Car American Style (Again) (Hilux 2008)

Maybe a trend, viruses or anything else but, the American style is booming in Indonesia. Sedans, hatchback, city car, SUV or Pick up affected with USDM style. Many people said there the USDM style uses big size rims, black or anything glamour color, blink – blink parts and low ride or short ground clearance






Many local tuners already has an USDM modification experience and modification stories. So, when we want to modify our car into a good USDM style, many tuners recommended.
This one is an example of Pick up USDM style. Owned by the Supermoto racer, this car look so tough and elegant also, like the USDM concept. Let see what happen with this Toyota pick up line up.
First, a bigger rims for bigger passion. They owner said “The USDM concept will be better to use a big size velg. It make the low rider impression feel stronger.” So, this car use 22 inch velg by Gazario Chrome. Yes, Chrome. Chrome is symbol of luxurious and low rider “blink-blink”. Wide body needed to make this Hilux seen bigger than standard. Yes, need a modification experience to do this.
Custom grille applied nice in this car. This grille uses 2 honeycomb wire that combined become one. So, the design is very close, solid and dense. The next, body color. Although the standard was black color, but the owner wants a shiny black color. So, Super Deep Black by Spies Hecker applied well in this pick up. It make the blink-blink “culture” improved.
The other modification inspiration for us is multifunction luggage or trunk. It has a different style than the other. The first step are to clear all of rope hook. Now, it’s look simple and elegant than before. The second is to change the stoplamp place into the corner. That makes the design looks integrated. And the most innovative one is the trunk that can used for save some items and also, the emergency stay room. Because, inside the luggage there a airbed to get some rest. Maybe a good modification experience and modification story to share with other.

Dramatically Facelift (CLK230 2000)

Mercedes-Benz is one of the famous top line luxurious car brands. When someone have a Mercedes, it’s look so rich and elegant. So, what will you do when you have an elder one, but there still the Benz charisma? Yes, facelift modification. That will give us a good modification experience and modification story.







This one happen with this car, Mercedes Benz CLK 230. CLK is different with SLK especially in the hood (Hard top with Coupe Convertible). CLK is sporty based line up from Mercedes Benz. So, when you want to facelift with modify CLK, I recommended to modify it with sporty elegant theme that will accommodate all of CLK element. Yes, let us brainstorming our modification experience and modification story.
Yes, DS Autogarage that modify this CLK. The concept of this modification its convert CLK230 2000 into CLK 63 AMG. So, lets see that had been changed in this car. The most important part is bodykit. Custom bodykit from DS Autogarage that copy the CLK 63 AMG model applied well in this car. So, DS Autogarage that has a lot modification experience and modification story success to design this car bodykit perfectly.
The another important part for the elegant sporty theme is velg. DPE RO5 applied perfectly in CLK fender. 20” (9,5 x 10,5) inch is large size, but with some modification experience and modification story, this can used well.
The most interesting part is the crystal head lamp. This one is very rare and special item for W208. So, when the tuner find this item, it applied very perfect in CLK. “Because it’s an OEM part, so it will applied very well”. This item make the overall of this facelift become so nice. Again, it will give us a good modification experience both modification story.
Yes, overall of this CLK 63 AMG concept finished well with some AMG emblems in back side and front side . For the last finishing, Brilliant Silver from Spies Hecker make this car fell “younger” than the standard. Very nice car.

Special “Lizard” from Porsche (Cayman 2009)

Porsche is very spectacular sports car from Germany. This manufacturer was some first sport car manufacturer in the world. Porsche have many product line up especially for coupe. But, nowadays, Porsche has a SUV and big Sedans saloon. So, Porsche was listed by world in some exotic car. How about to modify it? Don’t worry, because there’s many tuners that have a lot of modification experiences and modification stories.






This Cayman is the last model of Cayman. Cayman is a model that combine some element of legendary Porsche car, 911 with the lowest class in Porsche line up, Boxster. It take between the price and feature from both 911 and Boxster too. So, we look the front side of Cayman, it take the 911 model. And for the back side, it take Boxster style. So, let the popular tuner that have a lot of modification story and modification experience take the portion to modify it.
Because the price factor and the exoticism matter, the owner didn’t want any custom parts or unpopular tuner to take a portion to modify it. And, the owner trust TechArt to modify his Cayman. That we know, Cayman is very impressive car. And TechArt is very popular tuner that already often modifies Porsche line up.
TechArt were very often modifies Porsche line up. So, their modification experience is nothing to doubt again. Yes, they also have a many modification story too. The most appearing parts from TechArt is the bodykit. Lips spoiler add on is very reasonable to applied in this car. Yes, because this exotic car has an exotic streamline too that seems pity to break it.