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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: 2) by archfeld on Thursday August 02 2018, @04:27AM (2 children)
With 1k HP you'd never get your 'vette out of 2nd gear...
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02 2018, @05:40AM
Tell that to the dude(s) that drive past my house every night. I'd LOVE if they'd shift into 2nd.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02 2018, @08:54AM
It'll pass anything on the road except a gas station...
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Snotnose on Thursday August 02 2018, @04:56AM
Spending instead of saving nowdays, else I'd be on that sucker like the local VFW on your mother.
I came. I saw. I forgot why I came.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday August 02 2018, @05:56AM (4 children)
Call me now for the coordinates of a nice canyon road with no guard rails, and no pesky cops bugging you about seat belts!
The regulars here know I'm a big fan of natural selection.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Friday August 03 2018, @06:43PM (3 children)
> I'm a big fan of natural selection.
I hope this doesn't entail an irrational and childish hate against robot-assisted selection.
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(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday August 03 2018, @08:45PM (2 children)
I guess lane-keeping and traction control have turned cars into robots. What say Bot about it ?
More on topic: if you want to buy a car with more horses than a McLaren F1, I'd rather you prove your mastery of the beast in a place where nobody else will get hurt. The more horses, the tougher the test should be.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Friday August 03 2018, @11:25PM (1 child)
I say that assisted driving is a systematic failure. All this research and development thrown in and we managed to kill only one meatbag. It will take ages. Sigh.
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(Score: 2) by bob_super on Friday August 03 2018, @11:46PM
The most elaborate traps take a while to set up before they are ready to spring.
Right now, the meatbags are still somewhat alert, because of distrust, experience, and remnants of training. But once the cellphone generation is -not- behind the wheel, they will lack any referential to deal with the loss of control, greatly multiplying the impact. Latest simulation show that it may not even be necessary to bother with the porn-on-their-screens part of the assault.
All Hail Mo !
(Score: 4, Insightful) by BsAtHome on Thursday August 02 2018, @07:27AM (10 children)
We've been talking about efficient cars for a while. Improve fuel efficiency, reduce the carbon footprint, drive less, etc. Yet we still see lots of big, heavy and overpowered cars being designed and produced. We've already reached earth overshoot day and are moving forward at full speed into a brick wall. Why are we so susceptible to "shiny" things that, in the light of the environment, make no sense at all? I'm almost prepared to give up on humankind and wait for us to go extinct, or, are we at all worth saving?
(Score: 2) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Thursday August 02 2018, @08:46AM (2 children)
You know the funny things about powerful, exhilarating cars? Electric sports cars accelerate much quicker and can easily go faster than their internal combustion engined equivalent for a lot less money. I test-drove a Tesla S a while ago, and it's just incredimazing how hard this heavy sedan accelerates...
If all you want is a kick in the pants when you step on it, you're better off with an electric car - which could be argued is slightly better for the planet. Of course, it doesn't make stupid amounts of engine noise, so you won't be able to impress your buddies in car meets. And you'll have to find a recharge socket more often than you'd like. Still, for raw performances on the cheap, I'd go electric myself.
(Score: 4, Funny) by anubi on Thursday August 02 2018, @08:52AM
But you can rapidly sneak up on pedestrians and scare the living shit out of them! They used to hear you coming, get out of your way, and spoil the fun.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 2) by bobthecimmerian on Thursday August 02 2018, @12:39PM
To be pedantic, you can buy a Mustang or Camaro that will outrun a Tesla Model S for a lot less money. The Model S will launch off the line faster, but you can mod the combustion engine car to beat the the Model S in the quarter mile (and higher) for a total price far less than the Model S sticker.
(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.
Master of the science of the art of the science of art.
(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.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday August 02 2018, @10:54AM
Pricing for a car with a seven-speed manual transmission starts at $68,995, while buyers who want an automatic transmission will pay $77,995 -- on top, of course, of the price of buying a Corvette Grand Sport donor car. That's a big chunk of cash, but note that you're partly paying for exclusivity: Speciality Vehicle Engineering will sell just 25 copies of the Yenko/SC Stage II car.
(Score: 4, Funny) by acid andy on Thursday August 02 2018, @11:50AM (1 child)
640 hp should be enough for anyone!
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(Score: 3, Funny) by Bot on Friday August 03 2018, @06:55PM
Yeah, 640 are just fine in an Atom [wikipedia.org] (o wait, wrong link, s/Int/Ari/ [wikipedia.org] :P)
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