BMW E46 M3 tuned by Rieger Tuning!

BMW’s vehicles are commonly well known, so there’s no need to introduce this manufacturer. From the beginning they’ve represented one of the best alternatives on the market. The Bavarian cars are symbols of precision, performance and immutable charm. Let’s be honest – who didn’t dream about the BMW in their childhood? At least once? We dreamed about the time, when this machine would be our. The BMW brand is a synonym for a young and unchained power that wants to reveal. Also we known that these cars are common target of many tuners, no mater if they’re pros or only enthusiast garage owners?. One of the prestigious companies is a famous Rieger that uses same language as the manufacturer. This time the company has improved the most powerful car of the 3-class – BMW M3. Let’s take a look at the result.

BMW M3

The BMW M3 is a combination of power and perfect design that is known for every fan of four wheels. The letter „M“ in the name means something more than an ordinary BMW can offer – it’s especially a great performance and sporting feeling. But in this case it isn’t only about the feeling. The first model BMW E46 M3 was introduced in the year 2000 in Geneva and it was clear, that this will be a very successful car. Now we can agree.

Under the hood of this BMW we can find a furious 3.2 liter V6 that produces satisfactory 343hp (252kW) at 7900rpm. 100kmph takes only 5.2 seconds.

RIEGER BMW M3 TUNING

As we’re used in the case of Rieger, this company always offers something special to attract its customers. Rieger is famous for its approach to tuning without doing something extreme and the results are often very sporty with distinctive shapes of bodykit boosting car’s furious image.

So Rieger has prepared for this BMW a really pumped bodykit that has many fearless elements. Everything starts the front part of the car that has been modified very carefully, because also the stock M3 has a really big sporting potential.

For more aggressive look, there are new eyebrows of the headlights and an extension for the front bumper. It consists of a laminated spoiler with attached carbon diffuser. This is only 44 mm wide but on the other hand, it improves its self-confidence and sporting accent :).

Furthermore, this set has also a pair of small stabilizers as seen on various racing cars as from DTM series. This element is very nice and fits perfectly with the rest of the bodykit.

Also the side part of the car is great as the front. There are very expressive sill extensions that are characteristic with a pair of smaller openings on each sill divided with a laminated bar. As usually, they’re used for cooling disc brakes. More over, they’re beautifully designed and match amazingly.

The last step is the back of this ride. This is also a place where the designers made decent, but sporting changes, they modified the rear bumper with installing a carbon diffuser that is surrounded with two pairs of exhaust tips. It’s very elegant bud maximally sporty work.

Maybe the best delicacy on the car is beautiful 14-spoked silver BBS rims. Their dimensions are 8.5Jx19 in the front and 10Jx19 in the back. They wears Continental tires.

I think that there’s no better pair than the BMW coupe and BBS rims. The rims made by this producer are simply the best and extremely durable.

So safety first and the tuners has installed Brembo brakes with 355x32mm ventilated discs, there’s also the KW’s sporting suspension for the massive wheels and sporting K&N filter.

The tuners of Rieger did a great job. But don’t be modest, they’re works are always perfect.

VW Touareg, Porsche 996 Turbo, Ford GT and Maserati MC12 XX by Edo Competition

Tuning companies’ portfolios are growing larger, no matter the kind of car. No matter if it is station wagon, sedan, SUV or coupe, all cars are in demand. We assess Germany as the country of unlimited possibilities, at least in the area of automobiles. It makes not odds, if you are owner of a sporting station wagon or an uncompromising full-blooded sport car – Germans can adjust anything. One of such companies is specialist on pure sport vehicles as for example Lamborghini Gallardo, Aston Martin DB9, Porsche GT2 RS, etc. Not by accident they say, that Germans are tuning maniacs and this is true also for the company Edo Competition, which has dispatched four representatives: Porsche 996 Turbo, VW Touareg, Ford GT and Maserati MC12. You wouldn’t find more powerful lineup.

