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This past week Audi revealed it would be attending its first-ever Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) event, with a host of the luxury marque’s cars scheduled to go on show including a highly modified R8 Spyder from the guys at STaSIS Engineering. STaSIS is a motorsports and tuning firm based in West Virginia and specializes in turning regular Audis into tarmac terrors. The firm’s piece de resistance is the Signature Series for the R8 and R8 Spyder supercars and the particular model being shown at SEMA will be a bright red R8 Spyder with a supercharged V-10 churning out...
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GM, Ford Do Hoonage Aussie Style: Walkinshaw And FPV
Walkinshaw Performance, the inimitable tuners of all things Holden, recently took the wraps off their WP Series II Supercar, a supercharged 617-horsepower monster. But Ford Performance Vehicles, the in-house tuning arm for Ford's Aussie division, has its own beast: the Falcon Boss 335 GT, which we...
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Audi Bringing Custom R8 Spyder And Autonomous TT To SEMA
One of the clearest indications yet that Audi wants to make its impact on the U.S. market was revealed today, with the German automaker announcing plans to participate in this year’s SEMA show in Las Vegas. The annual aftermarket tradeshow draws industry folk from all across the country and...
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Ruf Returns With New 911 Roadster, Promises All-Electric Version
Anyone familiar with the Porsche 911 has probably seen a RUF-modified version, even if they didn't know what they were looking at. For those in the know, however, RUF's various takes on the 911 have been impressive works of modification--from the all-electric eRUF Greenster to the 685 horsepower...
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2011 Ford Explorer Playing Major Role At SEMA
The Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) show; every year it stirs fans and non-fans alike with outrageously designed custom vehicles and the best that the multi-billion dollar aftermarket accessories industry has to offer. Held annually in Las Vegas, SEMA has grown to become one of the...
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Xenatec Provides More Details On Custom Maybach Coupe
It’s hard to imagine that one of the best looking Maybachs on the road today isn’t actually a Maybach but a custom mega-coupe designed and engineered by the guys at Germany’s Xenatec. Using a donor Maybach 57S as their blank canvas, Xenatec engineers convert the four-door sedan to...
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Australia’s Ford Performance Vehicles (FPV) today launched its range of supercharged Falcon sedans, with the cars coming fitted with the Blue Oval’s new 5.0-liter V-8 and a custom Eaton supercharger. The engine isn’t identical to the one fitted to the Ford Mustang GT in the U.S. but the two share much in common, including their basic design. The base of the new FPV V-8 engine is shipped from the U.S. in component form and each one is hand-assembled locally by FPV, utilizing extensive Australian-made components. As mentioned, the heart of the supercharger kit is a local...
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Hennessey Unveils 755 Horsepower Chevrolet Camaro Convertible
The Chevrolet Camaro Convertible isn’t due to hit showrooms until March of next year but we already have details on a very special version of the open-top muscle car from the guys at Texas-based tuner Hennessey Performance, one with 755 horsepower. The car is the new 2011 HPE700 LS9 Chevrolet...
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2011 Roush 5XR Ford Mustang Makes Debut
When it comes to custom Mustangs, Roush is considered by many to be second only to the Shelby name. Today the custom house has revealed its new 2011 Roush 5XR Ford Mustang based around the 2011 Ford Mustang GT 5.0-liter V-8 engine. Thanks to the edition of a ‘R2300 ROUSHcharger’...
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2011 Ford Shelby GT500 Super Snake Packs 800-HP Bite
Ford's own 2011 Mustang GT is no slouch, rated at 412 horsepower and delivering every bit of it. Then there's the Mustang Shelby GT500, with a massive supercharged 550 horsepower and 510 pound-feet of torque. But if simply ripping the rear tires' tread from their carcasses isn't enough for you, the...
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Video: Fire-Breathing Underground Racing Twin Turbo Lamborghini LP670-4 SV
How to build an Italian flamethrower: take the lightweight, hyper-fast Lamborghini Murcielago LP670-4 SV and throw a pair of turbos at it. Run it up to about 150 mph, then come off the gas. Instant three-foot flames. Brilliant. This teaser video shows us the handiwork of Underground Racing's...
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2011 Ford Explorer Will Join Taurus On Police Duty
The last couple of months have seen three different police vehicle concepts unveiled by each of the domestic automakers: the Chevrolet Caprice Police Detective PPV from GM, the new Dodge Charger Pursuit from Chrysler and the Taurus Interceptor from Ford. Now, the Blue Oval has unveiled a second...
