Celebrating its 50th year in America, Honda kicked off its week at the 2009 SEMA tuner show in Las Vegas with a variety of accessorised Honda models, including an official reveal of a 2010 Accord Sedan fitted with Mugen extras.
European tuning firm Mansory has unveiled their new limited edition Chopster, based on the Porsche Cayenne Turbo S, but upgraded in power and chopped in height.
The exclusive dealer for BMW in Abu Dhabi and Al Ain is now offering a HAMANN body kit for the BMW X6, with a complete factory warranty.
Infiniti dealers in the UAE and a few other GCC countries are now offering a dealer-fitted body kit for the Infiniti FX35 and FX50 crossover 4×4 models. There will also be selling pre-fitted 2009 Infiniti FX units as a “Limited Edition” model.
When MJ Acquisitions bought out Saleen Performance Vehicles earlier this year, original founder Steve Saleen left and started up another tuner company called SMS Supercars. And while Steve is battling his former company for rights to the “Saleen” name, the firm bearing his name has unveiled its first 2010 product since the acquisition, called the Saleen 435S, based on the new 2010 Ford Mustang.
The Mercedes-Benz GL-Class, staid and boring in stock form, doesn’t exactly look any better after extensive modifications. The new RS-Kit by Carlsson attempts to give the GL a “sporty” look, but ends up looking more like a thug.
The modified Porsche Cayenne Turbo Balrog is the work of “car stylist” Jeremie Paret, former editor at a French “luxury tuning” magazine, who last year decided to start a new business called Balrog’s Garage. The Cayenne Balrog is his first offering.
The 1975 Mercedes 450 SEL 6.9 is from those times when the German company’s cars were legendary, both in performance and reliability. German tuner Lorinser was also active back then, modifying the W116-series Benz and creating even more rare cars in the process. Lorinser themselves have now put up one of their originals for sale.
If you happen to own an aging Volkswagen Bora, you can be proud of the fact that your car looks better than the puffy VW Jetta that replaced it. Still, between regular trips to the garage and frequent stints broken down on the side of the road, you may have felt like improving the looks of your infectious ride. Catering to such VW faithfuls, tuner JMS has unveiled a body kit for the discontinued VW Bora, last seen in 2004.
The previous version of the Honda Stream was briefly available in the UAE, offering minivan space in the body of a tall wagon, but it was cancelled a long time ago. The latest version of the Stream is going strong in Japan though, and Honda is offering a Mugen body kit for it, in true Honda-fanboy fashion.