When I recently went to Norway to sign longtime dynamic soundboard Daniel Hovdahl aka O’SNAP as a part of SUPERIOR MEDIA, I got a ”two for one bargain” with another young photographer who often tagged along whenever they went to events.

This norwegian gentleman’s name is HENRIK OULIE (FB FANPAGE) and this is what he was up to at GATEBIL MANTORP 2012 ”just having fun” with the camera. Enjoy!

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(We open this up with some some crew love. Rani Giliana to the left was one of the ”weekender” photographers while the fresh dude in the middle Pierre SIR_PIERRE Ingelsgård was making everyone happy in the Superior Drivers Club. The guy on the right of things in the gay shirt… just ignore him.)

(One of the most entertaining things about Gatebil at Mantorp is being able to see the carnage up close from this start – finish wall. But not anymore! Some members of the press there decided to ban people from there, so they could take better pics. Big mistake IMO, not the only one either…)

(Our DR30 Skyline has gotten praise left and right but… Isn’t it ”charmingly ugly” from certain angles as well? BTW, check out the latest issue of Banzai Magazine!)

(The Superior Drift S15 owned by Thompa Pettersson was making some noise all weekend even though it was just practicing. Credit to ”Thompa” who finally seems to have cooled off a bit since buying a ex-Formula Drift car and is now working more relaxed trying to improve his driving.)

(…there is a reason this Gulf designed S15 from Norway follows a pic of our own livery. We are flattered when people say we have similar style to the classic brand, but yeah- obviously something completely different when side by side.)

(The face of a madman!?! Um… Looks like the nicest guy in the world? Would you be surprised if I said this could be one of the worlds most fierce tire slayers with his 4WD Audi…?)

(One of our specially invited guests for the weekend in our camp was the King of the Swedish VIP scene: Christoffer Geiros. Obviously, this is the worlds most easy car to take stunning pics of!)

(I know people rage on about a Formula one start being a thing to experience before you die, but I don’t think Gatebil Extreme and their road race comes that far away either in terms of orgasmic engine experiences.)

(We were filming. A lot. And it really takes a team effort to do it. Here you can see David Johansson doing all the easy work while I do the excrugiating effort to just point and say what to shoot. Life as manager of the Superior brand is tough indeed…)

(Here is a guy who has grown on me ever since he while being interviewed by me said in my face ”everything Japanese is crap”. Since I have spend most of my adult life importing these cars, I found it quite funny- but pretty sure he meant no harm and with a generally nice attitude and drifting skills to match… Well its east to just like Dennis Martinsson. Bonus points for giving me a wild ride in a Golf cart one late evening too!)

(Final blogpic is that of Kenneth Groth who is always taking good care of Henrik and Daniel Hovdahl during events. Also someone who will lead the frontier when Drifting as a sport starts growing bigger, very well spoken and with a ”no whining” attitude. Something many Swedish drifters could learn from. Chap next to him is Stian Sörlie who is a prominent GT-class racer himself…)

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Almost one week from the start of the event we are just getting into the ”after talk” spirit here in the Superior-blog. Also like to thank GATEBIL EVENTS for having us here.

Tomorrow we’ll have Part II up of HENRIK OULIE MEDIA (CLICK!) pics, and we urge you to check out OUR OWN FACEBOOK for everything in-between until then!

Finally we are back in our own drivers seat, the huge pile of E-mails and the critical evaluation of how we executed GATEBIL MANTORP 2012 are over with. Now lets just show you some of the good stuff!

Christoffer Talvis is one of our SUPERIOR SELECTED PHOTOGRAPHERS who relies less on editing and more on capturing the moment. We really hope you like his style, he is a regular mainstay at Swedish online automotive magazine GREENLIGHT so if you like this then go and check it out!

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(Mean, meaner – Kai Roger Bakken! This borderline spaceship Audi S1’ish Gatebil Extreme mainstay gives you emotions just by standing still in the pits. He was unfortunate to blow up his engine far

up to cosmos; but is definitely an iconic build for these events.)

(Alvin Laegreid brings like many nuts norwegians like him; the ”bread and butter” of Gatebil events = High-powered cars built only for reckless driving and tons of smoke. It was a shame teammate and personal favorite Öivind Översveen were left at home with a broken gearbox- but instead he had equally nice and playful teammates who also were very generous with the Rom & Coke during the after tracks!)

