WALKINSHAW PERFORMANCE has announced a new addition to its product line-up: the new WP190 Supercharger. Developed for use with the GM LS3 V8 found in HSV’s V8 range, the WP190 succeeds the WP122 Supercharger.

Walkinshaw says the new supercharger is good for drawing up to 422kW and 727Nm of torque out of the LS3 V8. [...]

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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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Hyundai’s Tau V8 – normally found in the V8 version of the Genesis luxury sedan – usually pumps out a respectable 284kW, but a new prototype version revealed by Hyundai has boosted that figure significantly. Bolting on a unique supercharger system has upped the 4.6 litre V8’s power to a healthy [...]

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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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Okay, so when an executive from Eaton, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of superchargers, says that the engines of the near future will benefit greatly from the addition of a huffer, it’s only natural that you’d take such a statement with more than a few grains of salt.

Nevertheless, disregarding the obvious commercial interest [...]

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One car all of us here at TMR are holding our breath for is the upcoming rear-wheel-drive Genesis Coupe from Hyundai.  Not exactly one of the usual suspects for such a thing, but with Hyundai on the upswing in recent years, we’re confident this is going to be a landmark car not just for Hyundai, [...]

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The Insider—TMR’s man in the know—has crawled in from his drive in the Aurion TRD. Here’s what he had to say between mouthfuls of water.

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German tuning house Motoren Technik Mayer (or MTM) have turned up the wick on Audi’s S5 Coupe by adding a supercharger to the standard car’s 4.2-litre V8. The end result? Think 42% more power and a 24% increase in torque. That’s right, this baby’s got over 500 tyre-smokin’ horses under that bonnet.

The supercharger works its [...]

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Lotus have released the latest addition to their 2008 line-up, the Supercharged Elise SC. The supercar for those on a budget the new Elise SC will be easy to spot on the road with its new rear spoiler and unique alloy wheels. Lotus have pulled out all stops for the giant killer and for the [...]

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