Is this a street car for the racetrack or a race car for the streets? Either way this is a 911 you buy when the already blazingly quick turbo S isn’t quite enough. We started out shooting this lava orange RS in the east when the rain fell and quickly detoured out to town, only to return later with the low sunlight glittering against the tarmac.
Here is the shoot summary.
Theme: Urban Car: 2015 991.1 Porsche 911 GT3 RS Car Owner: Dave
"Twin devils" is the most fitting way of describing these two very powerful JDM machines. They are each owned by two good buddies in the fitness industry, and that says so much about the obsession to add muscles to the meat. Find out for yourself in the engine bay setup somewhere below. If you think the stock Civic Type R is decently fast, these two are nothing short of bizarrely quick. Avoid challenging any of them on the roads at all costs. You have been fairly warned.
Here is the shoot summary.
Theme: Urban Underground
Cars: 2008 Honda Civic Type Rs
Car Owner: Kesh and YH
The landscape is getting tougher to mod a car in Singapore especially with the recent clamp down on an ever increasing modification "ban" list that dampens local car enthusiasts here. Some make sense whereas a few, questionable. In any case, this did not prevent Jiawei from tinkering his Mitsubishi Lancer EX within the legal boundaries using his good eye for colour and body styling.
His favourite unspoken colour is Vermilion, a special hue of orange and red that is strikingly loud on the streets even at night. That goes up as the main wrap colour for his ride with black as a secondary colour accent.
Inspired by the brand's halo car, the Evolution X, Jiawei's car is fitted with rally style front lip and side skirt, CZ4A model's bonnet hood, fender side vents and spoiler. Add on a set of black 18" sports rims and the external visual appeal climbed up a few notches.
Visual appeal didn't stop there. Swinging into the car, hints of vermillion peppered the interior. A striking gearbox with a custom cut panel in glossy vermillion that looks oh so juicy greeted us. We then noticed the IU cover, mobile phone holder, steering wheel emblem, right down to the car mats are of vermillion shade too. Now, that's styling consistency! With the haze hitting us hard during the shoot, we knew the best opportunity was here to create mystery and intrigue in our shots. This dark, secluded back alley in the CBD has indeed made the haze work in our favour. No single smoke machine in the market could replicate such an authentic feel to the final edits. The downside? We literally had to shoot wearing our N95 masks for a couple of hours.
Under the clear night sky dotted with glittering stars, a beastly tuned 620bhp supercharged BMW M3 sat tranquilly, seemingly enjoying the companionship of a beauty and the peaceful surrounding. This E93 convertible is the last of the naturally aspirated V8 engine fitted to an M power plant and clearly, car lovers are not exactly pleased, now that high-revving engine notes will soon be a thing of the past.
No longer will there be extreme heart skipping and head turning moments when you put your foot to the pedal. According to the German marque, forced induction or also known as turbocharging will now take over the NA for the sake of mankind's future (add sarcasm).
Small sadness aside, we got on with our work, approaching the M3 like a sacred object. This is no ordinary M3. It is the official safety car for Sports Car Club Singapore, or SCCS in short, and is fitted with one of the sexiest body kits you can find for this car - a Vorsteiner GTRS5 wide body kit limited to just 40 worldwide.
According to its official site, "The Vorsteiner GTRS5 features aerodynamic and cosmetic enhancements taking parts from Vorsteiner’s GTRS series. The kit includes a front bumper integrated with chin spoiler, wide arch front fenders, extended side skirts, wide arch rear quater panels. All of these parts are made from pre-preg autoclave carbon fibre."
Also fitted to this mean machine are 20 inchers BC Racing forged rims with fully customised orange crystal colour. Along with decals and running LED lights, this fully complete a totally badass, legit safety car look. Words aside, we'll leave you to enjoy the rest of the photos.
Year of the Dragon has never really ended. In fact, it's alive and scorching Singapore roads... in the form of a Mitsubishi Evolution IX station wagon, that is. The radical and intricate masterpiece was the work of Graffiti Conceptz, and proudly donning its colours is none other than multi-autostyling champion, Charles, whose Evo recently took part in the Tokyo Auto Salon event and won best airbrush award in its category.
Let's see how this dragon evolution measures up... to a new 'occupant'.
sgCarShoot could have done a typical car shoot - sleek closeups, engine bay, cool interior shots and what nots. This time round, we opt to forgo that for something bigger. We enter different phases of life, and one of them is when you decide to commit your life to another human being. Charles took that decision and possibly brought happiness to another level.
The landscape is getting tougher to mod a car in Singapore especially with the recent clamp down on an ever increasing modification "ban" list that dampens local car enthusiasts here. Some make sense whereas a few, questionable. In any case, this did not prevent Jiawei from tinkering his Mitsubishi Lancer EX within the legal boundaries using his good eye for colour and body styling.
With the haze hitting us hard during the shoot, we knew the best opportunity was here to create mystery and intrigue in our shots. This dark, secluded back alley in the CBD has indeed made the haze work in our favour. No single smoke machine in the market could replicate such an authentic feel to the final edits. The downside? We literally had to shoot wearing our N95 masks for a couple of hours.
