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Mini is just a small, cute city car for women - that's a widespread clichй, but not really true. There is a Mini model that has racing in its name. The Mini John Cooper Works is named after racing veteran and Mini tuner John Works and really lives up to its name. Plus: Tuning host Lucy visits Akrapovic in Slovenia, the leading manufacturer of exhaust systems for bikes and premium cars.

This year's motto of the Conti Tuning Day is "power sedans"ќ and Tuning host Lucy examines the bolides carefully. Plus: The McLaren SLR is the masterpiece of Mercedes, a super sports car among all sports cars. Only 3.500 units have been produced. Tunings showcases the most expensive SLR in the world, which outshines all other SLR models.

Tuning has given away the ultimate Bilstein B12 sports suspension to one lucky viewer. Lucy visits the winner in North Rhine-Westphalia and accompanies him, when his prize gets installed in his Volkswagen Golf GTI. Plus: Lucy and her lucky winner take a look around the shock absorber production plant in Eppingen and find out, how sports suspensions kits are built.

Gemballa has been known as a high-class tuning company for more than 30 years. Their focus is on Porsche cars, but they also improve other high-end brands like Ferrari. Tuning checks out the Gemballa Mirage GT, which is based on the Porsche Carrera GT. Plus: Irmscher turns the Chevrolet Camaro into the Irmscher Camaro i42.

Visitors from more than 20 countries attend the German Race Wars, a quarter-mile race for professional private tuners. Fans don't mind which kind of cars line up at the start, you just need to present perfect driving skills. Plus: The Mini John Cooper Works is the racing version of the Bavarian speedster. Arden takes the little racing gnome and turns it into the Arden Mini AM3.

The Nuerburgring Nordschleife is one of the toughest race tracks in the world, featuring 73 curves on a length of 21 kilometers. For Manhart Racing, a famous tuner for BMW cars, it's the perfect place to celebrate its 25th anniversary with the Manhart Racing Days. The company invited Fans and Tuning to check out their products and the so-called "Green Hell"ќ.

Once a year tuning fans from all over the world meet in Dresden for the XS Car Night. When the lights go out in the open, here they start to shine. On an area of 35.000 square meters the visitors can marvel at hot cars - and hot women. Plus: Tuning checked out how you can use our own OBD equipment to get data from your cars.

Don't get fooled by the rusty bodyworks and old junk. The Rust'n Roll is not a simple junkyard, but an important festival for lovers of retro cars und so called rat look cars: really old and rusty cars. The older and rustier the cars look the more beautiful they are considered by the visitors of Rust'n Roll. Tuning introduces you to this car meeting of a special kind.

The Nitrolympx is the biggest international drag race event in Europe. Every year 30,000 - 35,000 visitors attend the festival to watch a highly explosive mix of action, show and extreme acceleration. About 300-350 drivers take part in any of the classes that the Nitrolympx has to offer. Tuning pays the Nitrolympx a visit and takes a look behind the scenes.

German Tuner SKN organizes the so-called Dyno Day, an event where speed-junkies can test how much power their cars really have. Tuning meets Freddy who takes the chance to put his Chevrolet Camaro on the dynamometer. Plus: Tuning checks out the Mercedes E 500 Coupe after it was refined by Lorinser and visits Raeder Motorsport.

Phoenix Racing takes part in motorsports since the end of the 1990s and can look back at an impressive Wall of Fame. Tuning visits the team at the Nuerburgring. Plus: Tuning checks out the VW Touareg after it got the JE Design treatment and takes a look at the Oldtimer Grand Prix at the Nuerburgring, where thousands of fans of vintage old motorsports cars get together.

Racing driver Patrick Simon meets with Aston Martin at the Nuerburgring in Germany in order to test out the Aston Martin V12 Zagato. Only two models of the V12, which has been customised by the design guru Zagato, exist. Plus: Tuning checks out the Porsche 997 and 994 and competes the Renault Megane Sport with the Golf GTI Edition 35.

Tuning company Lorinser stands for individuality, exclusivity and athleticism. The car refiner from Waiblingen can reflect upon more than 30 years of expert knowledge in the range of tuning Mercedes Benz vehicles. Tuning shows you, how a Lorinser is produced. Plus: The Porsche GT3 competes against an airplane, while Patrick Simon takes a viewer on a ride in an Aston Martin.