Innehållsförteckning för October 2019 från Fast Car

AS SEEN ON TV Who’s been watching the latest series of Goblin Works Garage on QUEST? Did you see anything familiar on it? Well, I thought you might and for us it was the highlight of the series, but apart from myself and Midge making a cameo appearance, what did you think of the E30? We thought it was pretty awesome and the Goblins kindly allowed us access to shoot it exclusively for these very pages. Car TV shows often split opinion and too often in the past producers have opted for what they thought was the stereotypical approach to modifying cars – you know the sort, the ones who describe what we do as ‘souping-up’ or ‘pimping’ cars. But, fortunately, in recent times they have listened to the right…

Development of the eagerly awaited Mk8 Golf is so close we can almost smell the hybrid motors (and combustion ones). The new Golf is set to premiere this Autumn, going on sale in the UK in 2020 with Volkswagen promising it will be the most ‘digitally connected’ Golf to date. Even from the spyshots, it’s clear to see that the Mk8 has unmistakable Golf DNA. Head of VW design Klaus Bischoff said: “At this time, we will not disclose all details of the new Golf, but you can already perceive its elegant proportions. The next generation will be a genuine eye-catcher!” Well Klaus, if it’s not a hit straight from the factory, it will be after the Dub fraternity have slammed it on Air Lift and Rotiforms – we can’t…

New: £29,870 Now: £9,500 When people ask us what the best value second-hand sports car is, our go to answer is the Nissan 350Z; we’ve built three of them to date and wouldn’t rule out building another. They might not be as chuckable as the Mazda MX-5 but then they have got a sodding great 3.5-litre motor in the front, sweet looks and heaps of potential. But we’ve already done an AD on the 350Z, so we have turned our attention to its successor – the 370Z, especially as prices have started to dip under £10,000! That’s right people, you can get high mileage, early 2009 models for as little as £8000, but we’d recommend spending a bit more and bagging yourself a solid 50,000-miler. For your money you’ll get…

The peril of the difficult second album is something that’s dug its claws into the very concept of creativity for generations. It took The Stone Roses five years to come up with Second Coming, and some people really didn’t like it. And there are countless examples of bands bursting onto the scene with a stellar debut, then struggling to follow it up with something of similar impact; The Strokes, The Clash, Franz Ferdinand, Elastica… it’s a broader condition, known as ‘the sophomore slump’, whereby the second bite of the cherry can lead to disaster; a footballer’s second season, a student’s second year at college, movie and videogame sequels, it’s all-pervading. It’s also a load of absolute cobblers. Second outings are an opportunity to up the ante; Nirvana’s Nevermind was better…

“Beware, for I am fearless, and therefore powerful,” a Frankenstein quote accurately summarising the absolute beast of a DC5 you see before you. But, unlike the monstrosity that was Frankenstein, this Honda Integra Type R DC5 is a sight to behold and for all the right reasons. When owner Jamie Warnes acquired the DC5, he knew exactly what route he was going to take with it. Jamie previously owned a EP3, as well a v1.4-litre Honda Civic EJ9 and having performed a B16 swap on that, it’s safe to say he’s well and truly familiar with Honda life. “I had the EP3 for around two years, while I saved up the money for what I really wanted: a DC5, before this one popped up for sale,” Jamie told us. The…

KW SUPRA GR COILOVERS, FROM £1815 We fookin’ loved the new Supra when we tested it last month, and there’s no denying that this future icon is already and epic bit of kit. You know what they say though; a car’s just not modified until it’s lowered. Well, the Supra GR may have been a reality for all of 3-seconds but already those cheeky chaps at KW have launched a couple of full-on coilover kits offering a serious altitude adjustment of up to 35mm on the front and 40mm on the rear. These also allow separate adjustment of compression and rebound, focusing the chassis for an even tighter performance experience… if you’ve got the talent (or the spuds) to push your 50-odd grand coupe to the limit. Like us, you…

Machine polishing and heavy paint correction is perhaps the scariest part of the detailing process for beginners… and, to be frank, one of the most expensive. What we have here though is a new product that not only seems to be a bargain companion to anyone wielding a dual action polisher, but it takes away all the fear of doing the job in the first place… THE PRODUCT One Step is a machine polishing compound with a difference, it’s designed for removing deep scratches and swirl marks but, rather uniquely, to leave behind a flawless paint surface that’s ready for LSP protection. Now, generally speaking, when it comes to paint correction at this sort of level (I mean, starting with the really bad stuff), it’s a process that requires a…

