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- Arden AR8 City-Roader is a Provocative Range Rover Evoque
- INDEN-Design Mercedes-Benz S-Class is Large and in Charge
- Anderson Germany Returns to the Darkside with Audi R8 V10 Hyper Black Edition
| Arden AR8 City-Roader is a Provocative Range Rover Evoque Posted: 18 Mar 2011 02:44 PM PDT
Seven years ago, Charles Spencer (aka "Spen") King, the designer of the original Range Rover and a giant of the British car biz, was on his soapbox. He lamented that the progeny of the iconic go-anywhere vehicle he created (and other SUVs, for that matter) had been hijacked by the lapdogs and sunglasses-that-cover-half-your-face set, indignantly professing that the Range Rover was "never intended as a status symbol but later incarnations of my design seem to be intended for that purpose."
Six years later, Spen King was dead at the age of 85 and, despite his sentiments, the SUV-as-asphalt-jungle-cruiser genie ain't going back in the bottle, at least not in lands where running water, electricity and at least one McDonald's in every town is a given. Perhaps nothing drives home this new reality better than the brand-spanking new baby Range Rover, the Evoque. However, it's not so new that at least one tuner hasn't been able to work its magic on one.
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| INDEN-Design Mercedes-Benz S-Class is Large and in Charge Posted: 16 Mar 2011 12:19 PM PDT
While the German luxury brands' small and mid-size sedans are quite popular with tuners, the full-sizers don't seem to get quite as much love. It could be a result of their lofty prices, or the substantial dimensions and weight relative to their smaller siblings. Whatever the case, with a few notable exceptions, the big Limousinen just aren't that hot among serious performance tuners.
Fortunately, that hasn't stopped INDEN-Design from giving the Mercedes-Benz S500 (known here as the S550) its special touch. They've gone over the whole car, giving it meaner looks and the performance to back it up. That might not sound much different from Mercedes-Benz's house tuner AMG, but a closer look at the work of Joachim Inden and crew indicates it is indeed a slightly different recipe.
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| Anderson Germany Returns to the Darkside with Audi R8 V10 Hyper Black Edition Posted: 15 Mar 2011 05:54 AM PDT
There have been oodles and oodles of tuning programs aimed at the Audi R8. Even though many have fallen flat, the sheer brilliance of the base model gives them a wide margin to flounder as well as the beneift of the doubt. Anderson Germany, however, has managed to actually raise the bar -- both visual and performance -- with their Hyper Black edition of the Audi R8 V10. (And we expected nothing less after witnessing last year's Audi R8 V10 Racing Edition).
The company starts at the heart of the R8, its 5.2-liter FSI engine, good for a conservative 525hp. Using a Rennkats exhaust system, some ECU tweaks and a revised air filter bumps output up to 589hp. Speaking of the exhaust system, which actually shaves 22kg of weight, a remote controlled valve system allows the driver to choose 3 different levels of sound.
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