Building trust and maintaining a good reputation is certainly important for success. When it comes to business or pleasure, a solid reputation can be your most significant asset and make a world of difference. Long before we met Chris Rawlins and his [ … ]
Today on the used car market, the Lexus IS300 is one of the most affordable RWD performance sedans money can buy, making it a hot seller among the tuner crowd. Plus you can easily throw a Supra twin turbo mill in it making it one dangerous 4-door. Builder and Soundstream audio dealer Marshall Woolfo [ … ]
Back in the day when the USA basketball program set their sights on gold, the first “Dream Team” was formed with an all-star line-up including the NBA’s greatest icons: Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Charles Barkley, Patrick Ewing, Clyde Drexler, David Robinson, John Stockton and Karl Ma [ … ]
The term ‘sport compact’ seems to conjure up images of custom Civics and Integras to many enthusiasts. But who says you need an H-badge on your ride to have fun? After all, building something different is what our scene is all about right? As an Instructor at the Installer Institute in sunny Holly H [ … ]
As our scene continues to grow, an increasing number of enthusiasts are considering turning their passion for car customizing into a career. To meet this demand, institutions all over the continent are being flooded with students who look to learn what it takes to turn automotive fantasy into realit [ … ]
There’s no denying that our annual European Tuning Issue is the most anticipated cover of the year, as this special issue continues to bring the heat over the past three years. From Canada’s hottest VW (2004), to Vancouver’s finest Bimmer (2005) and DTC’s sleek Audi A4 (2006), our editors have never [ … ]
There is a fine line between a dose that will produce results and one that ends in a disastrous overdose. With certain substances, the difference can be between life and death if you don’t follow directions or mix ‘n match them wrong. Maybe it will land you a hospital visit or some other fun symptom [ … ]
Ever noticed how a message can get totally lost in translation? Often it’s due to the lack of market research done in the socio-economic climate, translations and regional slang that can make a marketing mess of any product launch. Case in point, the Ford Pinto, this 3-door compact car was launched [ … ]
When Dan Quibell bought this full-size Denali in the summer of ‘04, and his original vision for it was not to transform it into the show-stopping, daily-driving, full-size lowrider you see today.
“It was my first new vehicle,” he recalls. “The first week I had it, I bought some 22s from Lexani and [ … ]
The Infiniti G has carved itself a nice little niche in the North American sport tuning niche ever since the third-gen V35s came online in 2003. In Japan, these are sold as Nissan Skyline 350GTs. Even though they’re not in the same lineage as the legendary GT-R models (R32, R33, R34), the G35s smo [ … ]
Having a design background, both in Architectural school and in the professional world, I definitely view custom cars different than the next guy. Probably because getting the latest (insert hot platform here) and then ticking off the checklist of JDM parts really doesn’t impress me. Custom body, [ … ]
There isn’t much you can tell me about kids that I haven’t heard already. Either from my parents or some miserable ex that whined and moaned about poppin’ out some rugrats. Sure I’d like to carry on the Pankew lineage and no doubt my kid would be extra badass, but certain lifestyles just don't all [ … ]
Let’s face reality. The economy is headed into the toilet. For how long, no one knows but the fact is that all of these financial giants going under, sub-prime loans and huge bail-outs can only spell one thing – disaster! A couple of my homies in the financial sector have said we are headed into a d [ … ]
Getting across the US – Mexico border may not be as easy as it used to be. Back in the day there were some lines in the sand or at best some crusty mesh fences separating Mexico from the “Land of Opportunity” and the rush was on. Today, it is far tougher with infrared cameras, attack dogs and choppe [ … ]
It seemed like only yesterday when Toyota first launched their highly successful and tuner-inspired Scion brand. Although many doubted these economic compacts would excite horsepower-hungry enthusiasts, they were quickly proven dead wrong. With the backing of Toyota and their well-known tuning arm T [ … ]
In today’s information age, everybody seems connected to the latest useful and useless news and trends on the net. Its weird when someone of a totally different era knows a lot about a youthful subject or hobby. I lost it when I found out Republican Presidential candidate John McCain’s wife, Cindy i [ … ]
The debates between FWD aficionados versus the world will never die. Sure some people jump camps but most Honda guys are front-drive for life. The AWD and RWD guys will mock the FWD but the FWD guys know with a proper suspension and an LSD, the nuances of FWD start to disappear. Phrases like torque- [ … ]