Cost: Wheels - £POA Spigots – From £5 Nuts/Bolts – From £2 Being part of the ‘car scene’ means we all know that no matter the design, price or size, we order wheels for our particular make and model. In the big wide world, though, it’s always amusing how many people think that any wheel will fit any motor. “Why can’t I just stick those Mazda wheels on my BMW to get me home?” Spend enough time around non-petrolheads and you’ll hear this a lot. Of course, us educated car nuts know the answer: it’s that wheels are PCD-specific, vehicle hubs are PCD-specific, and they must match or never the two shall meet. The point is, whether you bought them new from a dealer, or found them on eBay, you’ll…

So, after six months, loads of miles and even more smiles, it all comes down to the last challenge that will be held live at TRAX Silverstone on the 6th of October. But what is it I hear you cry? Well, this one is down to you as both cars are going head-to-head in the ultimate beauty contest: A Show and Shine battle. Head over to the Adrian Flux stand to cast your vote, as long as it’s a vote for our very own Slim Jules and team Fast Car! Even if you prefer Midge’s build, don’t vote for him because that’s a vote for Banzai!…

Forward planning and long-term strategising are the key to success in a well-played game of chess. Well, that’s what we’re told, anyway. We have no idea how to play chess, that’s probably a bad example. Risk, then. If you want to win at Risk, you need to throw a cursory showing of armies into Kamchatka and Irkutsk and build up an unassuming power base. Or Australasia – control that, it’s pretty much impenetrable. That said, life loves to throw curveballs at us, and the luxury of long-term planning isn’t always available. Sometimes unexpected things happen and we’re forced to rush. “In this world nothing can be said to be certain,” said Benjamin Franklin, “except death and taxes”. That’s what’s known as an immutable constant. But his scope perhaps isn’t really…

TRAX isn’t just the biggest show of the year for Fast Car magazine, but also hundreds of car clubs, showgoers and performance retailers alike. Why? Because it’s absolutely MASSIVE and it’s the place to be as it’s the last chance to display your car before the British winter takes hold and confines us to those winter rebuilds. It’s also the show where we put on our largest display of the season: the now infamous Car Culture Collection, and this year we’ve decided to go for quality over quantity and will be inviting 50 of the UK’s best builds to show with us. We guarantee you’ll see past and future feature cars from these very pages. What else is on? Well, to be completely blunt, a lot! Here’s just a few…

The time when it was all about the driver and not about the car? You can? Well you’re either incredibly old, or you’re lying because it has almost always been about the best car… I’ve been an F1 fanatic since the late 1980s, the golden era of F1 if you like. Back then F1 races were never boring and one team didn’t dominate the championship, but that’s the problem, there were boring races and one team did dominate the championship! Damn, sometimes only a handful of cars would actually finish the race! It’s funny how people idolise Senna as the greatest F1 driver of all time but neglect the fact he only ever won the championship in a dominant McLaren. But these people will happily rubbish the achievements of Lewis…

A full-on custom build needs full-on custom wheels, and 3SDM stepped up to the plate with this one. “3SDM built us some custom motorsport-inspired wheels,” says Helen. “The fronts are 9.5x18-inch, and the rears are 11x18-inch – I would have gone wider, but we were struggling to find tyres to fit anything much bigger!›These wheels were made especially for us with the 4-bolt pattern in our specific size; I went down to their factory and watched them being made, the whole process from CAD to CNC to powdercoating. 3SDM make beautiful wheels, and I knew they’d build us something special.”›…

Rage Buggies, from £19,200 Are you the man with everything? Well these mental road-legal race buggies from UK manufacturer Rage Motorsport, might just be for you. As you can tell from the price, these aren’t toys but serious pieces of kit. The price quoted above is for a build-it-yourself kit of their entry-level single seater, but there are also two-seater variants available and all buggies are available pre-built if you don’t fancy swinging the spanners. Under the hood, you’ll either find a Kawasaki ZZR or Honda 1000rr engine mated to a 6-speed sequential gearbox. They also come with fly-off handbrakes and adjustable suspension and can hit 60mph in under three seconds! Want one? So do we… www.ragemotorsport.com IN BRIEF: Nike SB Zoom Janoski Slip RM Matriz, £TBA Joining a line-up…

