The testing mule of an upcoming Ferrari F450, whose debut is expected this fall, is running crazy down the tracks and roads of general use in the last stages of refinement. Ferrari Company and well-known tuners altogether have already said goodbye to the predecessor F430. Sleep well, darling? But no. A specialist from a Japanese studio ASI has shown the desire to improve this beauty, going to the rest.

Japanese tuners decided not to engage into costly and complicated tuning. To get started, they’ve installed new bumpers and sills, with a lower weight at 27 kg against the standard. Suspension has also been changed and it was assembled from the Sachs components. Finally tuners slightly reprogrammed the «brain» of a V8 4.3L engine (490 horsepower, 465 N • m), improving its traction at medium speed.

You can not order a full body kit, but only its individual elements. For example, for front and rear bumpers, as well as for the sills you will have to pay five, six and four thousand dollars accordingly.

Surprisingly, but for the such non-traditional (without an increase in power) chip-tuning Japanese have demanded $ 7500. Too much. But $ 15 000 for a complete body false weight and $ 13 000 for the sports suspension Sachs did not appear like throwing the money to the wind.

Mentioning the basic version of an engine. 4.3L V8 petrol engine derived from a shared Ferrari/Maserati design. This new power plant is a significant departure for the F430 line: the engines of all previous V8 Ferraris were descendants of the Dino racing program of the 1950s. This fifty year development cycle comes to an end with the entirely new 4.3L, the architecture of which is expected to replace the Dino-derived V12 in most other Ferrari cars. The engine’s output specifications are: 490ps (483hp) at 8500 RPM and 465 N•m (343 lb•ft) of torque at 5250 RPM. The F430 will reach a top speed of 196 mph (315 km/h).

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Tuners have not yet tested well the new generation of a BMW Z4 roadster, the car just came in the dealer showrooms. But some people are already willing to offer their versions of revisions. The first to come are specialists from studio G-Power, well known for their love for the Bavarian cars.

At first, they offer a package of improvements for version sDrive35i with three-liter biturboengine. Chanted over the electronic brains, tuners raised output by 39 hp - Up to 345 and torque to 80 N • m - up to 480. As a result of that acceleration to hundred is to be reduced for half a second - up to 4.7. For such a fun you will have to pay 2381 Euro.

For 4474 Euro standard wheels in the studio G-Power will be replaced by the brand-new G-Power wheels, dressed in sporting Michelin Pilot Sport tires with a dimension 255/30 R20 in front and 295/25 R20 in rear.

Additional 1256 Euro a client can pay for harder springs and dampers, and additional 1508 euros - for a new exhaust system. This is everything they are ready to provide now. Other major revisions G-Power studio will propose later in the same way, as the revision of more weaker and available versions of Z4.

The BMW Z4 is a rear-wheel drive sports car by the German automaker BMW. Replacing the Z3, first-generation production started in 2002 at BMW’s Spartanburg, South Carolina plant, with both roadster and coupe forms produced. When debuted, it won Automobile’s Magazine “Design of the Year Award”. Starting with the 2009 model year, the second-generation Z4 is built at BMW’s Regensburg, Germany plant as a retractable hardtop roadster.

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Quiet, with the image of a “car for someone older than 65” Volvo  is a rare guest in the tuning-studios. In particular, wagon, and moreover, diesel version. But among the customers of Swedish cars, there are strangely enough people who need only charged Diesel Volvo. And because of that there are companies willing to offer it.

Example - the German firm Lexmaul. It is ready to add  for a humorous thousand euro some hp to a Volvo V70 in a rather weak turbodiesel version. Through re-installing electronic brain to two-liter motor’s output will be raised by 30 hp (to 166hp) and torque to 70 N • m (before 390).

Approximately the same amount could be spent for fine-tuning of the suspension. Tuners will put shortened springs and lower the car for 30 mm. At this program tuning ends. Apparently, the Germans believe that for the owner of the diesel V70 it is more than enough.

How much the dynamics was changed, is not reported. But note that the standard V70 modification with 2L diesel engine is not too fast. It speeds up to one hundred for 11,4 s, and develops 195 km / h.

The Volvo V70 is a mid-size five-door station wagon / estate manufactured by Volvo Cars since 1996 — and closely related to the S70, S60 and S80 saloons as well as the four-wheel drive Cross Country (XC) and XC70.

