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We all have one of those friends who say they are going to do X, but never make their way past B before giving up and acting like they never had any plans in the...

On the way back from H2O the odometer on my 2004 Mazda 3 clicked past 216,000 which means that I have now traveled roughly sixteen thousand kilometers on my Air Lift Performance suspension set-up. Since my switch to the 'darkside' via the final production prototype of Air Lift's Mazda 3 kit I've been repeatedly asked a few of the same questions about my suspension.

It's no secret that people here in North America are becoming increasingly obsessed with the enthusiast culture in Japan. Print publications like Super Street periodically run features on shops and gatherings in the land of the rising sun, while on-line media houses like SpeedHunters have hired Japanese correspondents to provide an in depth, on-going look into their scene. On the flip side Japanese enthusiasts have begun to take great interest in what we are doing and one of the magazines providing those in Japan a close look at the North American Enthusiast culture is USDMFREAX.

In late July the Vossen World Tour passed through Toronto stopping at Ertefa, Importfest, Niagara Falls, and Taylor'd Customs taking pictures and video as they travelled. I've been a fan of Vossen's video work ever since this video released in 2012 so I popped in on their shoot to peak at the method behind the madness.

The Car Crazy Canada's Best Contest has wrapped up for another year and Meguiar's Canada is proud to announce Joey Dube of Baylon Ontario as the 2013 winner. Joey and his wife own the surprisingly stealthy bright yellow 1970 Ford Torino that managed to creep it's way into the number one spot under the noses of everyone who participated in the round table discussion.

Lost a good one yesterday on the way to Truck & Tuner Expo. There's some misinformation and rumours floating around regarding it's demise but the long and short of it is heavy rain, inexperience, and high horse power were involved. Such a shame because I quite liked the car and it was incredibly clean. The colour it was painted always made it an interesting challenge to shoot as well. There's a lot more purple in it than the photos below really illustrate.

With voting for the 2013 Car Crazy Canada's Best competition coming to a close this Sunday the Meguiar's crew and myself thought it would be interesting to have a bit of a round table discussion about who we think is going to Vegas for SEMA 2013. I've always liked the idea of round table articles and I'm very happy that each of these people took some time out of their busy day to sit down and write a few words.

All of the Meguiar's Car Crazy Canada's Best competitors have now been picked with the last group of ten coming from Salon Auto-Sport in lovely Québec City. After almost not making it to the show due to a freak blizzard that threatened to leave them grounded mother nature eased up  just enough to allow the Meguiar's team to fly into QC and enjoy what looks to have been an amazing show.

Things have been heating up since the last post about The Meguiar's Car Crazy Canada's Best contest and Meguiar's Canada recently posted the ten finalists from Winnipeg World Of Wheels. These ten finalists are now in the running to win a VIP trip for two to the 2013 SEMA Show, and the chance to appear on Car Crazy TV alongside Barry Meguiar.

For years air suspension has had a reputation for being a sub par alternative to coil overs when it comes to building a vehicle where form shouldn't hamper function. This is of course an archaic mindset because like all other suspension systems on the market today air ride has evolved immensely since it's inception making nearly every negative "well my friend had air and..." statement a moot point.

The internet is an interesting place, when it's on your side it can be an extremely helpful and useful resource. When it turns on you you've got to act fast before it swiftly ruins a reputation you worked so hard to build. When Jalopnik published their first article about a set of COR Wheels failing underneath a track driven Mustang things got out of hand faster than everyone involved probably could have anticipated;  Facts were lost or skewed, opinions were rampant, and criticisms were quickly dolled out by the under-informed.