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Replicas are fun cars when they pay tribute to great cars. Porsche Speedster replicas are a good example. They use almost original parts (junkyard VW Beetles) and create a replica of a beautiful car for very little money. Things start to go a little bad when people take the never-loved but always underpowered Pontiac Fiero and TRY to make it look like a Ferrari. Finally there's the completely wrong ideas like the Chrysler made into a 600 SL of last week - the car above definitely falls (...)

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It's hard to have cool police cruiser in the U.S. We arrest so many people that we need full-size cars with full-size back seats. The big V8s may make the cars fast, but the big sedans always have a somewhat Grandmamobile look to them. In fact, the last cool cruiser belonged to Jake and Ellwood. That's why European cops are cooler. Last month we saw Italy get a Gallardo LP560-4 as a Police car, and now here's the Volkswagen Scirocco dressed up in "blues and twos" form for the Essen Motor (...)

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When it comes to supercars, there's never enough horsepower. That's what sent the tuning house PPI back to the drawing board. Last year it bolted a supercharger to the Audi R8 to make the R8 Razor, now it back with MORE POWER. It wasn't a hard equation for PPI to get more from the R8; it just added a a bigger supercahrger. That's combined with a ram air system and a new exhaust system to make 580 hp (up from the R8's standard 420 hp.) All this should drop the 0-60 mph time by over half (...)

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