The Callaway lineup: features and equipment packages

Callaway Cars Inc. is an American company that makes special packages for high-performance cars, pickup trucks, and SUVs. They are experts in designing and improving Corvettes and GM vehicles. They take new GM vehicles and install these special packages and components at their facilities. Then they send the cars to GM dealerships where they are sold with the Callaway brand to customers. Callaway Cars is one of four companies in the Callaway group, which also includes Callaway Engineering, Callaway Carbon and Callaway Competition.

Back in 1973, Reeves Callaway (whose full name is Ely Reeves Callaway III) couldn't afford to pursue his dream of becoming a race car driver. As an alternative, he joined Bob Bondurant's racing school as a driving instructor. While teaching with the newly released BMW 320i, he got to know the car's strengths and weaknesses. As a result, he persuaded BMW to let him take one of their cars to his workshop in Old Lyme, Connecticut, where he enhanced its power.

Callaway built his first prototype turbocharger system and let Car and Driver journalist Don Sherman test drive the modified car. Read more