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Switzer Trackday, 2013

Are you a Switzer Cars owner who wants to stretch your Ultimate Street Cars legs, flat-out? Are you a liter-bike rider who thinks all cars are slower than your crotch-rocket? Are you a Switzer fan who wants to see how your 370Z or SCCA/NASA track toy compares to a 1000 hp street car? This is …

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Switzer Ferrari 458 Performance Exhaust

Forza Switzer, Forza Ferrari 458 Exhaust

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 …

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Sibling Rivalry: Part 3

The cars pictured above, as you’ve already seen, were built as a “set” for a pair of Ohio brothers who share a passion for fast automobiles that must be in their DNA. In addition to being 1000 hp street-beasts, these Ultimate Street Edition Switzer Performance GTRs are also highly-detailed customs, with subtle paint and finish …

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Sibling Rivalry: Part 2

This first car we’ll be looking at is the one on the left. Over the last few weeks, the crew at Switzer Performance have started referring to this car as “the ‘Murica car”, for obvious reasons. In addition to the 1000 hp Switzer USE conversion and the obvious American flag graphic on the roof, the …

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Switzer P700 BMW M5

Switzer P700 BMW M5

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 …

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HG Motorsports + Switzer Cars

Switzer Welcomes HG Motorsports

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 …

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R1K vs. TX2K13

R1K GTR vs. TX2K13 (w/ video)

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 …

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Switzer Porsche R911

R911 Porsche vs. TX2K13

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 …

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