Since its inception, the V70 has evolved through three generations — notably, the second generation designed by Peter Horbury.

Over 80% of V70s are sold in Europe, one third in Sweden. The Volvo V70 has been the best selling car in Sweden for many years.

But of course, it is rather surprising, that tuners start to look on such unusual vehicles and propose tuning for them.

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Ten cylinders, loaded weight 1380 kg, light carbon monocoque in the basis construction… Porsche Carrera GT Supercar is a story. Production ended in 2006 and for three years they have produced 1270 machines. But some studios have continued to work on tuning packages for the former leader of Stuttgart brand. For example, the Gemballa Bureau issued a Mirage GT Carbon Edition kit.

Is not difficult to guess that the main emphasis is on the use of the carbon, because not only the carrying monocoque is made of the composite, but the entire body as well, including the impressive antiwing. With the use of carbon they have finished the center console and interior door panels.

After additional carboxylic diet Gemballa Mirage GT Carbon Edition roadster weighs less than 1300 kg, and in fact behind his seats V10 5.7 engine with the new firmware «brains» and sports catalysts was installed. And it gives now not the 612 hp and 590 N • m, but 670 horspower and 630 newton-meters. Accordingly, the time to speed up to 100 km/h has fallen even by supercar standards, where every little second is taken into account, quite decently - from 3,9 to 3,7 seconds.

At the supercar forged rims Gemballa Gemballa GT Sport tires in the dimension 265/35 R19 front and 335/30 R20 rear are installed by Gemballa bureau. Nice “boots” for a car with a top speed of 335 km / h.

At Geneva Motor Show 2000 one of the most significant cars was the above mentioned Carrera GT, but it became serial only after 4 years. In fact, the history of the project was even longer, and it all has started with a racing engine invented by F1 specialists for McLaren team in 1992. Porsche AG’s financial difficulties have forced them to stop the work in this area. Then it transformed according to the rules «24 hours of Le Mans»

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While Alfa Romeo waits to release new series of «hot» modifications of Alfa Romeo MiTo, tuners are trying to earn on it. Not so long ago we saw the work of the Italian studio Marangoni, and these days their vision of «hot» hatchback showed some of the major experts on Alpha in the world: the guys from the German studio Novitec.

They did not come cheap and presented the package of improvements at once for all the three versions of hatchback. The main component - the growth of power through re-programming the «brains». Thus, the power of gasoline turbo engine 1.4 increased by 31 hp - Up to 186, while torque has increased to 30 N • m - up to 260. JTD modification diesel engines with 1,3 and 1,6 l volume received an increase of power by 20 and 24 hp accordingly, and right now they have 110 and 144hp. Torque in both cases increased by 50 Nm.

The Germans are ready to install new MiTo silencer for exhaust system: with one, two or four tubes.

Also, for a fee the studio is ready to do some improvements to suspension. One option - to replace the springs and lower the car by 40 mm, the second - to make a suspension customizable, allowing you to adjust ground clearance by 35-65 mm. In addition, the Germans are ready to offer our customers a new aerodynamic «suit». Prices for all these promises will be announced later.

Alfa Romeo Mito - the smallest car in the model variety of Alfa Romeo, which will be released on the Italian market in July. A little later it will appear in the United States, and in the fall, according to the news will get to the rest of the world.

The name Alfa Romeo MiTo has received from the city where it was designed (Milan), and where will be manufactured (Turin), and “mito” translates from Italian as “a myth, a legend”.

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It is not surprising when you hear about the MEC Design studio for the first time: the Berlin studio was established in 2006. Since then the tuners had a complete program of improvements for the six models of Mercedes. But when it’s time to get down to the flagship of S-Class, engineers decided not to use all their experience on one hundred percent

As a result, experts have not tuned the most important thing in the car - the engine. But for the rest of things they have nothing to be blamed for. For example, for air suspension and active running ABC tuners wrote the new management programs to reduce the clearance at 20-70 mm.

A more aggressive sedan was ennobled with bumpers (the rear - with a diffuser), small spoilers on the lid and luxury light alloy rims, the size of which varies within the limits of 18-22 inches. Of course, it is a set of wheels which cost the largest sum of money - from 5455 to 9627 euro. The second time the client will have to say goodbye to about 6500 euro for the aerodynamic false weight. But as can be seen, Berliners have not yet gone to greedy.

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