Race fans fire up your engines and prepare to floor it all the way home as Rockstar Games today announced two DLC expansions for Midnight Club: Los Angeles that are currently up and available for download on Xbox 360.

In addition to the free South Central map expansion also launching today, the South Central Premium upgrade (800MS Points) offers up brand new cars, more vinyls, tons of upgradeable parts, fresh beats, hydraulics, and more.

Rockstar lauds our patience as various technical issues you may remember held back the release for quite some time.

The free map expansion increases the size of the city by one third adding four neighborhoods‚  and the paid DLC ‚ adds a total of 9 new vehicles, 26 races, 12 new battle maps, 10 new delivery missions, over 100 new red light races await you in the Premium upgrade.‚  What are you waiting for?

Start your download via the Xbox Live web marketplace here

Midnight Club: Los Angeles is all about lookin’ fly in your pimped out ride with the windows down, music cranked, and ego inflated and protruding through every pore of skin on your body.

So in order to celebrate the launch of MCLA’s first cross platform DLC release, Rockstar Games announced today a live Game with Fame event featuring the most influential DJ on the West Coast, Felli Fel, and a slew of others special celebrity and musically inclined guests.

The event will mark the beginning of the 2009 DUB Show Tour, a nationwide car show and concert series hitting 12 major cities in the US throughout the spring and summer.‚  The affair is being physically held in Los Angeles, but as is customary with Game with Fame events, you can partake in the festivities from the comfy, folds of your living room couch.

The Game with Fame event will take place exclusively on Xbox Live this Sunday from 1-5 PM PST, so add the following gamertags to your friends list and see what happens!

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The Midnight Club: Los Angeles South Central DLC is currently available on the PlayStation Network, however due to an “unforeseen bug” in the title update, has not found its way to the Xbox Live Marketplace.

Rockstar dropped us lines this morning letting us know that they are hard at work resolving the issue and getting the DLC up and running for Xbox 360 owners.

Hit up the Midnight Club website for more information on the DLC.

Hey all you wicked street racers.

Blast is giving away a Midnight Club: Los Angeles prize pack that includes a Rockstar Games/Midnight Club license plate frame, a bunch of video game stickers and a “Speed Limit 245″ sticker to any reader who writes the most decent review of any other video game!

Reviews should be of a game that has been released in the past 60 days and be 400-800 words in length.

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Thanks for reading!