What makes this 531-pound beast so intense is its liquid-cooled 998cc 4-cylinder supercharged engine. Yes, it's supercharged! This is the lower-power version of the engine found in the H2R ...

Which leads into one of the most hotly-debated points of contention: turbo vs. supercharger. All other things equal, which will win on the quarter-mile blacktop? It's a question which has ...

BluePrint Engines has been building crate engines for decades, and recently they’ve even offered powertrain packages with manual transmissions carefully mated to their Ford-, Chevrolet-, and ...

You really get a sense of how minimal an Atom is when it doesn’t have an engine in it. The Tesla motor, inverter, and gear reduction box from the Tesla weigh just shy of 300 pounds, which is ...

It turned out the Supercharged version couldn't meet emissions standards, so the Turbocharged variant took its place, which was a great thing because it was far more powerful. Chevy also offered a ...

That was fast. But this is now. And now, the new Ariel Atom 4R sports a Honda Civic Type R's 2.0-litre turbo with 400bhp. It'll happily hit 60mph in under 2.7 seconds, 100mph in less than 6.5s and ...

The supercharger’s mid-century heyday, however, was eventually cut short by emerging new technology: the turbocharger, which had been around in a few production cars since the 1960s but didn’t ...