MODDED CAR:
Modified Nissan Skyline R34 GTR V Spec II N1 2003 Car

EXTERIOR MODIFICATIONS:
Frame: BNR34 Body: Coupe Drive: 4WDFront Rear Fog Lamps Doors Number: 2 Front Spoiler Rear Spoiler Aluminium Wheels: R18

INTERIOR MODIFICATIONS:
Seating Capacity: 4 Airbag (driver) Air Conditioner Wooden Panel Central Door Lock Power Window Leather Seat CD-player

ICE (In Car Entertainment, Audio & Security):
Full Kenwood Stereo System

ENGINE MODIFICATIONS:
Model: RB26DETT Type: Water cooling DOHC Displacement, cc: 2568 Turbo: Twin Turbo Intercooler Cylinders: Serial 6, 24 Valves Max Horsepower, hp / rpm: 280 / 6800 Max Torque, Nm / rpm: 392.3 / 4400 Fuel System: EGI (Electronic Gasoline Injection) Fuel Type: Gasoline Compression Ratio:8.5 Bore * Stroke, mm: 86 x 73.7 Fuel Consumption, l/100km: 12.3

TRANSMISSION UPGRADE:
Munual 6 Speed
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MODDED CAR:
Modified Toyota Celica GT 2001 Car

EXTERIOR MODIFICATIONS:
*BUDDYCLUB 2 REAR & SIDES FULLY MOLDED * BLITZ FRONT BUMPER W/ MESH INSERTS * X1 FENDERS * WINGSWEST TRD WING * LAMBO DOORS * ROTORA BIG BRAKE KIT * VIS INVADER TYPE 6 CARBON FIBER HOOD * SPARCO GAS DOOR * NSX SIDE VENTS * CHEVY COBALT TAIL LIGHT CONVERSION * SHAVED: DOOR HANDELS, REAR WIPER, ANTENNA * 18″CHROME FALKEN RIMS*

INTERIOR MODIFICATIONS:
CUSTOM FIBERGLASSED * (2) WATERFALLS ABOVE REAR SUBS * COBALT AMP TEMP DIGITAL GAUGE * COBALT AMP CURRENT DIGITAL GAUGE * COBALT VOLT METER DIGITAL GAUGE * COBALT AIR FUEL DIGITAL GAUGE * SPARCO TRINO RACING SEATS * AUTOLOCK 50 LBS. POPPER KIT

ICE (In Car Entertainment, Audio & Security):
JVC KD-LHX500 TOUCH SCREEN CD PLAYER *ALPINE TYPE R 6 1/2 COMP. *ALPINE TYPE S 6 1/2 COAXIAL *ALPINE TYPE S 6 1/2 COAXIAL (REARHATCH AREA) *ALPINE TYPE E 12″ SUBS *KICKER KX550.2 (COMP.AMP) *KICKER KX1200.1 (SUB AMP) *MOBILESPEC 3FARAD DIGITAL TOP CAP *MOBILESPEC 0/1 GAUGE POWER AND GROUND WIRE *TSUNAMI DISTRIBUTION BLOCKS *T-VIEW 7INCH SCREEN *PLAYSTATION 2 W/ WIRELESS CONTROLS
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MODDED CAR:
Modified Ford Shelby GT 500 Eleanor 1967 Car

EXTERIOR MODIFICATIONS:
Hood scoop has been molded closed, Fog lamps have been moved down, Custom upper and lower grills, All lamps manufactured by PIAA, Custom installed side exhaust kits, Headlight bezels modified by adding and molded in driving lamps, Fiberglass racing apron with molded spoiler, Maier Racing has a 67-68 Racing Apron with Molded Spoiler in their product line, Custom fender flares

INTERIOR MODIFICATIONS:
Mix between original and custom featuring an authentic Carroll Shelby autograph on the dashboard, hand stiched Carrol Shelby signature front seats and white face gauges. Billet aluminum pedals from Total Control Products and a custom T-handled shifter

ICE (In Car Entertainment, Audio & Security):
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ENGINE MODIFICATIONS:
351 Ford Motorsport crate motor, Ford 390, side exhaust non functional, 600 plus Horsepower

TRANSMISSION UPGRADE:
Lincoln Versailles rear end, automatic

SUSPENSION MODIFICATIONS:
Total Control Products adjustable front and rear coil-over suspension package with the power steering option
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MODDED CAR:
Modified BMW Sumo Power M3 GTR 2002 Car

