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When you live in Los Angeles, you spend a lot of time in your car. It’s almost inevitable. The commute is always longer than you expect, even when you’ve been doing it for years and you think you have it down to a science. A quick trip to the grocery store? Sometimes it can take hours. And there are countless other things you have to get done in a day too. Of course, they’re spread out all over town. You always end up spending more time in your car than you ever imagined you would. So it’s important that you have a car you love, because it’s going to become your second home.

When it’s time to start looking for that new second home, start by checking out Los Angeles fiat. Maybe a Fiat isn’t the first car that comes to mind when you start thinking about what you want, but give it a chance and you might just be surprised. Fiats consistently get great safety ratings from national and international publications. The 2011 Fiat was given a five-star European NCAP rating for both driver and passenger safety. It’s closest competition, the BMW Mini Cooper, was only awarded four stars. It’s tough to beat a car that gets the highest rating available when it comes to safety. You never know what could happen when you’re on the roadways and taking your family’s safety into consideration should always be your number one priority.

Visit your local Fiat dealership’s website, http://www.ocfiat.com, to see all the cars available in your area. You can learn all about the dealership, from the staff to the privacy policy of the company. Get acquainted with your community’s dealership before you visit and then stop by to test drive a new Fiat car.

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Here at Super Street, every now and again we get the opportunity to test probably the most badass cars to hit the road… before they actually hit the road. For me personally, not only did I have the pleasure of testing the newest Special Edition WRX for an entire week, I also had the pleasure of taking it on the road trip all the way from Los Angeles, California to Phoenix, Arizona to get it to the test and see how great of a car it actually is. Now, some of you might sit back and think that the concept of spending almost 800 miles in a car over three days would be a bit grueling, but in my case, I could possibly not have been more excited.

First of all, what’s so fancy about this new Special Edition WRX? It’s orange! What else! ? Well, in many ways the making is somewhat of the ode for the original WRX. With 2014 around the corner, Subaru will likely be releasing a completely remodeled sti and wrx, we all know. Though the older chassis will forever bounce around the second hand car market and aftermarket enthusiast industry, this limited-edition bad boy will in reality be the last to feature the matured body style. As far as aesthetics go, I’ll admit, at the beginning I was a little cautious when i was concerned my co-workers may have thought I picked up a sponsorship from Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, but the more I stared at the monstrous sedan, the greater number of the vibrant color grew on me. This is basically the car to do it in if you’re trying to turn heads. And in the week that I had the car, I could not count the number of random strangers I needed coming up and asking in regards to the new vehicle, or the quantity of broken necks I witnessed flying by fellow motorists on the highway to Arizona.

The WRX graciously flaunts its older brother’s (the STI) aero plus a wider wheelbase in comparison to its older predecessors. Not to mention the factory wheels are now black and significantly lighter compared to the previous years. The interior hasn’t been “re-done” but has definitely been restyled to put the Special Edition theme as orange accents have already been added to the floor and seats mats to take the car together.

Though, rounding back to my experience; upon stepping inside the vehicle to begin the journey to Arizona I had been instantly mesmerized as I turned the key for the first time hearing the reduced growl of your 265hp F-4 engine breathing through the exhaust and resonating in the back of my head. If I was in a circuit-ready track car tuned for battle, the car felt tight, even before leaving the parking lot, and that i somehow quickly felt as. Upon my first interstate launch, the asymmetrical AWD system quickly glued itself to the ground and sent me flying (It is from -60 in just around 4.7 seconds, approximately 3 seconds faster than the last generation’s STI). Aside from the impressive -60 time, the newest release also puts down a quarter-mile time in only 13.5 seconds at 100mph.

One of the biggest things I could not get free from my mind through the entire trip was the fact of how solid the vehicle felt upon acceleration and-speed cruising. The latest WRX will not push you, it does not pull you, it literally takes you by using it as it blasts down the road. If every single bolt, nut and panel is precisely aligned and fine-tuned to provide the greatest driving experience, It’s as. In fact, probably one of the only complaints that I had with all the vehicle, was that I couldn’t tell the difference once i was going 45 or 90mph. Now, maybe every one of these emotions are tied into the fact that my usual daily driver is a bit of a poop box, having said that i truly believe the car is simply that solid.

If you like what you see, you’ll be happy to recognize that you’ll be able to scoop up one of these orange screamers for about the same general price as any other premium WRX (with maybe a slight increase). Though finding one might end up to become a bit of a challenge as there are only 200 roughly of these floating around…Yep, you read that correctly. It’s limited-edition, what could you expect?

