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Lately in the scene, guys have been pushing more and more to build something that's just clean. They have been achieving this by way of color matching everything they can, low spoilers if one at all, and lips kits that fit the body lines of their selected chassis’. Steven Garcia’s fitted Scion TC shows us how one man’s goal to build a clean ride has been achieved. Read More »

Last weekend was the Big Socal Euro Gathering 2011 that was being held in San Diego at the Qualcomm Stadium. It was a 2.5 hour trip for me, but being in a caravan made the trip a little more enjoyable. If I was to sum up the event, the main photo above sums it up pretty well. All Euro makes were in attendance. From timeless classics to modern JDM, a wide variety of cars showed up. Read More »

My name is Matthew Jones and I am a 22-year-old photographer out of Atlanta. The recent Nashville show was my first Import Alliance and I am sure it couldn’t have gone any better. My entire purpose of going to IA was to find some cars to shoot outside of the meet to get some solid portfolio shots, but to also enjoy my vacation. Unfortunately, about 2 hours outside of Atlanta I realized that my business cards had been left behind, which was going to make networking tough, but I knew I'd have to do my best. After walking around the Nashville super speedway in the blazing heat for a few hours, watching missed opportunities fly by my face, we decided it was time to cool off at the hotel for a bit. After working so hard for this radical tank top tan I just acquired we were looking forward to grabbing a few beers! With a speedy check-in we were quickly up exploring the fantastic Embassy Suites room. Our view of the parking lot could not have been a better surprise. As we opened the massive curtains we were hit in the face by a sexy row of fitted vehicles at the edge of the parking lot. Two S2000's, an IS 300, WRX, SI, RX-7, and so on. Boy was I in for a treat! Read More »

Normally when the words “girl’s car” are muttered in the car scene you either hear a roar of laughter or see a crowd of cringes. Angela is here to prove that girls can keep up with all the boys with her slammed & daily driven Honda S2000 sitting on a clean set of BBS RS wheels. Read More »

This right here ladies and gentlemen, is a supercharged fire orange BMW M3. I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to shoot and ride in it a couple months ago. Since this car is always at the track or at a show it was pretty hard to track down to shoot. However one day I was at the right place at the right time. Read More »

The internet has completely reinvented the way we as auto enthusiasts approach modified cars. Whereas there were previously maybe a dozen or so national magazines that showcased maybe 8-10 cars a month, it's entirely possible to be exposed to that many full features in a single day now.  And that's not even including the builds that one can follow on the forums, or the random shots dumped on Tumblr, Flickr, and Facebook. Cars rise to popularity in a matter of hours, and often are forgotten with the click of a mouse. Trends that once may have lasted years phase out in a matter of months.  Everything is moving faster; changing and evolving right before our eyes. Cars are bought, wheels are mounted, photos are taken, car is sold: whatever it takes for 15 minutes of e-fame. Full builds are almost a relic of the past; a dusty old practice from a time when exposure was a rare commodity, and only the best of the best got big attention. After all, if all it takes to get a feature is a drop and a rare set of wheels, why spend tens of thousands of dollars customizing your car? Mark Naylor can tell you why. Read More »

Classic Greek mythology tells of the first woman on Earth, Pandora, and her infamous box. The story goes that Pandora opened this box and unknowingly released all the evil into the world, leaving only Hope inside. Now I'm not trying to infer that Luky Chadwick's VIP styled xB is that box, or that it's evil at all; but during this shoot, it seemed that the world had it out for photographer Andy Parra and his attempt to capture this bagged Scion. Read More »

Continuing on with our features from China, here's another car rocking neon colored wheels brought to you by our good friends over at VWFashion. This time it's a Jetta again showing us how China is stepping it's game up in the scene. It's amazing how quickly China has caught up in the car scene in such a short amount of time. Read More »

There's the people you meet once and you'll never forget, and there's the people you might see every day and never know.  The same can be said about cars.   I like to think that every car has a presence, a personality so to speak, however lack luster or intriguing they might be, it exists.  Out of the hundreds of thousands of cars out there only a few have that intangible character, that demeanor, THAT form that leaves a lasting impression in our memory. Read More »

You've got to feel for Civic owners at a big show like last weekend's Import Alliance. No matter how much blood, sweat, and tears have been poured into the car, there is inevitably going to be some other example that's gone bigger, badder, lower, wider, cleaner, faster, more JDM, more stanced, more you-fill-in-the-blank. The guy with the brand new GT-R, however, pulls right into a front row space with little more than a new set of wheels and a mild drop. Not that this comes as a surprise to anyone, or that it's a reason to cry foul: when one chooses the poster-child for the entire import scene, it's going to take some serious brainstorming to stand out (in a positive way) from the endless Honda sea. Shock value won't cut it. Different for the sake of different gets a wave and chuckle, but is quickly forgotten by even the keenest observer. In the little time that I spent talking with Adam Phan about his Civic, I realized that he understood that concept. His philosophy for the car wasn't to turn the scene upside-down, or launch some new trend; rather, he just set out to build a Civic that would make him happy and turn a few heads in the process. Read More »