tuner car
n.— «At least in ten to twenty years I can still get money back out of the Porsche where the “tuner car” will have lost nearly all of it’s value.» —“Re: Modern American Muscle Cars VS Ferraris” by RexVen Usenet: rec.autos.driving Oct. 28, 1996. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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