Subaru WRX STi 2000

Words Raju F.V.P. Kumar, Photos Ben Silcock

Owner Falgoon Patel

A long winters night two Septembers ago in a small isolated warehouse in a secret location, two determined lads set out to complete a mission, the mission to create one of the most unique in your face street cars to ever have graced the roads New Zealand. A tall order in any way that you look at it, but as you can see here we have Falgoon Patel’s 2000 STi version 6 AKA CNDYMN AKA STILYN and it is definitely by all means unique.

The term WRX is common as mud in the modified car world, you’ve either owned one, been for a ride in one, had a play with one, or your cousins best mates older brothers uncles son has one and he’ll smoke you with it. We’ve all grown up with them weather they are winning rallies, cruising down the streets with their hoochie sirens at full noise (read blow off valves .Ed) or parked at the end of your street.

1982 DX Corolla

There’s no doubt about it; those Indians are crazy! If they’re not charming snakes, arranging marriages or hanging off the side of trains then they’re often up to something most would consider to be insane. Sticking to this finest of Indian traditions is none other than Porirua’s own Raymond “Mad Indian” Ali, with his ever so slightly modified 1982 Toyota Corolla.

Mazda RX3 Sedan 1974

Photos Performance Car

Late Last month at Ignition HQ, the night was getting no younger and The Lackie had finally returned with a sumptuous Shark and Tatie feast. After everyone could eat no more and the thrill of sconning Lackie in the head with a crab stick had long since grown old, it was time to think to the next issue and what which cars would have the honour of a feature spot.

DX corolla

Brap brap brap brap…You either love it or loath it, the sound of a rotary engine idling away, either way it’s a sound that can’t be ignored in the New Zealand modified car scene. Rotors they are everywhere, and more often than not these engines find there way under the hood of vehicles that Mr. Mazda didn’t originally intend for.

But if you weigh up the pros and cons when dropping in an after market engine the pros stack up in a big way towards a rotary, they are light, take up very little room, use very minimal wiring, make insane power, rev like crazy and have aftermarket bolt on parts list as long as the param white pages.

Toyota Altezza

Words Rob McIlroy

It was a cold Wellington night and there I was, abandoned at Ignition HQ with the Lackie while the others were out on a shoot. While my discontent for the situation grew, I tried to set the little bastard’s jeans on fire to entertain myself, five minutes, one pair of jeans and a empty fire extinguisher later we were in the midst of an argument in regards to where he is more likely to get laid… if at all.
He said Hamilton. I said Neverland ranch. He said with a woman. I said with something that may have been a woman at one stage. Turns out we were both right…. But that’s a story best left told another time, or… never.