Absolut Golf Swedish Built, German Styled Photos by Hjalmar Car culture is global. No matter where you go you will find a car scene, and where ever you find a car scene you will find a stance sub-culture. Its in the stance sub-culture of Sweden that we find today’s featured car built by Richard Håveland. Richard, known to his friends as “Mingan” (yet he won’t tell why) not only owns this ’98 Golf IV 1.6 SR, he is also the proud owner of a ’78 Golf MK1. His passion with VWs started around 2009. It was around that time that he saw his 1st German styled car. Since then he has emulated that German styling...

New Zealand Goes Sideways D1 Round 2 | Pukekohe Park Raceway, New Zealand Photos by Jamie Walker Just in case you haven’t noticed, over the last 11 years drifting has grown far beyond what most expected. From its grassroots days in the back-streets of Japan, to professional racing sanctions at some of the world’s most renowned tracks. It has literally taken the world by storm. Keiichi Tsuchiya wanted to bring this adrenaline filled artistry to the masses; and with the help of his creation D1GP along with other professional sanctions such as Formula Drift, that was realized. It wasn’t soon after that amateur and grassroots...

Back to Work Tony’s Slammed S2000 Photos by Viet Dang of Wreckless Productions It has been a crazy 3 months. Since Sept rolled around we got slammed with event preperations, car builds and various projects. While we have been hard on bringing you coverage from events all over the globe, we have been a bit backed up on car features. Now that the holidays are starting to near their end and the beginning of a new year reigns close; its time we get back to some serious work. We are hunting down cars near and far for State of Stance features. Let this be a sweet teaser as we get ready to rock you with the hottest the scene has to...

Have Greens with your Turkey Tuned-Life X State of Stance Photos by Andy of Tuned-Life Our good friends at Tuned-Life sent us these teasers of a upcoming shoot. I have to say that I do like what I see and can’t wait until they send us the full set along with more info on the owner and the car. Stay tuned… tuned-Life that...

RedBull Emsee Do you See this EmSee Words and Photos by: Emil Garcia Car Culture is religion here at SoS. So when Red Bull, a company that has revamped car culture, does music, the staff here at SoS is on hand to witness it. Red Bull’s Emsee Tour made a stop in Miami this past Wednesday and it was an eargasm. The atmosphere was that of street corners and circle crowds where freestyle battles would subject your ears to a verbal onslaught of clever punch lines and euphemisms. The artists crowded the sidewalk early in the evening for a bit of banter and wordplay, warming up for the competition ahead of them. It was a call to arms for the...

Our good friend Alex sent us this video of a nice and clean slammed Golf and we had to share! Check it out!!!

Build your own RallyKor And Terrorize the Streets  A lot of us would love to drive a street-legal rallykor, nonetheless build it ourselves. Truth be told that there really is no substitute for building something with your own two hands, especially if that something is an awesome car. Helping you build a car that doesn’t explode and, you know, actually exists, is Phoenix’s Local Motors, whose Rally Fighter & Build Experience assists visiting enthusiasts in assembling a street-legal hill climbing, jaw-dropping, neck breaking machine under the direct supervision of their expert builders over the course of just two three-day...

Chevy Ride & Drive Camaro COPO Released Photography by Chris Cruz At this year’s SEMA event, Chevy invited a small group of us to their press release ride & drive. We had the opportunity to test drive the new 2012 models on a closed cone course and we were also given a 1st hand look at what’s to come from Chevy in 2012. We were lucky enough to be asked to park our Flat6 Motorworks X State of Stance Chevy Sonic at the event. I just wish we would have been able to get it on the cone course, it would have really let up test out the Federal tire and Ground Control suspension combo. Some of the other Sonics on display...

SEMA 2011 | Part 2 The Outdoor Show Photography by Chris Cruz The thing about SEMA is that it is so grand in scale, that it is at times hard to ingest. Not only does it consume all three structures of the Las Vegas convention center, but it also claims the two large exterior parking lots adjacent to the two main halls. It’s this exterior section that has a collection of consumer show cars, mixed in with shop cars, mixed in with the famous motorsports exhibition section. While walking through these areas you sometimes find it unbelievable that these cars are not in the convention center. So here is a look at what could be found...

SEMA 2011 | Part 1 Some whips, but mostley hips. Photography by Michael Alvarado What can be said about SEMA? By definition it is an industry trade show founded in 1963 by a group of guys that loved building cars; Roy Richter, Ed Iskenderian, Willie Garner, Bob Hedman, John Bartlett, Phil Weiand, Jr., Al Segal, Dean Moon, and Vic Edelbrock, Jr. They called it the Speed Equipment Manufacturing Association aka SEMA. In 1970 it was changed to Specialty Equipment Market Association, still retaining the SEMA acronym. Since its conception it now consists of over 6500 companies worldwide. While originally it is designed to be a week of networking...

Photos by Tony Mo Photography Simply Clean has to be one of my top 3 favorite events in Florida. The, location, the people behind it, the attendees, the cars… all great and when rolled into one place, all make for an amazing event. It truly is one of those events that I feel will become an annual tradition. Here are some more pics from the event.

Photos by: Austin Carmody The 3rd annual Simply Clean event took place this past weekend at Route46. Route46 has played host to a basket of automotive events, but none like Simply Clean. As the sun started to crack over the Florida sky, Nik and his staff where already hard at work to ensure that this 3rd annual event was more organized and more streamlined than last year. From everything I heard, his plan was a success. The event saw a numerous attendance and large support from the automotive community, manufactures and vendors such as Titan Motorsports, CCW, Discount Tire Co., “WE”, State of Stance, ILDS, SSP Vinyl, HighwayStar...

Our friends at Speedline FilmWerks have released the final episode of their 6 part series covering Wuste 2011. Check it out! Episode 6 :: The Project...

Before we bombard you with wave after wave of awesome SEMA posts I thought it would be nice to put up some extra pictures from Formula D Irwindale. ...