That New Car Smell

2013 Subaru WRX STI Special Edition

The Sticker $29,565

Engine 2.5L turbo DOHC 16-valve Flat-4

The Power 265hp/244lb-ft

Layout Front-engine, all-wheel-drive

Transmission Five-speed manual

Wheels & Tires 17×8 Black Alloy

In The Pump 19/25 mpg (city/hwy)

Deep Thoughts STI? What STI? The Special Edition is plenty good to help keep us satisfied until the next generation rolls through.

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We don’t mind a challenge. In reality, we welcome it. So, when Chevy called us and proposed we build its latest Sonic hatchback for the ’13 SEMA Show, we responded emphatically with, “Let’s effin’ get it done! ” A few months later we were on our strategy to the dealership to pick up our Sonic RS. On paper, our hot little hatch sounded decent with a slightly sportier styling when compared to the standard model, plus rear disc brakes, a 1.4-liter turbo and six-speed manual. But after spending a month behind the wheel of the car, plus hours on the computer researching the Sonic’s aftermarket support (or lack thereof), we had our work remove for us. It wasn’t gonna be as easy as piecing together an FR-S where we could bolt-on one of many body kits along with a catalog of parts. Our Sonic would require nearly everything custom, starting from the baseThey are our actual centers for the Sonic. They still must be stripped and refinished but as you can see, they’re light being aA short look at what a Rotiform center looks like before anything’s been done. As if it raw?

Rotiform presidents brian and jasonBrian, Jason and presidents are working on the assembly line themselves!

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If you’ve ever tried building a project (that you all must have), you know that wheels make a car. We needed to hit a property run with the wheel selection right from the start, and also since we weren’t going to do too much with the Sonic’s body. With that in mind, we asked for the support our friends Jason Whipple and Brian Henderson in Orange County-you understand these two better by the name Rotiform. As we’ve featured their Ralliart project before and also Brian’s mint 964 only a couple months ago, Jason and Brian are also no strangers to the mag.

We needed something fancy that would pop at SEMA, although we know Rotiform offers an awesome selection of affordable cast wheels. So, we worked together to pick out a set of custom multi-piece wheels. Rotiform’s multi-piece rims are typical built in-house and each and every set is produced to order using exact offsets, colors and sizes the individual specifies-perfect for what we should needed for our little tic tac! We also chose to select Rotiform because they’re enthusiasts. wheels and Cars aren’t only a job but a lifestyle for them. Whenever we had a concept of what we wanted, they took our idea and made it better. That’s what’s up!

So after several hours of debate and contemplating, we found our wheel-the Rotiform SNA. It’s a 3-piece split five-spoke wheel that’ll measure 18×8.5 all-around. It features enough dish and will be spec’d to sit flush with the fenders-no poking or tucking here. We’ve opted for gold centers, a timeless color combo if we don’t mind saying, as for color!

Unfortunately we didn’t get our wheels done in time for this article, but we wanted to provide you with a brief look inside Rotiform’s headquarters and show you precisely how these multi-piece wheels are assembled.

In this day and age of infinite information on the internet, and an increasing array of methods and means to gather said information from devices of all shapes and sizes, there are some businesses that simply seem unable to modernize and get their business in order. They are soon going to go the way of the DoDo bird, a bird that is extinct. So instead of gripping painfully on to the past and hoping things return to the good old days for their business, they should instead be focusing on things they can do to modernize and stay on top of the game instead of crying like babies that the new ways of the modern age are ruining them. Stop being a victim and do something about it. Here’s what I’m talking about.

Taxi Cab Companies

If you live in a town that has Uber and Lyft, you’ve no doubt heard the taxi companies whining about how these businesses are going to put them out of a job. And you know what? They will. The idea of having to fight others on the street curb to get into a car that smells of stale cigarette smoke while a dude who seems to hate you drives you to your destination in a route he made up to make a few extra dollars seems abhorrent. It’s way better to get into a car and use GPS from your phone to do all the navigating to and from. Taxi cabs are on their way out unless they figure out a way to modernize, maybe by creating apps of their own. Still, the ubiquitousness of Uber seems surely to put cabbies six feet under (professionally).

Car Dealerships

In an age where we are getting more and more accustomed to making transactions without any inter personal conversation, the idea of going into a Dealership and haggling a price for your car seems so painfully archaic. You are set up to lose; they know their cars, their bottom line intimately, whereas we have to guess. You feel like you’re being had no matter what. You can walk into chrysler san juan capistrano and be told a price on a new car and then look it up on http://www.ocauto.com and it’ll be totally different. How are you to know what you can get away with paying? They have all the tricks and you are dealt a short hand. We’re going to be going to Carmax and online much more if these dealerships hold on to their old, bullying sales tactics.

