Yahoo Autos Hellcat-Powered Toyota PriuSRT8 Takes Tour of Kuwait, Sees Troops
UPDATE 3/25/20: American Racing Headers, the company that built this 717-hp Hellcat-powered Toyota Prius, took it to Kuwait to visit U.S. troops. As the Detroit Free Press reported, Nick and Louie Filippides took the PriuSRT8 to U.S. Army Base Camp Arifjan earlier this year, which Nick said took nine months to plan and cost him $15,000, plus five weeks' shipping time via boat. We knew you'd appreciate the paint job and the photo above, from the ARH Facebook page, showing the car posed by the Kuwait Towers.
A second-generation Toyota Prius that has been force fed a supercharged Hellcat V-8 turns the whole Prius idea completely on its head. Finished just days before the 2017 SEMA show opened this week, this anti-Prius is aptly named PriuSRT8—a mishmash of Prius and SRT8.
Built by American Racing Headers (ARH), the PriuSRT8 keeps the Prius’s basic shell intact but replaces everything else with hardware that can support a 707-hp-plus V-8 engine. In went a custom ladder frame, a four-link rear suspension, a nine-inch rear axle, a carbon-fiber driveshaft, a six-speed Tremec manual transmission, and a full roll cage.
