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This week we bring you Ashton William's Nisan Silvia S13 shot by our very own Matt Best. Read More
Hope you northerners are surviving in this cold weather! This Wednesday we warm you up with Jarald Yutadco's bagged Honda RSX, shot by Jordan Adkins. Read More
The Tokyo Auto Salon exhibition takes place every year around the similar time and usually around January. The event has been held for the past 27 years in Tokyo. It takes up approximately more than 8 halls of the Makuhari Messe. The show opens on Friday, and entry to the exhibition is permitted after 1pm till about 6pm. On Saturday, the show remains open for the public from 9am to 6pm, and on Sunday from 9am to 5pm. Tokyo Auto Salon Association (TASA) is the main organizer and promoter for the Tokyo Auto Salon event and they always do a very good job to make sure things go smooth and according to plan. Read More
Every year, the show season for automotive culture takes place from early spring and well into the summer, with eager enthusiasts and professionals alike prepared to showcase their time, money and effort. As the leaves changes colors and the season come to an end, there is one show that truly marks the closure of another year: the Specialty Equipment Market Association Show, also simply known as the SEMA Show. Read More
The largest motor show in Sweden is called Bilsport Performance and Custom Motor Show and it is visited by at least 70 000 people every year. For 4 days you can find cars from all types of styles, ranging from Lowriders to extreme trucks, racing cars, stanced cars and even bikes. This exhibition is the start of car year for us in Sweden and in addition to the car show, there is a lot of illegal racing, meetups and burnout contests in town, an experience in itself! Read More
While I was over in Australia, I drove down to Melbourne for a couple days, and the owner of this beautiful Platinum Pearl White S2000, Vyet Le, was kind enough to show me around. He has owned the car for around 3 years now, and originally, it was supposed to be a clean, streetable car with the ability to hit up the track every now and then. After an accident though, everything changed. The insurance company wanted to just get rid of it, but Vyet felt a real connection to this car, and decided it wasn't time to let it go. He bought it back, and repaired it. Read More
I am rarely a fan of wide bodied cars as normally they seem to not fit the lines of the original styling. They also make me think of the “Fast and the Furious” days where people were throwing wide body kits on everything with wheels but Derek Covington’s Widebody S2000 is definitely one of those rare cars that come along and make me rethink my stand on them. Read More
Ryan Deguzman’s 1993 Mazda FD RX7 is one of those cars that I never get tired of looking at. Every time I see it at a show or in his garage I always notice something new that makes me think “wow!” It demands respect of everyone in our community not simply because his mod list is a mile long (you’ll see), but because of the quality of his build and how everything fits together properly. 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.
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