Twin engine turbocharged Hyundai Coupe
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 liter 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
July 25, 2006 @ 8:19 am
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.
July 25, 2006 @ 8:27 am
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.
July 25, 2006 @ 9:11 am
I thought paul did a typo in the title…
July 25, 2006 @ 10:03 am
two engines? twice the fuel consumption..
July 25, 2006 @ 10:16 am
[...] Paul Tan has more information on the two independently controlled automatic transmissions used and a video of the car in action. [...]
July 25, 2006 @ 10:49 am
Anyone need this monster??… 2 engines? great!!.. but not practical…
July 25, 2006 @ 10:56 am
Siaw ah!!!
July 25, 2006 @ 11:02 am
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.
July 25, 2006 @ 11:05 am
Can I be his machai….hahaha I dont mind doing his job with this car
July 25, 2006 @ 11:39 am
Cool, when if go workshop with this car and say something like “tauke, engine leaking oil lar”….the mechanic say “mana satu?” hahahaha
July 25, 2006 @ 12:17 pm
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..?
July 25, 2006 @ 1:47 pm
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…
July 25, 2006 @ 1:51 pm
There goes the tyres… haha… well, this is just for performance of course… nobody’s gonna get it for daily use. 2 engines… interesting…
July 25, 2006 @ 3:28 pm
the heaviest compact ever build
July 25, 2006 @ 4:27 pm
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…
July 25, 2006 @ 9:11 pm
turbo…
July 25, 2006 @ 11:18 pm
Twin engine?
nonsense…..really not practical but sounds good in theory….
Lame…..
July 26, 2006 @ 11:40 am
I remember a long time ago salivating over the same concept in the Volkswagen Scirocco. Now where did that go?
July 30, 2006 @ 5:12 am
EHHHHHHHHH….. I WANT ONE WHERE CAN I GET ONE