Edo Competition and Audigier have brought their talents together for a limited run of Lamborghini Murcielagos. The Edo Competition Murcielago LP710 Audigier Edtiion, as it is called, will feature custom designs conjured up by the customer’s themselves. This will ensure that every unit produced is one of a kind.

The best part of this package is the internal upgrades, which brings power to total of 710 hp. Customers can also decide whether they want to convert their car to rear-wheel drive and in the process shed 90 pounds from the curb weight of the car. The LP710 is being touted as the fastest Lamborghini ever with a zero-to-sixty time of 3.1 seconds and a top speed of 224mph. The price for ultimate exclusivity and speed is double that of the already very exclusive and fast Murcielago or approximately $690,000.

[via Fast-Autos.net]

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G-Power’s M5 Hurricane RS, a 750-hp twin-supercharged version of the BMW M5 sedan, has just dethroned the Brabus Rocket as the fastest sedan in the world with a run of 228.4 mph. Formally, the bi-turbo V12 Brabus Rocket, which is based off of the Mercedes-Benz CLS, held the title with a 227.2 mph record.

[via BMW Blog]

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Hennessey Performance, via a pair of new turbochargers, upgraded boost control, and revised intake and exhaust systems, has increased the power of the already-blistering-fast 2009 Nissan GT-R to a stout 700 hp. Designated the Godzilla 700, the complete package will cost $24,500 installed or approximately $101,340 including the cost of the car. If 700 hp sounds like overkill, a 600-hp upgrade, called the Godzilla 600, will cost $14,500 installed or $91,340 including the car. Compared to the Corvette ZR-1’s, and our 2009 Best-Bang-for-the-Buck winner’s, MSRP of $103,000, the Godzilla 700 sounds like the deal of the decade.

[via Motor Trend]

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9ff displayed a 900-hp Carrera GT at the Essen Motor Show in Germany over the Thanksgiving weekend. The 9ff GTT900 gains the extra 295 horsepower via a pair of turbochargers that were slapped onto the engine, a revised exhaust, and new camshafts. The show car was painted red with carbon-fiber accents,  had cut-out front wheel wells, and a fixed rear wing.

[via Supercars.net]

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Most people that own Lamborghinis are not fond of the idea of a kit car, but even some owners, like the ones in the Lamborghini-talk forum, showed respect for this replica. It was hand built by a man named Ken Imhoff inside his basement. It took him 10 years to complete the car, which means the Murcielago and Gallardo were not even a twinkle in any owner’s eye when he began the project. Ken fabricated the frame, installed a 351-cubic-inch V-8, 5-speed automatic, and a meticulously formed each of the car’s aluminum body panels to the original’s exact specifications.

Unfortunately, once the car was complete Ken had a different problem; unearthing the car. Ken had to hire a contractor to knock down part of the basement wall, build a ramp and then drag the car out of its underground shelter.

[via Lamborghini-talk and KIEngineering]

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What we have here is a very rare Ferrari 456 Venice wagon. It is one of only seven in the world. It was design and built by the styling-house Pininfarina for the Sultan of Brunei back in 1996. The sultan commissioned Pininfarina to build seven of the Ferrari shooting brakes at a cost of $1.5 million a piece, but decided at the last minute he only wanted six of the cars. The last auto was auctioned off and is the one most likely pictured here.  

[via CarZi]

Hartge, one of the first tuners to provide body kits for the 1-series, has just released a package that injects an additional 44-hp into the mighty 135. The extra power and torque are good enough to decrease the zero–60 time to 4.7 seconds, or a 0.5 decrease. Read the press release here.

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As early as back in the Fifties, a major car magazine wrote: "The Mercedes SL is the most cultivated and at the same time most fascinating among the sports cars of our time". Read more here.

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Like a yin to the yang, Saleen will be unveiling the Dark Horse Mustang this week, a car that looks like the evil stepbrother to the Sterling Edition. Like the Sterling Edition, the Dark Hose will be based off the S302 Extreme and limited to 25 units. Unlike the Sterling Edition, which was coated in a sterling-like silver paint, the Dark Horse will be painted in all black, maybe even matte black. Power will be rated as the same 620 horsepower you can find in the Extreme and Sterling Edition. Read more here.

[via Autoblog]