Remember when the Mk1 Focus RS came out back in 2002? Remember how its combination of 212bhp and front-wheel drive was enough for many who reviewed it to confidently state this was the sheer limit of what this kind of car could physically take, introducing a whole new generation to the phrase ‘torque steer’ in the process? If only they could’ve seen just how times would move on in the seventeen-odd years that would follow, with the introduction of the 300bhp Mk2 RS shortly after that promptly paved the way for some of the most monstrous FWD builds the world has ever seen, each pushing the envelope even further than the last. And all of this escalation arguably culminates right now with this rather unassuming pearl white Focus here that’s…

That’s right, Raceism is a car show based in the beautiful city of Wroclaw, Poland. There’s no discrimination here just a celebration of epic car culture. Being one of the biggest car shows in Europe, Raceism attracts the best cars and drivers from across the globe, and we really do mean that: in front of the main stage sat Kazuki Ohashi’s bagged Testarossa – the car that took the Internet by storm. What a privilege it was to witness this thing in the flesh! Now in its ninth year, Raceism works off the basis of inviting the best 1000 cars from across Europe and Asia to be displayed in the grounds of Wroclaw Stadion (Stadium). Of the 1000 hand-picked cars, only 16 are selected for Best in Show – and…

If you think Lucifer’s Bora is badass now, just wait till you hear what viciously malevolent things he has planned for it in the near future. All of the fastidious craft that’s gone into its creation will be carefully unpicked and the car wholly reinvented. “I’m taking it off the road for the winter, and it will undergo an engine bay smoothing and full custom rollcage,” he explains. “I’m deleting the rear seats, carrying out a V8 engine swap, and converting it to rear-wheel-drive. Hopefully that will upset the Dub community…”…

First off apologies for going MIA, again. No, the car isn’t dead and no I am not dead either. I’ve just been a busy boy and unfortunately mods for the RS4 have been a long way down my to do list, sometimes being a grown up with responsibilities sucks. I still drive the Avant, lots in fact, as it’s my daily, but I’ve just not had the chance to do much. Anyway, that’s about to change. The RS4 is booked in for some bodywork and I’ve finally found the wheels I want, there’s just one slight drawback, they are not going to be available until mid 2020. However, I will be one of the first people in the world to get a set. I need to sort out something else…

Cyan Racing, formerly named Polestar, has broken two Nürburgring lap records during development of the Lynk & Co 03 Cyan Concept, making it the fastest four-door car and the fastest front-wheel driven car in the world around the fearsome 21-kilometre Nordschleife circuit. The 528-hp Lynk & Co 03 Cyan Concept lapped the Nürburgring Nordschleife in seven minutes and 20.143-seconds, with touring car World Champion Thed Björk behind the wheel. The lap time is three seconds faster than the record for four-door cars, formerly held by Jaguar, and 25 seconds faster than the record for front-wheel driven cars, formerly held by Renault. The race engineers and drivers of Cyan Racing, the official motorsport partner to Geely Group Motorsport, have developed the Lynk & Co 03 Cyan Concept as a road car…

We reviewed and subsequently raved about Pioneer’s revolutionary SPHEVO62DAB headunit back in our Summer issue. But what was so special? Well the clever design of the modular display and detachable control box makes it possible to fit a doubleDIN where it was previously impossible. Clever stuff, eh! And while an SPH-EVO62 would have been an awesome prize in itself, Pioneer wanted to go one better and give away the all-singing and all-dancing flagship version – the SPHEVO82! How cool is that? Very cool! These units retail at a penny under a grand, so this really is a prize worth having, and we’re not even going to ask you to send a reputation for high-end, high-resolution audio quality. Waze, Spotify, Bluetooth connectivity and the trusted duo of Apple CarPlay and Android…

Name: Helen Stanley Occupation: Car Customiser & TV Presenter Instagram: @helen_s_stanley First car: Ford Fiesta Sunray Favourite car: Other than this E30? Sierra Cosworth RS500 Favourite mod on your car: The bodykit, Air Lift suspension, fat wheels – sorry, couldn’t just choose one! Favourite show: Sin City Motors Track day or show-and-shine? Track day Lessons learned from this project: Make sure I have enough time to bring my mad ideas to fruition. Otherwise next time I will lose my mind. What’s next? I’ve recently got my race licence and I’m learning to drift, so I’m training to drive like a boss. I aim to get into Gymkhana and I’d love to build a car for that. I’m also working on series 3 of Goblin Works Garage, another car show, and…

