They may look odd, but funny cars pack a speed and horsepower punch so fierce that they put a great strain on their engines. How long can they last?

These factory drag cars were unique and powerful, with lightweight designs and high-performance engines that made them competitive in drag racing events. Drag racing has been a part of American ...

An entrant in the Street Eliminator Class of last weekend's European Drag Racing Championship ... You can watch a couple videos of the engine running and the car on the go below.

And the sounds the cars make - now that's music to our ears! Perhaps you've already watched the World's Greatest Drag Race 3 ... sound of 12 high-performance engines uncorked at the same time ...

Granted, the cars of today are (on paper) superior mechanically and technologically to those from the sixties and seventies, but a drag race is ... was the low-key engine offered by Ford in ...

That driver, Emelia Hartford, has seven million followers across social media, and she recently collaborated with Nissan to breakdown a few drag racing ... with the mid-engine platform.