Tuning houses

The companies that turn ordinary cars into extraordinary ones, and the cars they made. 15 tuners from Germany, the United States and Japan, with 53 cars.

Germany

AMGFounded 1967, Affalterbach, Baden-Württemberg4 cars BrabusFounded 1977, Bottrop, North Rhine-Westphalia3 cars AlpinaFounded 1965, Buchloe, Bavaria4 cars Abt SportslineFounded 1991, Kempten, Allgäu4 cars RufFounded 1939, Pfaffenhausen, Bavaria5 cars MTMFounded 1990, Wettstetten, near Ingolstadt, Bavaria1 cars G-PowerAutenzell, Bavaria1 cars

United States

Hennessey PerformanceFounded 1991, Sealy, Texas4 cars Shelby AmericanFounded 1962, Enterprise, Nevada4 cars Roush PerformanceFounded 1995, Livonia, Michigan3 cars SaleenFounded 1983, California2 cars RENNtechFounded 1989, Stuart, Florida5 cars

Japan

MugenFounded 1973, Asaka, Saitama6 cars Spoon SportsFounded 1988, Ogikubo, Suginami, Tokyo3 cars NismoFounded 1984, Yokohama, Kanagawa4 cars

Figures are the tuner's or press-quoted numbers. Many tuned cars are one-offs or limited runs, so figures vary by source. We leave a figure blank rather than guess.