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Arin Ahnell

CEO of AutoTuner USA, an ECU tuning tools company, with ~18 years in the automotive performance aftermarket.

Oct 7, 2026

11:47
So do you ever talk directly with OEMs, or are they just kind of like, "We appreciate what you do, but we, we're not gonna, like, help you at all"?
11:54
It really depends.
11:55
So, like, I mean, I certainly saw this at the, the last company I worked for where for years we had worked with Volkswagen on show cars and, and different projects, and the marketing people understood that.
12:06
They understood the value of tuning.
12:08
They understood that certain customers were buying those, uh, cars like a Golf R because they wanna modify it.
12:14
They wanna make it their own.
12:15
So certain people in those companies like it.

16 MINS LATER

27:49
What was the other reasons behind expanding it with an official US presence?

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