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As much as cars and the technologies integrated into them have changed over the past 100 years, the things that have to do with their maintenance and upkeep have not. You still have to take your car to the shop upon noticing the slightest irregularity in its operation, and consult a huge paperback book if you are not familiar with a function or a feature. That does not fly in the age of smartphones and homepods and artificial intelligence. We are going to need a whole new system of customer care and support for the mode era – one built around the already established ways of communication. If Amazon can use drones now to deliver your packages, car makers should be able to come up with som...

Ordered by McLaren Newport Beach,US market’s largest McLaren retailer, the 10McLaren MSO X models havebeen delivered to their buyers in Las Vegas. Created by McLaren Special Operations unit to emulate the spirit of the 570S GT4 race car, the X bunch come with liveries inspired byMcLaren F1 GTR race car of the 90s. Now, normally it would be really uncool to have your car painted in motorsport liveries if you don’t want to use it exclusively on the race track. But in the case of theMcLaren MSO X that’s alright because of the prestigious badge of the car. Granted, you still have to explain to people what those graphics on the exterior mean and by which legendary endurance racer they are ins...

Whenever there is a new Audi aounced, it is a given that a tricked-out ABT version will follow it. And so here is your 2018ABT Audi RS3, presenting an upgrade package that fits both the Sportback (hatchback) and Sedan versions of the hot little Ingolstädter. A single glance at the newABT Audi RS3 is enough to know it scores very high on the sex appeal index. But the upgrades devised for this car aren’t just cosmetic. They are designed to improve the high-performance Audi’s ride and handling, as well as its general driving fun, and at the same time give it cooler, more aggressive looks as a sort of bonus. This is best evident in the way the tuner has employed theheight adjustable KW...

The new Lamborghini Urus SUV has not received, at least so far, the warm welcome the company was hoping it would. Some don’t like the way it looks. Some aren’t happy with the specs. And to some it is just not extreme enough. If you belong to the latter group, this custom BMW X6M gaished with all sorts of extra goodies may just be what you are after. Prepared by BMW Abu Dhabi’s tuning arm, this X6M features a full assortment of very high-end aftermarket parts. The way they are put together, too, is something to savour, since the parts match each other nicely and create a whole that does not really look aftermarket. It almost fulls you into thinking it’s come out of the factory wearin...

It’s McLaren Automotive tu’s to present the fans of Gran Turismo video game with a super sick virtual car. This is what they have come up with, theMcLaren Ultimate Vision GT, available in Grant Turismo Sport on PlayStation 4 from October. Of course, there is more to theMcLaren Ultimate Vision GT than enabling a bunch kids to have a really good time playing the game. Designers and engineer...

It has been only a few days since BMW revealed the new 2018 BMW M5 super sedan but already there is talk of tuning it. The first proposition comes from Manhart Racing who wants to give the car an extra 200 horsepower and 200 percent more attitude. We like! What they have in mind for Manhart BMW M5 MH5 800 is, as the name suggests, an 800 horsepower output to begin with. Of course, as we know B...

Being the luxury sub-brand of Hyundai, Genesis is constantly on the lookout to improve their game and make their cars comparable to the European rivals. This time they have found an area improvement that doesn’t really have anything to do with the actual car.Genesis Virtual Guide is really a fa...

This past weekend during theADAC TCR Germany Hyundai had brought along the newi30 N TCR, a customer race car, a new competition model fromHyundai Motorsport Customer Racing division, which attracted a lot of attention. The race car is based on the i30 N hot hatch which is already being praise...

They may have become businessmen in recent years, the masters of the luxury segment and the makers of some of the most lavishly equipped super saloons, but AMG engineers are still racing guys at heart. That’s why they just went ahead and made a new customer racing car in form ofMercedes-AMG GT4...

The king of all vans, Ford Transit, brings a newone-toe commercial vehicle to the market early next year in form of the 2018 Ford Transit Custom. Ask anyone – builders, movers, even robbers who needs something fast, reliable and specious to carry the loot – and they will tell you the Transit ...

limited edition, top-shelf versions of any car do not usually get much in the way of options and trims. Sure, there is the ‘special’ treatment you can have through the brand’s exclusive department, but in terms of off-the-shelf items, their options list are usually pretty dry because,well, they ...

The performance of your vehicle depends on the torque, engine power, throttle control, tire pressure, spark timing and many other factors. A large majority of people depend on routine vehicle maintenance to maximise its performance however, there’s more to it. For example, heavily laden vehicle...

