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The 550kg Ariel Atom 3.5 Supercharged and 1995kg Porsche Panamera Turbo S are cars that will never battle each other in everyday life, but on the drag strip, a comparison promises much: they may be completely different shapes and sizes, and with different purposes in life, but their straight-line performance numbers suggest a very close fight. Light weight versus big power – which is your money on?
Apparently, even at age 82, “Big Daddy” Don Garlits never gets tired of breaking records. The drag racing icon added another record to a long list of achievements April 30 when his newest machine, Swamp Rat 37, set the new quarter-mile record for an electric vehicle with a pass of 7.258 seconds at 184.01 mph, eclipsing the old records 7.95 and 156.00 mph.
Unlike the nitro-burning engines that powered so many of Garlits’ earlier Swamp Rats, Swamp Rat 37 gets its juice from … More