Souped-up is known both in the UK and the US and was actually created in the latter country. It’s one of the longer-lived slang terms, still widely used. In its first sense, in the 1920s, souped-up specifically meant to modify a motor vehicle to increase its power and efficiency. More @Wikipedia
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