Caractere is a Belgian company specialized in the design of car accessories for Volkswagen and Audi vehicles.

The line of products offered by Caractere for these brands ranges from body styling kits and wheel rims to sport exhausts, power add-on units and interior styling accessories.

Alain HURARD, the founder of the company and a designer by training, has been developing and marketing the products in the ‘Caractère’ range, with the help of his dynamic team, since (year) with the aim of blending performance, quality and design.

Today, Caractere is one of the world’s best known car customisation companies.

Our infrastructure, specific to our activity, provides us with the best working environment possible. Our extensive storage area covering the whole of the CARACTERE range enables us to process orders extremely quickly.

One of our specialities is customizing multi-piece special lightweight wheels. Beneath we´re able to offer valve controlled exhaust systems for a huge type of sport- and supersport cars, high end brakesystems, power increasements and lots of several carbon parts for individual solutions. Absolute precision for this high end quality, made in germany, can only be attained through handcrafted customizing. Our wheels are all FEM analyzed and weight minimized to obtain a maximum performance for cars like Ford GT, Maserati Grantourismo S, Mercedes SL 65AMG, Ferrari F430 Challenge, Lamborghini Gallardo, Audi R8 and others. Special highlights are our unique carbon wheels with forged centers, reducing the wheels weight to a minimum between 12-18 lb (20 inch wheel) and being a must have for supersportscars as Ferrari FXX, Maserati MC12, Koenigsegg CCX, Lamborghini Reventon or Mercedes SLR722 are. International celebrities from film-, sports- and music industrie are appreciating the perfect realization of their individual needs and appropriate exclusivity and loyalty. Since the year 2008 we´re also an official german importer of the noble british wheels manufactor Kahn Design. With their discreet design those wheels are perfect for cars like Aston Martin DBS, Bentley Continetal GTS, Maserati Gran Turismo and Rolls Royce Phantom.

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