Sports cars like Porsche Cayman are not usually subjected to wide body treatments, or any other strictly visual modification for that matter. These are driver’s cars built for action and not showing off. Still, this Liberty Walk Porsche Cayman wide body here makes a good case for at least entertaining the idea. Rendered based on the previous generation, the Liberty Walk Porsche Cayman here boasts a full on package with the Japanese tuner’s signature bolt-on fenders, exaggerated a bit for the sake of visual drama, and a custom aero kit that complements it nicely. The virtual tuner has also dropped the car on some air suspension and fitted it with a set of DAB wheels which they then went ...

On this episode of Virtual Tuning we want to take a look at another one of Jon Sibal’s “quickie” renderings in which he imagines what a trendy car would look like if it was subjected to extreme visual modifications. The result of these musings this time is this rather frightening custom Acura NSX wide body. Earlier we showed you a matte black NSX and told you that it would be a good place to start modifying the new Japanese/American sports car. In that case Sibal’s custom Acura NSX represents the last stage of tuning in which you have not only modded the body to the very limit, but also upgraded the engine by adding, judging by those massive pipes sticking out the diffuser, a custom twi...

We are not really big fans of heavy custom jobs finished in brash and bright colors, but every once in a while we come across one such thing that is done so tastefully, we can’t help but tip our hat in respect. This custom Corvette Z06 is definitely one of them, even though it is just way too red! This car is all kinds of custom, begiing with one of the most elaborate styling kits available for the Z06 and continuing with a set of custom two-tone wheels, Lamborghini style doors, and of course, the absolutely unique wrap. This kind of artistic, multi-color, accented and stripes wraps is a specialty of Impressive Wrap. For this Z06 they have used a Satin Red Chrome from APA America, gaish...

This week’s episode of virtual tuning comes to you courtesy of Rain Prisk who has come up with a special version of an old legend which can only be described as a drifter’s wet dream. The car in question here is a Toyota Supra which the designer has tued into a hatchback (or is that a shooting brake?) and then widened. Toyota Supra has long been a cult favorite among the lovers of Japanese car culture which, as you know, involves a lot of sideways action. But it’s never a standard car you see out there on the skid pad, race track, or canyon roads hanging its tail out. They are modified cars, often with extreme body kits and power packages. So the Toyota Supra Hatchback Wide Body Prisk i...

Well, Forgiato is not the only tuner with a knack for tuing regular Jeeps into extremely cool off-road monsters. This fine custom Jeep Wrangler comes to you from Calwing/213 Motoring, and it can holds its own against anything all those big time tuner throw at it. The serious looking custom Jeep Wrangler Calwing has prepared features a long list of which not only give the car a superb appearance, they are also highly functional and enhance the SUV’s off-road capabilities tenfold. The main highlights of the car on the outside include Rugged Ridge steel bumper with a heady duty winch up front, custom Bushwhacker over fenders and ruing boards, 6-inch suspension lift, KMCXDseries 17 inch whe...

While the world is patiently waiting the release of the excessively handsome Lexus LC 500, designer Jon Sibal took the liberty of coming up with an extreme styling package for the car. Because it is Japanese, the LC 500 is eventually going to get a kit like this. So it’s good to know how it’ll look. And we’re afraid it’s not very good. Sure, as far as the whole slammed look and the wide body effect are conceed, Sibal’s Lexus LC 500 wide body—which is awfully close to reality—is a job well-done. What we’re arguing is that such a treatment does not suit the looks and character of the LC. It’s just too classy and too beautiful to wear wide and low. It’s kinda like if Kate Upton dressed lik...

Spanish wheel maker LOMA is one of the best names in this industry with brand ambassadors such as Nicolas Cage. So it comes as no surprise that the owner of one of the world’s finest custom McLaren 650S models chose them for his car. This sweet ass McLaren 650 S Spider is a heavily tricked-out example tuned by Vivid Racing, using chip tuning and a valved exhaust system, to 740 horsepower. So it goes faster than the standard version, sounds a lot nicer, and what’s more, it has best 650 interior trim we have ever seen: As for the LOMA wheels adoing this custom McLaren 650S, they are SP1-RSR forged rims measuring 9×20 inch on the front and 12×20 inch on the rear. The finish is a cool dark...

Ever wondered what would a Liberty Walk Porsche GT3 look like? Well, it would look something like this. This completely virtual Porsche 991 GT3 wide body depicts beautifully what any attempt to give this car greater girth might result in, and we have to say we kinda like it. Not that we advocate chopping up a car as prestigious as the GT3, which is what you have to do in order to make it look like this. But wide body stuff are in these days and they’re no longer limited to cheap and ridiculous stuff. Thanks to tuners like Liberty Walk, wide body kits are now cool for exotic cars, and they are making their way to hyper cars as well. So if anyone should try and make this wonderful Porsche...