MTM – Motoren Technik Mayer
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The MTM - Motoren Technik Mayer GmbH, headquartered in Wettstetten is a German car tuners and other small -scale manufacturers.
Business
Roland Mayer was involved in the 1980s as an engineer at Audi in the development of the five-cylinder turbo engine of the Group B race car sport quattro. In 1990 he founded his own company, which specializes in modified engine control units. Since the company's inception, MTM mainly focused on the Audi brand. Meanwhile, it also offers products for the remaining VW Volkswagen, Seat, Skoda, Lamborghini and Bentley.
MTM has a global dealer network of around 90 dealers in Europe, North and South America, Asia, Africa and Australia. The company is a member of the Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) and the Association of Automobile Tuners ( VDAT ). From a collaboration between MTM with the race car supplier Nitec Engineering the Gumpert sports car manufacturer came out in Altenburg.
Vehicles and products
In the fall of 1992, the company built a 315 kW five-cylinder turbo engine in an Audi S2. A special feature of " MTM Audi S2 RSR Clubsport " said vehicle was, for reasons of design-related top-heavy, the use of wider tires on the front axle, namely 10 - inch front and 8.5 -inch rear wheels. Since the vehicle was fitted as standard with all-wheel drive, had to be paid to the rolling circumference of the tire, so as not to overload the center differential, so that as a tire size 265/35/17 front and 235/40/17 rear passenger was. This unusual appearance caused a symmetrically opposite tired vehicles significantly improved driving dynamics. In a test of the magazine sport auto on the Hockenheimring MTM Audi S2 Clubsport 3 seconds per lap was faster than "normal" tires 235/40/17 all around with the unusual wheel combination.
The optical changes of the vehicles are mostly understated, as the company MTM, such as the Internal T suggests, looks more than Fahrzeugaufwerter in the technical sense. A special exception to this were the models of the Audi A8 type D2 and D3, which were highly polished in a complicated work.
Speed records
Notoriety reached MTM through its high-speed test drives. For its projects, the company uses the " Bimoto ", based on the Audi TT and is equipped with two engines. It is 1.8 -liter four-cylinder turbocharged engines from Volkswagen. These give a power output of 375 kW (510 hp), making a maximum output of 750 kW is achieved. The force is transmitted to both axles via two six-speed gearbox. 2003 Bimoto was given a test run of testers of auto motor und sport measured in Nardo with a top speed of 374 km / h and achieved the highest ever measured by the journal speed. In one initiated by the Auto Bild in 2007, test drive the Bimoto reached in Nardo top speed of 390.6 km / h In the same year 393.62 km / h were achieved during tests in Papenburg. The aim is to break through the 400 km / h. The Bimoto is sold in a small series of ten vehicles at a price of 600,000 euros.
In September 2009, while testing the auto motor und sport a modified MTM Audi RS6 Avant measured at a speed of 344.2 km / h. This keeps the vehicle until now officially the world record for the fastest station wagon.
Motorsport
MTM was also active in automobile racing and equipped with engines from different teams. An Audi A4 quattro with MTM engine won the 1999 24 - hour race at Zolder. Notoriety reached the MTM Audi 200 quattro turbo, which the " fan project Nürburgring" began on the Nürburgring 24 - hour race.