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Tuning firms have a habit of ruining things. Everything they touch turns to bling or fake carbon fibre and while chavs shout a collective whoop, we just wince.
Sometimes, though, they make a pretty good fist of things. Check out this tuned F430 from Japanese firm ASI. Racey, eh? It's got the usual stuff - new bumpers, new skirts, fixed wing. But brilliantly, this kit weighs a whole 27kg less than a standard affair. That's almost as much as an entire jockey.
And it's nice to see a little restraint. Usually a tuned nutter car would have alloys the size of wagon wheels, painted pink for full naff effect. We're fans of these black ones, though there will be some 19-inchers available in August.
The kit costs $15,000 and if you fancy going a step further, ASI will eek some more power from the ECU, sort your suspension and throw in a new exhaust too.
That'll keep the chavs happy.
Now watch Jeremy fall in love with the F430 back in 2005:
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What do you think?
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Wotski commented on this article
at 03:30 pm on 19 June 2009
Kudos on the less is more approach, but would you give Giselle Bundchen a boob-job?
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carguytom commented on this article
at 05:22 pm on 19 June 2009
well of the massive amounts of new tuned crap factories this is the best
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Mo'Speed commented on this article
at 05:22 pm on 19 June 2009
Where as the Germans go "Let's make zis really fast but very ugly to look at", the Japanese go "Lets make it fast AND good to look at." Kudos to Mr Kazuma.
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McLaren commented on this article
at 08:48 pm on 19 June 2009
Utter crap. Give me an Aston Martin, Porsche or Lamborghini anyday. feraris are for people with an ego 1000 times as big as their cock.
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Mikeado commented on this article
at 09:04 pm on 19 June 2009
Very nice. It's like I often say, if there's one country that can tune cars properly, it's Japan. Interesting that they've ventured into Europe - have they run out of their own new cars to tune?
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