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They say that the more things change the more they stay the same, and this holds true even in the ceaselessly evolving world of automotive tuning. Case in point, Forge Motorsport. You’d struggle to find a firm more closely associated with the white hot heat of technological progress than the Gloucester outfit, yet it’s also...

It’s all too easy to get carried away with ‘power tuning,’ to fixate on chasing big horsepower figures at the expense of your car’s chassis. Doing so can quite rapidly leave you with an evil handling monster of a car, one with too much power and not enough handling finesse, and your driving experience will...

‘Power is nothing without control’ is one of the oldest automotive clichés in the book but, as is the case with pretty much all clichés, it does ring true; there’s no point investing countless thousands tuning your car’s engine in search of monster power if said car’s chassis can’t handle it, hence why Awesome GTI...

You’ve got to hand it to VW, they really do know what’s involved with developing a world class, multi-make platform on which to base their key models! The most recent example of Wolfsburg’s mastery of the art of platform sharing is the MQB, the chassis on which the Mk7 Golf, SEAT Leon and Audi A3...

It can sometimes seem like barely a month goes by without the release of an advanced tuning option for the MQB platform and the various models it underpins, and this time it’s the turn of AWE Tuning, longtime industry heavyweight and a firm with a reputation for producing genuinely innovative tuning parts. AWE has been...

Forge Motorsport has released details of its superb new turbo blanket that will fit most turbocharged cars to give several benefits. The main function of this blanket is to isolate the radiant heat normally produced by any ‘charger during normal operation. Forge originally created this product for its own Mk1 turbocharged ‘Berg Cup’ race car...

You’d have had to have been residing under an especially large rock not to have noticed the sheer popularity of the VAG MQB platform amongst the worldwide tuning fraternity, and there really is no shortage of performance enhancing hardware available for cars like the Mk7 Golf, the latest Leon, Octavia and A3. Racingline Performance has...

Czech Republic’s tuning house EuroTuning is having lots of success with their gearbox conversion kits. In addition to the 02J and 02B gearbox kits, EuroTuning offers a six-speed version for 02G gearboxes and is the only company in the world that can offer that. 02G gearbox is designed exclusively for cars VW T4. It has...

The R360 high performance wheel is the latest and stunning addition to the RacingLine Performance Parts range. The firm’s long-time favourite ‘Cup Edition’ wheels have been the rim of choice for racers and track drivers for almost a decade, but now, the all-new R360 takes all their attributes of strength, lightness and the peace of...

Respected UK exhaust manufacturer Milltek has moved the exhaust game on once again with the launch of its impressive range of cast downpipes to suit many performance VW, Audi, Seat and Skoda models. From launch, these new cast downpipes will be available for various 2.0TFSI, 2.0TSI, 1.8TFSI and 1.8TSI variants covering 2wd and 4wd cars...