Meet The 2000bhp Street-Legal Corvette That'll Destroy Anything In Its Path
There are supercars, there are tuned cars, there are 1500bhp Lotus Exige rip-offs, and then there's this. A fully road-legal, certified, easy-to-drive C6 Corvette that's been ticked to develop 2000bhp. That's double Veyron power, in a glassfibre, rear-wheel drive car. Yikes.
Late Model Racecraft (LMR) built this chunder-chariot up from a lowly 400bhp C6 Corvette in 2012, and have since tweaked it to nuke 1500bhp Vipers and 1400bhp Nissan GT-Rs. Forget Fast and Furious's ten-second cars: the LMR Vette runs the quarter-mile in EIGHT seconds, and will hit over 230mph in a standing mile - where it's still accelerating like your car does in second gear.
The engine mods alone (LSX reinforced V8 block, air-to-water intercoolers, bespoke rear-mounted twin-turbos, NOS...) cost around $100,000 to develop and cram into the engine bay of the Corvette, and even then it didn't all fit, hence the hot-rod cutout in the lid. A hundred thousand dollars isn't small money (£66k on this side of The Pond), but then again, a pile that big won't even buy you a Porsche 911 these days. Getting 2000bhp for the same cost (plus a second-hand base-spec C6) isn't bad value. Hooray for recession-proof motoring...
Course, this is all a bit specialist, but the fun bit is: you can have the same know-how applied to anything from a Mustang to an Audi R8 with one of LMR's off-the-shelf tuning packages. Or, if you've got money to burn other money with, ask for the full 2000bhp.
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