
(Score: 2) by EETech1 on Thursday August 02 2018, @04:36PM
Going down there road, it wouldn't be using any more fuel than a lot of vehicles.
But...
Just think of all the burning rubber, and worn out tires you would be making!
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday August 02 2018, @06:30PM (2 children)
They have a major impact on the noise environment.
Fucking pricks believe it's their God-given right to keep, in a half-mile radius, everyone's kids awake at 1AM...
(Score: 2) by Bot on Friday August 03 2018, @06:49PM (1 child)
Maybe they have modded the exhausts. I hear sadly silent supercars over here. Back in the seventies: now that was engine music.
You can drive a loud car without bothering people. Just go slow in the cities. Like you ought to anyway.
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(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday August 03 2018, @08:50PM
> You can drive a loud car without bothering people. Just go slow in the cities. Like you ought to anyway.
Many people who buy supercars do not seem to believe that discretion is the point.