7. Lingenfelter Twin Turbo C5 Corvette
You may have heard about the Lingenfelter Performance company from Decatur, Indiana. This crazy tuner house has been in the business of making American cars go crazy fast for over 44 years. Whenever you see the Lingenfelter nameplate, you can be sure that the car is sublimely fast. The team from Decatur managed to give it a level of performance even the factory engineers thought was impossible. And that is the case with the C5 Corvette.
The Lingenfelter treatment included twin turbochargers on top of an aluminum crate V8 from Chevrolet. They turned the turbochargers for maximum pressure, making the output a scary 1009 HP Corvette. It included fat drag racing slicks in the back, a reinforced gearbox, a heavy breathing idle and a suspicious bump on the hood for the massive intake system. The car was technically street-legal, so drivers could register it. In fact, Lingenfelter built a few models for their customers.
The 0 to 60 mph acceleration time is just under 2.0 seconds. To be precise, it is exactly 1.96 seconds to go from 0 to 60 mph.