TechArt Porsche 911 Turbo Tuning Package

TechArt’s not letting up with Porsche tuning packages. They made quite the stunner with the Panamera, now here’s their take on the new 911 Turbo.

TechArt offers two tuning packages for the 911 Turbo.

The first tuning package ups the power to 562 hp thanks to a revised ECu and air filter. That allows the car to zip from 62 mph from standstill in just 3.2 seconds and blow past 200 mph.

The second tuning package increases the total hp to as much as 612 hp thanks to new manifolds, exhaust, and a new ECU. 0-62 mph time is trimmed down to 2.9 seconds and can go all the way up to 207 mph.

TechArt Black Edition Porsche Panamera

Porsche should take a hint from tuning companies on how they could improve their fleet’s styling. Here’s tuning company TechArt fiddling with the Porsche Panamera turning the butt-ugly sedan into a Batmobile.

This Panamera’s dubbed the “Black Edition.” It’s still basically a Panamera with some wicked styling. The car gets a TechArt Aerodynamic Kit I package and a matte-black finish. The car sits atop 22-inch Formula II alloys.

Inside, the Black Edition gets black leather and Alcantara with flamenco red pipings. Trims and vents are matte-black to match the car’s black motif.

Brabus Vanish: Mercedes-Benz SL65 AMG Black Series

Check out tuning-house Brabus’ new beast – the Brabus Vanish. It’s a Mercedes-Benz SL65 AMG Black Series that has been injected with so much ‘roids, it suffers from roid rage.

The car produces a whopping 789 hp from its twin-turbocharged 6.0L V12 engine. The “stock” SL65 AMG Black “only” dishes out a mere 661 hp.

The uprated power comes from larger turbochargers (that probably sucks up massive road kill), a quicker gearbox, and a tuned exhaust.

And as a testament to the car being as exclusive as heck, the car’s been built since some guy from Dubai wanted one. (And you know how much serious dough those guys from OPEC have.)

Hennessey Venom GT Launched

Check out this 1000 bhp Venom GT supercar that Hennessey just launched. No more silhouetted pictures.

The car’s basically a Lotus Elise that’s been hulked up. First, the Elise’s subframe’s modified to accommodate the Corvette LS9 V8 with a six-speed manual gearbox.

Even with all this power, the car will be offered with three different tuning levels. The base model gets 725 bhp and 741 lb-ft of torque. The mid-range gets a twin-turbocharged version that dishes out 1000 bhp and 900 lb-ft of torque.

The range-topper is absolutely mad with an engine tuned to dish out 1200 bhp and 1100 lb-ft of torque. The engine’s mated to a six-speed Ricardo gearbox.

All variants sprint to 60 mph from standstill in under three seconds.

Hennessey Venom GT Teaser

If you think the horsepower wars are over, then why the heck is Hennessey still trying to prove that they can pump a barrel of steroids into cars.

This, my friends, is a Lotus Elise. With 1000 bhp. And can go 262 mph. Hennessey calls it the Venom GT.

Set to come out by the month’s end, the Venom GT is based on the wee Lotus Elise. However, it’s basically re-engineering the nimble little wasp with a new subframe in order to accommodate the huge LS9 V8 and the six-speed gearbox.

The LS9 from the Corvette’s been twin-turbocharged to get 1000 bhp and 950 lb-ft of max torque. That, combined with the lightweight 2,400 lb car gives it the sprint time of 0 to 60 mph in just 2.2 seconds. 0-200 mph comes in just 14.5 seconds – that’s how much many family saloons take to creep up to 60 mph!

The car’s also fitted with 15-inch carbon rotors with six-piston calipers up front and 14-inch carbon rotors with four-piston calipers at the back to help the car stop.

This is just plain wicked.

Novitec Rosso Ferrari California Supercharged

The Ferrari California still seems liked it’d be the mangy dog of the current lineup due to its front engined layout and its styling that seems to have been produced by a Corvette making mad angry tailpipe sex with a Z4.

Novitec Rosso, however, thinks that they can do better using the car as a base. And the first thing that they did – slap on a supercharger. The California packs a 4.3L V8 which dishes out 460 hp. With the supercharger, the car now gets 606 hp.

Now, performance-wise, the 460 hp doesn’t really give the California that much punch because of the structural reinforcements convertibles have. The car is now able to do a sprint from 0-62 mph in just under 3.8 seconds.

Other engine mods include a custom intake manifold, larger injectors, a performance exhaust, sport catalysts, and tweaked engine electronics.

To help all the other parts cope, the car also gets tuned suspensions and high-performance tires.