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1.1 kW (1.5 hp; 1.5 PS) First production car [55] Peugeot Type 15: 1897 6 kW (8 hp; 8 PS) Peugeot's first in-house engine [56] Daimler Phoenix 1899 17 kW (23 hp; 23 PS) First four-cylinder road car [57] Mercedes 35 HP: 1901 26 kW (35 hp; 35 PS) Originally designed as a race car, developed for road use [58] Mercedes Simplex: 1902
Automotive superlatives include attributes such as the smallest, largest, fastest, lightest, best-selling, and so on.. This list (except for the firsts section) is limited to automobiles built after World War II, and lists superlatives for earlier vehicles separately.
320 hp (239 kW) at 4200 rpm The Twenty Grand is the name given to the one-off custom 1933 Rollston Arlington Torpedo-bodied Duesenberg SJ ultra-luxury sedan. The design's initial price tag of US$ 20,000 ($470,746 in 2023 dollars [ 1 ] ) during the height of the Great Depression infamously gave it its nickname of Twenty Grand. [ 2 ]
When the car made an appearance at the Geneva Motor Show in 2013, multiple sites noted that the Veneno has 750 horsepower and a top speed of 220 mph. JohnWMotors / Wikimedia Commons W Motors Lykan ...
Wards 10 Best Engines is an annual list of the ten "best" automobile engines available in the U.S. market, that are selected by Wards AutoWorld magazine. The list was started in 1994 for model year 1995, and has been drawn every year since then, published at the end of the preceding year.
The streamlined 3.9-litre V12 delivered was free of both coverings and belt-driven accessories and became the highest-revving engine ever made for a production car. [citation needed] The T.50’s version of the GMA V12 engine generates high-end power of 663 PS (654 hp) at 11,500 rpm.
The Dodge Challenger SRT Demon 170 is the most extreme muscle car to ever leave an automaker's factory. The 1025-horsepower drag racer wasn't part of the orignal plans however. It was born from spite.
The technical demonstrator Bolide is built using the framework of the same 8-liter quad-turbo W16 engine and the 7-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission used in the Chiron, although upgrades to the W16 engine allow the Bolide to generate over 1,361 kW (1,825 hp; 1,850 PS) and 1,850 N⋅m (1,364 lb⋅ft) of torque, 183 kW (245 hp; 248 PS), more than the Chiron Super Sport 300+.