We invited all the speed tuners to bring cars—AutoThority 850i, DR Motorsports Corvette ZR-1, Lingenfelter Corvette, Peter Farrell Supercars RX-7, RENNtech 500SL, Saleen Mustang—and show us their stuff. Forget what you've heard about the arms race being over.
From the February 1994 issue of Car and Driver.Put any car guy under the microscope, zoom down through his polite and civilizing layers to where the corpuscles flow red hot, and there burns The Universal Fantasy: You get a surpassingly neat car, then you make it even neater. This is a field trip into that fantasyland. But first, let's agree on what constitutes 'neater.
Ntech in Delray Beach, Florida, in 1989. Now he's 32 and determined to succeed on his own. AutoThority 850iPay attention to the man behind the curtain.Paul Misencik says he's not the brain trust behind AutoThority—that would be founder Al Collins—but he agrees with the principle behind the company in Fairfax, Virginia, and its 475-horsepower BMW 850i. 'Our philosophy is not speed at all cost,' Paul explains. 'We want horsepower and refinement.
Ntech 500SLThis Mercedes hot rod shows as well a it goes. Even a brief glance at the Ntech, has devoted considerable attention to the 'optical qualities' of his cars—as he puts it in his German-accented speech. But his background includes eleven years at AMG, the premier Mercedes tuning firm in Germany, and his cars reflect AMG's—and his own—autobahn bloodlines. Under the hood lies a V-8, punched out from 5.0 to 6.
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