The audio world has changed massively over the past ten years or so. As soon as we started to carry around our entire music libraries in our pocket, the focus shifted to integration of our electronic devices. The smartphone pushed this idea further, making it not just about the tunes you enjoy, or all the audiophile-tastic settings that perfect how you hear them, but how you stream, consume and integrate the more practical stuff like phone calls and text messages. Nowadays of course, the compatibility with our favourite apps are what it’s all about. Being able to use stuff like Spotify, WhatsApp and Waze is not only what we want, but it’s what pushes the game on. It’s all rather ironic then, that as operating systems and audio products get…

KICKER CX AMPLIFIERS, FROM £180 Kicker have been… er, kicking, some serious bootay over the past three or four months. In fact, every time they launch a new product, it seems like they come back about three-seconds later and then hit us with another absolute spanker. It’s like you wait and wait, and then a veritable truck load of audio awesomeness comes along, all at once. They’re kind of like London buses in that respect… if London buses were creators of some of the finest audio kit on the planet. So, what is it this time around? Well, as they’ve already inundated us with their new square subs and high-end speakers, so it’s time to look at some amps. Six of the best as it turns out. These new CX…

Wheels, as you well know, make the FC world go round. So much so that everyone’s got sweet hoops in the modified car universe; a car’s just not modified without ‘em, right? It’s a bit like lowering in that respect. The thing is many of you, along with a few of our own team, may think that we’re taking the Flanagan a tad with a feature on how to bolt on your new wheels. We totally get that too, but you’ll be amazed how many, including some professional mechanics that are used to the standard stuff, don’t follow the correct procedure to the letter. To be honest, I’m not adverse to hoofing up wheels with a big bar myself, but that young padawans is just not the way of the…

There’s an old Irish drinking toast that we’ve always particularly liked here at FC. It goes like this: ‘May your glass be ever full, may the roof over your head be always strong, and may you be in heaven a full half-hour before the devil knows you’re dead.’ It’s a sentiment that neatly sums up the spirit of a lot of the cars we feature – and it feels particularly relevant to this Bora, given that it’s been built by a fella who goes by the name of Lucifer. Frankly it shouldn’t be a shock to learn that the devil’s into modded cars… it makes sense, as all the cool stuff is inherently evil isn’t it? We’re certainly not pinning our hopes on winning wings and a halo someday, and…

Last month I well and truly proved that there’s no substitute for talent as the Alto and myself kicked Midge’s arse. But what did I do to get my car race ready for the handling challenges? Well, to be blatantly honest, hardly anything! I wanted to fit the Cobra bucket seat, but I needed custom subframes. However, I did bolt on some rear arches to help with tyre clearance and I also managed to get a set of Direnza springs on the rear to stiffen up the suspension. Oh, and I also fitted a Kode steering wheel and slotted a new JVC headunit in. But what really gave me the edge were the tyre stickers; I reckon they were worth at least one second a lap, well, they would have…

Nope. We’re not going to offer you half the trade price for your car, like those websites. Instead we want to give you the chance to be featured in the best modified car mag on the planet! So, if you own a cool-as-a-cucumber car you think is worthy of Fast Car, we’d love to see it. Please send a selection of good quality images and a spec to jules.truss@kelsey.co.uk, with ‘Feature Car’ as the subject. If we like it, we’ll get back to you to arrange a photoshoot. Simples.…

Spot the difference Yes, we know this looks like something off of a Channel 5 documentary about cosmetic procedures going horribly wrong, but the Photoshop magic we stumbled across on Jules’ computer here is an absolute beauty… or not, depending on how you look at it. Still, that’s the thing about online dating profiles, and our very own walking violation of the Trade Descriptions Act clearly has one of the dodgiest out there. One at a time girls… In the closet After his rather epic custom desk last month, you’d think that our Jules would have had enough of LED-lit DIY projects for a bit. But no, apparently he spent a good few days putting together this “spanking storage solution for my favourite shoes”. Which also goes a long way…