2009 Mitsubishi Eclipse Coupe in Chicago

Chicago Auto Show will be the scene for the unveiling of this 265 bhp/198kW, 3.8-litre V6, 262 pound-feet of torque coupe, now offered standard with dual exhaust pipes. You’ll need them, just in case those cocky Evo X boys attempt to test you. Which they will, and probably win. But it will be fun showing them up anyway.

Larger ventilated discs, ABS and EBD, along with HID headlights and stability control system come with the car from the factory. Two gearboxes, one 6-speed manual, the other a 5-speed Sportronic, can be fitted.

An all-new Eclipse is expected in 2010 when this updated version goes to bed. Perhaps then Mitsu will opt for a smaller engine with a turbo. 2653

Peugeot 307cc tuning by Carzone Specials

Today, we have again something interesting from the visual tuning by Carzone Specials, the company that’s famous on the European market for its beautiful and extravagant spoilers on various brands. It prepared a brand-new bodykit called Samurai for all Peugeot 307cc cars. Besides the spoilers, the car has more new accessories to see. Read more in this article.

Peugeot 307cc:

After the very successful introduction of 206 CC, the French manufacturer Peugeot decided to continue in the „CC“ tradition. It chose a very popular model among its customers – Peugeot 307 and then introduced its CC version in autumn 2003. The biggest advantage of the CC vehicles is their hard rooftop that guarantees your style in summer and protection against severe weather in winter.

With four real places, its new HDI FAP 136 motor, its built-in sports bumper with a large air intake and chrome grille, it displays a powerful, determined character.

Peugeot 307cc Tuning:

The Peugeot 307CC is especially for young and dynamic people and the guys of Carzone Specials appreciate this fact. The company focused particularly on visual tuning offers a front spoiler and side sills that are fully compatible with the version 307. As we know about Carzone Specials, they install mostly bumpers of distinctive shapes attracting all fans, no matter if younger or older. There’s a big opening in the front bumper covered with a black perforated sheet and used for air-intake to the cooler. As it’s common, there are smaller cut-outs on the sides that intake cool air to the front brake discs, so they prevent their overheating and improve the car‘s overall safety.

The rear bumper continues in the lines of the car and aesthetically refreshes them. There’s a place for a license plate in the middle and on the left we can see an oval exhaust tip of tuned exhaust system. Air turbulence behind the car is minimized thanks to the diffuser that fits with the lines of the spoiler. Morette – a French manufacturer produces very marketable, exclusive lens headlights, and its products are popular also in this case. Rear LED backlights remain intact. The hood is now made of carbon and it’s also a place for stickers of cooperating companies. The outer beauty is improved with carbon door mirrors with blinkers and wing.

Under the car we can enjoy neon bulbs that illuminate after dark and distinguish the car. The highlights of the show are LSD (Lambo Style Doors), an original system of vertical door opening. But don’t forget about electron rims with low-profile tires that are must.

If you look inside, you can’t miss sporting, but still elegant Street tuner seats. There are additional gauges on the left A-post for better control over the car. The right A-post has an extinguisher in case of the fire. As we used in the vehicles by Carzone Specials, parts of the interior has same color as the exterior and often we can find laminated parts. Majority of out households own some DVD player in this hi-tech era, so this gadget can’t miss also in this CC. Pioneer displays are installed in the head restrains and entertain rear passengers during and after the ride. All parts from Carzone Specials are certified and homologized in all countries of the European Union and meet the requirements of German TŰV (Technischer Űberwachungs Verein).

BMW 1 tuned by Rieger Tuning

There’s no need for close introduce of German tuner Rieger Tuning. Also „ordinary“ fans know that its products belong to top of the market. And in today’s article we’d like to present you Bavarian model 1-class (E187) modified by this company.

