This year's GTI tuning event at Worthersee in early June saw a gathering of extremely interesting automotive contraptions, many of them however bound to never see the green light to production. However, this is not SEAT's case, as they brought an extremely interested line-up formed of its sportiest models in the Ibiza and Leon ranges.

On of these examples on show included a cup racer dedicated to the single-brand competition for Spain and Italy, in the form of the brand new Ibiza SC Trophy [...]

New cup racer powered by a 180 PS (132 kW / 178 bhp) unit will have its own championship series.[...]

Looks can be deceiving, can’t they?

What looks like a seemingly ordinary Audi A5 is anything but normal when you look at what’s sticking out of its rear end. Dressed in a polished white garb, this particular A5 has been stripped bare of just about everything except for the body panels. What it now has, though, is a 1,000-horsepower turbocharged drag engine complete with a parachute on its behind and a full roll cage for safety.[...]

You didn't think the German tuning industry was done with the second generation of the Porsche Cayenne, did you? Of course not. Say hello to the new Porsche Cayenne CLR 558 GT dressed up by none other than Lumma Design.[...]

Even if a 2006 Lamborghini Gallardo SE is considered an old horse when compared to its newer brethren, it’s still one of the fastest and most powerful Lamborghinis you’ll ever find. With a 5.0-liter engine that produces 520 horsepower, the Gallardo SE has performances numbers that shouldn’t be laughed at, but as far as some customers are concerned, 500 ponies just doesn’t cut it anymore. One such owner of a 2006 Gallardo SE apparently isn’t too thrilled that his Italian supercar only has 500 horsepower under its hood, so he decided to enlist the services of American tuner, Bradan, to turn his supercar into an 800-horsepower beast.[...]

There's something about cars and animal leathers / prints that attracts certain tuners from Russia and the former Soviet states. You all remember the Russian design-house Dartz and it real whale penis leather-equipped Prombron and snake skin-covered Bentley Continental GT SS. Now another tuning firm called Vipon, this time from neighboring Lithuania Latvia, has come with a new animal leather themed proposal based on a pre-facelift E90 BMW 318i sedan.

Australian tuner dials up performance on the Megane RS to the tune of 310 PS (228 kW / 306 bhp) and 430 Nm of torque.

With development of the new Honda CR-Z Mugen concept nearing its end, the Japanese automaker decided it?s time to release the first video of the supercharged hybrid model on the road before its world premiere at the 2011 Goodwood Festival of Speed in July.

Each time the Australia-based tuning company RENM performance releases a project, we know there's something to closely pay attention to. The latest project the specialists have been working on is a ‘black' edition of the Renault Megane RS250.

The mods applied to the car come in the form of new styling and race car-like dynamics, accompanied by a highly developed engine and chassis.

Visually, what struck us the first time we lay our eyes on the RENM Megane RS250 are the 19-inch [...]

German tuner, DMC, doesn’t get nearly the same amount of credit as its German contemporaries in the tuning world, partly because these guys have been under-the-radar compared to their brethren. All that, however, is about to change with the launch of a pair of limited edition Lamborghini Gallardo GT3s. The two versions, an LP540 and an LP560, were each given their own aerodynamic and performance upgrades as a tribute to Fabio Babini and Matteo Zucchi’s win at the recently concluded Blancpain Super Trofeo in Silverstone just a few days ago on June 5, 2011.