EDO COMPETITION

Behind all this stands one passionate German motorist Edo Karabegovic. After some time spent in one Ferrari workshop in the south Germany and some traveling around the world with various racing teams, he gained enough experience and knowledge to start his own business. 2001 was a breakthrough year, because this is when the special Porsche 996 GT3-R was born. This moment started the tuning history of this German company – Edo Competition.

By now, this company created more than 20 modified high-class vehicles. Today, we want to introduce you one quartet, which is really worth it.

VOLKSWAGEN TOUAREG TUNING

There’s no need to introduce this luxurious SUV. It’s been some years from his birth, but the demand for it still doesn’t decline and this true also for tuning companies. Several modified versions of this cross-country has been made. However, until now, we have written about the “old” version.

It is not so long ago, that the new version of popular VW Touareg was introduced. And some time after this, first visual-performance packet appeared.

On the outside is the modified Touareg different with expressive red-black paintwork. The interface between red, which starts at the front part, and black is designed in such a way, that the red continuously fades with look of strokes of paintbrush. I don’t know why, but I find this combination of colors very suitable for a car. Tuners really knew, what they wanted to reach.

Exterior + interior
Design and interior adjustment wasn‘t worked out in a difficult way, tuners preferred sporting decency.

In the front part of the bumper is new bottom part GFK, which includes a large central opening for air delivery to the cooler of engine, a pair of side openings with integrated fog lights and regular headlights, and chromium grille. Almost all openings are filled out with black expanded metal. Sometimes, less can be more.

At the side of the car were added very sporty side sills and chromium plates on every door. It may look like, it is not enough, but side sills perfectly fit the style and overall essence of this SUV. More aggressive elements would be beside the symbiosis of car and style. The rear part is characteristic with diffuser with central opening and four round exhaust tips with diameter 89 mm, which are based on stainless cat-back system for more sharp sound. This will certainly help Touareg to get noticed.

Aluminum pedal set and other details are natural parts.

Performance
Engine modification of any vehicle indicates, that tuners are not satisfied with what is default stored under the hood. In every engine, some potential is hidden and this is twice evident in VW Touareg. By modification of control unit and by means of added sporting filter, the tuners increased the power of 5-liter 10-cylinder by 70 horse powers.

With this increase of power, the suspension had to be adjusted too. In place of stock alloys, there are new two-color three-part twisted alloy wheels with dimensions 10,0x22 inches with tires 295/30R22. Behind them is new braking set of brake-wheels with 360 mm and 6-piston calipers. Moreover, pneumatic suspension with adjustable height was added.

PORSCHE 996 TURBO TUNING

Vehicles Porsche have always been symbols of sporting spirit in motor sport. Ferdinand Porsche certainly didn’t thought of what success his car make may have, when he manufactured his first car. Porsche family grew very quickly and constantly created new members. One of them is powerful Porsche 996 Turbo, which became the target of team of Edo Competition company.

All was initiated with red-black paintwork, which is identical with paintwork of modified Touareg. Everyone has to make his own opinion about if this style fits the character of this German car.

Design
Since the vehicles Porsche are proud owners of aerodynamically elements with a decent amount of sport exclusivity already in their stock versions, guys from Edo Competition better didn’t try to change it. What is perfect, can’t be made better. So, only a bottom spoiler under the front spoiler was added. This, with its aerodynamical shape, creates a pleasant harmony with the rest of the front part.

And we suppose we don’t have to mention the car looks more aggressive. Furthermore, all front openings were stocked with protective grills, to support the more powerful engine. Simple and impressive.

Performance
Much more was done inside of this German sting. Also here rebounded the desire for more power – stock 420 horse powers were obviously too few for tuners. Because of this, under the hood was installed more powerful turbo and sporting filter BMC-Sport. The result is better performance – but not just because of these changes. Besides that, new exhaust system terminated with four robust exhaust tips (because of higher amount of emissions), sporting clutch and the improved transmission were installed. Result – astonishing 585 horse powers (438 kW) at 6790 rpm. With this you can do miracles :-).

