It just sounds weird with no accents.  Top Gear USA looks decent but still can’t beat the original.  If they’re gonna be able to break laws, disregard censorship, and just be all out insane like it’s European counterpart, it’ll be a cool show.  But then with all the US censorship, I don’t know how it’ll fair up.  This looks promising tho but as I said earlier, it sounds weird with no accent.  It’s so bland.

Ok so to be honest there’s a lot of car companies out there that’s been failing on their designs lately. One of which is Mazda. Seriously, what’s up with the happy face bumpers. I don’t get it and it looks unbelievably horrendous. The one thing they made right, the Furai concept, was never turned into an ultimate super car. I’d really love to see that car. Although I still love the under powered RX-8, I can’t help but ask for something better. There are the rumors of the RX-7 Resurrection but when will that happen? And with all these emission rules and regulations, how can they create new and powerful rotary engine?

Ok with that rant over here I present to you the future(?), I hope, of Mazda. The Mazda Shinari Concept Car. I really like it. The front fascia is frowning upon the current happy faced Mazda bumpers. It’s length and body is reminiscent of the Aston Martin Rapide. It’s a total classy looking car. All you need to do Mazda is give it a go signal and out it goes in production. Here’s hoping for a rotary engine…

And you know what that means.. It happens once every century and this is the first year it’s gonna be celebrated.  Happy 90210 day!  So if you’re alive during the 90′s you know wtf i’m talking about.  And to celebrate this momentous occasion, I present you this.. I just wish they didn’t look at each others’ eyes so much.

I’m sort of a minimalist.  It doesn’t really show but I seriously like my life as simple as it should be.  Came across this a while ago and by god, this is perfect for me.  Check it.

Atrium House by Fran Silvestre Arquitectos from ArchDaily on Vimeo.

The house was designed by Silvestre Arquitectos is located in Valencia, Spain. Check out his website at http://www.fransilvestrenavarro.com/ which is basically a flash sideshow of very minimalist architecture.  Good stuff.  Definitely emailing this guy and asking for a quote on a project and not do it since I don’t have money for it.  Excellent plan!

Quick Randoms.  Took it the other day.  Great concept since my car is filthy and so is the background haha

For some odd reason my friends has been posting my ass on their websites here’s a prime example with the homies at It’s JDM Yo! LOL check em’ out and grab a shirt.  They’re pretty dope.  Support the homies! Click the link and or the picture to take you to the website… you know you want to!

You know how to make the movie Inception better?  Build it in Legos!  Saw this while browsing around.  Thought this was really cool.  These was made by Alex Eylar.  Check him (her?) out he does amazing work in legos.  Crazy cool shit!  Check out the flickr page and see more of his handy work.

These pieces was build with this scene in mind.

Browsing around the old page I came across this.  Thought I should post it again.  Haven’t seen this car in a long as time so thought I should resurrect it somehow.  It is a bad ass car and so much time and money has been put to it.  Anyhoo Read on…

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What was your first car? Actually disregard that question. What car did you drive when you were 19 years old if not what car do you drive now? I ask that question because unlike us normal people, we can’t afford a M6 when we’re 19… well, Mr Wang can… And if you’re nice enough, he’ll buy you one too. No? ok nevermind.

About a week ago I had the chance to shoot Dennis Wang’s 3 series BMW showcar in the mountains of Santa Anita. Dennis is part of our wrecking crew car show team, Auto Concept Elite and is also one of our top cars. His car has recently been featured and covered both in Euro Tuner and PAS Magazine, same month last month. As you could have guessed he’s in baller status. Flashing two cell phones for his local and international ladies (jk) rocking Bathing Ape Clothing from head to toe, among other baller clothes that I don’t even know about coz I’m a poor lad.

Let’s bring focus back into his car and not his baller ways. Dennis’ 3 series show car is a 2006 328i twin charged super car rocking both a super charger and turbo. Basic idea is killing the lag with the supercharger and warping to high speed with the turbo charger on higher rpms. Tuned and created by Groma Performance of Duarte, CA, Groma has been known for it’s outrageous race car builds and near impossible fabrications. It shows in the engine build of Dennis’ car. The Wang mobile is also sporting a simple widebody and a red white and blue candy paint done up by master painter PJ Bonifacio. So much candy that ants live in it’s crevices.

The main purpose of this car is to be a bad ass show car and it has been fulfilling that goal. Winning top honors on the shows it attened, HIN, Spocom and Showoff shows to name a few, the Wang Mobile has been the pinnacle of BMW customization. With electronics that will put your local Best Buy to shame this car has mobile electonics made for your living room and not on a car. Rocking a Mac mini on the front passenger side of the car with it’s matching 24″ mac monitor that puts my personal Mac on a downward spiral because of the envy from this car the car also rocks a wide screen TV on the rear seats and a Nintendo Wii for added entertainment. Yeah, gadgets I want for my house is chillin on the back of a car. I feel sad now.

I shot the car for a feature for a Japanese magazine. Honestly tho, the shots came out well but I am not very satisfied with it. Wish we could have waited the sun to go down but as soon as it did we got attacked by swarms of flies and other bugs. We had to run for our lives as soon as possible but not until we got some rockin rolling shots. This car is amazingly clean and what an amazing build. Unfortunately the car was not made for the canyons coz we left him far behind while driving back down to civilization. Hehe. But still he has his M6 to kick my Evo’s ass… Lame.

I want this game bad… Even tho I don’t play much, I still want this.

Tommi Makinen driving an Evo VI.  I love this car.  I was so close on getting one but it didn’t work out.  Saw this at Jalopnik.com  Dope ass picture!

Ok ok Bar.  You twisted my arm.  I love this picture.  Simple, vintage, not even half naked, but really really ridiculously cute!

I know I know I said screw you Miranda Kerr for breaking my heart but how can you go wrong with this… I think Miranda Kerr Wednesdays are back!

For today at least hehe

I do have a model photo.  Since she’s been bugging me all day, here’s my new friend Raichelle (Seriously weird spelling) Viado’s pic from the Nisei.  She was on AIC’s booth and also one of the few models at the show.  As mentioned earlier, this ain’t HIN or some shit that has a whole bunch of them.  But then there’s a lot of random girls walking around aspiring to be the next best import model.  Kinda sad seeing them walking around hoping to get discovered.  I would rather sleep in on a Saturday to be honest with you lol.

Anyhoo Raichelle has been everywhere lately and she’s pretty dope too.  Hit her up and ask her if she needs a ride to the DMV via her twitter.  Hehe it’s an inside joke.. not really go ask her… seriously!  LOL.  Anyhoo check her out.

This is Raichelle saying hi…

This is Raichelle saying Bai Bai..

Do I have more pictures of her?  Ummm nope!  We’ll work together soon enough so stay tuned and I’ll post updates on those but for now, check out her facebook and her myspace.  Thank me later.

Only top honors for this group =) even tho we brought out hmm i think 8 or 9 cars including tony’s NSX i guess, we still took home a cool collection of trophies that includes mostly showoff trophies, best of shows and best of show EXC class and best team overall.  Not too shabby right?  I’ll try to remember who got who but I know we took all the EXC Class trophies.  What’s the EXC?  It’s a long ass explanation but I’ll shorten it out.  If your car wins best of show on the showoff shows or win at least 3 showoff trophies within a year, then you move up to EXC.  It’s the best of the best.  Most of our cars are on EXC sooo I guess that’s pretty cool? haha anyhoo here’s the lineup from Nisei 2010. read more »