The British made Land Rover Defender met up with the German tuning company Startech and they started to fool around. The end result isn't that bad but it's not exactly poetic. Perhaps it's because I was expecting somewhat more serious modifications from the 2010 Essen Motor Show. Perhaps it's just because I'm not very familiar with the Land Rover Defender....
The Mercedes SLS AMG has been around for a while and although it hasn't yet been sold in massive numbers the tuning community are already working on it. The 2010 Essen Motor Show is just the place for a tuner to show off something like this in style. Since the tuner in question is Brabus and Mercedes is pretty much...
Just because I don't like it very much doesn't mean that the Audi TT isn't a good car. It's so good it's considered an icon in some places. When Audi come up with a hot version with a bigger engine and call it the TT RS, the Ingolstaders are only making life easier for the tuners. Tuning is all about...
Anderson Germany has never really been the sort of tuning company to slack of every now and then so they just came up with a new creation. The German tuner's new angle aims to make the Bentley Continental GT Speed as bespoke as possible so they came up with a package called the Elegance Edition. The prepped up Bentley Continental...
The tuners from Hamann and H&R developed a tuning kit for the little Fiat 500 Abarth, a tuning kit able to significantly improve the handling and the performance of the model. The new performance figures are not known for now but the tuners announced that the horsepower amount increased to 275 horses. More details about the Hamman H&R Fiat 500...
The Fiat 500's Abarth version is possibly the best a budget strapped street racer can get. With this version though, the cops who will probably be chasing him away from the lights also have a great chance. The Polizia livery Fiat 500 Abarth will be seen in the flesh by enthusiasts at this week's Essen Motor Show. The Police Fiat...
It seems that the pick-up models are not avoided at all by the tuners, this time a package able to improve the engine's figures has been developed for the Volkswagen's Amarok pick-up. The Germans from Oettinger decided to upgrade the 1.9-liter engine able to develop 163 horsepower. Thanks to few modifications made just to the ECU unit, the German tuners...
Caractere Exclusive tuners and people from Dynatek joined their forces and managed to create a complete tuning kit for the German supercar, a tuning kit which will be unveiled at the Essen Auto Show, a place where the tuners will exhibit their latest creations. Thanks to the tuning kit in question the Porsche Panamera got extra 105 horses and is...
Few moments ago we talked about the Titan-EVO tuning kit created by the German tuners from SpeedART for the Porsche Cayenne. The new Porsche Cayenne received several aesthetic improvements but also few additional horses under the hood. If you want to find more, check the link posted above. This time, the Porsche 911 Turbo was the model selected by the...
The German tuners from SpeedART decided to create a tuning kit for the new Porsche Cayenne SUV, the German model that reached the second generation. The tuning kit prepared for the Essen Auto Show is called Titan-EVO and managed to bring both aesthetic and performance improvements. At the exterior, the Porsche Cayenne Titan-EVO comes with a redesigned front bumper with...
The Japanese Domestic Market is one of the most important in the world, features lots of cars that are only available on it and that are very, very good. However, because the JDM market tends to be exclusive and limiting, many of the great cars outside it don't get a chance to enter it. This happens often with Ferrari. To...
The 2011 Jaguar XJ is definitely part of the British company's revival, the raising back to the top after an immense amount of financial trouble. With such a hurdle to overcome, the path chosen by Jaguar in terms of design has surfaced to a world of uncertainty. The looks of the new Jaguar XJ are pretty much a case of...
MR Car Design decided to develop a performance tuning kit for the VW's Golf R, a tuning kit called MR6R, able to improve the technical figures of the German car. To be more exactly, the German tuners managed to squeeze 330 horsepower and 470 Nm of torque from the 2.0-liter turbo that fits the Golf R, mainly by revising the...
An interesting iPhone application was revealed today by the German manufacturer Audi at the SEMA Auto Show, in Los Angeles, United States. Compared to special editions or tuning kits that fit just a small range of models, Audi's CarMonitor application fits every Audi vehicle. To go into the details, this application will barely make your life easier when driving but...
Audi R8 V10 gets a tuning package from the Anderson Germany tuners, a tuning kit which provides improved performance and technical details together with few aesthetic improvements to boost the German supercar's appearance. Under the hood, Anderson Germany brought a revised ECU unit, a new high performance exhaust system which reduces the weight by 17 kilograms but also a new...
Between the SEMA show and all of the gas guzzling high performance hot rods and so on there was always some room for the sensible option. The sensible option is what Kia went for when the opened up a stand with the Forte Hybrid Concept. Apart from the obviously green exterior, green interior and a hybrid badge Kia came up...
The Porsche 911 Turbo benefits from the attention of the Germans at SpeedART, a well known tuning house that this time decided to bring out some improvements as well under the hood as at the exterior. The tuning kit purposed by SpeedART is called BTRII 650 EVO and first of all brings significant modifications under the bonnet. Thanks to a...
The Japanese at Honda are well aware of the life many of their imports lead in the U.S. and so they took SEMA seriously. Besides offering quite a lot of customized versions of the 2011 Honda CR-Z they also launched a very special version of the hybrid hatchback. Meet the 2011 Honda CR-Z Mugen limited edition. The limited part of...
SEMA finally opened its brand new 2010 Las Vegas shiny doors and revealed a few interesting things. Actually quite a lot of interesting things. One of the most interesting debuts to be seen at SEMA is the New Dodge Challenger's makeover. It's a custom creation that uses the 2010 Dodge Challenger as a base and the old first generation as...
Not so long ago, in fact sometime in the middle of summer, Fiat's in house tuning company announced that they want to build their own sports car. The Fiat tuner decided they want to build an Abarth mid engine sports car because they reckon they can do it better than anybody else. The thing is that Abarth had some issues...
