If you’ve watched The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, you would remember this scene where someone said he wouldn’t want his machai to be seen going around in a Hyundai. Well, I don’t think he’d mind this particular Hyundai. This Hyundai Tiburon (known on our market as the Hyundai Coupe) has two engines, both 2.0 litre turbocharged engines. You have one at the front making 309hp, and one at the back making 317hp, resulting in a total of over 600 horses and a technically an all wheel drive system. It does the quarter mile in 10.95 seconds on street tyres.
The car uses two independently controlled automatic transmissions, giving it the ability to operate in both drive and reverse at the same time! The smoke caused by the wheelspin as both engines threathen to tear the chassis apart in opposite directions guarantees a win in burnout contests effortlessly. Video after the jump.
Video: Twin engined, turbocharged all wheel drive Hyundai Coupe
After dabbling for years in the IT industry, Paul Tan initially began this site as a general blog covering various topics of personal interest. With an increasing number of readers paying rapt attention to the motoring stories, one thing led to another and the rest, as they say, is history. An avid electronic gadget aficionado as well as big-time coffee lover, he's also the executive producer of the Driven motoring TV programme.
Although twin turbocharged engines sounds cool, I personally don't think it's wise to do so due to its cost and weight concerns. Having a single 4.0L turbocharged engine tweaked properly would attained similar power and with a 4WD system included would make the total package still lighter than two engines. But ofcourse, having two engines is great to brag about.
Some might argue that even a 2.0L engine could be tweaked to attained over 600bhp. True but very costly to do so and normaly the torque is low by comparison to a larger cc engine. Perhaps if I quoted a 3.0L engine doing 600bhp it would be better. Anyway. it is a great achievement from the engineering point of view based on what the mods they did to the Hyundai Coupe.
I thought paul did a typo in the title…
two engines? twice the fuel consumption..
Anyone need this monster??… 2 engines? great!!.. but not practical…
Siaw ah!!!
let me get this straight, 2 engines ? 1 powering front wheels and 1 powering back wheels ?
extra heavy despite the 600hp, coming into a corner and getting out of one would be hell.
Can I be his machai….hahaha I dont mind doing his job with this car
Cool, when if go workshop with this car and say something like "tauke, engine leaking oil lar"….the mechanic say "mana satu?" hahahaha
i like the concept.. use only one engine.. if that one kaput, then use the other one.. like a spare engine..
if like to drift then only use the rear engine..
nice eh..?
To install this setup, must take some tedious auto engineering work. I kinda wonder how they control both engine at the same time, the fuel tank etc etc…
There goes the tyres… haha… well, this is just for performance of course… nobody's gonna get it for daily use. 2 engines… interesting…
the heaviest compact ever build
Dude…if you want practicality, go for a small city car…hehehe…
By the way, I've seen something similar done to an Audi TT…
turbo…
Twin engine?
nonsense…..really not practical but sounds good in theory….
Lame…..
I remember a long time ago salivating over the same concept in the Volkswagen Scirocco. Now where did that go?
EHHHHHHHHH….. I WANT ONE WHERE CAN I GET ONE
HaHA..I just bought 1 last month and the results is…
Nissan Fairlady smell my Hyundai Coupe farting..hehe.
Any Hyundai coupe owner ??
it looks just like mine
I’m doin it right now in my civic coupe ls vtec turbo I’m pullin 12.2 right now hope can get 10s
Oh my god can i have one
I like the concept…. But would like to know how they had controlled 2 Gear levers, Clutches, Accelerators, and definitely the speed of each axles….