At the upcoming 2010 Geneva Motor Show, Hennessey Performance will reveal their VENOM GT supercar that holds a twin-turbocharged Corvette ZR1-LS9 engine. The special car tuning performed by Hennessey will give the VENOM GT up to 1,200 bhp with a curb weight just under 2,400 lbs. These are amazing numbers, and you rarely hear of cars that boast a power-to-weight ratio of less than 2.5 to 1. Hennessey Performance based the VENOM GT of the Lotus Exige S chassis, however you can see it has been highly modified. The price for the vehicle including all tuning performed by Hennessey is $600,000 USD, and HPE reported that three orders have already been placed on this limited model.

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Lotus Cars USA has released a factory style supercharger kit for the Lotus Elise and Lotus Exige models that come naturally aspirated. Owners who bought their Lotus Elise or Lotus Exige before this blower kit was available, can now bring their car back to an authorized Lotus dealer and have the car tuning performed. After the kit is installed on the 1.8 liter Toyota engine, performance numbers increase from 189 hp and 133 ft lbs or torque to 218 hp and 155 ft lbs of torque. The new system is warrantied and legal in all 50 states, while also being certified for emissions. The supercharger kit also comes with high flow injectors, ECU recalibration, and a redesigned intake manifold to add the supercharger. Even though torque gains are minimal, the performance numbers now peak at 5,000 rpms instead of 6,800 rpms. Lotus has not yet released pricing for the supercharger kit.

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You might think that UK Garage is a tuner from the United Kingdom but the one we’re talking about is located in Italy and loves to modify British cars. They recently launched their latest tuning package for the Lotus Exige MK1 called Extrema. Each customer could choose their desired engine between a Chevrolet V8 with 420 HP or 500 HP, a Corvette Z06 LS7 with 650 HP and even entry level engines like the 2.6L Powertech V8 which develops 360 HP or the 2.8 V6 with an output of 300-350 HP. With the most powerful engine the UK Garage Lotus Extrema can accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h in just 2.8 seconds and from 0 to 200 km/h in 7 seconds.

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Lotus Cars was one of the finest racing cars manufacturer in the world and it was well known for designing light weight cars with great handling. Project Kahn is a car tuning company that modified a lot of cars and they recently joined forces with Lotus to create a special version of Lotus Elise. This limited anniversary version will appear in September and it was made to celebrate 60 years since Lotus was founded. The car received an aerodynamic tuning kit for the exterior and in the car’s interior it will have a lot of leather insertions. As performance modifications, this Elise will receive a new exhaust system and a lower suspension. Read the rest of this article and check out more photos…

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