Supercars
Photography by Luis "Andy" Ramirez / Words by Josh Wilson for Canibeat.com
Some cars will grow over the years or will have multiple looks. Others will go together in the blink of an eye. Feast your eyes on a MKIII that was put together in just one week, that’s right ONE week. One day Hector Ramirez woke up and had the exact idea of what his MKIII had to be. He got on the horn with his friend and away they went creating a VW that keeps it simple but will also break necks rolling down the street.Apr 30, 2011
MFEST V “The Ultimatum” Las Vegas
Photography & Words by John Zhang for Canibeat.com
Wow, talk about non-stop coverage! Back with another one for you guys here. When the team first saw these photos, they kept asking me when I would post them so here you go. To be honest, I was going to take a quick break before this post, but I guess not. Just this past weekend I had a chance to attend MFEST once again and being that I was BMW guy, I couldn't pass it up. I spent a whole weekend in Vegas and ended up going to the MFEST V track event where there were vendors, models, and of course BMW M's all over. The event was pretty much similar to the year before, but with more powerful cars. Check it out!Apr 27, 2011
Platte Forme a.g. Grand Opening Meet
Photography & Words by John Zhang for Canibeat.com
Just barely 12 hours after my Formula Drift coverage, I was invited out to a grand opening meet hosted by Platte Forme a.g. in Alhambra southern California. Platte Forme a.g. is a new shop that features work on high end cars and other luxury cars such as BMWs. Driven by power and speed, they have a long track-oriented history. If you're ever in the area, or on the track, feel free to check out their cars.
Mar 28, 2011
LTBMW Re-Grand Opening Meet
Photography & Words by John Zhang for Canibeat.com
It's been a while since I've actually posted on here. Lately I've been super busy shooting events and cars like these. This weekend I attended a huge BMW meet.. by huge I mean you won't find any bigger BMW meet minus Bimmerfest and Mfest around the Pacific coast. If you talk to any newer generation BMW enthusiast, 99% of the time, he or she will know who LTBMW is. If you don't know, LTBMW is a BMW shop run by Long Tran in El Monte, southern California. A lot of the BMWs I shoot have gone to his shop to get work done on their cars and the end results are always amazing. This past month he moved to a larger facility a few shops down from his own location and had a surprisingly huge (over 150 cars) meet that I had the pleasure of covering.
The GTR has been nicknamed the “Godzilla” of the import world. The GTR you’re feasting your eyes on, owned by Claude, is on the path to becoming a truly amazing machine. He has already made this car look sleek but also kept close to the GTR’s bodylines that it was originally born with.
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Wekfest III – San Francisco, CA (2.20.11)
Photography by John Zhang, Cristian Loza, Anthony Lezada, Ignatius McCarthy, Noel Barnum exclusively for Canibeat.com
This past weekend we flew out to the west coast for Wekfest III which was held at Fort Mason Festival & Herbst Pavilions in downtown San Francisco. We got into town on Thursday night/Friday morning and had a fun filled weekend which consisted of shopping in Japan town, going on the Alcatraz island tour, hanging out with our California photographers, going to the Canibeat meet & greet, visiting Weksos Industries and N1 Concepts (coverage coming soon), eating at In & Out and just having a blast. The next thing we knew Sunday was here and it was time for the event! Thanks to our friends at Weksos we were fortunate enough to get into the venue a few hours before they opened the gates to 15,000+ people waiting patiently in line. Here is what we saw.... enjoy guys! Thanks for making us feel at home California.
Jan 22, 2011
Random Beat: 1 of 500
Photography by Jesper
GT2RS. Not much else to say. Limited production to 500 units, 620hp and about $250k.
Dec 29, 2010
[VIDEO] First Class Fitment via Klutch Online
Filmed by Russell Taylor Edited by Kennon Fleisher Music by Marcus 'Blackheart' Colbert Well you know what they say... good things come to those who wait! Russ from Klutchonline.com was nice enough not only to come out to our first event, First Class Fitment, and provide a bunch of T-shirts to give away that day, but he was also busy filming the entire day! I don't know about you guys but I already can't wait for the 2011 season to begin... Klutch - Canibeat 2010 from KlutchOnline.com on Vimeo.
Dec 27, 2010
Santa’s New Sleigh
Photography by Peter W
Peter has an awesome opportunity to be exposed to such exotic and rare supercars, and this tells it all. A new Ferrari 599 GTO outside in the driveway. Ahhh what a beautiful sight.
Dec 14, 2010
Benson’s Sleek Z
Photography by Matt Kwok / Words by JC Vallido for Canibeat.com
We've featured a few 350z's on our site that were nicely slammed, tucked, and flushed. But this time around, we decided to feature a 350z with more function than form. The Nissan 350z is one of the well acclaimed tuner cars that many enthusiasts would choose as a drifting weapon or even a straight line performer. Take Benson Lo's sleek Z for example, we all know that this car can drift, but add an extra punch with a Jim Wolf pop-charger system in it's naturally-aspirated V6 engine and it's hellooooooo boost heaven.