Another crazy Japanese tuning company to show their product at the 2009 Tokyo AutoSalon are Iding power. They may sound new to you and I but they have in fact been round for a while, tuning BMW’s and Ferrari’s, this is their first Ferrari for almost 11 years. Their F460 GT is certainly unique, for starters the spoiler looks to be attached to the structure of the car! The reason for the name ‘F460’ is because the engine has been bored out to 4.6litres instead of the standard 4.3litre unit that you get in the standard car. As a result of this it now puts out 508bhp (515PS) and 479Nm of Torque. This should mean it’s good for over 200mph (320kph) and 0-62mph (0-100kph) in 3.8 seconds....
TW Auto Limited of Hong Kong took six months to make all-carbon fiber version of 2002 Type 72 JPS Lotus Elise for customer Jimmy Wong, achieving a weight reduction between 66 and 88 pounds on the already feather-light Elise.
Brabus has long been associated with outrageously powerful Mercedes-Benz vehicles. As part of this association the company has presented what it calls the Widestar tuning kit for the facelifted ML-Class range.
Hamann Motorsport, a German tuner, has released their BMW X6 Tycoon. Offering significant power increases across the entire line, the exciting Tycoon also gets an impressive new body.
Ohio based tuner SPI have turned a 997 Porsche into a 1000hp sledgehammer able to dash from 0 - 60mph in under 3 seconds!
Saleen will be offering high-performance versions of the Ford Mustang, Chevy Camaro and Dodge Challenger. The SMS Challenger will come first, with between 500 and 700 hp. The SMS Challenger goes into production in January.
Tuning kits are undoubtably pretty attractive to all car enthusiasts out there but, when coming across $100,000+ packages, most of them would prefer to say no. But even so, Hennessey Performance Engineering, also known as HPE, has just unveiled its own Limited Edition 2010 HPE700 Camaro, a tuned car that incorporates astonishing and high-performance elements, Jalopnik wrote today.
First of all, there's the engine. HPE says the Camaro comes with GM's new LS9 supercharged V8 unit, b...
We all know that Porsche 911 is a pretty sporty car with engine performance that can easily compete with any other vehicle in the same class. But what if this popular model that develops around 530 horsepower in GT2 version is upgraded to more than 1000 horsepower? Well, Oberlin,Ohio-based tuner Switzer Performance Innovations has just announced a new tuning package called Sledgehammer that can increase the overall power of the 911 Porsche to over 1000 hp....
Luxurious wheels decorated with all kinds of jewelry and expensive ornaments are often used used by aftermarket companies, so it's somehow impossible to see one of those on the streets. However, STRUT, mostly known for its jewelry collection for luxury cars, has just introduced five new wheel design available at prices between $6,000 and $8,250. However, prices vary by size and finish as the company created several variants of the five aforementioned design.
So, we have five diffe...