Innehållsförteckning för March 2018 från Fast Car

If you’re the sort of person who considers putting their show car into hibernation at around August-time each year, take some advice from us: leave it until November, so you can nip up to Telford to attend the frankly awesome Ultimate Stance show first. The fancy carpeted halls and lovely central heating of Telford’s International Centre mean this swanky indoor event acts as a big screw you to all of those who think the car show season is a summer-only affair. It brings together one of the best quality collection of slammed cars of the year, with a chilled, bang-on-trend atmosphere to boot. A spin-off from sister show Ultimate Dubs, which is held around March-time, Ultimate Stance opens up the floodgates to not only slammed VAG metal, but pretty much…

Fast Facts Sizes: 17 and 18-inch diameters PCDs: 5x130, TBA Offset: Custom Finishes: Satin Black, Satin Silver MOMO HERITAGE 6 From £370 (each) We’re pretty sure racing driver Gianpiero Moretti never imagined MOMO would become the huge, multi-national firm it is today when he commissioned his first steering wheel back in the early 1960s. It’s fair to say though, MOMO may be a huge corporate body, but unlike many, they’re not afraid to let their history influence their new products. That my friends, is what you call true pedigree in design. In fact, back in the summer, they took a huge amount of inspiration from decades past when launching their awesome MOMO Heritage Collection. Now initially at least, this collection was limited to a range of six retro-styled steering wheels,…

Japspeed Winter Bundle, £50 Still bloody cold outside innit? And if there’s one thing we hate it has to be shitty, bastard, shitty, shitty cold weather (Not a fan then Midge? – Initial G). Anyway, the point is, all you motoring fans can help keep the chill at bay with this limited run of bargain winter bundles from Japanese car maestros, Japspeed. As you can see, the set includes one of their super-thick branded premium hoodies, a slice of bobble hat action to keep your noggin toasty and, perhaps best of all, a set of their top-notch mechanics gloves. we can certainly see those being useful for all you DIY modders at this time of year, eh? As sweet winter bundles go, you get plenty of quality gear for just…

You always dread that tap on the shoulder, don’t you? You know the one. When your boss says ‘Hey, I’m going to shadow you for the morning so we can assess your progress,’ knowing full well that the morning is your set-aside Facebook time, with occasional forays into dream-shopping on Auto Trader. Or when your supervisor suggests that perhaps you might like to submit your week’s timesheets to the board, so you can prove your worth. You know you’re good at your job. But when someone’s watching? That’s a whole other story. So when boss-man and Fast Car head honcho Jules casually slips into the conversation a loaded little nugget like, ‘Oh yeah, and can you write the feature on my Beemer? No pressure’, you know that the pressure’s cranked…

Music bellowing out of speakers from every which direction. Beautiful models lining up on cars, with groups of camera men following them. And a wild assortment of cars filling the loading dock at the WORK Wheels owner’s meet in Bangkok. If you didn’t know any better, you could have sworn you had just walked onto the set of the latest Fast and Furious franchise. The Japanese wheel company has had a profound impact on the car scene across the world, providing iconic items to enthusiasts looking for lightweight hoops for the time attack car, to those looking to hard park and break necks. At the WORK Wheels owners meet, that very fact was no more apparent by the wide diversity of cars filling the docks of the convention centre. Cars…

Say what you like about your average British petrolhead, but they’re a hardy breed, quite prepared to brave the elements to catch the merest glimpse of a lineup of modified motors. Especially when there’s free cake on offer! We think this is a good thing. It proves that there’s nothing to match the UK car scene for commitment to the cause, and said commitment was in evidence at LandSpeed’s Cars, Coffee & Christmas Cake show in early December. Now LandSpeed might not be a name you’re immediately familiar with. But if you live in the East Midlands or thereabouts, then you really should be. Home to Quest’s forthcoming TV show Salvage Hunters: Classic Cars, LandSpeed flung open its doors to welcome the great and good of the modified, performance, classic…

The 1980s. The time of leg warmers, leotards and leggings, as well as the introduction of the Volkswagen Mk2. So what better shoot could there be than what you see sprawled across these pages now?! This particular Mk2 is pretty hard to explain without pictures, due to its off-the-wall styling combined with motorsport accents. This mash up is the brainchild of the team over at car cleaning product company Auto Finesse (AF). If you’ve been to any car shows this year, you’ve probably already seen the Auto Finesse stand and possibly already seen this exact car. Not only do they run a successful global business producing car care products, the car-obsessed team regularly take on ridiculous projects such as this one. And they always come up with the goods! Head…

