12 May 2009 - 10:00
Fatal gillness
We thought nothing could ever top the Gemballa Cayenne for sheer pig-scaring ugliness. Ever. We didn't imagine for a second it'd be mere weeks before another tuner came up with a creation to rival the eye-molesting Tornado.
But here it is, the Maff Muron. Also taking the Cayenne as its starting point - hell, if you're going to aim ugly, you might as well give yourself all the headstart you can get - the Romanian tuning house has opted for a fetching widebody kit in a delicate shade of purple we like to call ‘Haemorrhoid Heliotrope'.
Just look at that front end. There are enough gills there to serve the oxygen demands of an entire shiver of whale sharks. You might think, reasonably, that no Earthly engine could ever require so much cooling, but Maff must believe that its tuned-up version of the Cayenne's 4.8-litre turbocharged V8 - bumped up from 367kW to over 520kW - needs all the help it can get to prevent it from melting the Muron into a sticky, melted lump.
We can't help thinking, however, that some sort of inferno-based accident might just be the best thing for the Muron. Let's put the poor thing out of its misery...
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what a cool car, I'll buy one
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That is absolutely UGLY!!! You'd have to be crazy if you were going to release that!!! No way in the world would I buy one!!!
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Whoever created this disturbingly ugly tuner should be sent for a mental evaluation? Hm, or maybe its creator would be better suited at BMW?s design HQ. Hey, things can only get better after the Bangle era.
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Whoever created this disturbingly ugly tuner should be sent for a mental evaluation... Hm, or maybe its creator would be better suited at BMW's design HQ. Hey, things can only get better after the Bangle era. There we go, and this time without the text errors - hopefully...
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combat-wombat commented on this article
at 05:54 am on 13 May 2009
Strewth!! That's uglier that ya nannas' norks!!
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