Crazy thing is those numbers are low enough to actually be more reliable.We&#x27;ve got locals pushing 1,200+ HP out of K24&#x27;s in their civics.

Heh, very true. These days most new cars have a 1.0-1.5 turbo (or hybrid) rather than a larger 2.0 NA. And even 20 years ago most European cars were around 1.5 or less because of their higher fuel prices and registration taxes.I&#x27;m a bit spoiled with the beefy 2.5 in my Mazda... Though it&#x27;s still about 480 HP less than this beast ;)

2 liters is hardly econobox, even without a turbo. A new honda civic sedan is 1.3 liters (NA). 2.0 is more typical for sedans imho. The 2.0 turbo in this biuld originally turned 250+ hp (wrx) which is well beyond econo anything.

When cost and reliability is no concern, you can do truly crazy things...&gt; 2.0-liter boxer engine ... 670 horsepower and 680 lb-ft of torqueThose are V10 numbers coming from something the size you&#x27;d find in an econo-box.Obviously unlike your Camry this thing is not going to do 300,000 KMs over its lifetime, and will be rebuilt frequently. This is the extreme end of the engineering tradeoff, and it&#x27;s interesting to see what happens when the scale tips all the way over.

I would like to see a comparison between this and a Lancia Stratos.. They somehow share the same vibe

The Ridgeline and Maverick are actually quite large compared to a 90s Ranger. Yes, not everything needs to be as big as a modern half-ton, but everything has shifted towards huge.

The Ridgeline is closer to a 1&#x2F;4 ton like a Tacoma or Ranger. I own one. It&#x27;s great for what it is, fits my outdoor lifestyle well (towing a small travel trailer, a few mountain bikes, and a large cooler).The Maverick, Santa Cruz, and the currently-vaporware Slate are much smaller.

Wouldn&#x27;t you need to flag a sheet of plywood in the back of a Maverick? My old &#x27;06 Canyon doesn&#x27;t require that and it&#x27;s actually a smaller truck than the Maverick.

All of these trade bed space for seating space, and they&#x27;re still larger than my stepdad&#x27;s 1990s-era Sonoma. As a sibling comment pointed out, you can&#x27;t carry 4x8 sheet goods easily in these.

Sure, but the OG Brat is a tiny truck by modern US standards. It&#x27;s like the Miata of trucks.Even my 01 Forester will look big parked next to the OG Brat. Despite looking diminutive next to most modern vehicles here in Cali... It&#x27;s super annoying how big ~everything on the road has become.

&gt; Pickup trucks are great, but they&#x27;re only available in &quot;behemoth&quot; size in the US.Not all trucks are 1&#x2F;4 or 1&#x2F;2 ton in the USA.There&#x27;s things like the Honda Ridgeline, Hyundai Santa Cruze, and the Ford MaverickSubaru had the Baja for a little white but they only sold a couple thousand per year.

If they ever build it I might buy one. Heavily depends on if it has an always on mobile connection and the car is full or screens and stupid garbage.

Something like that:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.telotrucks.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.telotrucks.com&#x2F;</a>

Blame the chicken tax. Ruining small trucks in America for decades.

I got my eye on the Slate - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slate.auto&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.slate.auto&#x2F;</a>It answers the question, what if Framework made cars?

We used to travel with folks in the back bed in beach chairs. It was quite comfortable, and you could fit four in a small Toyota truck bed. We would face each other, and talk, and it&#x27;s was a fun and social way to travel. Six adults in a short bed Toyota, with 2 in the cab.With just two of us in the back, we&#x27;d have the chairs against the cab (like the Brat did). Riding backwards in a vehicle is surprisingly relaxing. You can&#x27;t see the traffic ahead, so you have absolutely zero interest in where the car is going, how fast, how close, missing exits, etc. You&#x27;re just cognitively out of that loop. Even as a normal passenger, even if we stay silent, we&#x27;re all firing off those &quot;back seat driver&quot; neurons a bit.But riding backwards, where it&#x27;s all out of sight and out of mind, it&#x27;s a noticeable reduction in that. On one trip, we&#x27;re heading to the mountains, my friend and I in back of the truck. Suddenly, the truck is braking very hard. We, of course, have no idea what&#x27;s happening. I said &quot;Well, this is it, good knowing you.&quot; &quot;Yup! You too!&quot;.Obviously nothing happened, but it was a curious incident to say the least.

You can’t have passengers in jump seats like it’s 1970 anymore —unless you’re on your own ranch somewhere.

Can we just bring back the Brat? A compact 4wd pickup truck with a pair of jump seats in the bed.Pickup trucks are great, but they&#x27;re only available in &quot;behemoth&quot; size in the US.

Waiting for my Honda Goldwing powered hybrid with 4-wheel hub motors in a Vanagon Syncro chassis.

It is more than the speed potential. This thing is very likely not capable of running pump gas, and has to be running very rich. The cost per mile, just in fuel, would be insane. Also, good luck passing any sort of emissions controls for road use.

Unless you would be planning to keep it at a race track, you would not want to own a car like this. It would almost certainly be miserable to drive at legal speeds. That 2.0L engine isn&#x27;t going to make any useful power below 5-6k RPM. Keeping a turbo like that spooled for any meaningful duration is guaranteed to get you pulled over by the police.