A Rieger’s hand is noticeable at every sight on the vehicle. The company is focused on every detail and every part of the bodykit is designed to respect quality, aesthetics and sporting look of the automobile. The front bumper is proof of this philosophy. Its shape copies the stock bumper, but there are new openings for air-suction covered with a perforated sheet. The side openings include fog lamps. Thanks to this simple change the sporting look is now more distinctive. The rest of the front remains stock. Other modifications were made on the side sills. Rieger choose an innovative design for them, with opening in front and at the back. The perfectly match with the front bumper and they look massive thanks to its wider ends. The rear part has a new bottom spoiler. There’s same perforated sheet used as in case of the front bumper. In two side openings we can see sporting double exhaust tips. There’s a spoiler over the rear window. There’s not only for some aesthetical function, but it increases down-force on the rear axle. Five-spoke, chromed WORK rims are obvious and they wear low-profile tires.

Rieger Tuning has proved again that also only simple improvements are necessary to achieve a great look of any car. Once again it’s clear that Rieger belongs to the elite and we can’t wait for another masterpiece from their workshops.

Audi A4 Tuning by Caractere

Audi – a famous car manufacturer is more than 100 years on the market. Its badge – four rings, symbolizes a connection of former independent manufacturers (Audi, DKW, Horch and Wanderer). A limousine and Avant estate have been modified by the famous Belgian company Caractere that works on Audi, VW and Porsche cars since 1992.
Audi A4 was introduced in 2004 in Paris in four versions – limousine, avant (estate), convertible and sporting S4.

Audi A4 Limousine:

The shape of this car is a combination of sport and luxury. You can choose from 15 engines for this model. The fastest petrol S4 version one can reach 100kmph in 5.6 seconds meanwhile its output is 253kW (344hp) at 7000rpm. Gear change is provided by a 5 or 6 speed transmission. Size of wheels depends on the chosen engine, it can be from 16“, through 17“ to 18“ aluminum or steel wheels. The same portfolio of engines is available for the estate.

Audi A4 Avant (estate):

This model is very successful also thanks to its predecessor – a previous generation of Avant. Research revealed that people wants spacious, comfortable and safety cars. These conditions are successfully handled by the Avant so no doubt that this car is in many hearts of enthusiasts.

Audi A4 Tuning

So as we said before, Caracter has decided to tune not only one, but both models of the manufacturer. So if you want to now something about results, continue in reading.

Audi A4 Avant Tuning:

The front spoiler has two openings filled by a black plastic grid. We can see also fog lights in this space. There’s a big sporting mask in the front part (chrome-lined), a symbol of current Audi vehicles. In the middle of the mask we can install our license plate, and behind the plate we can see Audi and Caractere badges. Front and rear lights are stock. The rear bumper has been also modified and now there’s a spoiler with a place for Duplex rounded exhaust tips of sporting exhaust. Side sills now fit better with overall design. Visual elongation of the roof is possible thanks to a roof wing with third-brake light. Sporty image of the car is enhanced with 20“ multi-spoke rims with low-profile tires.

Audi A4 Limousine Tuning:

This sporting limousine has same modifications as its brother Avant, but there are some differences:

• the roof wing has no third-brake light
  
• its trunk has two variations of spoiler
  

All components made by Caractere for these two models are of course certified and homologized in the European Union and meet standards set by TUV and DEKRA.

Hyundai Coupe / Hyundai Tiburon Tuning

A Viennese company Pakfeifer has decided to make Hyundai’s fans happy with its modification for a sporting model called Hyundai Coupe (Europe) or Hyundai Tiburon (USA) respectively.

Something about Pakfeifer first:

This Austrian company is doing tuning for more than 30 years. It was founded in 1972. Pakfeifer loves especially Asian brands such as Honda, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Toyota etc. But it doesn’t hesitate to tune other brands such as Audi, Citroen, Opel, Peugeot or VW. Customer can order parts individually, or also complete bodykits.

Hyundai Coupe / Hyundai Tiburon:

The version we present you today is the most distinctive from Hyundai’s family of coupes. Hyundai Coupe / Hyundai Tiburon is particularly for young and dynamic people and they match together Its top speed is slightly more than 210kmph and braking is provided by disc brakes on all wheels with support of ABS and EBD..

