Category: Industry

News about the aftermarket industry

01 Jan

This Scud’s for you.

If only it was that easy…but with a limited production run, not to mention the current economic situation - Scuds have been an extremely rare find. Luckily for me, I had the opportunity to checkout a good buddy’s new pickup during the holidays.  **Click on the images for High Res**    Keep in mind, I’m personally a Lamborghini [...]
22 Nov

Always bet on Black!

Wesley Snipes/Passenger 57 - he should have just payed his taxes…anyways, the new Mercedes Benz Black Series SL showed up today at Cars & Coffee in Irvine. Apparently I’m pretty jaded as Gerald showed up with his Veyron (which I’ve seen a bunch of times) and as everyone went after that, I walked over to [...]
19 Nov

LA Autoshow | Media Day

There’s something about the smell of new cars that always makes me feel good Especially after checking my iPhone and seeing the nice 427 point drop today…YIKES. Okay, back to better news. Let’s start with Nissan - releasing the all new Cube and 370Z. Hats off to an amazing release - great audio/video and [...]
16 Nov

HRE - some new options…

Along with the Dymag partnership (seen at SEMA, an optional DYMAG outer is available on certain models) HRE seems to really be driving forward with some cool new options. Jason Heffner (Heffner Performance) recently posted up these pics of a new project wheel he’s working on with a single centerlock option, utilizing an HRE wheel [...]
06 Nov

SEMA 08′- MTK’s Scuderia / Game Over.

From the day Knick started posting his 430 Scud I pretty much knew it was GAME OVER. The color, setup and well…the friggin car itself, pretty much destroys everything sans a supercar out there. Even better, he puts miles on it and actually drives the thing. Better yet, he MODS it. Some nice clean OE [...]
05 Nov

SEMA 08′ - Eric’s Widebody Gallardo

This years event was sincerely a disappointment, lots of empty spots, I’d estimate at least a 30% drop in vendor participation - the economy has definitely hit the aftermarket which was already susceptible IMO. The city itself seems to even have less traffic and with all the additional construction (more hotels, more condos) the next [...]
05 Nov

SEMA 08′ - GTR’s Galore

No big surprise here people - one of the most common project car buildups was the Nissan GTR. I had sincere fear of what I’d see (see previous post) but was pleasantly surprised most of the time, especially or those that were willing to pony up the rumored $10K for a set of limited BBS [...]
03 Nov

TechART | Mobil 1 Billboard

Saw this posted right off of Paradise Road (a block or so from the convention center) -  impressive to see one of my buddies cars (congrats Vince!) at that size. WOW.
28 Oct

Finally - a front page…

After over 2 years of strictly forum speak - I’ve decided to update the main page…stay tuned for more updates.