The tuning scene available for the BMW X6 is growing ever bigger and the latest “actor” to revise a part he’s playing on it is German tuner Lumma Design.

The “act” Lumma Design has put together is quite impressive and is based on a BMW X6 xDrive50i eventually being called the CLR X 650 M.

The recently revised CLR X 650 M gets a power output increase up to a whopping 670 horsepower and a maximum torque of 627 lb-ft. To have a sense of perspective you can relate to these figures as a 20 percent increase in horsepower and a 25 percent increase in torque when compared to the standard BMW X6 M. And that isn’t exactly what you’d call sluggish is it?

The improvement comes from a new high-performance exhaust system, finished with quad tailpipes. Top speed for the Lumma Design CLR X 650 M now reaches 194 mph. Imagine that, something which a few years ago supercars were struggling to achieve, the 200 mph holy grail, is close to being done nowadays by something that’s almost a SUV.

On the visual front, the old X 650 M was always an aggressive car but now it’s getting difficult to tell that this originated from a neighborhood variety BMW X6. The modifications include a revised rear skirt and wing, three-section front spoiler with daytime LED runners, flared fenders, upgraded side-sills, a new carbon and Kevlar hood.

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While BMW has a proper racing heritage the 6 Series is not one of the models that contributed much to it.

The car we have here may change things a bit as it represents the result of a project destined to prep the car for GT1 racing regulations.

The car starts out as a BMW 6 Series which then goes to specialist tuner Alpina to become the B6. Should that particular car be lucky enough, it might just end up being turned into an Alpina B6 GT3 which will see all of its life as a racer.

That is unless it ends up in the hands of the guys over at Aurora Racing Designs which will turn it into a GT1 spec racing car to comply with the new rules there. “The guys” are former McLaren engineer Nicholas Galbraith and former Alpina racing designer Andreas Puschel.

Going from GT3 to GT1 is a logical step for the car and Aurora Racing have taken over this project in an attempt not to affect Alpina’s customer GT3 racing program. The experience of the people behind Aurora Racing Designs will see the B6 GT1 going through some serious aerodynamic, structural and suspension changes in order to make it competitive.

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It would seem that BMW’s win at the 24 Hours of Nurburgring and their rejoining to the Le Mans calendar is bringing along quite a few business opportunities for tuner companies.

First there was G-Power and now we have the turn of the Illinois-based tuning house, GTHaus to have a go at giving your BMW M3 a GT2 racer look.

Since it is GT2 inspired you’ll find a pretty similar livery to what the Bavarians ran at Nurburgring, since they couldn’t have done Jeff Koon’s BMW Art Car livery which will be running at Le Mans.

Since the livery is nice in pleasant I’ll leave it at that, GTHaus is also offering the Aero bits gathered together to form a wide body kit for the car. The kit includes massively wide rear fenders, a unique front bumper with splitters, chunky side skirts, new rear bumper with air vents, vented hood and a rear wing the size of an aircraft carrier deck. Well, not exactly but it’s still pretty big. There’s also a very impressive looking set of wheels to match involved.

Looks fine but you’ll be thinking about what’s under the bonnet. Well, disappointingly theres nothing other than the standard BMW M3 engine and all the bits that go with it. Now I’m not going to be an idiot and say that’s not good enough but somehow I was expecting more.

That “more” may come at a later time in the form of a supercharger kit but until then you can get this kit and make your M3 look like you’re driving home from a hard day’s work at… Sebring for just $12,500.

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A few days ago we talked about the BMW M3 E92 by Miranda Series. Now it’s the time to see what G-Power, a german firm of tuning, did for the BMW M3 E92. They weren’t so satisfied with 420hp stock M3 Engine and made from it a 635hp power, with half power more then the stock one.

This package has 3 stages of tuning. With the first one, you can upgrade your BMW M3 E92 to 525hp with 525nm for 7,500.00 EUR (about $10,000.00), but you can opt for the 2nd and 3nd stages, which goes up to 550 and 635hp. I’m sure that all these 3 package will make from your engine a great sound.

Also, this firm of tuning, G-Power, has made a package for BMW M5 which consists in 730hp engine power and it makes from this car the fastest sedan in the world. The BMW M5 by G-Power car goes up to 367.4Kmh!

Here are some pictures with BMW M3 E92 with 635hp by G-Power:

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Main BMW’s tuner, Alpina, decided to unveil its latest racing car, namely Alpina B6 GT3, until the appearance of Geneva Auto Show.
We talked a couple of days ago about the appearance of BMW Alpina B6 GT3 at Geneva and now we see that the Alpina’s latest car was unveiled before. Alpina’s latest racing car, GT3 is equipped with a supercharged 4.4 engine with a power of 530hp and a torque of 725nM. The 0-100kmh acceleration is excellent, about 3,9 seconds.

BMW Alpina B6 GT3 will be shown at Geneva Auto Show in March.

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