As their name suggests, these fellas don’t really get too bothered about fitting ostrich skin on the upholstery or tinted windows.

In keeping with the stereotype we all have build up around the Germans, Manhart Racing stuck to the important serious bits of the tuning process.

Their take on the four wheel drive version of the V8 powered BMW 6 Series Gran Coupe gets engine upgrades, chassis tweaks and braking improvements first of all.

Some minor tweaks to the bumpers, the skirts and the exhaust tips tell us just how serious they are. They didn’t even change anything about the looks that wasn’t very low down on the car anyway.

Under the bonnet, its 4.4 liter twin-turbocharged V8 engine goes from 450 horsepower and 479 pound-feet of torque to a much beefier 543 / 538.

The change is achieved by punching up the boost levels and so the exhaust system itself needed a lot more work in order to keep everything top notch.

Now that acceleration and speed has been tweaked, it only felt natural for the tuner to give the braking system a serious upgrade.

This is why the used the F10 BMW M5 brake package, albeit with a few modifications and then fitted the M Division’s 20 inch wheels around them.

Finally, the chassis receives a bit of sharpening up with an adaptation package from MHR. All that acceleration and braking will bring about some more stress to the entire thing so it had to be dealt with somehow.

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The first of the promises has already been put in the car, it’s the manual gearbox option. The second one is a set of carbon-ceramic brakes.

Serious track day enthusiasts or techno-geeks would love to have them. Trouble is, BMW will not be offering them until sometime next year.

Even then it will be an option available to folks who actually buy the 2013 version of the F10 BMW M5 and there’s no word on retroactive fitting for previous owners.

Don’t worry though, the Germans at G-Power have yet another treat in store for us. After providing a 720 horsepower M3 and a custom interior for such a car, they’ve announced they also have something for the M5.

It’s a set of these carbon ceramic brakes and, more importantly, they’re available right now rather than the “near future”.

The kit it comes with has all the inner workings ready as the 420 mm disks are teamed to custom G-Power six piston fixed calipers and brake pads teamed to Stahlflex brake linings.

Technically the G-Power BMW M5 brake kit may be brilliant but you just know that there’s going to be a couple of folks buying them just for the orange calipers.

No matter how unaware of the conditions you are, you shouldn’t pay several thousand dollar price tags for a bit of paint.

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That’s the sort of idea that doesn’t really exist in the mind of tuners of the world as just about every single one of them has made a kit for the 1M Coupe.

Some of the special packages created with this very special car in mind don’t even belong to actual tuners. This one for example is the vision of H&R Springs.

As if the title of the company didn’t give it away, H&R is actually a suspension specialist that makes components for other tuners to use in their packages.

Maybe they just got tired of having things this way round and will, therefore, go in and make the whole package themselves.

Unlike a lot of tuners, or even manufacturers out there, H&R have only bit off what they can chew and didn’t mess about with the engine, interior or anything tricky like that.

H&R’s new BMW 1M Coupe stick along some fairly simple principles and start off with a lowering kit they make themselves.

The 1 Series M Coupe gets a 1.2 inch drop at the front and a 0.6 one at the rear. Then H&R have stuck to the recipe and provide it with new alloy wheels.

The new center lock wheels come with sticky Michelin tires but, more importantly, encompass 380 mm cross-drilled rotors.

Finally, BMW’s 1M gets a very important kind of livery, the ideal Bavarian paint shades alongside a small decall for H&R Springs.

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