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  • Honda Sports Modulo NSX

    With the dust still settling on the floors of the 2011 Detroit Auto Show, Japan’s major automakers are already preparing for the 2011 Tokyo Auto Salon, which kicks off this Friday and runs the entire weekend in the Japanese capital. Similar to the SEMA event held in Las Vegas each year, the Tokyo Auto Salon attracts both major automakers and the big names in the aftermarket scene. This year Honda is set to unveil several customized vehicles including the CR-Z Hybrid TS-1X and Sports Modulo NSX. Both models will showcase the latest in aftermarket parts and accessories from Honda and its...

  • Mopar Chrysler 200 S
    2011 Detroit Auto Show: Chrysler 200 And Fiat 500 Get Mopar Treatment

    Just in time to kick off the new year, Mopar has unveiled a range of accessories for the latest editions to the Chrysler lineup in 2011. Making their debut next week at the 2011 Detroit Auto Show, the ‘Moparized’ lineup of vehicles will include everything from a Ram pickup truck to a...

  • Ferrari 458 Italia Personalization
    Video: Ferrari Shows Off Personalization Program For 458 Italia

    The supercar buying experience would easily rate as one of the most exciting periods of anyone’s life. Whether you’re a car nut or not, dropping enough money to buy a house on a car is something most people will never get to experience but as you can imagine the process is generally a...

  • One-off Mercedes-Benz B55 prototype
    Video: Apprentice-Built Mercedes-Benz B55 Burnout

    What we have here is a Mercedes-Benz B-Class, a car normally powered by efficient four-cylinder gasoline or turbodiesel mills, given a powerplant transplant by apprentices at the automaker’s plant in Rastatt, Germany. Their weapon of choice? A throaty V-8 engine displacing 5.5-liters and...

  • Axell Auto wide-body Nissan GT-R sketch
    Axell Auto Planning Wide-Body Nissan GT-R For 2011 Tokyo Auto Salon

    Axell Auto may not be as well recognized as the other big Japanese tuners, mostly because up until now the company has focused on modifying vans, but at next month’s 2011 Tokyo Auto Salon the guys at Axell Auto will have something a little bit special on show. Pictured here in these official...

  • 2012 Nissan GT-R Club Track Edition
    Nine Nissans Headed To 2011 Tokyo Auto Salon Including New GT-R RC

    The Tokyo Auto Salon is the Japanese equivalent to SEMA, a place where big-name tuning firms, motorsport brands and aftermarket accessory specialists congregate to show off their wares. The annual event also offers an opportunity for automakers to present their own merchandise, along with whole...

  • One-off Mercedes-Benz B55 prototype

    The idea of shoving the biggest, most powerful engine around into smallest vehicle you can find is nothing new, hot-rodders in this country have been doing it for the good part of the last century, but more recently it’s been the Germans that have been showing us the way. A few years back we saw a twin-turbocharged W-12 shoehorned into a tiny Volkswagen Golf hatch and now a V-8 has been plugged into the engine bay of a Mercedes-Benz B-Class. While the W-12 powered Golf required some heavy duty modifications, including having its engine relocated to the trunk, somehow Mercedes’...

  • Horrific Battlestar Galactica/Pagani Zonda/Corvette tuner mashup
    Battlestar/Zonda C5 Corvette Answers Question No One Asked

    This is a great example of too much money, too little taste. Clumsily marrying the aesthetics of the Pagani Zonda with Battlestar Galactica stickers, the Turkish owner/perpetrator of this "custom" Corvette has crossed a line. From the gigantic, ill-shaped diffuser to the poorly-aimed quad-mounted...

  • BMW Performance Range for X5 and X6
    X5 BMW Performance Accessories Announced For U.S.

    We’ve already known BMW was planning to launch a new range of performance accessories under its BMW Performance label for the X5 SUV since March’s 2010 Geneva Motor Show. Now, BMW has announced the availability of the new kit for the U.S. market, with the kit set to go on sale this...

  • 2011 Roush Sport Mustang dress-up kit
    Roush Releases New ‘Sport’ Ford Mustang Dress-Up Kit

    Always wanted a modified car but scared of voiding your new car’s warranty? What about dealing with the frustration of having to drive at legal speeds with the constant temptation of a fully blown Roush performance V-8 beckoning you to drop the hammer at every set of lights? If all this...

  • Lamborghini Gallardo Nera
    Video: Underground Racing’s Lamborghini Gallardo Nera Set To Return

    Underground Racing is an American tuning firm based just outside of Charlotte, North Carolina that specializes in twin-turbocharging kits for Italian exotica, namely Lamborghini’s Gallardo and Murcielago supercars. The firm has a reputation for building some of the most awesome power-up kits...

  • GM Performance Parts 2011 Catalogue
    GM Performance Parts Updates 2011 Catalog, Lists 700-HP Dealer-Built Camaros

    Can’t wait any longer for Chevrolet to release its new supercharged Z28 Camaro? Not to worry as you only have to flick through the latest 2011 GM Performance Parts catalog to satisfy all your performance and customization desires. It contains more than 300 pages of crate engines, parts and...

