By Antonio Alvendia

Antonio Alvendia

This has been an extremely busy weekend for the Motor Mavens crew in Southern Cali. Travis Hodges and I went out to bake in the sun at the IDRC Season Finale at Fontucky Dragway (aka Auto Club Dragway/California Speedway) all day Saturday. We’ll show you some of what we captured at IDRC soon enough, but first I wanted to shine a light on a special event that took place today (Sunday) at Irwindale Speedway.

Even though I was still exhausted and burnt from our skin cancerous Saturday in Fontana, I somehow dragged myself out of bed and prepared my camera gear for yet another day at the track. While I found it extremely hard to pry myself from the ice cold air conditioning blasting throughout my house, I reminded myself that I made a commitment to show up. My friend Luke Pakula kept dropping me friendly reminders about the event the Slide Assassins guys were throwing at Irwindale Speedway, so I wanted to come through and show support of their event, on behalf of the Motor Mavens crew.

After all, the Motor Mavens movement is all about supporting grassroots drifting! Everyone on our team does their best to show how much we genuinely care about the scene by being out there as much as we possibly can. Actions speak louder than words, so hopefully people will notice that our site doesn’t only cover the big events like Formula D and All Star Bash… Motor Mavens shows love by shining a light on some of the smaller events as well. And luckily for us, some of the grassroots drifters have been showing us love back!

We just can’t tell you enough how much it means to us when we see people showing their support of the site by rocking our stickers on their cars, by leaving comments on our blog posts, by reposting our links onto different forums, blogs, Facebook and Twitter pages! It is especially means a lot to us when people voice their support when they see us at events. We love that people appreciate our site, because we put a whole lot of heart and hard work into it! Continue reading and view more photos at MotorMavens.

By John Coyle

Deputy Editor

I didn’t think customers who purchased a Ferrari FXX were even allowed to take possession of the car, so I was kind of surprised when I saw that Edo Competition had made a street-legal version. To be perfectly honest, I don’t know why you’d want to drive an FXX when you could just go ahead and roll and Enzo, but I sure as hell wouldn’t kick this a baby out of the garage.

By Fireball Tim

Movie Car Design Master

Did Kato wreck the Black Beauty? Yes. Was it supposed to be wrecked? Hm.

Although this looks like an accident on set, it also looks planned. As in, “we menat to do that.” And since there were several Black Beauty’s built for the film, there’s a good chance that this is a set up. The only givaway is the fact that for an accident, it’s kinda cheesy. Keep you posted.

Continue reading "Black Beauty Wrecked!!" »

By Mike Musto

RideLust.com

Purchasing a new car has all the makings of a good mystery movie. Lies, deceit, cold hard cash and a cast of characters that couldn’t be made up even if you tried. You start off with the best intentions, thinking this will be a wonderful experience that will enrich your life. You read magazine after magazine in the hopes that the information contained within those pages will help you decide on the vehicle that best fits your needs. You ask friends, family and search the internet on a relentless quest to make sure that nothing in the way of information escapes you. You pump yourself up with a mental Rocky Balboa style workout and in the end you are convinced that you will win the upcoming war with the dealer.

Continue reading after the jump!

Continue reading "Why I Hate Buying a New Car…" »

By Fireball Tim

Movie Car Design Master

Ok, so there I was, minding my own business when I started seeing things. Weird things. And you ask, was I entertaining a doobie? No. Did I down a 5th of Gin? No. Did I have too many hash brownies? Maybe.

Welcome to where insanity meets the road. The Houston Art Car Parade. 250 Cars. 250,000 people. 1 wild day in Texas. Yee haw….

By Speedhunters

Car Culture At Large

My name is Mary J. Castillo, Spokesmodel for Falken Tire. When Speedhunters.com first approached me to do this documentary about a day in the life of a model, I was taken back a bit because I felt like I had to keep a certain image about myself as a model. But then I thought, why not let the Speedhunters audience have an inside look about what really goes on in my day! Continue reading at Speedhunters

By Mary J. Castillo

By Brian Lohnes

BangShift.com

The Spindles Auto Club claims to be the oldest continuously operating car club in the country, and it has great name recognition in eastern Massachusetts. The club uses that good PR to draw tons of cars to the annual Auto-Fest car show and swap meet each Labor Day weekend. It’s held in Marshfield, Massachusetts, at the Marshfield Fairgrounds, which is also one of the oldest in the country.

This year was no different with an eyeball estimate by us of about 800-900 cars, the fairgrounds were buzzing. It’s a mix of everything from authentic, old, Mini Coopers, to 427-powered Galaxies. We had a blast, and zapped off this gallery of nearly 150 photos.

Click here to see the event gallery. There’s some cool iron inside!

By Ben Schaffer

The Real JDM

This Splinter concept car build is actually happening and it is one of the most interesting builds I’ve seen in a while. I’m really impressed with it actually. Check out these wood wheels. Crazy.

I dont know how well these will hold up but the builder seems confident. Check out joeharmondesign.com for updates on the build.

By Rob Einaudi

Editor-in-Chief

Ben over at Jalopnik said no, but a bunch of their readers said yes. So what do you think? This Murcie is owned by Swedish freeskier Jon Olsson.

By Ron Honig

WaytooFurious

People have told me that I am obsessive about my hobby. It’s easy to see why, I own three cars and the majority of my time is spent pursuing car related activities. However there are some people that really know how to take their hobby to the next level. One of these is Adrian Bennett from England. Adrian is such a huge fan of the Mad Max movies that he has moved his family half way around the world from England to Silverton in Australia where he is going to open a Mad Max museum. A panel beater by trade, Adrian was more than happy to ship his Mad Max interceptor to Australia. Get the full story here.