Fitted Competition: 2012-06-03

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If you loved the Fitted Showcase, you will definitely enjoy the Fitted Competition occuring this Sunday June 3rd (11am-6pm) at the CSCS season opener TMP (Cayuga, ON)!! This is a PAID event with an abundance of product giveaways, VIP paved parking for competitors, and a chance to win one of our custom-designed trophies within the Static or Air competition classes (1st, 2nd, 3rd place)! In addition, we’ll be raffling the …continue…

Event Coverage: Fitted Fes

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I don’t know what it is with this month or this year, but we’ve been incredibly blessed with the amount of coverage coming out of Japan! Up next is coverage courtesy of Takafumi Ebata. He contacted us to share some great photos from a local aggressive fitment meet called “Fitted Fes” held up in Nagashima, Japan. Judging from the photos, the meet looked successful and chill. Kinda makes me reminisce …continue…

2012 Tokyo Auto Salon: Part 8

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Welcome back! This will be our last installment of our coverage of the 2012 Tokyo Auto Salon. We enjoyed bringing you this exclusive collaboration coverage with illmotion and our guest photographer, Galen Wan. Our final feature zeros in on one of the areas people seem to overlook. An area of the show that locals ignore but visitors like us envy – the parking lot! That’s right, think about the locals, …continue…

2012 Detroit International Auto Show

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By now, you must have heard about all the amazing cars that debuted at the 2012 Detroit International Auto Show. We couldn’t pass the opportunity to see the cars so S&P staff took the 3 hour drive to the home of the big three. This will be yet another image-intensive post so we hope you have your high-speed internet game on lock! As expected, tons of people in attendance. The …continue…

2012 Tokyo Auto Salon: Part 7

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Fitment first. That’s what S&P is all about. We love cars, but more specifically – the fitted ones. It’s only natural that we spend some time on the beautiful and amazing wheels we saw first-hand at the 2012 Tokyo Auto Salon. Our guest photographer, Galen Wan captured these gems for our continued collaboration coverage with illmotion. This one’s dedicated to the wheel whores! Enjoy!   Hope you enjoyed this post …continue…

2012 Tokyo Auto Salon: Part 6

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We’re back! Besides the cars, Auto Salon is also known for the slew of parts and wheels either from the manufacturers or vendor booths. This is just a glimpse of what we witnessed at the show. Since we’re fitment-focused, we’ll be teasing you with some of the wheels. We’ll have a full-blown post really soon with the best wheel setups of the show. Trust me, you won’t want to miss …continue…

2012 Tokyo Auto Salon: Part 5

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Welcome back! The illmotion x S&P coverage of the 2012 Tokyo Auto Salon continues with the Rotary-powered RX-7 and RX-8. We’ve also got some coverage on our fave Fairlady Zs! We’ll be taking a break from the TAS coverage after this installment but will be back with more on Thursday. RE Amemiya continues their love affair with the FD3S ever since their original kit debuted over 15 years ago. RE …continue…

2012 Tokyo Auto Salon: Part 4

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Welcome to the 4th installment of our ongoing and massive coverage of the 2012 Tokyo Auto Salon. The coverage is brought to you by Galen Wan in collaboration with our friends at illmotion, the best in the west! Coverage of TAS wouldn’t be complete without covering one of the most iconic and influential automobiles – the Nissan GTR. Part 4 of our TAS coverage focuses on the R35 model. The …continue…

2012 Tokyo Auto Salon Part 3

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It’s no mystery that the biggest tuner car this year will undoubtedly be the Toyota FT-86. It will arrive stateside sometime this spring under the Scion FR-S and Subaru BR-Z nameplates. The aftermarket hype for this car is huge since the “86″ is billed as the first true successor to the cult classic Toyota AE86. As expected, we saw a large number of tuning options from manufacturers at this year’s …continue…

2012 Tokyo Auto Salon Part 2

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We hope you’ve been enjoying the coverage over the past few days. The fellas at illmotion have been killing it on their site so be sure to visit them for their perspective on TAS. Part 2 of our 2012 Tokyo Auto Salon installment focuses on our fave Hondas along with our friends at Fatlace, who held a joint booth with RWB this year. On to the pics! Nakai-San names all …continue…

2012 Tokyo Auto Salon Part 1

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It’s been 12 years since S&P staff have attended the Tokyo Auto Salon, which is way too long in our books. Luckily, we’ve got an insane amount of photos from this year’s event which we are happy to provide to our loyal readers, courtesy of Galen Wan as part of the Illmotion x S&P collabo project. We thought it would be fitting (no pun intended) to start on the VIP …continue…

Backstage 2011 Showreel

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If you haven’t noticed already, Winter is in full-swing. For us Canadians, it’s raised ride heights, winter rims, snow tires, and if you’re one of the lucky few – storage while you drive the beater in the snow and ice. Quite depressing, huh? However, we have THE winter-blues cure for you! Our good friend, Chris, at Backstage Productions, has given us the exclusive drop on their 2011 Showreel, which highlights …continue…