Well, probably not. Actually, definitely not, but that didn’t stop Kia from taking one to Moab and running it up the Hell’s Revenge trail, and tackling Hell’s Gate.
According to the video, all they added were a new set of tires (all terrains, baby), a skid plate, and disconnected the sway bars. They disconnected the sway bars when they got to the Gate. For being, well, a Kia Sorento it did pretty good. Scraped some bumpers, and probably some other stuff too.
Will we see Kia Sorentos flocking to Moab, and other off road hot beds? I mean, I kinda hope so cause that’d be hilarious.
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Hello everybody! We’re back with another new episode/team building exercise! Dave, Gavin, and Mike cuddle up on the couch, fire up a sound board app, and get to rambling!
GoPro isn’t doing so hot
Ford may have put the wrong head gaskets in some Focus RS’s
BMW develops mid-drift refueling to spite corporate partner Toyota
Weird recommendations for cars
Big & Little Cottonwood canyons could become toll roads
And there’s some other stuff in there, including memes and whatnot. Anyway…
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Hey everybody! We’re back for another week of podcast shenanigans! And this one is a special one, because it’s part one of our holiday special! Brandon, Dave, Gavin, and Mike have a few beverages and talk about some stuff
Morgan will be building their electric three wheeler!
Ohio released a list of rejected vanity license plates
We talk about the most we’ve gone through for a car
We reveal your choices for best engine notes!
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We’re still having a contest! Each week for the next two weeks, we’ll pick someone to receive a grab bag of shirts, Hot Wheels, and other stuff. THEN we’ll pick one of those winners to join us in the office, to be a guest on the CAMcast! How does one enter? Simple: share this episode! Share it on social media, and tag us. It’s as easy as that. We’ll pick a winner on next week’s episode!
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Most of us go on vacations, and we enjoy them. We go on cruises, fly to Vegas, or road trip to a nearby getaway. My trips last a few days, and I haven’t gone further than Las Vegas in a few years. A bold few will pile into a large vehicle, and take to the open road for weeks at a time. And some just up and live in one of those vehicles for months on end. This is a story about one of the latter.
The handsome fellow relaxing in the Adirondack chair is Jay. Jay is quite the character. He has lived on a boat while he was fixing it up. He’s done bike races, well into decades when most people would be content to sit at home and reminisce about the life they’ve led. He’s lived in the desert, and biked on trips that most people would drive. He also turned a 2000 Dodge Ram delivery van into a pretty sweet home on wheels.
Jay got to work pretty early. He says he got cracking two weeks after buying the van, his girlfriend says the stockness lasted five minutes. Regardless, he built this van to live in, and while some people would throw a twin mattress in the back and call it good, Jay didn’t do that. He couldn’t even really settle on how the interior would look, in the fifteen years he’s owned it he’s changed the interior ten times. No project is ever done.
Now, why did he pick a van of all things? Imagine this: you’re living in Newport Beach, California. You live in a rather expensive home, in a very nice neighborhood. One morning, you go out for a run and you see a Class C motorhome parked on your street. where did this come from? You think to yourself. It can’t be here all summer, there’s no way. And yet that monster sits. Obstructing views and traffic, and generally being an eyesore. The site weighs on you, your productivity at work falls. By the end of the summer, you’ve been fired. You can’t afford your mortgage anymore, so you end up moving to a trailer park in the IE and reminisce about the life you led. Now imagine that instead of seeing the Class C, you see a bubble top van. It’s smaller, less garish. You don’t notice it because it’s a van, and contractors and other professionals drive them. You don’t get fired, and you continue living happily in Orange County. That’s why the van, because it’s inconspicuous.
Running width-wise across the van is a large shelf that could be used as a bench, but is just a shelf. It holds all the supplies one would need when living out of a home-made camper van, including a broom. Above the bench/shelf is a pretty sweet little Murphy bed, on which he’s attached some Tibetan prayer flags. Underneath the elevated bed is his Adirondack deck chair, and half a chest of drawers. Directly across from the bed are some hooks, which he hangs jackets, hats and whatever else he wants to on them. It’s a van, were you expecting there to be a distinct lack of storage?
Jay throws his bike in the back when he heads on his adventures. And he’s gone on plenty in this van. He’s put 166,000 miles on the odometer, and those miles taken him to the Pacific Northwest and Orca’s Island. He’s taken it to California a hundred times, and it’s gone up to Fish Lake in central Utah dozens of times. Him and his girlfriend, who is my girlfriend’s grandmother (hi Jeanette!), hop into the van, hitch up their fourteen foot trailer, and they spend their summers living in the van and trailer by the lake. And that trailer hasn’t been spared from Jay’s handy work. He built a deck for that thing. Out of wood. And they bring it with them!
The van isn’t perfect. If he could, Jay would’ve picked up a 3/4 ton van instead of the half ton. And he definitely would have a V8. The V6 hasn’t exactly been the fuel sipper he imagined it was going to be, especially when dragging that trailer up to the lake. Overall, it’s been pretty good. And it’s really hard to complain when you’ve got the door open and you’re enjoying a view of Newport Harbor.
