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Hennessey Performance Engineering (HPE) is an American hypercar manufacturer and high-performance vehicle creator.. In addition to building the Venom F5 hypercar, the company specializes in 'making fast cars faster' modifying sports cars from several brands including Chevrolet, Dodge, Cadillac, Jeep, [1] Ford, GMC, and Lincoln.
1.1 kW (1.5 hp; 1.5 PS) First production car [57] Peugeot Type 15: 1897 6 kW (8 hp; 8 PS) Peugeot's first in-house engine [58] Daimler Phoenix 1899 17 kW (23 hp; 23 PS) First four-cylinder road car [59] Mercedes 35 HP: 1901 26 kW (35 hp; 35 PS) Originally designed as a race car, developed for road use [60] Mercedes Simplex: 1902
At the 2006 24-hour race at the Nürburgring, Heinz-Harald Frentzen, Dirk Müller, Marcel Engels and Dominik Schwager started with an Apollo. The engine used was a newly developed hybrid engine. In addition to a 5.8-litre V8 biturbo with 382 kW (520 hp), the Apollo also had an approx. 100 kW electric motor. However, throughout the race the ...
Car tuning is the modification of a car to optimise it for a different set of performance requirements from those it was originally designed to meet. Most commonly this is higher engine performance and dynamic handling characteristics but cars may also be altered to provide better fuel economy , or smoother response.
Engine tuning is the adjustment or modification of the internal combustion engine or Engine Control Unit (ECU) to yield optimal performance and increase the engine's power output, economy, or durability. These goals may be mutually exclusive; an engine may be de-tuned with respect to output power in exchange for better economy or longer engine ...
The company designs and builds upon numerous parts of the original car, such as tuning the car's engine, lowering the car, making a new body with more features, and installing racing tires. [2] The first car from Hamann Motorsport was the BMW M3 (E30), producing 348 PS (256 kW) from a turbocharged version of the 2.3-litre inline-four engine ...
Carlsson was a German car tuning manufacturer specialising in Mercedes-Benz cars. The Carlsson tuning house was founded by brothers Rolf and Andreas Hartge in 1989. Carlsson's products were available for the entire current range of Mercedes-Benz models including the R-Class, [1] SL-Class, [2] C-Class [3] and the GL-Class [4] along with many ...
Mattias Ekström is pictured driving the car in the 2009 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters Company founder Johann Baptist Abt, 1932 Abt Audi RS4-R Avant Abt Audi RS5-R Abt Sportsline is an auto racing and auto tuning company based in Kempten im Allgäu , Germany .