Music Sales

You’ve probably heard everyone and their mother whine about how if you’re a band you can’t make any money from CD sales anymore. Well, that’s true! People really only buy CDs at shows now. So instead of whining about it, figure out other ways to entice people to spend money on you. Make vinyl, or make the art so nice on the CD package that people want to own it for that reason alone. Think outside the box.

Overlook it guys. She’s taken! But we can dream… If we first discovered this ’95 Nissan 240SX, and then found out that it was owned by someone, our hearts fluttered. Badass car with a badass chick… Holla! Although with all great girls there exists a great guy as well. La Bouakham had the help of her other half, Thon Southithong, and together they’ve created one sick S14.

We sat down to hear her story, right before our shoot with La in the hometown of Phoenix. We learned that she didn’t get older dreaming about cars 24/7 like many of us. Her inspiration came after a casual stroll through Hot Import Nights. She liked cars but didn’t know them out and inside, and didn’t own anything worth modifying at the time. That all changed after watching her first drift demo followed by a ride-along with professional Formula Drift driver, Forrest Wang. That ride changed her life because before she knew it, she was looking for a 240SX to acquire.The complete goal was to make it a street legal drift build while keeping it clean, La told us. Street drift, neat and legal don’t always go hand-in-hand but La’s done exactly that. From the beginning, the car was actually a blank canvas until she added a front-end Kouki conversion, carbon hood and a DMax widebody kit giving the 240 its aggressive drift style. All the aero pieces were installed in her garage just before the car was dropped off at local body shop Intense Power for a repaint in sexy Royal Sapphire Pearl-a factory Toyota Supra paint color.

From there, the automobile was slammed on coilovers and given all the necessary suspension bits from ISIS for a stiff chassis which included tension rods, rear control arms and more. The top section of the chassis was also stitch-welded in anticipation of future drift abuse, which La plans to do after our photoshoot as well as someRealise It

Underneath the fenders, La went with the well tested Work Meister S1 wheels in the Burning Black finish. The dish on these rims is massive as well as a perfect complement to her ride’s theme.

Touching around the interior, the stock seats were ditched for Sparcos while accessories like Takata harnesses along with a MOMO controls give the cockpit a track-ready feel. For now she wants to retain an entire interior for comfort, even though la intends to add a rollcage and possibly strip out each of the panels and back end once she starts drifting.An Excellent Girl So You Know It

The engine bay came last and pays homage to La’s ride along with Forrest Wang, who drifts a 2JZ-swapped S13. She followed suit with another twin-turbo Toyota engine, the 1JZ. This particular motor was taken out of a JDM Toyota Chaser along with the five-speed manual. The entire transplant was performed by Thon in her garage, and also required a custom engine downpipe, exhaust and harness constructed from scratch.

While the turbos and internals are stock, she’s actually pretty satisfied with the power and drivability in theRealise It

We know this S14 is simple compared to many S-chassis builds in the past. But this build has great theme while done on a budget. It’s also planned out and owned by a woman who didn’t expect she’d ever build a project car five years ago but now owns one of the sickest, street-driven, drift-ready 240SXs in theBe Aware Of It

Engine JDM 2.5-liter twin-turbo 1JZ-GTE swap; Circuit Sports engine mount; Drift Motion pulleys; custom exhaust, engine and downpipe harness; ISIS dual 4 blast pipes; Magnaflow cat; braided fuel lines; Earl’s inline fuel filter; Walbro 255lph fuel pump; HKS Sequential blow-off valve; Suspicious Garage power steering line; aluminum steering reservoir; nylon supply and returnAn Effective Girl And You Also Know It

Footwork & Chassis Moon Face Racing coilovers; ISIS front tension rods, rear upper control arms, traction toe and linksKnow It

Exterior Dmax Type 3 body kit with 20mm front and 40mm rear fenders, D1-spec carbon hood; Kouki front-end conversion; black LED taillights; HID conversion; Toyota Supra Royal Sapphire Pearl paint

Interior Sparco Evo seats; Takata Drift3 harnesses; Bride seat rails; NRG harness bar; Prosport gauges; suede headliner; MOMO steering wheel and hub adapter; Pioneer head unit; Sony speakers

Thanks You My other half and partner in crime Thon Southithong; Kyle Onzuka and Tommy Vonn for pulling late nights when we had deadlines in order to meet; Chris Smollack for showing us the ropes of fabrication; my good friends (you know who you are) for giving us a helping hand; my awesome roommate Nookie Somsanuk; Oliver Butrus and Han Wong at intensepower.com; Brian Fox at Takata Racing; Gilbert Valdez at Valdez Auto Body; Vitaly Spokin and Brianna Pebbles at AceUp Motorsports; Mike Valera at mvphoto.net; Dax Justin and Rodriguez Derendal at streetsweepergang.com