Watch a 2000bhp Nissan GT-R blitz a 7.5-second quarter-mile

A company called Alpha Performance has created something called the ‘Alpha Omega’ Nissan GT-R. The car has been subject to a small amount of tuning, and recently posted a quarter-mile time of 7.48 seconds at the Milan Dragway in Michigan.

Yep, you read it correctly. Seven. Point. Four. Eight. Seconds. In the grand scheme of the universe and all its magnificent trappings, this is a ludicrous achievement. Any faster and it might quite possibly invert the very basis of space and time, leaving us all in a black void of non-existence.

How has Alpha Performance managed this feat? Well, they’ve beefed up the GT-R’s original twin-turbo V6 to Herculean levels. “Typically, at these high power levels,” they say, “anyone in the game knows that the engine is like a grenade with the pin pulled out.” Well, of course.

“We realised a while back we were surpassing the limits of the factory VR38 engine block,” Alpha added. The GT-R's standard V6 block, says AP, was flexing under the sheer strain

So – like any self respecting Fast and Furious enthusiast – they gave the rebored 4.0-litre V6 a billet block, along with many other performance whoopies, including stuff like race-ported cylinder heads and new cams, a new fuel system and carbon fibre intake manifold. The transmission, sensibly, was also upgraded.

The Alpha Omega runs a special AWD system, too – a controller disengages the front wheels to allow for proper burnouts – and the sort of acceleration generally confined to interstellar weaponry.

On the day, the team completed five runs. The first four dropped the quarter mile time from 7.63s to 7.54s. And then, with time for one final pass, they cranked up the boost and, no doubt, did a lot of silent praying. The result? A 7.485-second run, at 192.97mph.

If you need any 'real-world' reference, LaFerrari takes 15 seconds to reach 186mph.

Like we said, seven-point-four-eight. OK, so this has literally no relevance to real-world road driving, but it's still worth a watch…