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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When you’ve got a car that weighs slightly more than a pocketful of lint, you don’t need big power to get it moving in a hurry.

Try telling that to the lovable (but slightly bonkers) Germans at MTM.

They’ve gone and strapped a turbocharger to the KTM X-Bow’s VW-sourced 2.o litre four pot, slapped a new tune [...]

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Mercedes-Benz’s all-new E-Class has only just hit the market, but already the performance aftermarket industry is stepping up and offering their own tuning parts for the executive sedan.

Lorinser is one of the first off the mark, with the German tuner announcing its plans for the 2010 E-Class.

As these renderings show, Lorinser will release its own [...]

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If the already attractive SUV wasn’t tough enough for you before, the solution offered up by German tuning house ABT ought to rub your ‘gangsta’ sensibilities the right way. The Q5’s 2.0 and 3.0 TDI engines get a boost from 105kW (140hp) to 127kW (170hp) [...]

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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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Granted, Volvo’s XC60 SUV is more known for its kid-carrying ability than its tuning potential, but that hasn’t deterred tuning company Heico Sportiv from developing its own range of go-faster parts for the high-riding Volvo.

Headlining Heico Sportiv’s XC60 parts lineup is their tweaked ECU packages for both the turbodiesel and petrol-powered XC60s. With changes to [...]

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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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TMR’s Tony O’Kane put the 103kW (138hp) 2009 Volkswagen Tiguan TDI through its paces back in December, describing it as one of the best-handling soft-roaders on the market. Imagine, then, how he’d find this 225kW (300hp) version of the 2.0 litre TFSI Tiguan.  I don’t know what B&B’s rooms and breakfast [...]

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Day-glo ankle warmers were cool once upon a time. Fashions (thankfully) change, but inevitably society cooks up fads that are just as questionable as the faux-pas they replace.

Case in point: the disturbing new trend of deliberately rusted bonnets.

The rusty bonnet craze apparently traces its origins to the USA, where it steadily gained popularity amongst the [...]

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Let’s face it, of all the new car releases of late, perhaps the least sporty of them all would have to be the 2010 Honda Insight.

With a grand total of 75kW trickling out of its petrol/electric hybrid drivetrain and an excitement-sapping CVT transmission calling the shots, you can’t really describe the Insight as being “pulse-racingly [...]

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Here’s one for you boys and girls kicking it in the import tuner scene – especially those who lean a little to the Japanese side.

Import Bible is a US-based street-wear label (they do ship to Australia) with a special focus on the import tuning culture, featuring t-shirt designs inspired by the legends of the Japanese [...]

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When South Side Performance (SSP) released details of its GTR820RR Turbo upgrade kit for Nissan’s R35 GT-R, we were pretty excited. For good reason too; SSP has now released a dyno sheet and footage showing what the kit is capable of when combined with other minor bolt-on modifications.

With 21psi of boost dialed in and surprisingly [...]

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