My good friend Nigel Petrie from Geelong, Victoria is keeping himself busy working on cars, which is no surprise. Putting aside his addiction for building S-Chassis Nigel knew it was time for a change. This is his latest creation, a Toyota Hilux built to slide. Hello fellow Speedhunters, it's with great anticipation that I show [...]
Did you guys watch the live coverage of the Formula Drift event at Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi? If you did, then you saw Fredric Aasbo and his Supra take first place in his first event as a Team NFS driver. Fredric defeated Chris Forsberg in the finale. Tanner Foust took third in his [...]
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Say hello to the latest beauty to join the Lamborghini lineup – Aventador LP700-4. The net has been buzzing over the debut of the latest Lambo, and this side profile shot was one of a couple leaked shots of the new car. We'll know and see more about this V12 monster next week when it [...]
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Back once again and our Falken Tires have arrived for testing! It feels pretty good to be at this stage as we know we're getting close to finally driving this beast. We are also at the stage of getting the aero fitted. Our Work Meister S1s' are gone for powder coating but we have kept [...]
The Huayra seems to be one of those cars that divides opinions. Beauty or beast? Goddess or Godzilla? The comments on the launch pictures here on Speedhunters seemed pretty evenly divided. However, although some things are definitely up for debate – justifying the astronomical price and the bling interior in particular – what can't be argued [...]
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It’s not every day you get thrown the keys to a one-off demonstration car, but that is precisely what happened to me on my last visit to Kazama Auto. I was just there to grab some shots of the wild Lexus IS350 that Kazama-san built for last year’s Tokyo Auto Salon, but little did I [...]
I headed over to the Dandy workshop yesterday to check out how Yoshi's Bonneville GT-R project was coming along. Since we saw the car earlier in the month it has now moved onto the second step of the build. With about a year to get this car completed it will be built with no rush [...]
I thought I would go ahead and post up some more pictures from my visit to the old school Japanese swap meet held last weekend here in the Los Angeles area. While the parking lot was small, it was packed with more than enough things to attract my camera lens. This RHD Crown popped up [...]
How many of you guys follow NASCAR? Not a whole lot I would imagine. It might not be the hippest thing to say, but I try to tune in whenever I can. If you happened to watch the 2011 Daytona 500 last Sunday, then you know that it was one hell of a race. In [...]
Every time you walk into a garage or a warehouse hunting for speed you can find something special you didn't expect. This was the case when I walked into Rising Sun Performance at the end of January. Amongst all the other cars I found this blue EG that had been built by Impact! in Japan [...]
This year Tsukuba has been quite the busy little track. We've so far been there for the Rauh Welt meeting, the Omega Oil soukoukai and now we are back at everyone's favorite Japanese track for the Battle Evome time attack session. The BE-Circuit guys usually hold six rounds from December to February, the coldest months [...]
While looking for some nice build threads for his month I came across this blog called projectDC5. The car belongs to Ronald Gosens who also happens to own Showoff Imports, one of the biggest tuning stores in Europe. I met Ronald almost ten years ago when we were both part of the same crew called [...]
As some of you may know, I was very involved in the original Need For Speed SHIFT and this year I had the amazing opportunity to increase my involvement for the release of SHIFT 2 UNLEASHED. I'm a frequent Sim player, and I truly believe that having a proper virtual driving experience translates to a [...]
