"Hippie ideals like fuel efficiency" is a wild eyed ignorance as to the day and age we live in. With no stats or video it must handle like a VW bug in the corners.

Almost makes me want to have a GM car again just to have this done to it? Love American muscle! :-)

@Hoff. You know when I read comments like yours it makes me appreciate muscle cars even more. Its quite "likely" they didn't make this car with fuel efficiency in mind.

Have you ever seen the body builder who is so ridiculously over muscled that he walks like a an uncomfortable ape and looks like a freaky alien? That's what a muscle call looks like to me when it's trying to corner. I appreciate what the car maker is trying to say but it's a car that can't drive right. Ridiculous

They are only going to make twelve, so we will never see a proper test of this beast. More specs might have given a better indication of how the car might handle. Weight and distribution of same come to mind. Clearly, the car is not meant to be driven; it is a statement: A fun project that shows the amount of excess you can place in one spot if you provide enough time, money and technical expertise. Besides all that, if you, yes you, were to have the opportunity to drive it...well, let's just say that if you survived, you still would have to live with the embarrassment of explaining what went wrong and how you turned the machine to rubble. This not the car for you; think: Ford Focus.

That's a lot of power, but the performance isn't that great considering how much of it there is. I wonder how much it weighs? It's also mind-numbingly ugly; it can't seem to decide if it wants to be curvy or angular, so has random bits of both. I'd guess it probably can go round the odd corner - Hennessy know what they're doing, and it doesn't appear to follow the rocket-powered-sofa model of older muscle cars. Their Venom GT looks much prettier.

re; The Hoff
When a kid soups up his parents previous car he tends to get a car that is capable of going straight very fast. But there has always been muscle cars that handle well. When you see one of these going around corners you decide that it is not a muscle car because it does not conform to your idea of what a muscle car is.

lol An engine like that would work pretty well in a WWII PT boat! I wonder if it'd get better 'economy' than the old Packard engine...?

Considering the CTS-V goes 0-60 in 3.9 seconds stock I don't think i would ever bother spending the money for an upgrade like this. Not only is it extra power you could never use, but it doesn't look nearly as elegant as the original. And @Hoff, the CTS-V was tuned to perform like a true sports car; it's gotten pretty high marks for its handling.

GM, good luck meeting the new CAFE standards with this pig in your fleet. Are we headed towards another bailout? Will you ever get it?