Hard Mod builds — choose a make

Hard tuning is where the car stops pretending to be a production model. Wide arches are cut and rebuilt rather than glued, the track grows by sixty to a hundred millimetres, and the wheels fill the new space completely. A splitter, side skirts and a diffuser work as one continuous shape. Paint is usually a single saturated colour or a two-tone break along the shoulder line, and the livery is minimal because the bodywork itself is the statement. The interesting part is where the designer chooses to keep the original identity: the headlights, the grille aperture, the shoulder crease. A convincing widebody still reads as the same car from thirty metres away.