Hyundai Coupe Tuning / Hyundai Tiburon Tuning:

The Korean guy with extravagant shape has been modified by Pakfeifer. It has very distinctive shapes, but now it’s enhanced with fancy bumpers. The front bumper is connected wit the car’s mask and it’s also like eye-brows for front lights. There can’t miss place for opening to cooler and little ones for cooling front disc brakes. As we used to see before, the openings are covered by a perforated sheet, now it’s the silver version. Side sills help to cool rear brakes and they have interesting shapes. The rear part of the bodykit is not so extravagant, but don’t worry, it fits perfectly.

This everything we can find on the rear bumper:

• a diffuser for more stability and no air whirling behind the car
• openings covered with a perforated sheet for air-off take
• fog lamps and license plate between them

There’s a spoiler on the trunk and electron rims with low-profile tires look great.

As we can see, Pakfeifer is a professional of styling (bumpers, spoilers, eyebrows, wings...). All products meet the highest requirements set by German TŰV (Technischer Űberwachungs – Verein) and Dekra (Deutscher Kraftfahrzeug – Űberwachungsverein). This modification isn’t the most beautiful one from their portfolio, but its extravagance can be a like an arrow to your hearts.

Opel Zafira II tuning by OPC

Daddy cool! So that’s the way how Opel introduced its vehicle for family trips with adrenaline potential. It‘s a second generation of Zafira in its most powerful version tuned by OPC (Opel Performance). And now it’s also the fastest European stock MPV. It has same engine as smaller Astra OPC – 2 liters of turbocharged volume producing 176kW (240hp). The power is transferred through the 6-speed manual transmission and thanks to 320Nm of torque it can „fly“ at 231kmph and beat 100kmph in 7.8 seconds. Safety first, so OPC guys installed sharp brakes – 321mm in front and slightly smaller 278mm at the back.

Pictures of Opel Zafira Tuning:

Besides traditional safety features as traction control, there’s also an ESP and new feature in this class – an intelligent suspension IDS Plus cooperating with CDC system of shock-absorbers. Recaro seats dominate in the cabin with seven seats. You can easily recognize OPC version of Zafira by four typical colors – blue Ardenblau, black, red and silver. The chassis has massive bumpers and side sills, everything in typical OPC style. 18“ rims are standard, but you can order 19“ version. Zafira is 2 years on the market, but it’s still unbeatable.

VW Phaeton tuning by JE Design!

JE Design is a professional tuner from Germany’s Leingarten of brands such as VW, Audi and SEAT. It offers products like V-max controller to turn on/off speed limiter during the drive and front mask without VW’s badge.

The speed limiter is also installed in Volkswagen Phaeton 4.2 liter V8 4-motion and 6.0 liter /W12 4-motion. It stops acceleration at 250 kmph and it’s controlled by programmable ECM system. A standard ECM system with maximum diagnostic capability like meeting all exhaust requirements can be reprogrammed without any obstructions or breaking technical specs. But new ECM systems can come soon.

Just one reprogramming of ECM allows Phaeton to reach 276kmph. And it still meets all TUV requirements.
JE Design also offers a very fancy front grill for all Phaeton’s models. It has no VW badge so now it’s even more elegant. In this case we can’t expect sporting experiments, because the most important values are precious work and first class quality. Because there’s no other company on the market offering modifications for this car, it’s quite popular. And this result was proved by TUV.

JE Design developed an electronic module to decrease Phaeton with pneumatic suspension. This modification involves also new wheels. There are 8,5 x 20“, ET 30mm in front and 10 x 20“, ET 35mm at the back made by German manufacturer AZEV, type PS. The manufacturer recommends Dunlop / Continental / Good Year / Pirelli or Yokohama tires with 255/35 R20 and 285/30 R20Y tires. JE Design has also own models – Multispoke. Visage, Masterline in 18“ and 19“ versions.