Japan's Skipper to Introduce New BMW 5-Series M Sport Tune at Tokyo Auto Salon

With less than 24 hours left for the grand opening of the Tokyo Auto Salon 2013, Japanese aftermarket brand Skipper dropped the first photos of its new tuning kit for BMW 5-Series sedans fitted with the factory M Sport package.

BMW 5-Series

BMW 5-Series

BMW 5-Series

BMW 5-Series

BMW 5-Series

BMW 5-Series

BMW 5-Series

The car seen here is a 523i, which is a Japanese market model powered by BMW's 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder gasoline engine with an output of 181hp (184PS).

Skipper�skipped on the details about its package, but the pictures tell part of the story with the BMW adorned with a host of components such as the carbon fiber front lip spoiler, a different rear diffuser and a discreet roof spoiler.

There's also a quad exhaust system and a new set of double spoke forged alloy wheels wrapped around performance tires from Nitto. No word if Skipper made any other performance upgrades to the car's chassis and/or powertrain.

Articles Source : Carscoop

Veilside bets on Black with Mercedes SL body kit

There are hundreds of aftermarket tuners out there, but few hold the type of street cred that does Veilside. Long known for making Japan's greatest sportscars even greater, Veilside has now turned its attention to the Mercedes-Benz SL.

 

Veilside Black

Not the newest one, mind you, because it's not out yet. Instead, Veilside has taken to the Tokyo Auto Salon to unveil a conversion kit that turns the outgoing SL into something closer to the top-of-the-line SL65 AMG Black Series.

To do so, Veilside fitted the SL with a custom body kit that includes new bumpers front and rear, new hood, fenders, side skirts, and spoiler, all crafted from carbon fiber. The result is called the Black Fortune.

The folding roof mechanism present on the stock SL � but removed on the Black Series model � appears to remain in place, so the Veilside won't encompass the kind of weight savings embodied by the factory special, but with only 300 examples of the kit to be offered at about $30,000 a pop, seeing one on the street should be about as rare a proposition.

Articles Source : Autoblog