Safety above all. This sentence is probably slogan of every tuning company and in Edo Competition, they interpret it as height-adjustable pneumatic suspension and powerful disc brakes. In front, these are drilled brake wheels with 370 mm with 6 pistons, in the rear, there are 342 mm wheels with four pistons. There was place also for beautiful and relatively large alloy wheels booted in low-profiles 245/35R18 in front and 315/30R18 in the rear. These are 18 inch three-part alloy wheels painted black with dimensions 9.0x18 in front and 12x18 in the rear. System, which controls pressure in tires is a matter of course.

Bulletproof Automotive Honda S2000 GT

There are some special vehicles in the automotive history that influence their fans. This means still increasing interest in their heritage and of course in their ownership. And this is more intensive, when one of these fans is an owner of not small tuning company that hasn’t any showcar yet. So this is the time for a really luxurious project. We’d like to introduce you an American tuning company called Bulletproof Automotive and their showcar made of Honda S2000.

HONDA S2000 – still popular image-maker

The Honda S2000 is a popular stylish roadster made by Japan designers that was created on the occasion of the Honda’s 50th anniversary. Meanwhile it’s also a successful follower of previous sporting models as S500, S600 and S800. It’s a real fun car after some time – an engine in front, RWD so it provides exciting ride all the time. And don’t forget it’s a convertible.

The Honda S2000 is a popular stylish roadster made by Japan designers that was created on the occasion of the Honda’s 50th anniversary. Meanwhile it’s also a successful follower of previous sporting models as S500, S600 and S800. It’s a real fun car after some time – an engine in front, RWD so it provides exciting ride all the time. And don’t forget it’s a convertible.

This vehicle has a few important advantages compared to other cars, not only tuning ones. These advantages particularly involve its small dimensions (with only 2 seats), only 1200kgs of weight, super temporal design and of course amazing handling.

And it has an astonishing aggregate inside.

Honda installed a 2.0 liter 4-cylinder aggregate with DOHC-VTEC direct injection. It can produce 243hp (179kW) at surprising 8300rpm. It’s very impressive value also in these days, when there are similar engines with similar power, but turbocharged or supercharged. But this wasn’t the S2000’s only engine; there are still a few modifications for different markets and needs.

Bulletproof Automotive HONDA S2000

Bulletproof Automotive isn’t much known tuning company among Europeans, but their results are one of the greatest on the scene.

This American company provides import and distribution of high performance tuning parts from Japan. And it’s well known that Japanese are crazy about tuning. So Bulletproof Automotive has decided to build their own showcar for presentation.

Exterior
The car has a very long list of modifications. Let’s get started from the exterior with a really wide bodykit. It’s interesting that it’s made of more bodykits from various companies as Tracy Sports, Top Secret and Powerhouse Amuse.

Creativity has no borders and this car proves it. The bodykit is an incarnation of bold ideas and brain waves of designers assigned to build a fascinating showcar.

The front part of the vehicle is characterized with the extending massive bumper with one central opening providing cool air to the engine’s cooler. On the sides we can find two pairs of smaller spoilers correcting this air-flow. The bumpers have oval lines, same as the rest of the bodykit and it’s fluently connected to the extended fenders. These are parts of Japanese wide bodykit same as the distinctive side sills.

Side of the car is something not seen very frequently. The space behind the front wheels is 100% used with many openings as a pair of vertical elongated right behind the wheels and six branchiform ones behind. All openings are used to off take hot air from the brakes.

They also have fancy side sills that are continuously connected to extended rear fenders. But don’t forget about external mirrors inspired by JGTC NSX with a decent carbon line.

Everybody knows that the Honda S2000 is a roadster with a canvas roof in the stock version. But it’s noticeable at the first sight, that this modified Honda is a little bit different. Ann that’s the element that Bulletproof Automotive designers are proud of.

The custom hard top was specially designed for this car and meets all necessary requirements of aerodynamics. It’s attached to the stock roof and visually stretches the car. There’s a decent wing and third brake light on its end. Additionally windows are created by Bulletproof same as the front window is.

