Readers Rides

Local Toronto rotary driver Mike has had his RX-8 for a little while now and recently decided to raise the RX-8 bar in Toronto by installing a brand new set of 19x8.5 (+38) and 19x10(+36) Work VS-XX rims wrapped in 235/35/19 & 265/30/19 Yokohama S-drive tires. To keep his car from looking like a 4x4 on his ballin new set of wheels he brought the height down with a set of Tien Flex coilovers.

Taking it back to Cali again, this time courtesy of Adam who is the owner of two clean, low rides. The first one is a Euro while the second is classic California Sunday cruiser. New school or old school Adams got you covered.

I've made it a point over the last few weeks to interact with those of you on the facebook 'like' page more and while doing so I noticed that the fan photos gallery had some super clean looking readers rides. For those not on facebook or part of the 'like' page page here is some of what you are missing out on.

When I posted this clean as hell Ae86 in my event coverage of Gumball 3000 here and on a few local message boards people couldn't get enough of it. Well in what seems to be an ever growing trend the owner stumbled upon the site and linked me to a picture of his car along with some more info.

Julian hit me up with some news from Cali, some good some and some bad. Unfortunately his super clean, low, wrx wagon was smacked up by another car, but don't worry, it's currently going under the knife and should be back looking great with some new additions in no time. Until then he sent me some pics of his friend Arsen's S2k that's killing the streets on custom painted Work Emotion CR-Kai's.

Today's mini feature is a Subaru which, like the last one featured here, is sure to push a few buttons among the more 'purist' minded automotive enthusiasts. This car was brought to my attention by the owner/operator of WeLoveThis.ca, Graeme Harvey, Graeme and the crew over at We Love This (who are good friends with the boys at Union) are all about celebrating anything and everything dope; and today's car just happens to fit the bill.

Not to take anything away from the builders doing great things here in North America, but the guys over in Europe consistently build Volkswagens of outstanding quality. Today’s featured Passat, out of London, England, is just another example of what the European crowd is capable of.

Accords have really be coming into their own lately among the stance crowd. A car which was historically seen as the older, more conservative brother of the Civic is finally starting to get the respect it deserves as a platform, that in the right hands, can hang with the best of them. Hailing from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Malik bought his Accord brand new in 2007 as a way to escape the lure of the street racing scene and has been transforming it into a head turner ever since.

When Mike Latter bought his 2001 Subaru Forrester he had no intentions of modifying it, however shortly after joining the Toronto Subaru Club he was bit with what we enthusiasts like to call the mod bug. After plenty of online research hours, wrench turning and visa bills later, Mike's car is on it’s third revision and currently awaiting its fourth.

When I started this blog aside from the somewhat far fetched goal of going to SEMA I didn't really have any goals set goals, I figured I would post and let things unfold as they will. Never in my wildest dreams had I imagined that one day stickers with my url would be next to a Fatlace sticker on an army vehicle, on an army base, without someone going to jail. Although never a goal seeing this makes me feel very, very accomplished.

Del Sols have always stuck out as interesting little cars, they tease with the look of a mid engine sports coupe while their underpinnings are actually hinged on the ever popular Civic chassis. As a successor to the much loved and ever popular Honda CRX Del Sols never seemed to catch on quite the same, however for every 10 people who look over the Del Sol there is one individual who is willing to put some time and money into this light and nimble chassis, Erich Hachey is one of those individuals.

Adrian and Will are two friends (and S.I.E. fans) from Tucson, AZ, Adrian whips a slammed Accord while Will pushes the dropped bug on phone dials I posted in one of the first readers rides. The two of them got together to do a photo shoot sent the snaps my way via twitter. When I asked who's lower it seemed the topic was up for debate between the two but a little friendly rivalry never hurt anyone.