Photography by Daniel Irawan Editorial by Ryan Jones While growing up around cars most of my life you always hear about rivals for example in muscle cars it was always Chevrolet vs. Ford vs. Chrysler, then as the import scene began to grow it became Domestic vs. Import, however one of the largest growing rivalries in the entire scene is becoming European vs. JDM with the two largest contributors being Honda and Volkswagen. This week we’re still in California where we [...]
Photography by Daniel Irawan Editorial by Ryan Jones It’s been a long time coming for Intuned Online to feature one of the most recognized, feared and wanted vehicles of all time; the BMW M3. This week’s feature takes us back to sunny California for this race ready BMW. There are many types of car enthusiasts out there, lucky enough for Intuned that Cris Crozier the owner of this BMW is somewhat of a power freak. We’ll start under the hood of [...]
Photography and editorial by Jeff Robjent Many years ago during my school days, a group of friends and I used to play football on the fields during our lunch breaks, although my attention would be fully focused on scoring as many goals as possible I recall that most days I’d catch a glimpse of a white, sporty looking car leaving the car park. It seems it wasn’t just me, all of us would stop and stare, one friends comment summed [...]
Photography and editorial by Nelson Queralta The Honda S2000 is already a good handling, well balanced machine out the factory with a nearly perfect weight distribution. Basically the car was lacking one thing, power. While sometimes adding more HP to a vehicle may break that near perfect balance, the trick is to add the power, without sacrificing the vehicle’s handling characteristics. Knowledge and experience lends a helping hand in order to keep everything running smoothly. Enter Robert Wong of Nippon Power, owner [...]
Photography by Chreeno Editorial by Ryan Jones This week’s Intuned Online feature brings us the most popular choice of car for Nissan tuners; we’re featuring Chris Beardon’s 1996 240sx SE. We set out to Dallas, Texas to catch up with Chris and his Red Devil and find out what sets his car out from the crowd. The background on the 240sx is that in Japan & North America there aren’t many affordable rear wheel drive cars for sale, especially if it’s [...]
Photography by Kashime Caines Editorial by Ryan Jones The Corolla’s of this time have become a favorite for Tuners. The 80’s were a very unique time for car owners as they had some choices that would never appear again. We saw the rise of the stainless steel bodied Delorean, the fall of the AMC Gremlin’s and Pacer’s and Toyota building some of the last (excluding the Supra) rear wheel drive platform cars. This takes us to this weeks feature a 1985 [...]
Photography and editorial by Mario Maldonado After picking up a 1998 Honda Civic Dx Hatchback with a USDM ITR Swap, air intake, JDM ITR 5 lug conversion, SI gauge cluster and coilovers, Andy Gardner of Greenville South Carolina knew he had to take this project all the way to the end. After a ton of money spent on upgrades he now has one of the cleanest hatchbacks in town. As an every day driving car, whether rain, snow or outrageous [...]
Photography by Son Mustafa aka Hasback Editorial by Ryan Jones LL Cool J once said “I’m Going back to Cali, stylin, profiling, growlin, and smilin, while in the sun”; and that’s where Intuned Online is going also, Chula Vista, California to be exact. As we continue to scour the earth looking for high end JDM vehicles to share with the world, we found a diamond in the rough; in a car we don’t see that often, the Honda Accord. This particular [...]
Photography by John Kim Editorial by Ryan Jones The Japanese culture has many ideas and customs that are much different from North America, there are however some similarities. For example if you say Hachi-Roku in Japan or Eight-Six in North America you will still get the same reaction with everybody thinking about the potential these cars have. The early to mid 80’s Corollas or (Truenos & Levins) in Japan were some of the first cars to be used for drifting due [...]
Photography by Selwyn Margono Editorial by Ryan Jones In this day and age car manufacturers compete on a world wide basis and many of them offer cars which seem to be modified directly from the factory, this is where our current feature starts. Many people would be happy owning an EVO 8 but luckily enough for Intuned Online our friend Daniel doesn’t want his car to be just another assembly line machine. To say a bit about Daniel, he’s a JDM [...]
Photography by Marcus Hyde Editorial by Ryan Jones This weeks’ feature is Bobby Stewart’s 1995 Honda Civic Hatchback. Building a JDM car continues to be a challenge for real enthusiasts who don’t think JDM parts are APC orange corner lights and red racing seats. Bobby started with a 95 Civic which was re-sprayed the OEM color where he added on the OEM front lip and JDM power folding mirrors. To help illuminate the road in front of him Bobby had Acura [...]
Photography by Olivier Gordon Editorial by Khoi Truong Rick Design hand-picked this car to test his skills for his own reasons. As a challenge taker, Eric chose this model for its rarity in the tuning market. The average tuner would have never considered modifying this ride because parts for this car is very scarce. Thanks to his sponsors, he was able to build this EL Turbo which won him many prizes in Quebec. What’s special about the EL is that the [...]
Photography by Coulter Manard Editorial by Ryan Jones Let me take everyone back in time to 1986. Ronald Regan was President of the United States. The first Nintendo video game console was released in Japan and the cost of gas in the United States was $0.93 cents per gallon. This was also around the time where a Japanese car company called Honda started to become more popular with the release of the 3rd generation Civic. That’s how we get to this [...]
Photography by Selwyn Margono Editorial by Ryan Jones We met Selwyn and his Celica while traveling in New York and after looking at the car and talking about some of the details; it’s very easy to see that details are what he cares about. This car has been meticulously put together from top to bottom. Starting at the top, some of the things on the exterior that stood out for us were the Varis Arising II front bumper cover followed by [...]
As an automotive enthusiast, what would be one of the best places to work if all you did was eat, sleep and dream cars? How does Konig Wheels sound? We met Jim while visiting Konig Wheels USA where he showed us his 326whp 04 Impreza WRX. Jim built this car to be an all round street machine and just by looking at this Impreza it’s a car you don’t want to meet in a dark alley. The big bump in horsepower [...]
Photography by Mike Lee Editorial by Ryan Jones Recently I was watching TV and came across a Nissan commercial where the car on the street transforms over the years from the old Datsun Z’s into the 2008 350Z. The commercial slogan is “want to drive a Z”, now I’m not one for commercials or take them too seriously until I saw Mike Lee’s Farilady then even I couldn’t deny that I wanted to drive a Z too. Mike spared no attention [...]
Photography by Kevin Lee Editorial by Ryan Jones Living in Canada there’s a few things that we just can’t get; some of them are minor things like Sabarro Pizza and Yoo-hoo but one of the things we can’t get are Mitsubishi Evo’s. Kevin Lee’s Evo is even more of a reason why I’m jealous we can’t get them in Canada. Evo’s are usually enough for most people stock but not for Kevin. He wanted to make sure that when he drives [...]
The first time I saw a MR-S is way back in Gran Turismo 1 in Japanese for the PS1. Since they I felt in love the car. This car is so nice looking. But as always…. here in Canada we don’t get this car, it’s “not” safe from the government perspective. From what I heard and see on the Internet, MR-S has an excellent handling. Anyway, the following is “uber” crazy !!! I totally Dig! the green and white. Make: [...]
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