Car Industry's 2010 Face Off... ... If 2009 was the year of thundering bankruptcies and an almost total collapse of the American car industry - while the Japanese more or less flourished - 2010 seems to be the exact opposite. General Motors, Ford and even Chrysler – who were technically dead as ... Continue reading >
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How often do we have the chance to see a good-looking aftermarket Carrera GT? Pretty rare that's for sure but, once a certain tuner unveils such a high-performance models, it's surely fairly special. One of these vehicles is also the recently-unveiled Gemballa ...
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Heatbeat Motors today unveiled an upgraded version of Chevrolet HHR Capone which now boasts a couple of new exclusive elements in both the interior and the exterior. More importantly, the company upgraded the engine lineup with an LPG option, obviously delivering ...
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The 2009 Geneva Auto Show will witness yet another bulked up vehicle, this time in the shape of a BMW. The German tuner Lumma Design will bring along to the show their new BMW X6 based CLR X 650 GT.
The CLR, as is the case with the regular X6 is built to stir ...
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If you are a muscle car enthusiast, then you know that such a vehicle is never complete as it exits factory doors. Without tweaking, changing, chopping and further adding stuff, your muscle car will never truly represent you, the rear-wheel drive fanatic.
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Stay Legal with Street Legal HKS GT570 Sports PackageTUNINGDriving a high-performance model on the streets of your city can sometimes make the police officers raise and eyebrow, especially due to a couple of parts that may not comply with local regulations. This is exactly the case of the HKS GT570 Racing Package, which isn't considered quite street-legal in some regions of the world. Because of that, HKS today rolled out the street-legal flavor of the package, the so-called GT570 Sports Package which includes a couple of new parts, bring it closer to regulations around the world. According to gtrblog.com, the package is compatible with both series I and series II GT-R and will be sold for approximately 913,500 yen (approximately $9,820) in Japan. This means the new package is 315,000 yen ($3,387) more expensive than the Racing ... >> Read more |
German tuner Carlsson today announced it will debut the lightest 21-inch wheel in the world at the upcoming Geneva Motor Show in March, along with a couple of various goodies including a smart Limited Edition and the small series of Aigner CK65 RS ...
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The Carlsson Smart personalization program, introduced in 2008, will unveil at the 2009 Geneva Motor Show a series of cars that benefited from entire interior and exterior makeovers.
Carlsson's idea of a tuned Smart, a strange thought in itself, consists of ...
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In case you're one of the many American Le Mans Corvette C6R fans out there and you've always dreamed about owning such an impressive car, it's time to wake up. Unless you plan to become a Le Mans driver, chances to drive such a car are close to zero. But instead ...
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After talking over the past few days about not one, but two Mercedes Benz G Klasse special editions, we kinda got the point about how the producers unofficial tuners see it throughout the year. Since both Carlsson Aigner and RENNtech did not please our critic eye ...
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It was only yesterday that we reported on a new contraption based on the Mercedes Benz G klasse cross-country vehicle revealed by Carlsson Aigner at the 2009 Geneva Show. We come back on the subject today to take you across the ocean to Florida, where the ...
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Being among the world's biggest automotive events, the 2009 Geneva Auto Show will open its doors to all manufacturers, tuners, suppliers and so on. A good opportunity for us to see what other people came up with in terms of everything from design to infotainment. There ...
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ABT Sportline recently announced it will display the new AS5-R at the Geneva Motor Show in March, with details expected to arrive next month before the start of the show. However, we do know that the ABT Audi S5-based will produce a maximum power of 510 hp (375 kW) ...
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Despite its fairly high popularity among car enthusiasts from all over the world, Honda confirmed that the S2000 will be discontinued at the end of the year. But even so, Honda S2000 will remain alive for many years from now on thanks to tuning companies that ...
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Project Kahn has already used us with all kinds of state-of-the-art tuning packages so every time the British tuner comes out with a fresh new goody, it quickly gains our attention. The company recently unveiled a customized Range Rover Vogue that now boasts ...
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BMW recently confirmed the introduction of a performance upgrade for the N54 twin-turbo engine on 135i and 335i models that will bring some extra power to the two mentioned cars. BMW announced the new package in a press release published on its German website, so ...
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A businessman from Indiana and a limousine driver have jointly developed what they and an obscure organization called the “World Record Academy” say it's the world's fastest street-legal car. The vehicle in question can apparently go from naught to 60 ...
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Swiss tuner Sported rolled out was seems to be one of the first customized versions of the new-generation Volkswagen Scirocco, an aftermarket model that sports numerous upgrades including engine performance and exterior styling.
“VW Scirocco is once again ...
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The Hyundai Genesis Coupe is probably the most attention whore vehicle coming out of the Hyundai stable in recent years, if not ever. The car hasn't even been properly launched or even put on sale on the market yet but everybody's talking about it like of a Korean ...
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While several other automakers used the 2009 Chicago Auto Show to introduce new and so-called “revolutionary” models, Lexus prefer to roll out a new line of F-Sport accessories for GS, IS AWD and IS Convertible. Most parts are especially aimed for ...
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One month has passed since the 2010 Honda Insight Hybrid was launched at the Detroit Auto Show, and the crew at Mugen have already attempted to better the series model. The tuned model is more aggressive looking than the somewhat plain series sedan. Like all Mugen ...
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