quarter mile

Hennessey Performance Engineering has created an HPE650 package for the Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8 fitted with the 6.4-litre Hemi engine. When it leaves the showroom floor it has 470 horsepower and gets from 0-60 miles per hour (0-96 km/h) in 4.8 seconds. When it leaves Hennessey's garage floor ...

There are lots of ways to measure the performance of a car, but there's only one that is quintessentially well suited to the SRT Viper: the quarter mile. And while we've already seen a proper comparison test or two that puts the new SRT Viper on a racetrack, we've yet to see what it can do when ...

It looks as if the Tesla Model S has a new feather to stick in its cap. DragTimes.com took the five-door down to Palm Beach International Raceway for a few sprints down the quarter mile, and the EV managed to run a best time of 12.371 seconds at 110.84 miles per hour (179 km/h) with a 0-60 (0-96 ...

We've taken the bone-stock 2012 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 down the quarter-mile drag strip at Bondurant in Arizona several times. The very first pass we made netted us a time slip in the mid-12-second range. That's an impressive performance for a car wearing road-legal radial tires with zero ...

The image above is a perfect example of potential energy. What we have is famed tuner John Hennessey's own personal daily driver, a modified Cadillac CTS-V Sport Wagon called "Hammer Wagon," about to run down the quarter mile. Its twin-turbo V8 is producing upwards of 1,000 horsepower, but with ...

On Tuesday, August 23, a lone 2012 Infiniti M35h ripped down the UK's rain-drenched Santa Pod Raceway and sped into the record books as the world's quickest hybrid vehicle. Driven by Tim Pollard, associate editor of the UK's Car Magazine, and overseen by Guinness World Records, the ...

General Motors built the Futurliner to promote a traveling show called the "GM Parade of Progress" in the 1940s and '50s. The slippery-lined bus, which was penned by the legendary Harley Earl, is one of 12 that traveled the U.S. to show Americans the future of motoring and technology. GM ...