EXTERIOR MODIFICATIONS:
Complete M3 GTR Bodykit ( all carbon fibre ! ) :- Front Bumper, Front Wings with Vents, Bonnet with Vents, Side Skirts, Rear Arches, Rear Bumper with Aero wings, Do-Luck Type 1 Rear wing – Adjustable with CNC uprights, ATL Dry Break Fuel Filler – dual port, Eibach Wheel Spacers, Bilstein Adjustable Coilover suspension, AP Racing 6 pot brake callipers, discs and pads, AP Racing brake lines, Castrol Brake Fluid, Custom Need for Speed Most Wanted graphics

INTERIOR MODIFICATIONS:
AAR Paris Dakar Racing Seats – FIA Approved, TeamTech Racing Harnesses – SFI Approved, Sumo Power Harness Eye bolts and brackets, Momo Racing Steering Wheel, Momo Steering Wheel Boss Kit, Hauser Bolt in 4 point roll cage – rear section only, powder coated silver, Aluminium Panelling of back seat area, ( rear seats removed ), Custom Need for Speed Most Wanted graphics Paintwork by : Crash Corrections

ICE (In Car Entertainment, Audio & Security):
2 X Playstation 2 consoles, 2 X Sony LCD monitors in driver and passenger sunvisors, 1 X Sony Headunit

ENGINE MODIFICATIONS:
Gruppe M Coldair Induction kit – Carbon Fibre Sumo Power Custom fabricated Side Exit Exhaust System – Stainless Steel – No cats, HKS Super Fire Racing Spark Plugs, Castrol Edge Engine Oil, Castrol Gearbox Oil
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The Volvo Group is a Swedish supplier of commercial vehicles such as trucks, buses and construction equipment, drive systems for marine and industrial applications, aerospace components and financial services. The then auto manufacturer was founded on April 14, 1927 in the city of Gothenburg, as a spin-off from the roller ball bearing maker SKF. Volvo delisted from NASDAQ in June, 2007, but remains listed on the Stockholm exchange.

Volvo means “I roll” in Latin, conjugated from “volvere”. The name Volvo was originally registered in May 1911 as a separate company within SKF AB and as a registered trademark with the intention to be used for a special series of ball bearing, but this idea was only used for a short period of time and SKF decided to use “SKF” as the trademark for all its bearing products.

The company AB Volvo had no activities until 10 August, 1926 when the SKF Sales Manager Assar Gabrielsson and Engineer Gustav Larson, after one year of preparations involving the production of ten prototypes, set up the car-manufacturing business Volvo AB within SKF group. Volvo AB was introduced at the Stockholm stock exchange in 1935 and SKF then decided to sell its shares in the company.

The first series produced Volvo automobile, the Volvo ÖV 4, left the factory on 14 April, 1927 which became the official date for the founding of Volvo.

In 1999 Volvo sold its car division to Ford. Repeated reports in the media about Ford selling off its Volvo brand have been refuted by the company.

Like its competitors, the Mini, the Citroën 2CV and the Fiat 500, the original-shape Beetle long outlasted predictions of its lifespan. It maintains a very strong following worldwide, being regarded as something of a “cult” car owing to its 1960s association with the hippie movement. Currently, there is a wide array of clubs that are concerned with the Beetle. The fans are quite diverse. Looks include the resto-look, Cal Look, German-look, resto-Cal Look, buggies, Baja bugs, old school, Disney’s Herbie the Love Bug replicas, ratlook, etc. Part of their cult status is attributed to being one of a few cars with an air-cooled, horizontally-opposed engine design and the consequent ease of repair and modification as opposed to the more conventional and technically complex watercooled engine design. The original flat-four boxer design had less than 200 moving parts.

In the late 1990s, a group of Volkswagen enthusiasts formed Volkswagenism, a satirical religion based off of owners devoted loyalty to the Beetle, and the company. Under the leadership of founder Jason Gaudet, this “religion” has gained notoriety through radio, television and print coverage from around the world…turning ordinary fans of the car into Volkswagenists.

By 2002, over 21 million Type 1s had been produced.

On July 30, 2003, the last Type 1 rolled off the production line in Puebla, Puebla, Mexico. It was car number 21,529,464, and was immediately shipped off to the company’s museum in Wolfsburg, Germany. In true Mexican fashion, a mariachi band serenaded the last car in the 68-year-old history. The last car was nicknamed El Rey, which is Spanish for “The King”. The last 3000 type 1s were called the “Última Edición” or the last edition.

