MW Design BMW M3: Darth Maul
By Jay Williams - 20/May/2009
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MW Design BMW M3 - Darth Maul
This is damn sexy! (The car that is) 
Quite a nice trunk
MW Design have taken the M3
and made it look very sinister 
The Darth Maul is lower than the standard BMW M3
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Vancouver,
Canada
– BMW's M3 is a highly desirable car that has the perfect mix of
sports performance and elegant luxury. Canadian car turner
company MW Deign from Vancouver have got their hands a BMW M3
Coupe (E92) and have stared a new project naming it after the baddest of
bad guys: Darth Maul (Star Wars).
Either the head
engineer of this project is a massive Star Wars fan or perhaps it is to
signify the overall sinister body styling of the tuned BMW M3 Coupe.
The colour scheme doesn't really evoke thoughts of the Darth Maul if you ask me. Where Darth Maul was famously red and black, the colour scheme
of the BMW M3 is mainly Jerez
Black but with little details of orange on the front bumper's air vents
and the caps on the wheels. But they do add a nice level of detail.
Looking the front of
this tuned BMW M3, the front bar reminds me of the olden VE GTS front,
with it's extended Amuse Ericsson front bumper that comes
with custom orange highlights.
The rear of the car gains a new Amuse Ericsson trunk that has a spoiler lip moulded into the trunk lid and a new
carbon fibre rear diffuser that also has custom orange
highlights.
Rounding out the body styling are carbon fibre
side mirrors and carbon fibre side vents with the same custom orange
highlight that are current throughout the car.
The BMW M3 "Darth Maul" sits on H&R sports springs and 20-inch Modulare M6
rims that have orange-accented centre caps and are wrapped in 245/30/20
front and 285/25/20 rubber at the rear, which is a stark comparison to
the factory standard 18-inch alloy wheels.
No details have been released about the interior
modifications, but our sources tell us that the "Darth Maul" comes in a Fox Red interior trim.
Project "Darth Maul" is still in stage one of it's
tuning phase so it is unclear what MW Design have in store for us in
terms of engine modifications.
We would like to see a huge super
charger or a bi-turbo application, but in reality a tuned ECU, exhaust
system, new airbox and possibly cylinder heads are more likely than a
forced induction rework. Rivals for this tuner car are many and varied. Hamann
who are based in Laupheim, Germany, offer four different body kits for the BMW
M3 Coupe (E92), three exhaust kits
and their own ECU tuning. Mind you Hamann has been one of the world's most famous tuners since 1986. But
overall MW Design's "Darth Maul" is a refreshing take on a German
classic, giving the car even more street cred and improved appeal to the young up-and-coming
enthusiasts.
At it's core, the
factory standard BMW M3 Coupe is a highly tuned car straight off the show room. It has excellent power all the
way
to the redline - the BMW M3 has a high-rev V8 engine with genuine
race-car character. Every component has been carefully optimised to
maximise output and engine speed according to BMW. The current car was launched in 2007 with a 4.0-litre V8 engine
replacing the old 3.2-litre straight six. Despite the 800cc gain the
new engine is 15kg lighter.
The front-mounted 4.0-litre V8 engine outputs 309kW of power @ 8300rpm and 400Nm of torque @
3900rpm and can accelerate from zero to 100km/h in just 4.7 seconds
when coupled to the all-new twin-clutch semi automatic sports
transmission.
While it
develops huge amounts of power and has a lofty 250km/h top speed, the
BMW M3 still manages to be relatively efficient,consuming an average of
11.9-litres of fuel per 100km. This is damn sexy stuff. And the car isn't bad either. The Company: The MW in MWDesign stands for MeisterWerke
which is German for MasterPiece. It's this level of detail and
workmanship you can expect from every vehicle they produce. Whether it is a set of precision forged multi-piece wheels made to
measure, integrated fluid aerodynamics or a completely built-from-scratch
project, MW Design can do it.
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