JDM Cars

This week we bring you two exotic from our friend and photographer Julian Morales. Julian is the shop photographer for a SP Engineering, well known performance shop based out of Southern California which caters to high-end exotic cars. This shot is of shop owner, Alex Shen's R34 GT-R and SP Engineerings brand new project McLaren MP4-12c! Read More »

I arrived back from a 3 month long vacation in South America last weekend, and after being away for so long I was eager to do a feature. Luckily, my good friend and amazing photographer Beth Saravo was in town and we decided to do some work. Read More »

There are few experiences as amazing as stepping into a new car. Every sense is stimulated by the freshest in ICE technologies, the sounds of the newest engines, and that oh-so-distinctive, irreplicable new car smell. The cars that are being made today are faster, better-appointed, and more efficient than ever. And yet, the vintage scene is larger than it's ever been before. Classic muscle car enthusiasts are currently spending tens of thousands of dollars creating Pro-Touring cars out of 35 year old Detroit iron, import fans are hunting down seemingly forgotten Japanese performance models, and wheel companies are re-releasing wheels that five years ago would have been easily found in a junkyard. Every time the scene delivers an unworldly 1000 HP GTR or LF-A, a mint condition Hakosuka or 2000GT rises up from the annals of history to remind us that newer doesn't exactly mean better. Read More »

"The automotive scene makes homes to many differently styles of tuning culture. Be it race cars, VIP cars, drift cars or off the wall exotics. But one thing that bring all these styles together is their shared love for cars. Now days people spend too much time talking about why they're cool and why you're not. The Tokyo Auto Salon brings every style together under one roof and shares it with the world. Surely we can all appreciate each others cars more than once a year, can't we?"

Some of us like to be different and stick out from the crowd and not be the following type. People choose differently by the type of mods they do such as using out of the ordinary colors or rare exterior parts on their vehicle. Jose Lopez started out his build very different by choosing a chassis you don't see too many people modifying, a Nissan Cube. Read More »

So how on earth did you end up with this??? Kevin Lu is undoubtedly tired of answering this question. You see, every car has a story. Some cars find their owners in traditional ways; a search on Autotrader or an ad on Craigslist, followed a tedious haggle with a suspiciously friendly salesman or an all-to-eager-to-sell previous owner. One call to the bank, another to the insurance company, and the first chapter is over. This tale repeats itself everyday, all around the world. Except for Kevin Lu. After all, one doesn't simply stumble upon a JDM performance car rotting away in a derelict used car lot. Finding a car like his Nissan Silvia takes time, money, and a of touch legal...."finesse". Being insane helps too. Read More »

When you go to meets, flip through your favorite publication, or click to your favorite car site, you come across cars of all makes and models trying to grab attention by pairing their cars with wild colors whether it be their wheels or other exterior mods. Occasionally though, you find a car that seems to reach out and grab your eyes but won’t have a single “loud” color draped on it. Instead they went for a clean and sleek look and the end product becomes a car that has had attention paid to it because of the work that has gone through out the car not because it has neon green wheels shoved under it. Enter Chazz Hobster and his Honda S2000 that has been built to be sleek, sexy and just the way he wants it. Read More »

Form and function is what every car enthusisates wants to see built in a car. Many people find their inspirations from race car drivers for performance gains and the vip scene for that luxury finesse. But what if your inspirations came from a Formula D driver, like Walker Wilkerson, and the car isn't even meant for drifting? Well here's one Mazdaspeed 3 owner that did just that. Read More »

In keeping up with our newfound tradition of Wallpaper Wednesdays we bring you a series of high-res wallpapers of two of the hottest VIP rides in the states, our friends Ty and Will's GS & SC from Liberty VIP. These photos were taken by RIDES Magazine photographer Andrew Link for their 2011 SEMA edition so in case you missed that issue we wanted to provide you with some fresh wallpapers.  If you want to see more of Andrew's work be sure to checkout his Flickr and follow him on Facebook! Read More »

A baby blue colored Nissan GT-R isn't something you see everyday and it isn't something you'd see on a beast of a car. Don't let the color fool you though as this car is tracked and before you say something about the wing, it's not just about looks, it's functional. Read More »