Shelby Daytona-based electric supercar

Meet America’s 500bhp EV supercar
Renovo shows off Shelby-based EV prototype at Pebble Beach. How does 0-60mph in 3.4 secs grab you?
The American company took the opportunity of last weekend's Pebble Beach Concours (where some Ferraris sold for - cue Dr Evil close-up - many millions of dollars) to reveal a near-production ready prototype of its all-electric two-seater.

Renovo, if you're unaware, was founded in 2010 and works out of California's Silicon Valley. Its first - and only - project is this EV Coupe, and is said to showcase the company's patent-pending electric technology, on which Renovo has been working ‘in stealth mode' since the company's formation.
It's also unquestionably cool, too, because that Tomorrow's World drivetrain is all wrapped up in a factory-modified Shelby Daytona CSX9000 chassis and body.

"The shape was nearly perfect 50 years ago," explains Renovo advisor and award-winning designer Peter Brock. "The redesigned car has a totally updated body, frame, suspension and cabin - it's a new chapter for this chassis," he added.
So, that's the outside, but what about the inside? Here's where everything gets fast. A pair of mid-mounted twin sequential axial-flux motors (very Back To The Future, no?) each drive a rear wheel, mapped to produce a combined power output of 500bhp and - get this - a whopping 1000lb ft of torque

These are fed by a lithium-ion battery pack, which can be fast-charged in just 30 minutes.
But we know you don't care about fast-charging and range (no figure has been provided for the latter, but don't expect it to be especially large). You care about acceleration. Well, with that 500bhp and 1000lb ft propelling a 1475kg package, the Renovo coupe can accelerate from 0-60mph in 3.4 seconds - three point four - and top out at 120mph.

"We have poured our passion and innovation into the Coupe in an effort to deliver a truly amazing driving experience," says Renovo CEO Christopher Heiser.
Pre-sales have already begun, with a limited series production run scheduled for 2015. No word on price, but expect it to be hefty. Is this the world's coolest EV supercar?

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This will never be a standard Ferrari 458 Italia again.

The wheel arches and wings are cut, bashed and pulled to accommodate the ultra-wide 20-inch wheels. It has a (very) wide arch body kit screwed on. Yep. Screwed on. There's an aftermarket exhaust. Essentially, it's been modified the same way da yoof customise 80,000-mile Golfs.

But it's a Ferrari 458 Italia. An Italian thoroughbred that cost someone £178,526 (assuming they didn't get jiggy with the options list), gets from 0-62mph in 3.4 seconds, tops out at 202mph, and has a 4.5-litre V8 designed and built with the very cleverest thought.

"I like to build cars that make people happy", says Wataru Kato, head of tuning company Liberty Walk, which recently showed off its 458 alongside a Lamborghini Murcielago, Nissan GT-R and BMW M3 at the SEMA show. "Do not worry, though - this is a high-mileage example. 28,000 [miles] already". By UK standards, that's still a £140,000 car...

Liberty Walk's been around since 1993, and at its birth represented something of a game-changer. Kato-san wanted to "change the perception of car workshops," and started selling bodykits for kei-cars, then became an American and supercar importer from his neon-lit premises in Japan, a few years ahead of the Max Power modding scene, to which he owes his fortune.

Subsequently, he sculpted a few bodykits for Lamborghinis, the popularity of which heralded a separate subdivision of the company called LB Performance. Now that name's become a mainstay in the rarefied Super-wide Hypercar tuning niche. One that's spearheaded by Kato-san, who owns a custom Ferrari F40, plans to build himself a 458 just like the one in the pictures, and is about to take delivery of an Aventador, which'll get a similar treatment...

Judging from the TG office reaction, LB Performance designs tend to polarise opinion. Strong, often shouty opinion. What do you make of this 458