JAGUAR HAS ANNOUNCED changes to the XF’s engine range, with three new engines set to arrive later this year boasting more displacement, more power and more efficiency .

The head-stomping 5.0 litre supercharged v8 of the XFR sits atop the revised engine line-up, churning out 375kW and generating 625Nm of torque between 2500 and 5500rpm. A [...]

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It sounded fantastic and it was certainly quick, but alas, Audi has finally buried its sonorous V8-powered S4 and replaced it with the newer, more eco-friendly V6-powered model.

The 2009 Audi S4 was launched in Australia today, and although it’s minus a couple of cylinders and has lost a bit of its bark, it’s still every [...]

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The 2010 XKR update was launched in January this year, sporting a number of additions including a beastly 380kW (510hp) supercharged 5.0 litre V8 engine.

That’s a heck of a lot of urge in anyone’s language, but if you’re the type that craves more (some might say excessive) power and have a big wad of spare [...]

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Not content with supercharging Audis, tweaking Lamborghinis and bolting turbos to X-Bows, German tuning house Motoren Technik Mayer (MTM for the rest of us) has now turned its hand to The Netherlands’ finest automotive export, Spyker.

More specifically, they’ve decided to fit a supercharger to the 4.2 litre Audi V8 of the Spyker C8 Double 12S, [...]

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With just 499 examples slated to be built, Ferrari’s limited-edition Scuderia Spider 16M is already super-exclusive - but that hasn’t deterred Fazza tuner Novitec Rosso from devising its own power-up program for the big-dollar supercar.

The centrepiece of Novitec’s tuning package will be a twin-supercharger kit, which should bump up output of the 16M’s 4.3 litre [...]

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Who woulda thunk it? By throwing a supercharger and a tweaked ECU tune at an Audi R8 V8, German tuning company Wheelsandmore has managed to unlock more power from the bent eight than what’s on offer from the big-daddy R8 V10 - and for the same overall cost too.

It’s a small margin mind you - [...]

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Can an all-wheel-drive twin-turbocharged sports sedan beat a skilled skier through a downhill slalom? Will technology win out over manual dexterity? Has Audi’s marketing team been watching too much Top Gear?

We’ll let you watch the video to find out the answer to the first two questions, but it seems that Audi’s latest video promo for [...]

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Lotus is reportedly planning a blown version of the Evora, which will apparently be able to jump from 0-100 in less than 5 seconds and run to a 282kph top speed.

A Lotus engineer spoke to British car mag Autocar recently, saying the Hethel-based carmaker ”already had a blown version of the V6 engine running on a [...]

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Yeah, you heard me: quad-charging. Japanese tuning house Power Enterprise has announced that it’ll be bringing its very unique 4 Charger system for the R35 Nissan GT-R to next month’s Tokyo Auto Salon.

This makes Power Enterprise the first outfit to cram the GT-R’s already crowded engine bay with two additional air compressors.

Power Enterprise’s 4 Charger [...]

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When MG Rover went belly-up in 2005, one of the things that disappeared with it was the magnificently brutish MG XPower SV. It was a big-hitting carbon-fibre-bodied coupe whose options list included no less than six engines, with power ranging from 239kW to an astonishing nitrous-boosted 700kW.

However, while the wreckage of MG itself was boxed [...]

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While the previous generation Audi S4 with its monster 4.2-litre 250kW V8 was an absolute headkicker of a car (read: highly enjoyable), Audi has opted to take a different tack for 2009.

Powered by a 248kW supercharged 3.0-litre V6 with a mere 440Nm of torque, the 2009 S4 screams to 100km/h in 5.1 seconds.  The rear-biased [...]

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Audi has announced its latest mid-size bahnstormers in the form of the S4 and the S4 Avant. This time around, Audi has ditched the 4.2-litre V8 used in the previous model and fitted a suitably powerful 3.0-litre V6, good for 245kW and 440Nm.

Now, you’d be thinking that’s a lot of kWs to extract from a [...]

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