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Smoky burnouts, lurid powerslides, brutalized rev-limiters and V-8 engines--those are the things that make Shelby-tuned Mustangs great. But as automakers and customers around the world bow down to environmental consciousness and switch to downsized engines, so must the tuning scene. According to the rumor mill, Shelby is looking at several different options for its future performance Mustangs, one of which is a new twin-turbo package for the pony car’s 3.7-liter V-6 engine. Already a strong hitter in stock form, thanks to an available 305 horsepower, a twin-turbo kit bolted on could give...
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New ROUSHcharger Boosts Ford 5.0 V-8 To 550 Horsepower
Specialist Ford tuner Roush has released a new supercharger package for the latest 5.0 V-8 engine found in cars like the 2011 Ford Mustang GT. Already potent in stock form, the addition of the new supercharger kit, dubbed the 5.0L ROUSHcharger, boosts output to 550 horsepower and 470 pound-feet of...
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Gemballa Back In Action, Uwe Still Missing
Famed Euro tuner haus Gemballa is back in action with a new CEO, Andreas Schwarz, following the disappearance of its founder, Uwe Gemballa, and the firm's subsequent shuttering. A press conference today is expected to clarify the details, but an interview with Prestige Cars outlines the basics. You...
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At 231 MPH, G-Power BMW M5 Hurricane RR Is World’s Fastest Four-Door
The G-Power name has become synonymous with extreme BMWs and the company’s latest Hurricane RR based on the M5 sedan fits in perfectly with that description. After G-Power’s own M6-based Hurricane CS broke the record for the fastest BMW two-door on the planet with a top speed of 228 mph, the...
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Suzuki Kizashi Aiming For 200 MPH Top Speed At Bonneville
Die-hard enthusiasts aside, the hot hatch has never taken off in the U.S. the way it did in Europe—but sporty sedans have proven successful, as Subaru and Mitsubishi--and now Suzuki too--will attest. Since its unveiling last year, Suzuki's Kizashi has been recognized as a mid-size sedan with a...
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Mansory Linea Vincero Bugatti Veyron: the ultimate in vehicle customization
Customized Bugatti Veyrons are almost as common as the cars themselves, which is to say not common at all. But this particular car, modified by Mansory, is less common than even most other custom Veyrons, so much so that you could say the new Linea Vincero Bugatti Veyron is the ultimate in vehicle...
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Ford Racing offers some very interesting gear for the go-fast racer or modifier, including whole engines available for whatever project one can come up with. The Ford division is now offering a very special package: the 5.0-liter V-8 heart of the new 2011 Ford Mustang GT. Available from August 15, the new engine--part # M-6007-M50--is rated at the same 412 horsepower and 390 pounds-feet of torque as the production unit found in the Mustang. Key elements include Ford’s Ti-VCT cam-torque-actuated variable camshaft timing system and all-aluminum four-valve-per-cylinder engine design, plus...
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HPP goes retro with Dodge Daytona and Plymouth Superbird kits
We’re sure many readers are still trying to forget those sorry days back in the 1970s where cars like the Dodge Daytona and Plymouth Superbird used to roll the streets. The cars were hotted up versions of regular models like the Dodge Charger and Plymouth Road Runner, originally developed for...
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2011 Alpina B5 makes debut
BMW may finally be going the twin-turbocharged route for its next-generation M5 sedan but the guys over at Alpina have already beaten them to it, unveiling this week the new 2011 Alpina B5 Bi-Turbo based on the regular 550i V-8 sedan. Mixing performance, comfort and every-day luxury, Alpina’s...
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236-MPH Sportec SPR1R Based On The Porsche 911 Turbo
Swiss tuner Sportec has announced details of its latest incarnation, based on the Porsche 911 Turbo. While the picture may make it seem more like a bodykit job than anything else, there are actually some stunning mods under the skin that turn the already fiery 911 Turbo into a fire-breathing...
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ALSA BMW X6 M Good For 202 MPH Top Speed
The somewhat ungainly proportions of BMW's not-a-coupe, not-an-SUV X6 have been the subject of intense debate. It's not ugly in the traditional sense, but it's not especially attractive either. ALSA Automotive Engineering, based in the UAE city of Abu Dhabi, has nevertheless decided to take on the...
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Superchips Liberates 401 Horsepower From Audi TT-RS
British tuning firm Superchips specializes in optimizing the vehicle management systems and electronic control units of cars to eke as much performance out of them as possible, and its latest product focuses on giving the new Audi TT-RS a significant boost in the performance department--not that...
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