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A few weeks ago, Drew Phillips and I looked at the Autoblog calendar and realized our wildest high school dreams were about to come true. Over the course of five days*, we'd have five rear-wheel-drive cars, 2,486 horsepower**, 2,391 pound-feet of torque, 38 cylinders, three superchargers, five sore clutches and ten badly abused tires.



The stars aligned out here in sunny, Southern California as the penultimate week of March had us driving the 2011 Ford Mustang V6, 2011 Ford Mustang GT, Hennessey V700, Callaway 552SC and 2010 Jaguar XKR Convertible (reviews of the Callaway and Jag are on their way). After four, maybe five seconds of thought, we knew what we had to do. Kill the tires! Kill them all, and let the California Highway Patrol sort 'em out. We're calling our temporary scorched earth campaign Burnout Week. Follow the jump to see the smoke.



* Due to a flat not caused by a burnout, our week ran over to six days.

** Both the Mustang GT and the Hennessey V700 are most likely underrated. Therefore the total horsepower sum for Burnout Week might actually be 2,543 ponies.




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