Drag Racing

We're starting off the week with a mechanical marvel: a homemade dragster with dual Rolls-Royce jet engines that's been 17 years in the making – and could potentially hit 400 mph.

As if the all-electric Mustang Cobra Jet 1400 Ford revealed in 2020 wasn't monstrous enough, it's now upgraded that world-record prototype into the Mustang Super Cobra Jet 1800. It hopes to best its own record with the reworked 1,800-hp e-dragster.

There are a handful of cars capable of busting out a quarter-mile sprint in less than 10 seconds, straight out of the crate – but there's only one that can do it under nine. Rimac's all-electric Nevera has recorded an astonishing 8.582-second run.

Previewing a near-soundless paradigm for drag racing, Ford presents an all-electric version of its Mustang Cobra Jet. The high-powered one-off will bring 1,400 hp to the drag strip, with Ford estimating a low-eight-second quarter-mile.

Mopar and Dodge/SRT have been building race-ready, NHRA/NMCA-approved drag racers for quite a while. At the SEMA show in Vegas, Mopar has unveiled the fourth generation of the Drag Pak. And it’s sonic awesomeness.

No, it hasn't been crashed into a rubbish bin. This nitrous-sucking custom is a celebration of 100 years of the Indian Scout, and it's headed to Europe, where 500cc GP legend Randy Mamola will race it in the wacky Sultans of Sprint classic and custom event.

Nodding at the past while looking into the future, Chevy presents the eCOPO Camaro at SEMA 2018. Fifty years after the introduction of the original COPO Camaro, it takes the high-performance Camaro electric, dropping in a plug-and-play motor for more than 700 hp and 600 lb-ft of torque.

Ford is introducing its latest turnkey race car at the Woodward Dream Cruise as an homage to the original Ford Mustang Cobra Jet, which debuted 50 years ago. The original Cobra Jet hit the drag strip in 1968 and this latest version will have only 68 built.

An Australian company is working from scratch to build the biggest, baddest electric powertrain ever hooked up to a set of wheels. Top EV Racing is aiming to violently end the dominance of fire-breathing Top Fuel cars at the drag strip, and smash acceleration and landspeed world records to boot.

The current Mustang introduced electronic line lock to drag racers, but that's no longer the only piece of tech Ford offers for a quicker run down the strip – now it's giving the Mustang Drag Strip mode.

After one of the longest teases in history, Dodge has unchained the Demon in New York. As predicted, it's one of the wildest production cars ever created, with 840 hp (626 kW) being put to a set of drag radials. Meet the new king of all-American performance.

We usually loathe long teasers, but we're willing to overlook that fact when it comes to the Dodge Demon. The hyper-Hellcat will debut at the New York Auto Show, but a stream of details means we already have an idea of what the car will be like. Suffice to say, Demon seems like an appropriate name.