Lamborghini has announced its plan to build lighter cars, and that means more carbon fiber and carbon composites. The stampede bull is already deep into the stuff, with the Murcielago replacement swapping out the Murcielago steel frame for one made of carbon fiber, and the same with the Gallardo LP 570-4 Superleggera.

Over the weekend the Mk1 Boys club hosted a dyno day at DynoTech in Brackenfell.
Quite a few guys pulled in and the dyno results are as follows.

Classes Driver Vehicle Club KW NM Av
up to 1400 N/A
Jacques Peens MK1 JP Motorsport 83.2 139 111.1
Lugen Govender Corsa UTE OCCT 77.3 138 107.7
Marlon Duminy Corsa UTE 76.4 130 103.2
Denver Abrahams MK1 73.7 132 102.9
Charl Carr Corsa Classic 75.2 130 102.6
Antonie Kriegler MK1 …

We are so excited, it’s that time of the month again and Killarney is hosting its monthly Streetcar open track day. If you have never attended one of these before, we suggest you take your car down there this Sunday and take part in this awesome experience. In all honesty participating in an open Track day is most probably the best bit of driving experience you could ever have. Bring your toys to the track and have some good clean racing fun also bring your friends and family along, you …

Pogea Racing have released an amazing upgrade package for the special edition Fiat 500 Abarth 595 Ferrari that includes both performance and styling.
The German tuning company Pogea Racing believes that there’s something very wrong about with having a hot hatch carrying the Ferrari name and that’s powered by an engine producing only 165 horses . So the tuner grabbed hold of the Fiat and decided to do something about this problem.
The car in question is the extremely rare Fiat 500 Abarth Ferrari Dealers Edition. Pogea Racing first gave attention to …

A sick Volkswagen Golf 6Rsporting some super hot 20inch OZ wheels. At first, it sounds like the modified Volkswagen Golf would only receive a new wheel package, but actually there is much more. On the exterior, the powerful new Vdub was hooked up with a sporty vinyl job.
The rims you see here are 20inch OZ Ultraleggera HLT alloys wrapped in high performance tyres. The Volkswagen Golf’s suspension setup consists of lower springs with an adjustable high-grade steel thread chassis by KW suspension.

With the iconic Citi’s departure at the start of this year, Volkswagen has been preparing a new entry-level competitor with the aim of offering affordability, reliability at a low cost compared to its brothers and sisters.
According to Vw, the aim of the Polo Vivo is to provide “affordable and accessible mobility” to average South African.

Based on the previous generation Polo, which has remained hugely popular with local consumers, the new Polo Vivo is available as a sportier three-door hot hatchback, five-door hatchback and four-door saloon. Simple styling has updated the …

Guys we are thinking of making up a few AutoModified t-shirts for our loyal readers and this is the concept we have come up with.
What do you guy’s recon, so far I personally love the Black t-shirt nothing looks sexier than something in black.

We want to know which colour would you most likely wear and what do you guys think of the T-shirt layout, should we change it or should we print a few.
Please guys let us know.
AutoModifed Team

For those of you who are new readers to our website, we have recently started an interview series called, South Africa’s Best On Track. Our aim for this interview series is to interview as many influential South Africans who contribute to our motor sport industry. So far we have interviewed Otto Graven from Monstermob. He is currently South Africa’s drifting champ with his very own drifting team. In short, we are basically interviewing South Africa’s best on track whether they have developed fast race car or they happen to be …