How a bunch of Teslas are futureproofing tuner cars

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Written by Stephen Dobie
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How will the world of car modifying adapt to electrification? Pretty well if Unplugged Performance is anything to go by. It"s run by Ben Schaffer, who"s also in charge Bulletproof Automotive, a company with thousand horsepower GT-Rs and Max Power cover cars in its history. A history which covers almost every surface in the shared HQ between Unplugged and Bulletproof. Bookshelves are lined with tuning guides to every Japanese performance car you can name, while Schaffer"s office includes sketches of NSX racing cars, WRC Impreza mobile phone charms and a water bottle from the set of the original The Fast and the Furious, on which he was an extra. Tuning Teslas came about by happy accident, when Schaffer moved Bulletproof"s HQ to the same industry park as Elon Musk"s Californian HQ in Hawthorne, Los Angeles. He got chatting with his new neighbours and before he knew it, Unplugged was born.

Date written: 5 Nov 2018

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