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more about #tunerwars more comments → Novaload: If this won, what the hell lost? more » brandegee: When you spool up the turbo it makes a distinct "doosh" sound. Somebody please smack M-B in the head with one of these: more » Graverobber: The Fast and the Spurious? more » BlueRSX: As a *huge* fan of Robotech, I definitely appreciate the award for RENNTECH. Their GLK version pushes the envelope of styling and performance for an u... more » Rust-MyEnemy: I don't like it. more » Rust-MyEnemy: Hybrid? That could be powered by its own ugly. more » pauljones: Nine months after the rice got Frankfurted, the RENNTech GLK350 Spec.R. Hybrid was born. more » Rust-MyEnemy: I just spewed seven kinds of barf. You have to be shitting me. I'm sending Renntech the bill to clean my monitor and keyboard. Jalopnik, you really sh... more » layabout: That looks cheap & tacky,up market "off roaders" aren't my thing,but at least Brabus make an effort to make it look good... more » Deartháir II: First off, this totally should have been posted by Ensign Wesley Siler. Secondly. Can someone please show me how the warp nacelles fold into the trunk... more » Schm, enjoying his first desert winter. .: So, I presume that there is a Warp Drive G-Wagen in the works too? Becouse, seriously, aerodynamics are for squares. . lol/pun more » Boosted Lego Wagon: Great. They just turned Worf into Wesley Crusher. more » Bret: Finally, the tuners are listening to Thomas L Friedman. I think we can all breath a deep, relaxing sigh, and know that the Financiapocalypse is soon t... more » Bumblebee: Make it so. more » POLAЯ ON PЯOBATION: A little known feature about the Warp Optioned RENNtech Mercedes SL65 is its Holodeck-derived Passenger Holoseat, which can simulate various celebrity... more » -
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RENNTech Wins Mercedes SEMA Tuner Build-Off With Rally-Inspired GLK
The Booth Professionals and 42" Chrome Rims may have rolled home weeks ago, but the voting for the Mercedes SEMA has just ended. What über tuner swayed the most SEMA fans to their tuned hybrid? -
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Exclusive: Details Leak On "Warp" Optioned RENNtech Mercedes SL65
The Cold War may be over but the ongoing battle between Mercedes-tuning shops BRABUS and RENNtech continues to heat up. We've all seen this war of HP — BRABUS releases photos of their 530 HP AMG C63. Later that day RENNtech releases their tuned 548 HP AMG C63. Next, RENNtech tunes an SLR McLaren and throws in track time. Later in the week, BRABUS tunes their SLR McLaren and throws in a tuned Smart. But it was after RENNtech tuned a GLK hybrid last week when BRABUS deigned it necessary to create a "photon torpedo gap" between the two shops — releasing a tuned Tesla Roadster earlier today on the waves of spaceship-like sounds and LED lights. Not willing to let such a gap continue, our sources tell us RENNtech's upped the ante into a new galaxy with a mysterious "warp speed" feature. Hit the jump to hear what they had to say. More »
