Foreword
Friends, Motorheads,
Countrymen.......
lend me your ears !!!
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CONTENTS
The Cars
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f you are reading this, chances are that you would have heard of HOTstuff
magazine founded back in the year 2001, when the 6th generation of
Mitsubishi Lancer Evolutions and bug eyed Subaru WRXs ruled the
streets with their fellow Japanese naturally aspirated VTEC equipped Honda
brethren. HOTstuff was the magazine that started the genre of modified cars
reporting and writing here in Singapore, and at the epicentre of street culture
and car tuning. It was an exciting era, an intoxicating mixture of Japanese
manga Initial D on video CDs and subsequently brought to life on the big
screen by Taiwanese actor Jay Chou, and car clubs sprouting via online
forums like Subaru Club, Singapore Honda Club and the still active Traction
Circle Club based on circuit driving. It was a time when car enthusiasts meet
regularly at places like 24 hour McDonalds or your friendly roti prata shops.
Many friendships were formed, soundtracks from Fast and Furious movie
franchise were downloaded and copied; and rounding at Orchard Gudang was
de rigueur weekend rituals.
20 The Lord Of The Ring
The Street Culture
32 Radical Demon
XOautosport magazine
42 Classy Fusion
WX’s MTM A4 Quattro
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I was roaming the streets with GD series Subaru WRX STi and the legendary
Honda NSX, one of but a handful in Singapore in those heady days. And
amongst all the activities highlighted above, I always look forward to every
print issue of HOTstuff magazine. Even till today, you can still find dated
issues of HOTstuff at many workshops and tyre shops!!! I myself still have a
few tattered and dog-eared copies in my store room.
Jap Inspired
Audi TT Qualtro
XOautosport magazine
60 The APR Connections
ExtremeKars magazine
68 WALD BMW M5er
eS4 magazine
CarAudio magazine
The Usuals
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EUROnews
Anything / Everything Auto Culture
EUROclub
Anything / Everything Auto Culture
EUROshop
Aftermarket Product & Services
The Crew
Publisher
Managing Editor
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And it all sort of died away......a culture slowly disappearing and all that’s
left are sentimentalists and old magazines. What happened? Some blame
vigorous enforcement by the authories, others blame the high car prices; and
yet some attribute it culture fatigue. But I humbly opine that the simple truth is
post 2008, the Japanese car makers vacated the sports coupe segment, bar
the excellent Nissan GTR 35 and the supercar territory Lexus LFA; coinciding
with the rise of Volkswagen turbocharged all wheel drives and BMW’s
continued focus on sporty elements of their rides. And the homespun truth that
as the local economy prosper, the more expensive European rides has gone
from aspirational to achievable as individual incomes soared.
As such, me and my colleagues spent a good part of a year brainstorming
how to serve a European car-centric population. A suggestion of a “Euro
car version” of HOTstuff delivered electronically and to be downloaded was
mooted; and by a majority vote of 2617238 yeas against 1025386 nays, I am
pleased to present you the inaugural issue of EUROstuff e-magazine; and
yes.....we are that serious....EURO in capital letters, before stuff.
72 Image Dynamic
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Okay, eyes it should be, for those who are
not fans of Shakespearean drama.
Motorgasm Tan
Mattew Lim
Kevin Tan
Andre Aryanto
Jarett Michael
Technical Manager : Jonathan Toh
Production Manager : Gina Tan
Web Designer : Bebe Lee
Business Dev Director : Vincent Ng
Business Dev Manager : Eric Ong
Sales Executive : Justin Tan
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In this first spin-off issue, we go German!!!! From Ingolstadt, we bring you
our very own Lord Of The Ring trilogy - a Audi R8 that could have raced in
the LeMans; a classy city ride MTM tuned A4; and my personal favourite - a
carbon wunderkind Euromotive engined TTS. From Bavaria, we bring you
a slammed WALD kitted BMW E60 M5. And to show age is no matter in car
tuning scene....from Stuttgart,