Subaru WRXs were unique and... almost intoxicating/hypnotic when they hit the market in the US. They looked quirky, goofy, and lovable... but also mean, stout, & confident. We knew the Subaru...
Dan Ristau’s Blobeye WRX
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Daft Junk: Pipey McGraw’s Bugeye Sprite
People always ask 'what we’re looking for' in a feature car... Relatability. That’s it... that’s the big secret lol. Because to me, relatability has an energizing & encouraging affect....
Old School Civic // 2010 S3 Throwback
Man sometimes I look at old S3 features, and I cringe lol. Not this time.... In 2010, Import Alliance was at the height of it's momentum. In the moment, I don't think we realized how good it was......
Mid engine, gated 6-speed, V8 R8
I consider the R8 to be an exotic... and exotic-type cars normally don’t appeal to me much anymore. What makes a sports car exotic? The rad-era exotics of my youth, loved ‘em! But that was the...
Lifted Sprinter
Overland Sprinters - they’re like the Leatherman Multi-Tool of 4x4s. Meaning... they’re bulky, you really don’t need it, and honestly you’ll probably just leave it at home 90% of the time. [gallery...
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KW V3 coilovers for the Porsche 944 – (part 1 // front)
Admittedly when I bought this Porsche 944, I didn't do any serious research... I bought this Porsche 944 because an opportunity came my way & I went with it. It's an earlier 1984 model. Hell I...
S3 MAG: Issue 56 is out
S3 Magazine Issue 56 is out! Get this current issue PLUS a 2yr subscription PLUS a t-shirt for only 20-bucks when you subscribe at this link. [gallery type="rectangular"...
Edelbrock leaving California
Car companies are leaving the state that built car culture. Why?? Government can only drive a knife into the side of their own local businesses for so long, before those businesses leave the abusive...
GM goes all-electric by 2035 // S3 rolls eyes heavily
I’ve got a pretty good sniffer for bullsh!t, and boy I’m smellin’ a cow pasture... Listen - this whole GM announcement is the 2nd a waste-of-breath, green-nosing PR stunt we’ve seen from General...
No clutch pedal on a 944
We got the 944 running! And as spiritually uplifting as that feels lol, it just means that we now have to address every... other... problem... with this car. Starting with the Porsche 944 clutch...
VIDEOS
KW Suspension V3 Coilover Test | Civic Type-R
Last time, you saw us install the KW Suspension V3 Coilovers on our Civic Type-R. Today, we take our Type-R on Road Atlanta for a KW Suspension V3 coilover test and tune. Jason Owens, Co-owner of...
KW Suspensions V3 Coilovers | Civic Type-R
Although we loved having the Whiteline lowering springs on our Civic Type-R, we've decided to take it one step further and move up to a set of KW Suspensions V3 Coilovers in order to further dial-in...
Building a 400 HP BIG TURBO Focus ST in 6 Minutes!
Hunter has had his Focus ST for almost 4 years, and it has come a long way! So we thought we'd throw together a little time lapse of...
Party Bullies | #GRIDLIFE Midwest | 2019
#GRIDLIFE isn't complete without the Party Bullies challenging the locals throughout 'tent city' to a game of flip-cup.
2J Racing’s cowl induction intake on a Fiesta ST
This is just 2 quick video clips (below) of the 2J Racing cowl intake on the S3 Fiesta ST. The car has a Borg Warner EFR turbo, Motor Werks Racing custom manifold & downpipe, JST Performance...
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G35 Coupe so clean
I tend to dislike G35s... Infinity made too many of them... in unexciting colors. G35s have lost all their value, which relates to them becoming cheaply-modified. And most of the G35s I run across seems to be clapped-out, riced-out, not maintained... riding on...
Nissan Laurel : The best we never had
I was on the Autotrader & Cargurus websites the other night... and I was browsing around for something just like this Nissan Laurel. Well not exactly this. But a newer version of ‘something like this’. Something you could go to a dealership & finance. Problem...
Real A90 Supra Feels
Hey Garrett, how does the A90 Supra feel, once you start throwing mods it? People really bashed the A90 Toyota Supra heavy when they saw the collaboration with BMW. Obviously - I’ve owned my fair share of Japanese cars, and I tend to lean towards the Japanese cars due...
The perfect S2000
The S2000 was ‘the Honda of all Hondas’ in Matt Jensen's opinion. The S2000 drove like no other, so pure-to-concept, and it's so great in so many aspects. The funny thing is, Matt Jensen couldn’t even drive a stick when he first bought this car! Yet he took the plunge...
Turbo Diesel swapped Chevy C10
Justin Chappelle was at the bar with his buddy BS’ing around with the idea of swapping a turbo-diesel engine into a regular 80s/90s square-bodied truck... Typical car guy bar talk. Anything ‘Cummins’ was super lame (Justin’s words). And theoretically, while the Ford...
Can Jam Subaru Forester Drift Taxi
This is the drift taxi Subaru Forester that you may have seen around Can-Jam Motorsports. And there are a lot of rad reasons why rad people might end up with a rad car like this Subaru Forester Drift Taxi. But at the core, it always starts with 'exposure'. You're in...
Widebody Dinan BMW M2
Widebody BMW M2... When I first got into this car-building underworld, I did it for the kickass & badass cars. Pretty simple formula right? But what I didn’t understand at the time, is that behind every awesome car, there’s usually a more awesome person that built...
Running Boards on a Lowered OBS Bricknose F150
My latest midnight Marketplace score was this set of old OEM running boards off a later 92-96 OBS F150. Here they are, in all their glory... installed, but unpainted on my lowered bricknose F150. They came off a gray truck, which I thought might conveniently match the...
Social UNdistancing STI
Brandon Deuster on his 2018 Subaru WRX STi... I got into cars at the youngest possible age. Since before I could walk, I was obsessed with Hot Wheels and practically anything with an engine & tires. My dad and I would walk around the mall when I was a toddler, and...