In the United States, Volkswagen enthusiasts frequent large Volkswagen-themed car shows, especially in the summer months. Many of these shows feature camping, a car show called a “show ‘n’ shine”, drag racing, parts swap meet, raffles, burnout contests, and other events. Die-hard and loyal “VW-heads” attend these shows regularly, often traveling 500 miles (800 km) or more (even abroad) to attend their favorite event.

In the winter, a group of drivers of the “split window” bus model (1951-1967 Microbuses, trucks, campers, and panel vans) drive from Willits, CA, to Mt. Shasta CA, largely on unpaved back roads. This event is called the “Mt. Shasta Snow Trip Challenge” and is a good example of VW enthusiasts’ trust in the durability of their 40-plus-year-old cars.

Toyota Motor Corporation is a multinational corporation headquartered in Japan, and currently is the world’s largest automaker. In terms of name recognition, Toyota is also the only car manufacturer to appear in the top 10 of the BrandZ name recognition ranking.

In 1934, while still a department of Toyota Industries, it created its first product Type A engine and its first passenger car (the Toyota AA) in 1936. The company was founded in 1937 by Kiichiro Toyoda as a spinoff from his father’s company Toyota Industries to create automobiles. Toyota owns and operates Toyota, Lexus, Scion brands and has a majority shareholding in Daihatsu Motors , and has minority shareholdings in Fuji Heavy Industries, Isuzu Motors, and the engine, motorcycle and marine craft manufacturer Yamaha Motors. The company includes 522 subsidiaries.

Toyota is headquartered in Toyota and Nagoya in Aichi Prefecture and in Tokyo. It also provides financial services through its division Toyota Financial Services and also creates robots besides automobiles. The company along with the original Toyota Industries form bulk of the Toyota Group, one of the largest conglomerates in the world.

Company overview

The Toyota Motor Company was awarded its first Japanese Quality Control Award at the start 1970s and began participating in a wide variety of Motorsports. Due to the 1973 oil crisis consumers in the lucrative U.S. market began turning to small cars with better fuel economy. American car manufacturers had considered small economy cars to be an “entry level” product, and their small vehicles were not made to a high level of quality in order to keep the price low. Japanese customers, however, had a long-standing tradition of demanding small fuel-efficient cars that were manufactured to a high level of quality. Because of this, companies like Toyota, Honda, and Nissan established a strong and growing presence in North America in the 1970s.

In 1982, the Toyota Motor Company and Toyota Motor Sales merged into one company, the Toyota Motor Corporation. Two years later, Toyota entered into a joint venture with GM called NUMMI, the New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc, operating an automobile manufacturing plant in Fremont, California. The factory was an old General Motors plant that had been closed for several years. Toyota then started to establish new brands at the end of the 1980s, with the launch of their luxury division Lexus in 1989.

In the 1990s Toyota began to branch out from producing mostly compact cars by adding many larger and more luxurious vehicles to its lineup, including a full sized pickup, the T100 (and later the Toyota Tundra), several lines of SUVs, a sport version of the Camry, known as the Camry Solara, and the Scion brand, a group of several affordable, yet sporty, automobiles targeted specifically to young adults. Toyota also began production of the world’s best selling hybrid car, the Toyota Prius, in 1997.

With a major presence with Europe, due to the success of Toyota Team Europe, the corporation decided to set up TMME, Toyota Motor Europe Marketing & Engineering, to help market vehicles in the continent. Two years later, Toyota set up a base in the United Kingdom, TMUK, as the company’s cars had become very popular among British drivers. Bases in Indiana, Virginia and Tianjin were also set up. In 1999, the company decided to list itself on the New York and London Stock Exchange.

They are known for their use of boxer engines in their vehicles and standard AWD, as well as their turbocharged performance vehicles, such as the Subaru Impreza WRX.

Fuji Heavy Industries, and in turn, Subaru are currently affiliates of Toyota Motor Corporation, which owns 8.7% of FHI.

Subaru has built a reputation for producing high quality, reliable vehicles that did not sacrifice performance for everyday practicality.

The company is named after the star cluster Pleiades, whose Japanese name is “Subaru”, that roughly translated into English means, “to govern”, “unite,” or “gather together”. The company logo reflects the star design.

Modified versions of the Impreza WRX and WRX STi have been competing successfully in car rallies; drivers Colin McRae, Richard Burns and Petter Solberg have won World Rally Championship titles with the Subaru World Rally Team. The Subaru World Rally Championship cars are prepared and run by Prodrive, the highly successful British Motorsport team. Several endurance records were set in the early and mid-nineties by the Legacy.

