Author: TheSpeedhunters
2024 Intro A decade ago, the stance movement was in full swing, buzzing with each enthusiasm and criticism. Even though it wasn’t a brand new phenomenon on the time, it continued to evolve. Fast forward 10 years, and it’s clear that the stance scene has not only endured, but will likely have its place in modified automobile culture for the foreseeable future. As a pioneer of the subculture, Japan has all the time done stance well. In a few months time, StanceNation will return to Tokyo (October 13-14 in Odaiba) and convey out a few of the country’s finest low cars. With that in mind, for this week’s throwback post…
2024 Intro The 2024 SEMA Show is now lower than three months away. As all the time, we’re looking forward to seeing what recent builds will turn up on the Las Vegas Convention Center. At SEMA 2013, a Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG immediately piqued our interest – and for good reason. The supercharged and wide-bodied Speedconcepts SLS wasn’t only a showfloor looker – it had loads of performance to back it up, having been built to compete in One Lap of America. For this week’s throwback post, let’s revisit Mike Garrett and Larry Chen’s feature from 2014… 2014 Feature I spend a…
One in every of Need for Speed’s most iconic facets is the ‘hero’ cars related to each title. From A$AP Rocky’s 190 E Mercedes in the newest NFS Unbound to the unmistakable E46 BMW M3 GT-R that graced the quilt of NFS Most Wanted back in 2005, hero cars aren’t all the time the rarest or costliest models in Need for Speed. But they do develop into an integral a part of the gameplay, either as a boss to defeat or a automobile to unlock as you progress. This hasn’t all the time been the case with Need for Speed. Within…
2024 Intro Every Japanese hero automobile has hero modified versions – builds that every one others are measured against. Keiichi Tsuchiya’s TEC-ART’S-built AE86 Trueno springs to mind, as does the Mine’s BNR34 Nissan Skyline GT-R. But these hero cars don’t need to be high-end creations; sometimes essentially the most memorable builds have more humble origins. Living proof, the Bad Quality 180SX – a drift-spec RPS13 that Mike Garrett took a better have a look at back in 2014 when it was all over the place. The Sunoco-liveried Nissan was so good then, and looking out back at it now 10 years…
2024 Intro Bisi Ezerioha and his company Southern California-based company Bisimoto Engineering, need no introduction. For years, Bisi has been cooking up cars which might be each fast and interesting, and back in 2014, Larry and Mike featured certainly one of his most iconic creations – a Honda Odyssey packing four-figure horsepower output. What’s this minivan on steroids all about? Let’s test it out in one other throwback post from the Speedhunters archive… 2014 Feature Bisi Ezerioha knows the right way to construct a quick and completely functional automobile, and the right way to do it with show car-like attention to detail and aesthetics. In…
Introduction For the reason that launch of Unbound Vol. 6: Head to Head, we’ve been riding the Audi hype train to have fun the automaker’s return inside Need for Speed’s digital world. We have now uncovered the in-game updates and even looked back on our top five tuned Audis featured on Speedhunters through the years. But for this week’s theme, we’re taking you all back to highschool… quattro school. You’ll discover a quattro variant of virtually every production Audi in 2024. Yet its origins date back to the Seventies, with engineers Jörg Bensinger and Walter Treser widely credited for pioneering (and being the driving force behind)…
2024 Introduction Last week, we revisited Dino’s 2014 story on the show side of RC drifting in Japan. That feature was a follow-up to our most-read post of 2013, which also took a take a look at the unique events happening at Hobby Garage in Saitama. Today, as a throwback finale for those stories, we’re getting right down to ground level to examine out the crazy custom details that RC drift fanatics in Japan were putting into their scale creations a decade ago. 2014 Feature When faced with the dilemma of which two cars to select of a 40-long collection of meticulously-executed custom…
2024 Intro It’s at all times interesting to see feature cars resurface years after they were posted on Speedhunters, especially once they’ve evolved in a roundabout way. Frank Profera’s Lotus Elise was featured twice – first in 2012, after Larry randomly happened across it (it went on to turn out to be Speedhunters’ ‘Street Automotive of the Yr’ that 12 months) – and on the other hand in 2014, after it received its major ‘Ronin RS211′ re-imagination. In that guise, automotive media interest within the construct really ramped up and the custom turbocharged speedster made appearances all over the place, including a…
2024 Intro Since Speedhunters’ inception in 2008, we’ve featured events from all around the world. A decade and a half later, lots of these are still happening. Others have simply faded away. BLOX Evolution is one among the latter, but that’s to not say the event was a failure. For the few years that it ran, it brought together one of the best of the San Francisco Bay Area’s tuner culture in a big way. So let’s wind back the clock and join Speedhunters OG Mike Garrett in 2014, to see what that 12 months’s BLOX Evolution event was all about… 2014…
2024 Intro With spring now on the horizon within the Northern Hemisphere, we’re looking forward to a different big yr of Speedhunting, which suggests loads of fresh automobile features in between event coverage, shop tours, project automobile updates and more. In the subsequent few days, Dino will likely be bringing us his story on one of the vital talked about cars at this yr’s Tokyo Auto Salon – Liberty Walk’s extra-wide Countach. That got us occupied with one other Lamborghini feature automobile… Well, type of. You’re Oemmedì Meccanica’s Fiat 500, which not only looks nuts due to custom bodywork that makes…
