Author: TheSpeedhunters
Earlier within the yr, we asked you which of them Need for Speed hero automotive has been your favourite during the last 30 years of NFS games. Naturally, there was a reasonably mixed response. And it quickly became apparent that the answers we received were heavily influenced by what era you grew up in and which title was released during that point. Racing games, especially those played in our younger years before owning a automotive, massively shaped our interest in specific automotive models and types and the style of tuning culture we align with. In the sooner Need for Speed…
2024 Intro A few weeks ago, we revisited a Mk3 Volkswagen Golf, featuring all-wheel-drive and a Precision 6266 turbocharged VR6 engine, pushing over 550whp. True to the spirit of Gatebil, this Golf was engineered for all-out performance. For this week’s throwback post, we’re revisiting a special style of Golf construct. In truth, on the earth of custom Golfs, we’ve never encountered anything quite like Pipey McGraw‘s Mk1 GTI – an slammed-to-the-ground creation with VW Beetle underpinnings and a pulsating Mazda rotary engine. 2014 Feature If there’s one sound I even have a really tuned ear for, it’s the heart beat of a Mazda rotary; there’s just nothing else quite…
2024 Intro Earlier this week, Mario shared the story of Rywire’s accomplished EV-powered Honda Civic project, which is currently making its public debut at SEMA 2024 in Las Vegas, on the CSF booth. In that post, Mario talked in regards to the sheer variety of Civics featured on Speedhunters since 2008 – over 200 in total – and highlighted the incredible diversity of those builds. Rywire’s twin-electric-engine, all-wheel-drive EK is an ideal example of the innovation we’ve seen. This got us fascinated by other platforms which have shaped our feature automobile content over time – just like the Nissan Skyline GT-R, the Toyota Corolla AE86,…
2024 Intro In lower than three weeks, we’ll be back in Las Vegas for the 2024 edition of the annual SEMA Show. While SEMA is an automotive aftermarket trade show at its heart, it’s also certainly one of the world’s biggest stages for custom and modified automotive debuts. From the bizarre to the truly stunning, we’re guaranteed to see all of it. Ten years ago in Vegas, Dino featured arguably the best brand-new sixth-gen Ford Mustang on the show – Vaughn Gittin Jr.‘s Spec 5 Mustang RTR. Let’s revisit that story for this week’s throwback post. 2014 Feature In the event you saw my post on the 2015 Spec 2 Mustang…
2024 Intro For last week’s throwback post, we took a have a look at a Mk2 VW Golf Cup automobile built by Euro Magic in Osaka, Japan. The Voomeran Golf showed just how well a number of select JDM styling cues can work on a European automobile base. While that Mk2 was a race automobile turned road automobile, the Mk1 we’re today is the alternative. And there’s quite a bit more to it than that, just as you’d expect from a Gatebil construct. Let’s wind the clock back 10 years to envision out Simon Jonsson’s drift-spec Golf. 2014 Feature When you feel the urge to…
Over the past 30 years, the Need for Speed franchise has reinvented itself with a big selection of titles, mixing recent genres, gameplay, and visuals to maintain the series feeling fresh. But rewind to 1994, and the primary Need for Speed was a reasonably typical point-to-point arcade racer. You had some real licensed cars – including the Lamborghini Diablo and Honda NSX – a collection of routes and the choice to race with (or without) opponents. By the point Underground was released in 2003, the racing environment followed an ‘open world’ theme with the addition of a correct profession mode…
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…