  • Project Kahn and Cosworth Range Rover Sport RS600 Super Sport

    It wasn’t that long ago that we first reported on Project Kahn’s RS600 package for the supercharged Range Rover Sport from Land Rover. Starting with a custom exhaust system tuned for a powerful yet refined sound, the RS600 treatment tweaks the SUV's engine to deliver a supercar-like 600 horsepower. Ridiculous? Yes, but also sure to be a lot of fun. Now, with the help of the tuning experts at motorsport legend Cosworth, Project Kahn is developing an even more extreme version dubbed the RS600 Super Sport. Previewed here today in this official rendering, the new Range Rover Sport...

  • Brabus Tesla Roadster Sport Green Package
    Brabus Unveils New Tesla Roadster Sport Green Package

    The German nutters at Brabus were the first to the scene with a tuned EV when they brought out the Brabus Tesla Roadster at the Essen Motor Show in 2008. Now they're following up with a new package for the Roadster Sport, complete with pre-paid electrcity for at home or on-the-go charging. That's...

  • Project Kahn and Cosworth Range Rover Evogue
    Project Kahn Previews Cosworth-Enhanced Range Rover ‘Evogue’

    British tuner Project Kahn and engine specialist Cosworth have teamed up several times in the past to co-develop a range of new modified sports cars, but their first creation together was a highly modified SUV based on the Range Rover Sport. Now the two performance marques have teamed up again, and...

  • Mercedes-McLaren Edition SLR
    Mercedes-McLaren ‘Edition’ SLR Retrofit Package Unveiled

    It’s now been more than a year since the Mercedes-Benz McLaren SLR went out of production but at the recent 2010 Essen Motor Show, basically Germany’s version of SEMA, a new version of the striking supercar was unveiled. Well, that is not entirely true as the car rolled out in Essen...

  • Hennessey GTR650 Nissan GT-R
    Hennessey Launches New GTR650 Package For Nissan GT-R

    American tuning workshop Hennessey Performance is renowned for its work with the Dodge Viper, but the firm has also reworked the formidable Nissan GT-R in the past--taking it beyond supercar performance and up into the hypercar arena. The Texas-based tuner currently offers several levels of tune...

  • Kicherer SLS 63 Supersport
    Kicherer SLS 63 Supersport’s Beauty Knows No Bounds

    Straight out of the box the Mercedes Benz SLS AMG is already one of the sportiest models in the German automaker’s lineup, but the car’s heady output of 571 horsepower and 479 pound-feet of torque was never going to satisfy the guys at Kicherer. Applying lessons learned from its...

  • Holden Commodore Ute with Camaro front-end

    Last year GM was planning to introduce the Holden Commodore Ute--a two-door version of the regular four-door sedan but with the rear chopped off and replaced with a tray--to the U.S. market as a Pontiac GT Sport Truck but for several reasons, namely money problems and CAFE, the plans were scrapped. The Commodore Ute, however, has lived on in its home market of Australia where one fan has decided to graft the front-end of the Camaro muscle car onto the utility vehicle's body. The result is this odd-looking beast that’s doing the rounds as the ‘El Camarino’, the name harking...

  • Fiat 500 Abarth in police livery
    Fiat 500 Abarth In Police Livery Headed To 2010 Essen Motor Show

    The Essen Motor Show may not be as well recognized as some of the other major shows on the international automotive calendar but the event has had its fair share of spectacular concept cars over the years. For those unfamiliar with the Essen Motor Show, it is an event held annually in the German...

  • One-off LincVolt hybrid
    Neil Young Warehouse Fire Started By One-Off LincVolt Hybrid

    Turns out the $800,000 warehouse fire suffered by Neil Young that we reported on last week was caused by the recording artist’s one-off LincVolt hybrid vehicle. The LincVolt isn’t a production model but a custom ride based on a 1959 Lincoln Continental packed with an electric motor, an...

  • G-Power BMW M6 Hurricane RR
    G-Power Dials Up Output On BMW M6 Hurricane RR To 800 Horsepower

    The G-Power name has become synonymous with extreme BMWs and the company’s latest Hurricane RR based on the M6 Coupe fits in perfectly with that description. After G-Power’s own M5-based Hurricane RS broke the world record for the fastest street-legal sedan with a top speed of 228 mph...

  • 2012 Ford Mustang Boss 302 TracKey
    TracKey For 2012 Ford Mustang Boss 302 Unlocks Race Track Settings

    Muscle car fans and revheads in general now have another reason to salivate over the 2012 Ford Mustang Boss 302 as the Blue Oval has just announced a new feature for the car called TracKey. Not to be mistaken with the MyKey nanny system for nervous parents, the new TracKey unlocks...

  • T-Pain’s custom Rolls Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe
    Video: Rapper T-Pain Shows Off Custom Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe

    The Rolls-Royce Phantom Drophead Coupe is a favorite among musicians and sports stars all over the globe but one very special edition stands out among the rest, a brand new 2009 model decked in blood red and customized to the hilt. Like a young Jay Leno, T-Pain is an avid car enthusiast and has...

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