Fast Car August 2017

Let’s start this month with a little riddle. What is free, but priceless? And, you can spend it, but not keep it? I’ll leave that with you. As you’ve probably noticed, this month’s magazine is 32-pages thicker than usual. This is because of The Fast Car Festival show guide stitched into the back of the issue. If you fancy seeing some mental cars and having a cracking time, get yourself along to the show (if you’re not there already). This mag also boasts an audio section packed with tech and tips to make your driving experience more enjoyable. From simple iPhone apps to the latest integrated plug and play audio upgrades that will transform your sound system in a matter hours. Just think what you could achieve in six years…

Coming soon… With the show season now in full swing, there are amazing cars being built and launched every week. We will aim to find and feature the best ones from around the world and this utterly stunning Nissan 280Z, owned and built by superstar drifter Chris Forsberg, will be in next month’s magazine. The Angry Man “ON WORKING YOUR CAR IS FUN, RIGHT UP UNTIL YOU KNUCKLES SMASH YOUR CUT ON A SEIZED BOLT OR YOUR FINGER ON A SERRATED PIECE OF PAIN METAL. THIS IS ALL WE’VE EXPERIENCED BEFORE. NO IT’S PART OF THE TERRITORY, PAIN,NOGAIN AND ALL THAT STUFF.SO WHAT EXACTLY AM I RANTING ABOUT THIS MONTH? Plasters. Or not so much the plasters themselves, but the Fort Knox packaging they bloody come in. If you…

Once a month over the warm winter months, Dubai’s car enthusiasts come together for their own version of the Cars & Coffee phenomenon – the now legendary, Caffeine and Machine meet. This is Dubai, so we’re not talking Maxwell House or Nescafé kinds of caffeine here. Nope, we’re talking full-on Mountain Dew, Monster, Red Bull, Rockstar levels of central nervous system automotive stimulant. It’s absolutely mental. The infamous season finale was held at the Dubai docks (like Liverpool docks, but with more palm trees), under the shadow of the QE2 cruise liner. And boy was she upstaged. Now here’s the thing: everyone thinks Dubai is made up of supercars. Which, to be fair, it is. However, we also have huge JDM, Euro, ICE and stance scenes. All of which were…

Well, this is refreshing. Something genuinely new and exciting. Yes, the modifying scene is as vibrant and diverse today as it’s ever been, but you can’t deny that the ubiquity of social media and the desperation for harvesting likes has meant that anyone with the cash to pay for fancy wheels and air-ride can call their motor a show car. Call us old-fashioned, but there are certain elements of the ’90s/’00s tuning scene that we really miss; not the Lexus lights or the Delta bumpers, obviously, but the spirit of madness. Back then, people built insanely off-the-wall cars just for the bloody-minded hell of it, and it’s that old-school modding spirit you see shining brightly from this astonishing Fiesta. Owner Danny Hetherington, along with buddy Ashley Kenny (hereafter referred to…

Colossal, heroic, legendary. Just a few of the words I’d use to describe an event that will go down in history as one of the greatest spectacles of all time. The only slight downer? I had Joshua to win in the 10th round and not the 11th. But that’s a small price to pay for having a new British world heavyweight champion. What has this got to do with Europe’s biggest Japanese car show, Japfest? Well the boxing happened on the eve of the show, meaning a late night was followed by a bloody early wake-up call . Now there’s not many things I’d get up for after less than three hours’ sleep on a Sunday morning. But Japfest is definitely one of them. And it seems a lot of…

“I started off with an Inbetweeners-spec Fiat Cinquecento, before moving onto a Lupo, Citroën C2 and then a Polo” If you were to head to your local Porsche dealership right now armed with a tape measure, planning on finding the very widest wheels possible from throughout the range, you’d come away with a fairly healthy reading of 12.5 inches from the phat rears of the tasty 911 GT3 RS. Rewind back to the 1990s and perform the same task on a car such as the Ferrari F40 or Lambo Diablo, and you might just manage to find something as bonkers wide as 13 inches out back at a push. This puts into perspective, then, just how downright crazy the specs on Jamie Barry’s rims are on his 350Z here –…