“aLL STaR Performance is proud to announce their partnership with General Motors for the 2010 SEMA Show and the 2011 season.

aLL STaR Performance, led by Gene Marcel will be designing and building a truly unique 2011 Chevrolet Camaro SS, which will make its debut at the 2011 SEMA Show. Marcel and his team are no strangers to the car customizing world, having started out in South Florida in the late 90′s and now continuing in Southern California. Since 1996, Gene and his team have been involved with a wide variety of automobiles ranging from two high profile Bomex Honda Accords to their latest 2010 project, an Infiniti G37 Coupe. In between those builds, the guys from aLL STaR have also designed, built and toured a tuner style Scion xB, a Euro styled Volvo S40, a VIP themed Infiniti G35, as well as a 2006 and 2009 Honda Fit.

There are plenty of things to get excited about with this build, starting off with the rendering done by the Gurnade Design Firm. Gurnade was in charge of taking a list of ideas from paper and working their magic to transform it into what you see in the rendering.

The aLL STaR Performance crew has joined forces with some of the top automotive players, all of whose products will be incorporated into the final build. Some of these brands include Forgestar Wheels, Baer brakes, Falken Tires, Air Lift Suspension, Extreme Dimensions, Dupont, American Racing Headers, Lysholm Superchargers, Innovate Motorsports, Azentek, Status Racing, STACK, Autometer, Trent’s Trick Upholstrey, MagnaFlow Exhaust Products, Webasto, Ignited HID, Light WurkZ, StreetGlow, Metra, Image Dynamics, TechAFX, S.P.E.C, Royal Purple and Real AutoWorks.

Some of the highlights to the aLL STaR Performance Chevrolet Camaro SS include a set of 22×11” Forgestar wheels, a custom set of Baer brakes, Air Lift
digital suspension, Lysholm supercharger and a custom paint mix thanks to Dupont.

Over the next few months leading up to the SEMA show the entire build will be documented by Marcel and his team. Be sure to keep up to date with progress on the aLL STaR Performance Chevrolet Camaro SS by following the entire build-up on the 2010 SEMA Project Build Ups page on Facebook!”

REMIX Award Tour in collaboration with Xtreme Drift Circuit is happening this Saturday, Aug. 7th.
Registration is still open and spectators can purchase tickets. Just click on the flier.

Next Stop of the RPM Series will be this Saturday, Aug. 7th, in Irvine, Ca. Click the flier and purchase your tickets now!

Next stop of the the Xtreme Drift Ciruit/Remix Tour is coming to Raceway Park in Englishtown, NJ. Be prepared for lots of tire smoke, hot cars, hotter models and entertainment throughout the day.

It’s A OK in my book! (cheesy i know… shut up!)

June 29, 2010, Huntington Beach California – On July 11th, 1998, Rich Goodwin’s twist on the average car show changed the face of youth automotive culture. His car show creation, Hot Import Nights, ignited a multi-billion dollar aftermarket industry and that industry went on to spawn movies, toys, video games and even a shift in how OEM’s developed their vehicles. Now almost 12 years later and nearly to the day that Hot Import Nights was first produced, Goodwin is set to release his first new show since he sold Hot Import Nights in 2004. The show is called RPM and it will debut at Chicago’s Soldier Field on Saturday, July 10th and much like the beginning of Hot Import Nights, RPM is defying all the odds.
RPM was initially announced as a two event series, an outdoor nighttime show in Chicago, Illinois on July 10th and a daytime festival in Irvine, California on August 7th, but the overwhelming response to the show, despite the economy and despite the hurdles that have plagued tuner shows in recent years, the show has received tremendous support from the tuning community at large and that prompted a quick addition of two more indoor nighttime shows in Dallas, Texas on September 4th and San Mateo, California on October 9th.

“The response to RPM did not surprise us,” says Goodwin. “We felt as though over the past few years, shows were increasingly becoming more corporate, more about the concert portion of the show, and more about the models rather than RPM’s model of carefully blending those lifestyle elements into a show whose main focus is the cars, the enthusiasts and the industry that supports them.”
The show has quietly become the most anticipated show of the year and is gaining more and more steam. The show is on track to sell out on car show registration in Chicago and anticipated to be at full capacity. Similar success is taking place in all other cities as the tuning community rallies around this show.

“I believe that another reason for our success is that we are not trying to be all things to all people blending in all different types of vehicles and crowds or trying to blend a show
and racing combination. We are one thing. We are a tuner car show and we are the only one out there these days” says, Forrest Melton, National Sales Director for RPM.

The excitement over RPM has lured in some pretty big names such as MTV’s Jersey Shore cast member and DJ, Pauly D who will be playing along with Hard House DJ’s Alex Peace and Mario Florek in Chicago on the event’s main stage.
In Irvine the show captured the imagination of Funkmaster Flex who will present his Funkmaster Flex car show inside of RPM and be filming his new MTV2 show, Full Throttle. Also in Irvine will be the most recognized stunt bike rider in the world, Jason Britton who will rev up his bike and perform 3 stunt shows all inside this one time Orange County California theme park that has been abandoned and now restored. Irvine will even feature a full blown Carnival.
RPM is currently booking headline entertainment for Dallas and San Mateo which will be announced in the coming weeks.

The show features Misa Campo as Miss RPM with industry models Jenny Chu, Corissa Furr, Alicia Whitten and Jeri Lee. The show also features Step to the Mic (amateur hip hop talent contest), Dance Revolution (dance crews & various forms of dance competition), Flatland Freestyle (amateur stunt bike competition), and Cycle Path Magazine’s Ultimate 2 Wheel Nation (sport bike display).

“These are exciting times,” says Goodwin “we built the show we thought everyone wanted despite all outside factors. We built a show for the car owners, the fans and the industry that support them and so far it has paid off. It has the feeling of 1998 all over again”.

MadMike Whiddett’s RedBull RX8 drift car has an insane offset. I just felt the need to share this. Make sure to check it out at the next Formula D event.

At E3 this week, the much anticipated Gran Turismo 5 was givin a release date. Watch the video to find out when you will be able to buy yourself a copy.

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