Yes, the rear part makes many of us having willies. It has a distinctive extending of rear bumper with wild design. Openings for hot air off-take from the rear brakes are situated in the extended fenders nearby rear lights. The rear bumper is heavily modified and it’s very different from the stock one. The bumper is wider thanks to a pair of side wings and massive carbon diffuser. This one hides a pair of Tracy Sports’s 70mm wide titanium exhaust tips.

The car is trimmed with the finest stuff from Japan tuning scene – gold paintworks by Top Secret and ornaments by Japanese graphic designer Manabu Mana-P Suzuki.

Performance
When you’re building a showcar, you need to think about all aspects and parts of the car, especially about what’s under the hood. It’s necessary that also the engine needs to be well maintained, same as the car‘s exterior. So Bulletproof Automotive did some huge changes in this way. The stock F20C engine is now controlled by AEM control unit and Vortech compressor. The engine has new Tracy Sports‘s buffed lead-ins, then connected sporting exhaust system with a sporting catalyzer also made by Tracy Sports. Shifting is now provided with a carbon clutch by ORC and short shifter. The rear wheels drive is secured by the Bulletproof Automotive’s carbon shaft. This list of modifications is long and no doubt that there’ll be a nice performance boost. But unfortunately we don’t know any numbers yet.

Almost all parts of the Honda’s suspension were replaced by modified ones made by the most famous companies as Js Racing and Top Secret. So the suspension is a delicacy with a big „D.“

So let’s start – now we can stop thanks to more powerful disc brakes by Js Racing with 6-piston brake calipers. And the there are new shock-absorbers, springs, spindles, arms, joints etc. This suspension is only of its kind, because it’s a sporting suspension with immediate electronically change of ground clearance.

The Bulletproof Automotive Honda S2000 has two types of wheel set – street and track. Our pictures show the track set including 12-spoke black rims RAYS Japan which have 18x10.5 dimensions on both axles. These beautiful rims wear Toyo R1R 265/35/18 tires.

Interior
The interior of the beast combines comfort and effectivity. Elegant, but important changes don’t distract the harmony of the interior, but increasing comfort and safety.

Stock seats were replaced with sporting carbon models by Bride together with Top Secret’s sporting steering-wheel and titanium shift stick by ARC.

As Ben Schaffer (boss of Bulletproof Automotive) said: ”I’ve been admiring Honda S2000 since its birth in 1999 for its smoothness and great handling. Since then the Bulletproof Automotive wants to help the owners of S2000 to build their dream car. This project helped me to build my own dream car and I hope that this inspires others as they inspired me. I just wanted to build a legal street car for everyday use.“

Jeep Wrangler Unlimited Startech Tuning

The STARTECH company, an exclusive German tuner of Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge; and part of respected tuning corporation Brabus, has respond to the introduction of portfolio of legendary American off-road – Jeep Wrangler.

It’s a „mother of all off-roads“, as everybody knows, but the Jeep Wrangler needs to face growing competitors, despite of its undoubted off-road genetics.

The competition includes smaller and bigger SUVs that can attract customers also without their appropriate off-road talent.

Jeep is aware of this uncomfortable situation, so it strikes back with a brand-new model Jeep Wrangler Unlimited that is the first model with diesel engine that has been a taboo for this American conqueror.

Also it’s the first model with four doors, but that means more comfort inside the full-blooded off-road.

Designers of Startech hasn’t finished the development of styling program for the new Jeep Wrangler Unlimited, so the main indication of exterior modifications are especially alloy rims Startech Monostar 9kX20, that reduce an unsprung weight of the car and that means better attributes on the „ordinary“ road.

Its high structural rigidity and surface resistance are attributes that allow driving with no fear in a hard terrain. Depending on driving conditions, the rims wear sporting or off-road tires 285/50 R 20. Also massive side stay bars for protection side sills are available as well as for the classic 3-door Wrangler.

A cover of spare wheel is a very fancy and useful element and it has a hem made of buffed stainless steel to improve the overall image of the rear part.

