SSC North America The Tuatara’s reptile-inspired body makes ... the lightweight machine flies with a twin-turbocharged V8 engine that produces a staggering 1,750 horsepower.

Shelby SuperCars (SSC) first showed off its forthcoming supercar, the Tuatara, last month in Shanghai ... What's more, the engine is said to be an all-new creation, it won't be General Motors ...

The SSC Tuatara itself uses a 5.9-liter, twin-turbocharged, flat-plane crank V8 engine that produces those 1,750 horsepower on E85, or 1,350 horsepower on 91 octane gasoline. It was designed to ...