Nearly impossible. For the same price and effort, you can probably get a high end Porsche 911 or similar which will be way more practical.The next level up would be to get a modified car from a company that has very strong ties to the manufacturer, such as Ruf with Porsche, Roush or Saleen with Ford Mustangs, etc.Trust me either of those options will be more than anyone but the 1% top skilled or thrill seeking individuals can handle.

Premade as in have someone built it for you?
Well, the same way they did it. You offer up a load of money to a reputable build shop and come back in about 2-5 years depending on how busy they are.

You don’t- without that knowledge you would not know what to pay someone to build and why. It’s also going to be extremely complex and unreliable, and likely not street drivable or street legal.

Vermont Sports Car.They build all the fast Subarus for everyone; Travis Prastana, Bucky Lasik, Ken Block, Lia Block.The Huckster, the Project Midnight; all them too.<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vtcar.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vtcar.com&#x2F;</a>

The best way with finite money is racecarsdirect or some other similar platform.Cons are you&#x27;re getting someone else&#x27;s project.Pros are they&#x27;ve already sunk stupid money into it.You can get great cars on there if you have someone in the know to bounce deals off of.The best way with infinite money is either some very high end small batch restomod or to even commission one of the large OEMesque motorsport shops to plan and build a one off. Smaller, specialized shops are also an option but the amount of people who&#x27;re learning on customer vehicles is high and they&#x27;ll be so hyped to get a large project they&#x27;ll promise you the moon with entirely good intentions and then fail spectacularly.

&gt; someone with no car tuning &#x2F; mechanics skillsI&#x27;m just going to pull the band-aid off, you&#x27;re probably not the target audience for a drag-race sleeper rig.

Buy a hooligan car new (or very lightly used) like a WRX STI, or Lancer EVO.

Just to quantify it, most &quot;restomods&quot; start at $100K USD.Decades ago I had a buddy that did something similar with a VW Bug that he did &quot;on the cheap&quot; doing almost all the work himself and things like paint through connections he had, I never talked price on it but it was at least $30K I&#x27;d bet and probably more like in the $50Ks, and took around a decade.

You can&#x27;t, unless you a Saudi billionaire. These things are completely custom, are hugely expensive (why they have sponsors all over them) and often they will have work lined up for literally years.You also wouldn&#x27;t want one. They cannot be driven on the road really as they aren&#x27;t legal. They will also break a lot. Generally the more tuned a car is the more maintenance it needs.If you are interested in cars, you are better getting an older vehicle and somewhere to work on it e.g. a garage and working on it as a hobby at the weekends. You will learn a lot more and can actually enjoy it.

Step 1: Get ~$250k+ in cash for the initial build.Step 2: Start learning. If you don&#x27;t know how to evaluate the work of your builder you may have a few false starts finding someone who can actually do it, which will cost you even more time and money.Step 3: Learn some more. Owning a vehicle like this is a constant development effort. The work will never be &quot;done&quot; so unless you have a mechanic on retainer you will be working on it constantly.In short, unless you have like a million dollars to spend on a toy and staff to keep it running you&#x27;ll have to shoulder at least some of the effort.

Then there is the building of the engine and understanding clearances for specific applications and RPM&#x27;s, value train harmonics when thing start getting to crazy high revs like 9500.Still very learnable but outside the scope of standard engine rebuilt stuff.

It isn&#x27;t that simple. I&#x27;ve been learning to work on my own car over the last few years. I&#x27;m not even doing anything crazy just fixing up an older vehicle and modernising some parts of it (mainly interior).I had to fix the wiper system. The wiper system you would think it wouldn&#x27;t matter much whether the parts are aftermarket or not. I was very wrong, parts that even look almost identical may not work properly, due to differences in tolerances.There is also different revisions of particular parts and it will become obsolete. You can lose an afternoon on the internet just doing that.Then there is the tools. I&#x27;ve spent about a small fortune on tools. I have 3 torque wrenches, 3 sets of sockets, 3 sets of spanners and loads of weird specialist tools like special pliers. There are many jobs I can&#x27;t do myself because they needs specialist knowledge to do properly e.g. gearboxes.You have to be prepared to spend potentially years on it and huge amount of money, even on relatively simple projects.There is a reason that a lot of guys get into old 4x4 pickups and do those up, because they are a known quantity and parts are readily available.

&gt;Honestly, just learn it like anything else.If you&#x27;re starting from 0 that&#x27;s probably a decade long commitment before you&#x27;re able to start to execute a project like this.
There&#x27;s a youtube series &#x27;project binky&#x27; where a pair of professional car tuners rebuild a mini cooper and stuff a Celica engine in it. They already have all the skills, own a shop and all the tools and it still took them years.

Honestly, just learn it like anything else. Understand the basic components of an internal combustion engine (block, crankshaft, rods, pistons, camshafts, cylinder heads, valves, intake and exhaust manifolds), the 4 cycles the engine goes through (intake, compression, power, and exhaust), how fuel delivery and ignition systems work. And then there are tons of resources on tuning and you can get the software for a laptop.

Looks amazing. How does someone with no car tuning &#x2F; mechanics skills get something like this premade?

Gymkhana's 1978 Subaru Brat with 9,500-RPM Redline, Active Aero Is One Super Ute