The Jeep Wrangler Unlimited can be obtained outside the USA also with the diesel aggregate. It’s a 2.8 liter CRD 4-cylinder engine with common-rail direct injection.

In its stock version it can produce 130kW (170hp) and 410Nm. But soon, the Startech engineers will introduce some power upgrade. At the first stage it will be only simple replacement with a modified ECU SD 4T and it’s important that this easy replacement can be done in all authorized Jeep workshops.

Specific numbers of this power boost are not known yet, and we don’t know about other more exacting improvements of the engine. But we know for sure, that exhaust will flow through the sporting exhaust finished with a pair of oval chromed tips symmetrically placed on both sides of the rear bumper.

In the near future, Startech would like to add a big interior program that includes also quality leather upholstery and prestigious accessories.

ASMA Design Mercedes S-class Tuning

This is an old warhorse with new ideas that has proved that it is successful in the project focused to the future and based on luxurious cars of world-famous brands that can be an advantage for your business.

In addition to known and reliable services, the company ASMA Design offers also an amazing collection of products that attracts all bystanders.

This new project is based on the car Mercedes S-class. It was created during a series of unseen, amazing and precious research tests conducted on German roads.

The amazing model is called Eagle II, because it brings some respect on the road.

As the strong wings of an eagle, there are typically elegant intakes and fenders that are constructed till the end of rear doors and lure all potential customers.

Promises need to be fulfilled so ASMA Design put different accent in case of the rear part that can scare you similarly as a dominant front part or exhaust system under the ride.

We think you remember it also thanks its warning optics. This all prove that the Eagle II is a mature machine.

The sporting exhaust system includes 40mm exhaust tips to convert the ride to a full-blooded fighter jet rolling on the wheels designed by ASMA Design too. Their dimensions are 9.5x21 in front and 11x21 at the back. Its tires are 255/30/21 and 295/25/21.

And now the high spot – technical parameters: this eagle is boosted with a 5.5 liter V8 engine producing unbelievable 425hp at 6000rpm and 430 lb-ft of torque at 2800rpm. The transmission has 7 speeds and of course its automatic as should be in a limo. Braking of 425hp is provided by cooled disc brakes – 13,9“ on the front axle and 12,6“ at the back.

The new BMW M3 V8

The M3 has been always something special in a sporting division of BMW M GmbH .Thanks to its active life in the motor sport, customers always buy it with a piece of racing history. Every of three generations of the most powerful 3-class always capitalized this legacy on the track and this made it something more than an ordinary vehicle. The fourth generation isn’t an exception and continues in this tradition.

The newest elaboration of M3 comes from the recently introduced BMW 3 Coupe and this defines main visual characteristics of the body. The perfect work is most visible on the exterior, of course, and especially on the bottom part of front bumper with massive air inlets in a typical M’s design.

All identifications such as headlamps or side profile are identical with ordinary Coupe. But I need to say, that I’d like to see the M3 based on saloon version, because its look is unbeatable.

But that doesn’t mean that the new BMW 3 has no aggressive visual that can pump your heart to the max.

In addition to the changes on the front, other modifications are in the case of immutable hood with air openings, aerodynamic rear mirrors, beautifully embedded heat sinks behind the rear wheels, more massive side sills, and of course amazing finishing of rear part with four exhaust tips.

Traditionally, we can find a specific design of wheels in case of the BMW M3s. There are 18“ forged alloys with dimensions 8.5“ width in front and 9.5“ at the back.

Maybe it’s not visible at first sight, but there’s a black roof panel made of carbon fibers with transparent paint. Particularly the visible carbon structure reveals connection with motor sport where this material is often used.

An unsprung weight, the deadliest enemy of all suspension tuners, is eliminated by aluminum parts of most parts of suspension.

A specific shape of arms and technological process of forging in combination with aluminum save about 2.5kgs on the undercarriage.

Engines are maybe the most important parts of the models of BMW M GmbH. And in case of the new M3, there are more reasons than we think.

