topgear.com/uk/car-news/srt- … 2015-06-03
Looks like I’m not alone in the “let’s try to make an actual car out of engines that would be more suited to a plane” department lol. “Test the limits of human physiology” eh?
That’s way too extreme! 
For us in Australia land, there’s a new Atom-like car coming out… Weighs 700kg. Has 700bhp. Looks a bit like a Ford Indigo concept. I would post the link but phone browser just doesn’t let me paste in this field for some strange reason…
topgear.com/uk/car-news/quan … 2015-06-03
There. Gosh. If there were a way to merge the two posts that would get rid of my pointless double post 
2.7 liter twin supercharged 4 cylinder? 700bhp!!! Madness.
The photo’s don’t show the engine bay but I suspect this is the Hilux 2.7L as the drifters have learnt to screw crazy performance figures out of them 
From a Hilux!?
I learn something new every day
Nope apparently it’s the mother of all honda K motors.
http://m.insidercarnews.com/quantum-reveals-its-insane-gp700/
topgear.com/uk/car-news/lm2- … 2015-03-25
And now america fires another salvo in the “way too much power” stakes.
Scary how similar these specs are to that of my Mephisto… 290mph top speed, 8s quarter mile, 4s to 100mph…
Less power and less weight and a better chance of actually being made. http://www.topgear.com/uk/car-news/hennessey-venom-f5-revealed-2014-08-04
many cars today would have “aircraft engines” from planes back in the 1950’s and 1960’s, such as a promo video i seen of a dc-6 (maybe a dc-7, forgot which) where they said the engines had 250 horsepower each and then in the video he had only one engine running saying the plane was still easily flyable, and nowadays my car that I’m getting (Chevy trailblazer) has 291 horsepower, so that would be technically “aircraft engine” (sorry i just had to say this)
Dc6 had 2500hp dc7 had 3250hp
According to this, DC-6 had 2100hp, but still a far cry above 250.
DC-4 had 1450hp and DC-7 indeed had 3250hp.
Lockheed Constellation had 2500hp though.
Even the DC-2 has over 700hp per engine! This is pretty close to some modern production engines.
Stinson A, powered by 2 Lycoming R-680 260hp engines was used in the mid-30’s.
m.leftlanenews.com/photos/italia … e-2-0.html
It seems that the hypercar concept shares relatively similar design language. I can’t help but think this looks rather similar in principle to Mercury…
Modern piston engines in Cessnas are often ~200hp or a bit more.
With most of them being OHV Flat 4s.