Most vehicle at the SEMA show in Las Vegas tend to be over - the - top monstrosities just contrive to attract attention . And then you have Toyota , which did virtually the precise opposite this class . The deceptively normal - look Land Cruiser you see here is , in fact , the world ’s fastest SUV.With 2,000hp , the " Land Speed Cruiser , " as it ’s called , can hit 220 miles per hour .
Eight cylinders, two turbos, 2,000 horsepower
So , about that engine . It ’s a hard change translation of the stock V8 that came in the Land Cruiser . The locomotive engineer slap on a pair of " volleyball game - sized " turbos , and added some hole in the bumper for air , so they ultimately bring forth more big businessman . The terminal resultant is over 2,000hp – more than enough to have a few job for other element , which is why virtually every single facet of the fomite was modify or replaced .
For a Land Cruiser, it’s deceptively aerodynamic
When deal with something like an SUV – which has almost none of the aerodynamic efficiency you ’ll find in ultra - mellow - hurrying vehicles like the Bugatti Veyron – top speed is limited as much by the shape of the vehicle as the business leader under the hood . By lowering the Land Speed Cruiser , less aura get underneath it , and by smoothing out the underside , turbulency is kept to a lower limit . That think not only less drag and higher top speeds , but more stability at those speed , too .
The most impressive thing about this is what you can’t see
Sure , if you look from sure slant , you could see that it ’s not on the dot stock , but by and big it see like a normal - ish Land Cruiser – not a 2,000hp beast that can beat a Ferrari F40 on the Autobahn . That ’s very much by blueprint , and was actually one of the hardest section of the build . A squad of engineer at Toyota ’s Motorsports Technical Center literally cut the body off of a Land Cruiser , modified almost every undivided matter from the frame , to the suspension , to , well , plainly the railway locomotive , before cautiously putting it back together again .
There ’s nothing haphazard about that at all .
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Courtesy of Toyota
Courtesy of Toyota
Courtesy of Toyota
Courtesy of Toyota
