No, you’re not seeing double – this is a pair of identically-prepared 2013 Switzer Performance Ultimate Street Edition GTRs getting ready to head home to their new owners. “We usually highlight the cars that really grab people’s attention, like the two brother’s cars or the Red Katana, that have custom wheels, interiors, paint-jobs,” explains Neil …
Switzer Performance first built its reputation on high-quality components and bulletproof reliability in its mega-horsepower, turbocharged Nissans and Porsches. In recent months, however, the Oberlin, Ohio-based crew at Switzer Performance has expanding its field of vision to include cars like the BMW 1M and M5, the 63-series AMG Mercedes, and, now, an Italian beauty: the …
With its twin-turbocharged power-plant, advanced engine management systems, highly computerized transmission, aggressive exhaust note, and 700 horsepower worth of pump-gas performance, the car you see here is everything you’d expect to see roll out of Tym Switzer’s Oberlin, Ohio-based supercar factory … with a few key differences. Unlike the Porsches and GTRs that put Switzer …
The Switzer crew is still recovering from the hundreds (thousands?) of hours it took to get ready, get to, get running at, get packed, and get back from last month’s TX2K13 event – but while we’re wading through the sea of photos, video clips from our friends at Revvolution, time slips, and data logs that …
Switzer Performance and Switzer Cars is proud to welcome San Diego’s HG Motorsports to our family of Switzer authorized dealers. One of California’s premier exotic car hot-spots, HG Motorsports has been setting the standard for high-end tuning in San Diego since 1969, when Heinz Gietz founded the Mercedes-Benz Service Center in the heart of La …
Nitromethane is pretty interesting stuff. When it’s mis-handled or inhaled, it can be extremely toxic – turning lips and skin blue as it displaces the oxygen in your veins. When it’s burned deep in the heart of an expertly blue-printed and balanced Switzer-built racing engine, however, nitromethane can be a wonderful thing. How wonderful? Try …
When the Switzer Performance-tuned “Red Katana” R1K-X GTR broke cover for the first time last summer, it was an immediate sensation. With its two-tone paint job, beautifully appointed and quilted-leather interior, subtle (but effective) body mods, and window-rattling audio system, it should come as no surprise that the Red Katana got plenty of attention … …
This was the scene in our Oberlin, Ohio parking lot two days ago when we started packing up many thousands of horsepower Switzer Porsches and GTRs to take down to TX2K13, which is probably happening as you read this … of course, if you’re subscribed to our newsletter then you already had the official event …
Does this R1K look familiar? It should. This satin-black beauty was the very first 1000 HP R1K GTR development car, which we featured here, last August … and it’s headed to the TX2K13. With more than 1000 Switzer-trained horses making their way to this R1K GTR’s sticky tires, this car will be one of the …
Long-time followers of this blog will no-doubt recognize the car shown here as one of Switzer’s R911-spec Porsche 997.1s. In full-tilt boogie mode with the VP race fuel pumping through its 6-cylinder, twin-turbocharged heart, the R911 is easily capable of putting almost 950 horsepower to the ground through all four wheels, blitzing the 1/4-mile somewhere …