Having recently gone through import compliance and insurance application on a GMC Typhoon in New Zealand, I can feel the pain.

Hybrid electric turbines are actually being used extensively in truck range extenders or stand alone power units. So yeah, they’re a great hybrid option! https://www.capstoneturbine.com/news/press-releases/detail/3556/ 

Here is what’s under the hood in case you wanted to know. I snapped these pics at Leadfoot 2018.

Oh so we’re a smaller country than the USA so that means we don’t have any money? *Logic does not compute*

My old car is a cockroach, it has so many junkyard parts that I don’t think it has a single part number that matches the chassis anymore. My advice? Start wrenching, cars are perpetual!

Pfft, the answer is Typhoon, obviously!

You’re going to have an animal on your hands. Remember that 3.0 is not much heavier than the 4pot donk that was in there originally.

I put a 3.0L M54B30 in one of these, no supporting modifications. It was stupendously, horrendously unhinged. It’s favorite trick was swapping ends whilst trying to join traffic. The tactic was to just let it go and get off the gas when you were once more pointing in the right direction.

I has a shooting brake?

HAHAHA! Faster than a 325e.... what isn’t? :P

These things were dime a dozen in my hometown during the early 2000's, believe me you’re not missing anything! Questionable build quality, wheezy engines, tissue paper transmissions and engine electronics gremlins a plenty. You can still find them coming up for sale often enough for next to nothing.

If he is going to invest in anything it should be rider training. That’s a shocking display of ‘running out of skill’.

That’s a Toyota starlet powered by a 1340cc Suzuki Hayabusa engine spinning the rear wheels.

First one is a hill climb setup ATV powered by a GSXR1000 motor and it has active aero (with a madman riding it). The second is a home built BRM16 replica powered by a Rolls Royce Meteor tank engine.

KartSport NZ actually threatened to revoke the license of any competing Kart driver who enters at Leadfoot in future. Apparently the event is “not in fitting with the KartSport image”.

The Dallenbach Special features on Colin Mcrae Dirt2, FYI

That’s the ‘Dallenbach Special’ it’s at the festival every year, permanent 4wd, specifically built to campaign Pikes Peak when it was still gravel.

Active aero at that too. The front and rear wings are powered by pneumatic actuators and draw from a dive bottle, they sit at 0 angle of attack under acceleration and can go all the way to 90 under breaking. Power comes from a Suzuki GSXR1000 super bike motor, it’s also worth mentioning that it’s a pretty damn quick…

Every year it gets better, you see everything from Sakers to supertrucks to aero engined specials from the early 1900's. There are plenty of supercars and a load of classic rally and hillclimb machines. Funny enough, some of the most competitive racing is between the cars of the pre-1940 classes. Those crazy buggers…

Yes it most definitely is, he got it sideways too lol.