(All I ever hear from people not too familiar with Gatebil is ”how the hell do you define an event like this, what is it all about?!”. You’ve basically answered your own question by asking that, since the sick mix of different car cultures that remind you of that ”holy shit I have to get my friend really drunk really fast” at the end of a pre-party translates into insane builds like this Chevy Truck that is in fact a Corvette C5 base with the pick-up truck body on top of it?! Photoshoot coming…)

(If tire smoke was a religion, Gatebil would be its Jerusalem for sure; as people pilgrimage many miles only to lay waste to rubber. This 1200+HP BMW E30 owned by Rikard Ivars did not have to travel that long, but still did his routine prayer to the tire slayer gods like a good believer…)

(The carnage and savage nature of how cars are used is another one of those ”caveman entertaining” things these events offer. Pretty sure its fun while it lasts, and many importers of cheap body kits from China are rubbing their hands every time this happens.)

(…not to mention that engines with sometimes double, triple or even four times the factory engine power being driven like these… can lead to certain meltdowns. Here you can see a manifold having cached fire, shame on such a nice build!)

(Although most of them stick in the pits, I find it extremely ballsy of owners of exotics such as this Lamborghini Murcielago also being taken for a spin on the track sometimes. There is at the Norwegian events a ”exclusive” session, but here in Sweden it had to mingle with the rest of the streetcars. Bold indeed.)

(Drifting in Sweden is still pretty small, and very poorly organized- but there are some drivers with heart and soul that more then make up for that. Andreas Jansson in his BadAssparts sponsored Nissan 200SX was unlucky with some fuel pressure related issues, but we hope the SR20DET loyal drifter rebounds at his next event!)

(Another team thats also in the frontline of Swedish Drifting is Raidopower Motorsport who have been rocking the scene pretty much alone for many years. For this season they signed up quite the talent in Joel Yveborg from the northern regions of our country; and he was there to do some testing in his recently supercharged LS2 powered car. Nice guy as well!)

(We end this gallery with one of ”our own”; Danny ”the detailer” Karlsson who drives his Superior Imported Nissan Skyline R32 GT-R like there is no tomorrow. Only one setting on his Boost-controller… Highest!)

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We are trying to keep you more updated with teasers and such on OUR FACEBOOK, so please go there and have a look as well.

Thanks to Christoffer who is first out of our photographers. We’ll have a new one with slightly smaller galleries daily from now on…

”No time to loose, when do we get to see pictures?”

The tricks and trades of writing an automotive blog these days when everyone feels they are semi-pro photographers and writers… are interesting.

While everyone are getting spammed and bombarded from different media distributors on Facebook, they can’t seem to find a reasonable balance in settling for whats high quality and whats current enough.

So we decided to change the game. From now on, the word Superior must regain its legitimacy- and GATEBIL MANTORP 2012 was for us a great occasion to ”shake things up” in how we obtain quality media for you and event visitors to enjoy.

Thanks to GATEBIL.NO we had gotten a good deal on our presence, and could let a rich crew of photographers do their magic. So lets introduce you to the names that kicked ass all weekend long on this magical event:

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”All-weekenders” (Martin Persson, Nils Gunnarsson & Rani Giliana):

(Martin BILBILDER.SE Persson took a step up in authority and led the team as his own all weekend. Apart from that he managed to sneak in a lot of random shots but also a few intriguing features. This pic gives us a good view of the ”weather limbo” you are constantly in during events in Sweden, where a dark and demoralizing morning with rain can change into the perfect day giving everyone a red face for the evening.)

(Rani RANIS AUTOMOTIVE PHOTO Giliana is one of our most versatile guys in the SUPERIOR SELECTED team, and had a big bag of mixed material. The Superior Drift S15 owned and driven by Thompa Pettersson was doing hard runs all weekend, and it will be fun to see it compete in the near future. Whatever happens, the former Driftspeed Forumula Drift car surely looks the part in its new Superior livery.)

(Nils Gunnarsson is someone who joined the crew this season, and has already shown a lot of enthusiasm for what we do. He is also very versatile and has an open mind on things, anyone want to take a guess on what engine bay this is…?)

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Supporting photographers (Carl Kjellberg, Christoffer Talvis & Hjalmar Van Hoek):

(Carl Kjellberg was a pleasant surprise added impromptu to the team. Carl is otherwise a full-time fitness guru and his blessed talents as a photographers don’t get as much time as we would like to- but his spontaneous visit and some liberal editing created this little masterpiece. We really hope to see more of him in the SUPERIOR SELECTED section this summer!)

(Christoffer Talvis, who also works as editor for GREENLIGHT MAG which is a free online publication; offered us a surprising sample of yours truly the moment after I had just recied two awards for cars in our camp- and also banned from the pit area by less then impressive press manager. The ban did not last long, as we were back in action as usual the very next day; but the prices for our Nissan Skyline DR30 and Superior Drift Soarer did. And oh, that horribly red tan stayed as well- not to mention the Shamballa bracelets you can find at SIR PIERRES BLOG...)

