Supercharged
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Ahead of the annual Carroll Shelby Tribute & Car Show, Shelby American has unveiled two new vehicles. The Mustang Super Snake wide body and F-150 Super Snake are both predictably brash, not to mention absurdly powerful, thanks to hulking great V8 engines shoehorned under their respective hoods.
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Jeep has whipped the covers off the Grand Cherokee SRT Trackhawk. With the V8 from the Dodge Hellcat crammed into its engine bay, the Trackhawk is the quickest, most powerful four-wheel drive to emerge from the Jeep factory.
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GM Holden will close its manufacturing plant on October 20, but won't be going gently into that good night. Instead, the team at Holden Special Vehicles has created the GTS-R W1. It's powered by an LS9 V8, and just 300 examples will be built, providing a fitting farewell to the classic Aussie V8.
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People keen on the Chevrolet Camaro already have to decide between four-, six- and eight-cylinder options, but the decision just became more difficult with the addition of the 640-hp, supercharged ZL1, a car designed to be the perfect all-rounder for fans of powerful pony cars.
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In the latest of our video road tests, Kawasaki USA turns Loz loose on the extraordinary Ninja H2. It's the only current mass-market production motorcycle with forced induction, thanks to its custom designed supercharger, and it's as insane as you'd expect!
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From its signature mirror paint job and sci-fi looks, to its electric green trellis frame and Ninja star wheels, Kawasaki's H2 is all about shock and awe. And none of it shocks more than when you open the throttle and access the roaring excess of a 200-plus horsepower, supercharged, 1000cc engine.
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Ultra-exotic Italian brand Bimota laid on a superb selection of eye-popping new goodies at EICMA 2015 in Milan. There's a bizarre hub-steered cafe racer, a Diavel-powered Impeto streetfighter with its optional supercharger, and a kit bike to end all kit bikes, the Bimota BB3 superbike kit.
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Kawasaki's H2 is the much-awaited road-going version of the 300-horsepower H2R unveiled at Intermot. It won't have any more horsepower than the numerous race-bred bikes shown elsewhere at EICMA, but it will be the fastest accelerating motorcycle on the road.