Vehicle modification

AC Schnitzer automobile Technik is a third party tuning company founded in 1987 based in Aachen, Germany specialising in BMW and MINI cars, as well as BMW motorcycles. ...more on Wikipedia about "AC Schnitzer"

Aftermarket is an umbrella term for the collective network of vendors who design and sell vehicular components that are intended to replace the stock manufacturer's parts. The two main reasons for this are (i) in order to alter the appearance or performance of the vehicle; or (ii) as a straight replacement for a stock item at a lower price, with no intention to cause such a change in appearance or performance. ...more on Wikipedia about "Aftermarket (automotive)"

Alpina Burkard Bovensiepen GmbH is an automobile tuning company based in Buchloe, in the Ostallgäu district of Bavaria, Germany specialising in BMW cars. Alpina was founded by Burkard Bovensiepen,(b. 1936) who is still the CEO. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alpina"

American Chopper is a Discovery Channel reality television series. This popular series is based around the founder of the company, owner and chief executive officer Paul Teutul Sr., and his son, the chief designer and fabricator Paul Teutul Jr. a.k.a. Paulie as the two run a business creating custom motorcycles in their workshop, Orange County Choppers, also known as OCC. The workshop is based in Montgomery, New York. ...more on Wikipedia about "American Chopper"

American Hot Rod is a Discovery Channel TV series that follows the construction of various hot rods and custom cars in Boyd Coddington's shop. ...more on Wikipedia about "American Hot Rod"

BMW M is a subsidiary of German car manufacturer BMW AG created in May 1972. BMW M, also known as M-Technik or just "M" (for Motorsport) was initially created to facilitate BMW’s racing program, which was very successful in the 1960s and 1970s. The first racing project was BMW’s 3.0 CSL; in the late 1970s the first modified street legal road cars were produced for the contracted racecar drivers as their personal vehicles. ...more on Wikipedia about "BMW M"

A bodykit is a collection of exterior modifications to a car, typically comprised of front and rear bumpers (fenders), side skirts, and spoilers. These will be designed to complement each other, and work together as a complete design. Despite this, the 'mix and match' approach is often seen on cars, where the front of one kit will be matched with the rear of another. ...more on Wikipedia about "Body kit"

The term body kit commonly refers to aftermarket automotive bumpers designed to enhance the look of a vehicle. There are many companies that sell these replacements as alternatives to the traditional look of the vehicle from the factory. Many advantages to body kits include better aerodynamics as well as having a high degree of aesthetic value. ...more on Wikipedia about "Body kits"

At first Boy racer was the name of the AJS 7 R, the 1951 to 1962 350-cc-racemodell. ...more on Wikipedia about "Boy racer"

Brabus is a high-performance aftermarket tuning company which specializes in Mercedes-Benz and Maybach vehicles. Founded in 1977 by Bodo Buschmann, Brabus has since become the largest Mercedes tuner other than the Daimler-Chrysler affiliate AMG. The company is based in Bottrop, near Düsseldorf, Germany. The English franchise was, until recently, owned by Baron Martin Stillman von Brabus, an early lover of Margaret, Duchess of Argyll. ...more on Wikipedia about "Brabus"

Car tuning is both an industry and a popular hobby, in which a car is tuned or modified in order to improve its performance. ...more on Wikipedia about "Car tuning"

Chip tuning refers to changing or modifying an EPROM chip in a car's or other vehicle's electronic control unit (ECU) to achieve better performance, whether it be more power, cleaner emissions, better fuel economy, or better appearance. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chip tuning"

Chopped and channeled is a description of a form of car customization in the " kustom kulture" of hot-rodding. Both procedures are often combined but can be performed in isolation as well. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chopped and channeled"

Chopper refers to a particular type of motorcycle that was radically customized to meet the owner's needs and desires, archetypical examples of which being the Harley-Davidsons as seen in the 1969 movie Easy Rider. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chopper (motorcycle)"

