2010 XDC REMIX Award Tour: Irwindale
On March 20th, XDC returned with up and coming car show series, REMIX to Irwindale’s House of Drift for round one of the Pro-Am series. The XDC is a feeder series to Formula DRIFT. So if you happen to hear about these events, you definitely check them out. These young drivers will be the future pro driver of Formula DRIFT.
2010 Formula DRIFT Tech Day Coverage
On March 27th, Formula DRIFT held their annual Tech and Preview Day at UTI in Rancho Cucamonga. This is the first time in 2010 that fans could see the new cars of the FD season and meet the teams and drivers.
WekFest 2010 Coverage
If you missed Wekfest 2010, you simply missed out. If there ever was a “you shoul’ve been there” moment, this was it. Hundreds of cars, thousands of people. The Fire Marshall ended up shutting it down. Yes, it was that big. So since 90% of west coast showed up to this event, we’ll won’t write up a well laid out story.
Supra Appreciation Day at SPE
SP Engineering was founded in 1996 by Alex Shen an avid Supra enthusiast. Much SPE’s growth can be directly attributed to their success with the JZA80 Supra chassis. As a tribute to the car that helped shape SPE, a Supra Appreciation meet was held at their facility in the City of Industry.
SoCalEvo 2010 Kickoff Meet
Photography by Jerry Troung
On January 24th SoCalEvo, a popular online community and Huntington Beach Mitsubishi joined forces to hold a massive meet to kickoff a fresh decade. Over 300 of the freshest EVO IIX, IX, and X’s in the Socal area rolled up to represent. One of the highlights of the meet was the JUN [...]
2009 Singapore SIN
Singapore, SUPER Import Nights, loosely based on the show we all know in the states was a unique experience from a unique country full of friendly people. Expecting it to be the same extravagant light filled spectacle filled with wild customized cars, I walked in to something reminiscent of a small scale SEMA type show. [...]
Formula DRIFT and JTuned Auto Gallery At Irwindale
On October 17, JTuned and Formula DRIFT converged at Irwindale Speedway otherwise known as “The House of Drift”to hold what was one of the largest Formula DRIFT events we’ve seen in years. There was definitely a refreshing amount of excitment in the air. Over 40 pro cars were attempting to qualify for the top 32 [...]
HIN LA 2009
We found some archived images from the first Hot Import Nights at Anaheim Stadium earlier this year. It was a promising event given that Digital Age purchased the brand from APG. Event attendance was way up and there was an excitement in the air that had been missing for some time. In any case it [...]
2009 Tokyo Auto Salon
Surprising JDM Gems at TAS 2009
Tuners in Japan still turn out hot new JTUNED rides in the face of a down economy.
For the first time since 1997 I contemplated not going to the annual mecca that is the Tokyo Auto Salon. Having been disappointed by last years event and just being jaded by the changing [...]