After 15 years of six-cylinders in two recent versions and „Engine of the Year“ title, now there’s a 8-cylinder engine inside of this beast! The V8 engine has 3999 cm³ and it can produce 309kW (420hp). So we have 77.3kW (105.2hp) per liter and BMW proves that it’s an elite among naturally aspirated engines.

Its construction maturity can be seen on the fact that the peak performance is available at amazing 8300rpm.

Its maximum torque is 400Nm available at 3900rpm. More interesting is that 85% of these 400Nm are available in the range of 6500rpm and that’s astonishing. This is sometimes more important than a value of peak torque. So practically, you can use 340Nm at 2000rpm and count with them till its redline. It’s great that despite of more cylinders and bigger volume, the V8 is 15kgs lighter than the V6 from its forerunner. The power is transferred by a 6-speed manual transmission with double clutch plate to the rear axle on 265mm wide tires. There’s a brand-new variable M differential lock made by BMW M GmbH.

Besides compensations of right and left rear wheel revs, t can lock differential whenever it’s necessary for optimal traction on any surface.

Driving style can be actually modified thanks to the function Mdrive. This extension of well-known iDrive system can easily and fast change settings of all dynamic driving attributes to your own taste. For example, the driver wants more adrenaline to his veins, so it can set-up sporting profile of suspension, deactivate DSC stability control, power-steering Servotronic to the Sport mode, remap the ECU to fastest option - this everything can be saved to the iDrive. Whenever he wants to drive to the limits, he can push the magical M button on the multifunctional steering wheel and unleash the power immediately

Dodge Caliber Tuning

An Austrian tuner Königseder has no fear in case of its modifications. It can bravely start any tuning of heaviest caliber. So its newest work is a modification of American beauty called Dodge Caliber.

The Dodge Caliber is a project from DaimlerChrysler’s portfolio. It attracts especially with interesting shapes, fastback body and typical Dodge front mask that reminds muscles of American trucks. In Europe we can purchase this vehicle in three various equipments (S, SE, SXT) and with two gasoline and one diesel engine.

The gasoline V4s has 1.8 or 2.0 liters and their made by World Engine in alliance with GEMA (Global Engine Manufacturing Alliance). This alliance includes companies such as Daimler Chrysler, Hyundai Motor Company and Mitsubishi Motors Corporation. The weaker 1.8 liter produces 110kW (150hp) at 6500 rpm and 168Nm of torque at 5200rpm.

The 2.0 liter engine is a little bit stronger and it’s able to produce 115kw (157hp) and 190Nm of torque at 5100rpm.

The 4-cylinder turbo diesel has 103kW (140hp) and 310Nm of torque at 1750rpm. It has VGT technology and four valves per cylinder, electronically controlled direct injection of fuel under high pressure (2000 bar). So this improves fuel burning and that causes better performance and fuel economy.

The Caliber is so original and typical Dodge vehicle that there’s no way to make a mistake with another car. And the tuner Königseder put some Austrian elegance to this American beauty.

The mask was changed on the first place. Now it looks less brutal than in the original Dodge. Front bumper is a little bit wiser and there can be front diffusers.

The side line of the vehicle is prettified with side sills that are made of two parts in front and at the back. Same broadening has been used in case of the both bumpers. At the back we can find also a stylish roof spoiler.

Of course, also exhaust tip makes the rear part sportier and more pleasure. So this is a short list of Königseder’s changes made on this car. But there are more modifications for the Dodge caliber to mention.

This Dodge can be closer to the road about 30mm with lowering springs and also with sporting KW shock-absorbers. Its engines have enough power so we need more stability on the road.

But Königseder needs more power, so it can reprogram the ECU and boost the diesel engine to 175hp and 390Nm.

Wheels make the car. So here you can see 8.5x20“ ATS Magnum alloy rims. You can also order a set of tires – Hankook K104 245/35/20.

So this is the end of article about the American beauty. We’ve achieved more info about this car. The beauty can be more beautiful, muscles can be stronger and this all thanks to the company Königseder.