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I feel safe in assuming that you do most of your maintenance yourself if you read this site with any regularity. There’s a garage full of tools, a family or significant other who understands why you do these things, and a host of manuals in the garage and websites bookmarked to help you keep your vehicle road worthy. But what if you encounter a problem with your vehicle that you can’t handle yourself? It’s not a catastrophic failure, but it’s not as simple as fetching the correct size socket out of the drawer and adjusting. What do you do? Go to the dealer and get it coming and going? Trust your pride and joy to a “specialist” shop that specializes in 47 different makes? Oh if only there was a dealer alternative!
We’ve featured some good shops in the past, and we still highly recommend them. But say you’re cruising around in your GTi and it does a VW thing and stops working properly. It still works, albeit in limp mode, and you can’t figure out what happened. The internet has no useful answers and your friends are stumped. What do you do? Dealer? Viking funeral? Hope it goes away on its own? No. You limp that thing up to Layton and get it to Makes & Models. Why? Because you’re getting factory trained techs and service without having to go to the dealership and pay those ridiculous prices.
Their bread and butter is the VAG makes: Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche, but they also service Mercedes-Benz and BMW vehicles. And if you’re thinking about joining the uber-affluent set by getting a Lamborghini or Ferrari, then you’re in luck! They already service some bulls and horseys, and they’re working on becoming a full blown Lamborghini service center. Doing that requires acquiring all sorts of specialized tools and sending the techs off to get the necessary deutschetalian training. However, if you prefer your mid-engine supercar to sport rings on the nose instead of livestock, you’re set.
Not only do many a R8 come in for service, but members of the staff own them and even race an R8 LMS in NASA Utah region competition! Technically TW Racing campaigns the R8, but if you wander in to the shop you might be able to see it tucked away in a corner of the show room. You might even get to meet on of the drivers! But back to your non-functional Golf for a moment. You get it there, and the techs work their magic and voila! IT LIVES! And for cheaper than what you budgeted for. The more sensible amongst us would pocket the money and go about their day, but not us. No no no, we see the massive list of companies they’re authorized dealers and installers for and suddenly that extra money is gone. Who is on the list?
Akrapovic
034 Motorsports
Global Motorsports Group
Integrated Engineering
APR
AWE Tuning
VF Engineering
and more
But what if they told you that the car was toast? OH GOD WHY??? Well you’re in luck! They are also a dealership! Yes, you can buy a car from them, have them service it, AND have them modify it! It’s a one stop shop for all of your Euro needs!
Thankfully there is an alternative to dropping your baby off at the dealership, and waiting to see how many 80 hour weeks you will need to work to pay off the bill. It’s up in Layton, and they have a racecar hanging out in the showroom.
It was a busy, busy day at Miller Motorsports Park on March 22. It was the opening of the NASA Utah season, the Radical Cup made a stop, and in the West Paddock some degenerates excited youth were sliding around like one is want to do when given the opportunity. I wasn’t around to see any sort of competition, but I did pop in long enough to snap some photos and see people whip 360s through the exit gate of the course. Someone even punted a cone while doing so!
See?!
Anyway, the next round is all the way out on June 14 in (wait for it) Downtown Salt Lake City! Exciting right?? See you then, and in the meantime enjoy the photos.
Words and photos by Michael Chandler
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The Utah Drift scene has been well, lacking. Many people have stepped up and tried to make it successful, but for one reason or another, it hasn’t thrived. This is the year we sincerely hope that changes. Brandon Wicknick is now competing in Formula D, and this first event of the season went remarkably well.
This is thanks in no small part to the guys who put it together. Jason Smith, Mike Fulkerson, Brent Cheney, and more behind the scenes all helped bring this event together and solicited the help of the drift community to see what works and doesn’t work.
This made the event fun and a great place to shake off the cobwebs.
Take a look at the pics and see what you can look forward to this year from the Utah drifting scene.
Words by Trent Bray, Photos by Michael Chandler and Trent Bray, Video by Trent Bray
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This past weekend I left the house at 9am and didn’t return until 2am. It was a day filled with cars, but this is what set the tone for the day, the 2012 Intermountain Concours d’Elegance.
These are not the type of cars I normally shoot, but I’m starting to wonder why. The lines and the details are exquisite. The emphasis on design is unsurpassed in today’s cars where they are built by the marketing team.
The Intermountain Concours d’Elegance took place at the Thanksgiving Point Gardens in Lehi, UT. It was about as beautiful surrounding as you can get without an ocean nearby.
Really though, the pictures and video describe it all.
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In addition to hosting a event out on the track, LapBattle.com threw a little drift party in the paddock at Miller Motorsports Park this past weekend. There’s a mini gallery of sideways awesome after the jump. (more…)
Recently, the Utah Drift scene found a deserted track that the owner was willing to rent out for a cheap price. This of course led to a great drift session out in Eagle Mountain, UT. We were on hand to witness this event, and click ‘Continue Reading’ to see some of the photos we shot. (more…)
