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Wrap your head around this: Italian tuning shop Aznom has put together a 230-horsepower Fiat 500 with a mid-engine, rear-drive layout. For no good reason except to do it--and the obvious performance potential. Weighing in at just 1,880 pounds, it's also a light little hatch. Toss in Bilstein...

So, yeah, the 2012 Chevy Sonic isn't exactly a tuner's main course. More like an hors d'ouevre. The Z-Spec accessories previewed here and on display at the 2011 New York Auto Show hope to change that. Odds are they won't, however, with the first two things touted in the announcement being "Color...

The Nissan GT-R is no slouch even among cars costing twice its price or more. It's also a very large car in relation to much of its competition. But it's dwarfed by the HPE1000 Hennessey twin-turbo Cadillac Escalade paired up with it in this video. Even worse: it gets outrun by the 6,000-pound...

Each year, thousands of diehard off-road enthusiasts descend upon Moab, Utah for the Easter Jeep Safari and a week of fun on some of the country’s best and most rugged trails. And, every year, Jeep brings out a range of modified vehicles, typically built with the latest on offer from its...

The 2012 Mustang Boss is perhaps the most impressive off-the-shelf naturally-aspirated muscle car ever. But if you're looking for a little more four-ringed elegance and some forced-induction action, and can't wait for Audi to bring its latest RS models to the U.S., you can talk to the good folks at...

The profile. Those B-pillars! Your eyes may never recover. This 2003 Cadillac CTS Sedan certainly won't. But some unlucky soul may just end up owning the sawzall-bred monstrosity you see above, as it's up for sale on eBay Motors. According to the seller, pamanajack (no apparent relation to the...

Pairing small, light roadsters from the 50s and 60s with rotary engines is nothing new. It's been done with complete and utter ferocity by people like Jeff Kiesel, whose turbo rotary Sprite is an autocross terror and wonder (see the video below for proof). But this particularly clean example of...

Pure form meets pure function: the James Glickenhaus-backed Pininfarina Ferrari P4/5 Competizione combines the aesthetics of the original custom P4/5 with the ravenous track-eating ability of an endurance racer as it prepares for its outing at the 24 Hours of the Nurburgring this June. This video...

If you're one of the many longing for a redesign of Jaguar's aging XK platform, wait no longer: the Growler E, Vizualtech's latest re-interpretation of the E-Type, will be built, in very small numbers, according to a new report. Just a handful will ever be built, as each car is expected to take six...

A Subaru owner has seen fit to dispense with the roof of his bewinged 2011 WRX STI sedan and replace it with a custom convertible top. We ask only this: WHY?! We, along with just about everyone but the owner/creator and Manchester Subaru, the dealership offering the car for sale, just don't get it...

Rumors of the arrival of a uniquely restyled Lotus Evora for the Geneva Motor Show have been circulating for a few weeks now, but today we get our first look a the car, and a few details. It's actually kind of disappointing: it's a Mansory. Notorious for going way, way over the top with its custom...

With both baseline and after-modification dynos in this video, Lingenfelter puts their latest kit for the CTS-V Coupe on the table with 623 horsepower and 617 pound-feet of torque--at the rear wheels. The video also shows a bit of how they get there. CNC ported and polished heats, a GT9 camshaft...

Late last year we reported on the return of two dealer-built Chevrolet Camaros, one from DeNooyer Chevrolet in New York and the other from Georgia’s NeSmith Chevrolet. Such performance cars have always been an important part of Chevrolet’s heritage, with names like Yenko, Nickey and...

The automotive aftermarket has not forgotten about V-6 powered Mustangs. ProCharger, which already makes a supercharger that adds 140 horsepower to the 5.0-liter V-8 GT, is about to introduce a new supercharger for the 3.7-liter V-6, which makes 305 horsepower in stock form. With eight pounds of...

We've kept you on top of the latest happenings with the James Glickenhaus custom track-specific P4/5 Competizione, based on his one-off Ferrari P4/5. It's an orgy of carbon fiber and beautiful craftsmanship, and it's now a running race car, too. On video. These videos images are from its first...

We've heard that iPad owners can be a tad obsessive, but this is bordering on the ridiculous. Or the ridiculously awesome. Here's the story: A customer ordered a 5.0 GT with navigation and Sync, and when the car arrived with Sync but without nav, instead of asking to have the mistake rectified by...

In a throwback to the muscle-car glory days, two Chevrolet dealers are using GM factory parts and the General Motors ordering system to create custom Camaros that pump out as much as 700 horsepower. Not all of the parts are Camaro parts--some appear to come straight out of the Corvette catalog...

The best-looking (perhaps only good-looking) Maybach offered these days isn't even built by Daimler. It's built by Xenatec, and it's a coupe conversion of the 57S. Now it has Saudi backing and a new name, Cruiserio--and it's headed to production, of a sort. With $93 million invested by Saudi...

In the tradition of dealer hot-rod legends like Don Yenko and Fred Gibb and their 9561 and 9560 packages, a pair of Chevrolet dealers are working the GM order system--plus a little magic on the side--to turn out special-edition 700-horsepower 2011 Camaros from factory parts. Of course, not all of...

Joseph Gosinski, a California-based Mustang customizer, was found dead in his shop on Christmas Eve. The 44-year-old was shot in the chest in his Torrance, California shop. Police don't suspect robbery in the death of the Chicane Sport Tuning owner. Indeed, there are few leads so far. There has...