Mopar Drops the SRT Viper's V10 Into the Dodge Charger Juiced Concept

If there's one thing Mopar's people like doing to Chrysler Group cars more than anything else, it is to shoehorn the brand's gargantuan V10 powerplant under their hoods.

For this year's SEMA Show, they had the opportunity to do it again, this time with the latest iteration of the Dodge Charger sports sedan that gets a Viper 8.4-liter V10 Mopar crate engine, good enough for 650-horsepower, or 10hp more than the new 2013 SRT Viper sports coupe.

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BMW 3-Series E30 Packs a 4.4-liter V8 Punch

As far as extreme engine swaps and BMW E30s go, the V12-powered 350i we discovered back in 2007 no doubt takes the cake.

However, this 1989 3-Series sedan found for sale in Holland comes pretty close as the owner shoehorned a 4.4-liter V8 engine (M62B44) from a 1996-1998 540i E39 under its bonnet.

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Great Scott! A DeLorean for a Back to the Future Trip to Mad Max's Dystopian Land

More than anything else, the appearance of the DeLorean DMC-12 as a time machine in the Back to the Future trilogy secured John DeLorean's stainless-steel bodied creation a permanent place in Hollywood history and popular culture.

Some thirty years after the DeLorean Motor Company was forced to close shop in 1982, around 6,500 examples of the iconic gull-wing sports car powered by a V6 engine jointly developed by Peugeot, Renault and Volvo Cars, are believed to exist on the roads today.

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