As human beings, we’re constantly learning, questioning and gaining new knowledge of the things that we’re passionate about. For me, and no doubt you as well if you’re reading these words, that means every day I’m excited to learn more about car culture. Just over a week ago, Paddy and myself flew to Sweden’s capital, [...]
Do you remember the first car magazine you ever bought? Mine was a copy of Mini World in 1996 and I remember it vividly. On the cover there was a really cool yellow racecar that was completely stripped-out and barely road legal. In fact, I’m not sure if it was road legal at all. It was [...]
In the Volkswagen scene there are a handful of automotive painters that consistently knock it out of the park. Say their name and you know that the car’s bodywork is going to be nothing short of flawless. Greg Howell is one of these ‘go-to’ guys. A bit like this Mk1 that he has lovingly put [...]
If I could use some words to describe this car, they would probably be ‘high impact’, and ‘maybe not for everyone’. Personally, I absolutely love the look of this amazing machine, but then I could be accused of being very slightly biased. Why? Well, I kind of feel like I’m this B5 Audi RS4’s godparent. [...]
There are plenty of different ways I could do this, but as some of my fellow new Speedhunters have opened with a discussion about how amazing it is here, a point on which we all agree, I’ll move on. As part of my year end indulgences I’m going to discuss the breadth of car [...]
How do you choose a project? Some might argue that they choose you, I know it’s true of mine. They’ve all been bought when I wasn’t looking, right time, right place kind of thing. The ones that have stayed in the garage longest are also the ones you wouldn’t have expected to have staying power. [...]
Thus far we've shown you AP's carbon-bodied turbo Lotus along with his 650hp Golf sleeper. Judging by those two rather extreme street cars, it's not surprising that his family runaround has an equally twisted personality. Gone is its 1.4 litre motor and front-wheel drive transmission; in its place is a turbo six-cylinder and AWD. AP's Golf wagon started [...]
What’s better than having one Golf MKI GTI? Two of course. Tim Verbeek, who owns the white Golf we saw earlier, also has this black example in his garage. While the white Golf was more of a restoration project, this is meant to be a cool fun toy for the weekend. The exterior features deep black paint with some [...]
The European car scene has been evolving quickly in Australia. In particular, VW enthusiasts have been coming out of the woodwork thanks to new forum communities such as VWGolf.net.au. One regular on that forum goes by the alias 10D, and this is his gorgeous black-on-black Scirocco R. There are a variety of different modifying styles [...]
I recently asked some of my friends what they thought was the most iconic car in history, and perhaps unsurprisingly, many of them answered with the Volkswagen Golf MKI GTI. Maybe I asked the wrong people, because all of them are VW minded and drive similar cars like this one! But the Golf MKI GTI is [...]
Yawn. Not another Golf right? Indeed, looking at the car above I’d understand if you felt it lacked the shock value to be on Speedhunters. So I’ll let the facts do the talking. 650HP. 3.6 litre conversion. All-wheel drive. 0-100 in 3.4 seconds. An 11.3 quarter mile. Do I have your attention now? If you saw this [...]
Like I mentioned in my first Wörthersee Tour story I arrived real early on the Monday before the event. I already knew that a friend had arrived on Saturday so when I got their I texted him saying I arrived. But because my hotel room wasn’t finished I told him to meet me at the Shell [...]
I’m still a pretty big newbie when it comes to the VW scene, and while my knowledge of these cars might not be great, I do know that TUK Customs knows how to put together a Vee Dub. TUK built the ridiculously slammed Mk5 we featured last year, and the guys from Northampton are also [...]
Another car feature from Kevin Raekelboom’s archive, and another super clean bagged Euro machine. In this case we have a first generation Audi TT built by Maarten Swijns out of Beverlo, Belgium. Like a good majority of the cars that Kevve has brought us out of this region, Maarten’s TT has been tweaked in all [...]
We’ve seen all sorts slammed and stretched cars this month, and not without a doubt Volkswagens are one of the world’s most common platforms for this sort of styling. In some cases it can get a bit dull seeing Golf after Golf lowered on BBS wheels, but every once in a while you see a [...]