FHI started out as “The Aircraft Research Laboratory” in 1917 headed by Chikuhei Nakajima. In 1931, the company was reorganized as “Nakajima Aircraft Company, Ltd”, the main airplane manufacturer for Japan in WWII.

At the end of the Second World War, Nakajima Aircraft was again reorganized, this time as Fuji Sangyo Co, Ltd. In 1946, Fuji Sangyo created its first Rabbit motor scooter with spare aircraft parts from the war. In 1950, Fuji Sangyo was divided into 12 smaller corporations according to the 1950 Corporate Credit Rearrangement Act, but between 1953-1955, four of these corporations and a newly formed corporation formed by an alliance of the four aforementioned companies were again merged together to form the Fuji Heavy Industries we know today.

Renault S.A. is a French vehicle manufacturer producing cars, vans, buses, tractors, and trucks. The company is well known for numerous revolutionary designs, security technologies, and motor racing.

Renault F1

Renault F1 is the Renault company’s Formula One racing team. Renault has competed in Formula One (originally via subsidiary Renault Sport), both as an engine supplier and as a constructor from the late 1970s to the present day, with several breaks. Renault introduced the turbo engine to Formula One when they debuted their first car, the Renault RS01 at Silverstone in 1977. Although the Renault team won races and competed for world titles, it was as a supplier of normally aspirated engines to the Benetton and Williams teams in the 1990s that Renault first tasted world championship success. Renault returned to the category as a constructor in 2001 by taking over the Benetton team, which was renamed Renault in 2002. Their first championship as a constructor was achieved in 2005; the same year that they won their first drivers’ championship with former test driver, Fernando Alonso, repeating that feat in 2006.

Renault F1 is coordinated from the team’s UK base at Enstone, Oxfordshire where the chassis are designed and built. Engines are manufactured at Renault’s facility at Viry-Châtillon outside Paris. As well as their championship wins in 2005 and 2006, Renault also contributed to 5 driver’s world championships (1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997) and 6 constructor’s world championships (1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997) as engine supplier for Benetton and Williams.

Currently, Renault F1 is responsible for Renault’s involvement in Formula One; Renault’s other motorsport activities are conducted through Renault Sport.

Proton is the Malaysian national carmaker (Malay acronym for PeRusahaan OTOmobil Nasional, ‘National Automobile Enterprise’), which was established in 1983 under the direction of the former Prime Minister, Tun Mahathir Mohamad. Proton Holdings Berhad, the holding company, is listed on the Bursa Malaysia.

Based on technology and parts from Mitsubishi Motors, production of the first model, the Proton Saga began in September 1985 at its first manufacturing plant in Shah Alam, Selangor. Initially the components of the car were entirely manufactured by Mitsubishi but slowly local parts were being used as technologies were transferred and skills were gained. The 100,000th Proton Saga was produced in January 1989.

Until the end of the 1990s, the car’s logo featured the crest from Malaysia’s coat of arms, featuring a crescent and a fourteen-pointed star. The new Proton logo features a stylized tiger head. In 1993, a model called Proton Wira was introduced based on the Mitsubishi Lancer/Colt. More than 220,000 units were sold between 1996 and 1998. Proton Perdana, based on the Mitsubishi Galant/Eterna, was first produced in 1995, intended for higher end market.

By 2002 Proton held a market share of over 60% in Malaysia, which was reduced to barely 30% by 2005 and is expected to reduce further in 2008 when AFTA mandates reduce import tariffs to a maximum of 5%.

Proton Waja (Proton Impian in UK) is the first car model designed internally by Proton. It was launched in early 2001

With the acquisition of Lotus technologies in 1996 from ACBN Holdings (a company owned by the same person who owned Bugatti), Proton has gained an additional source of engineering and automotive expertise. This led to the production of Proton Gen-2 which was code name Wira Replacement Model (WRM) before the launch. The Gen-2 is the first of cars to be manufactured and assembled at the new manufacturing plant in Tanjung Malim, Perak which is part of Proton City development project. The plant was opened in 2004. On June 8, 2005 Proton introduced the second model to be manufactured in Tanjung Malim, the 1,200 cc 5-door supermini, the Proton Savvy. Both the Gen-2 and Savvy, were models that MG Rover was looking to rebadge when the British firm entered into collaboration talks with Proton. However these joint-venture talks were unsuccessful and MG Rover subsequently collapsed.

In 2007, Proton launch its new sedan as replacement version for Wira Sedan but with new name, Persona. The new Proton Saga replacement model (codename Proton BLM) was launched on 18th January 2008. The new Saga is based on the Savvy platform, but using Campro 1.3L instead of Renault engine.