REVO IS38ETR VAG TURBO, FROM £2,238 (EXCHANGE) There’s no denying that the third-generation (EA888) VAG 2.0TSI engine, the one you find in the likes of the Golf Mk7, 8S Audi TT, Audi S3 8V and SEAT Leon Cupra 5F, is a work of engineering genius. But we all know what the best type of power is, right? Yep, MORE power. Well, this new turbo is the culmination of two years of development from VAG experts Revo and could see you hitting the magical 500bhp mark sooner than you might think. Best of all too, there’s no messing about with custom manifolds or exhausts to make it fit, or having to break open the engine and forge the internals! As this item uses the stock housing with some rather fancy uprated…

V-engines have been around for as long as the car itself. Way back in 1889, Daimler were nailing together pop-popping V-twins, and the first V8s arrived on the scene not long after in 1903. In simple terms, a V-engine is so called because if you crack it open, crouch down and peer along the crank, you’ll see the pistons being pushed diagonally up in two banks, forming a V shape. See, it’s not a clever name. Just logic. An engine in this configuration can be less lengthy and less tall, which means they tick a lot of boxes when it comes to packaging. But we love them because they invariably make awesome noises. If you’ve ever heard a Morgan 3 Wheeler at full chat, its 2.0-litre V-twin thudding like hockey…

DAN WILSON’S E36 BMW FC says : E36-shape 3 Series Beemers seem to be one of those cars that take fantastically well to modifications, as Dan’s tidy version here proves so effectively. Starting out as a lowly-spec’d 320, he’s since made his red two-door almost unrecognisable. He’s added a heap of performance and aesthetic enhancements, which have worked wonders in brilliantly freshening up this much-loved German saloon. Under that long bonnet, the 2.0-litre lump has been ripped out and replaced with the bigger 2.5-litre unit from a 325i. With this new engine promising a lot more firepower, Dan then finished off the performance upgrades by porting and polishing the head, as well as treating it to a raspy exhaust system for good measure. You’ll probably notice the car now looks…

For all its merits, social media has a lot to answer for when it comes to human interaction. Specifically (and without wanting to sound like we’re a bunch of old farts), when it comes to politeness. There was a time, back in the ’90s and into the ’00s, when your means of keeping up with modern car culture was to go to car meets and to read magazines. Thankfully that’s still largely the case, as it keeps us in a job. But the immediacy of social media means the pace of automotive fashion has accelerated. And more significantly, it’s never been easier to slate someone’s ride. The perceived anonymity of the internet means it takes a second to post up a snarky comment before moving on, not considering the dagger…

“It was like Meccano, without instructions. And he had to find all the bits himself” First impressions count. If you turn up drunk the first time you meet the in-laws, that’s something they’ll remember forever. The real, sensitive you, won’t matter. You’ll always just be a disreputable scumbag. And imagine if your first ever McDonald’s burger was a Filet-o-Fish? That’d put you off the franchise for life and you’d never discover the timeless magic of Big Macs and banana milkshakes. The point is this. While most of you are a pretty tolerant bunch, there’s bound to be a number who’ll look at this EK Civic’s aggressive camber, think ‘No way, that’s ridiculous’, and flip to another page. And that would be a damn shame, and entirely your loss, as this…

Velgen Forged VFMP6, From £1250 (each) Look out, we thought. Here comes another lecture about having milk on our Weetabix. But no, bizarrely these rims have nothing to do with our Glenda (Are you getting confused with vegans again mate? – Jules). And everything to do with being some of the sweetest hoops ever to hit the street. Velgen have carved out quite the reputation over the last couple of years and, although they make some pretty special cast wheels too, it’s their forged offerings like the VFMP6 here, that have got tongues wagging across the Atlantic. Getting a six-spoker right isn’t easy. But boy have they done it with this one. Just check out those proper classy floating spokes for starters. Machined from 6061 T6 treated forged aluminium, the…

“We had all the seats out in the carpark. The looks we got were hilarious!” We’re always being told that money doesn’t necessarily buy us happiness. And while we’ll let you decide just how applicable that testament is to your own life, we will offer this small nugget of wisdom: an unlimited budget certainly doesn’t guarantee that you’ll walk away with an award at a car show. Because while it goes without saying that a wallet-busting show car build is likely to be a pretty impressive sight to behold. It’s thankfully much more about the creativity and thought processes a particular owner goes through, that determines if you’ve already forgotten about their pride and joy or not as you’re rolling home from a show. This phenomenon is something that both…

Urban legends have provided amusing cultural currency for generations. Everyone knows a story that’s clearly untrue but they like to present as fact, simply because sometimes it’s fun to believe that there’s weird stuff going on in the world. History is studded with daft conspiracy theories: for example, that Paul McCartney died back in 1966 and no one’s noticed that the Paul we see is an imposter. That the moon landings were faked. That Princess Diana was assassinated by MI6. There are urban legends about Roswell and JFK, of fluoride in tap water and the death of Tupac, McCarthyism and the Illuminati, 9/11, chemtrails… The madder it is, the more people seem to want to believe it. Now, you may or may not be aware of the urban legend connected…