A custom car is a passenger vehicle that has been modified to improve its performance by altering or replacing the engine and transmission and to make it look like no other car on the road. ...more on Wikipedia about "Custom car"

A dub is a wheel or rim that is 20" in size (The term "dub" was derived as a slang term for twenty, from "double dime" or two tens.) Some can be chrome or polished aluminum-alloy. "Dub two"'s are 22" wheels or rims styled similar to standard "dubs". "Dub fo"'s are 24" wheels or rims styled similar to "Dub two"'s" or standard "dubs". Rims that are below 20 inches in diameter are aptly referred to as "sub-dubs". ...more on Wikipedia about "Dub (wheel)"

Ed "Big Daddy" Roth ( March 4, 1932 - April 4, 2001) was an artist and the creator of " Rat Fink" and other characters, custom car builder, and one of the people responsible for the " Kustom Kulture" / Hot rod movement of the 1960s in Southern California. He's best known for his grotesque caricatures, typified by "Rat Fink," depicting imaginative, outsized monstrosities driving representations of the hot rods he and his contemporaries were building. He's less well known for his innovative work in turning Hot Rodding from crude backyard engineering where performance was the bottom line into a refined artform where aesthetics were equally important, breaking new ground with fiberglass bodywork. He's also known as "Mr. Gasser" to the hot-rodding community. He kept active in the field of counter-culture art and hot-rodding his entire adult life, and passed away working on an innovative hot-rod project involving a compact car that was a radical departure from the dominant "tuner" performance modification style. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ed Roth"

Engine tuning or engine building is the adjustment, modification or design of internal combustion engines to yield more performance, either in terms of power output or economy. It is a popular pastime with amateur mechanics and petrolheads. It has a long history, almost as long as the development of the car in general, originating with the development of early racing cars, and later, with the post-war hot-rod movement. ...more on Wikipedia about "Engine tuning"

Go-faster stripes is a term used, usually in a derogatory or derisive way, to refer to decoration applied to cars to make them appear to be modified for extra speed. ...more on Wikipedia about "Go-faster stripes"

Invented by Dan Gurney, the Gurney Flap (or wickerbill) is a right-angle piece of metal rigidly bolted or riveted to a wing's trailing edge increasing lift or downforce. Common applications occur in auto racing, helicopter horizontal stabilizers, and aircraft where high lift is desirous, such as banner-towing airplanes. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gurney flap"

Hankook Tire is a tire company. headquartered in Seoul, Korea. It is the largest tire and auto parts companies in the world, and is based in South Korea. Although the company was not connected with him, the company was named in honor of the inventor of tire and auto parts corporation. established in 1940. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hankook Tire"

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Hartge is a third party tuning company specialising in BMW, MINI and Range Rover cars. Founded in 1971 in Merzig, Germany, the company moved to its current location in Beckingen in 1974. A distinctive feature of the cars are their 11 spoke alloy wheels. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hartge"

HKS Is a publicly traded automotive accessory company headquartered in Japan ...more on Wikipedia about "HKS"

Hot rods are older, often historical, cars. Originally the term was used to the practice of taking an old, cheap car, removing weight (usually by removing roof, hood, bumpers, windscreen and fenders), lower it, change or tune the engine to give more power, add fat wheels for traction and paint it to make it stand out. The term may have originated from "hot roadster" and the term was used in the 1950s and 1960s as a derogatory term for any car that did not fit into the mainstream. Other sources indicate that the term was derived from replacement of connecting rods in engines to allow higher RPMs to be reached without parts failure. In the 1970s hot rodders tried to clean up their reputation and thus they started to use the term "street rod" instead. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hot rod"

Hyundai Enercell is a auto parts company. headquartered in Seoul, Korea. established in 1977 by old name Kyungwon Industry, at sold as Hyundai Motor Group in 1999. battery brand name is Solite. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hyundai Enercell" shortopedia , this is it! shortopedia

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