(Hjalmar JALLEGRAPHICS Van Hoek did a quick visit during saturday, and apart from this fantastic picture of TS Motors miniature monster- we’ll let his own words of the day end this blogpost):

”

I went quite a lot back and forth before I finally decided to travel to the Gatebil Mantorp event but I’m glad I did! There were so many great cars and great people, who eventhough it was pouring down from the sky early saturdaymorning, were just as enthusiastic about being there as I was. Nothing could stop them. Rain or no rain, everbody took every opportunity to drive as much as they could.

These events really make me realize how much I like photographing this sport, or as I would describe it a lifestyle. After strolling around in the pit area for a while, I stumbled onto this rather out of ordinary Mini. I just love the way it looks and the fact it’s powered by an Audi engine and has all-wheel-drive makes it just so cool.

I’m looking forward to the Gatebil Rudskogen event for taking a closer look and talking to the owner.

With that said I’d like to thank everyone at Superior Media Team and ofcourse the rest of the Superior Family for a great day.

Now let’s count down for Gatebil Rudskogen!

-Hjalmar Van Hoek

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I totally agree with Hjalmar, but we will share our memories of Gatebil Mantorp for a long time forward. Only releasing stuff we genuinely feel is good enough and worth the time it takes until release.

We hope you liked this ”summary”, more coming on OUR FACEBOOK as we try and ”re-boot” the Superior brand and how we structure our blog. Thank you to GATEBIL CREW and everyone else for your support!

Its time for Swedens craziest auto enthusiast event again, GATEBIL MANTORP 2012 is on this weekend and we’re ready to cover it in our usual style.

We bring along our best SELECTED PHOTOGRAPHERS and naturally also filmmaker David Johansson to shoot all the action on location.

This will mean plenty of galleries and afterwards video, cause who can forget our three classics from our previous stays there:

Gatebil Festival Mantorp 2011:

Superior Media – Gatebil Festival @ Mantorp Park 2011 from Superior Media on Vimeo.

Gatebil ”All in” Mantorp Park 2011:

Superior Media – Gatebil All In @ Mantorp Park 2011 from Superior Media on Vimeo.

Gatebil Mantorp 2010:

Gatebil Sweden 2010 at Mantorp Park – Superior Media from Superior Media on Vimeo.

Besides harvesting the best possible media, Camp: Superior will have a big presence there with many nice friends and surprises that will be with us. So make sure to find us to check out cool cars and meet & greet everyone in the crew.

Some special things that you need to pay special attention for are:

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Superior Drift event premiere:

Our own team finally shows itself for every car lunatic to enjoy! We are not yet feeling all comfortable, and have a lot of work ahead of us- but the two ”Pro class” cars (Daniel Asp Nissan 200SX S14 LS2 Rocket Bunny + Thompa Petterssons Nissan Silvia S15 ”Wise Square / Formula Drift) will surely tear it up to get some practice going.

In our own pit area which is at the same place as the Camp, we will have some other friends too with sharp drift cars.

Check out our new livery, our current wrapping partners WRAPZONE Stockholm, co-designer Daniel ”O’SNAP” Hovdahl and ourselves would like to know what you think about it- but in the end we have done our own thing and are happy if it raises some opinions at least!

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TIMEATTACK.NU on location with many cars and ambassadors:

The only real Time Attack events in Sweden this season, with ambitions to be the best damn track day period as well; is coming to Mantorp this weekend.

See many extreme cars running in the higher class, and please understand that you could be a part of it with your streetcar. Very driver friendly and quality time above all track days promised. Go visit the TIMEATTACK.NU HOMEPAGE now!

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Superior Drivers Club activities all weekend:

We have a stacked schedule, and damn near every meal of the day will be a great opportunity for the gang to catch up from last summer.

In the evenings there will be barbecues, and I promise a big surprise saturday evening for everyone attending as we also have a Gran Turismo 5 tournament with 32 man elimination!

Hoping that for once, this event will be a time to relax with true friends and savor many moments- its after all why we do all this…

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FACEBOOK General Scandinavian car culture, without all the BS:

Ever since we started blogging daily about the stuff we do at Superior Imports, the social media scene within the business has grown and changed rapidly.

Its no longer something unique to just provide pictures or video from an event, it seems like the common theme among many enthusiasts to put effort into it and chase those ”Likes” on Facebook.

We have decided its time to change format, and Gatebil Mantorp will be both the beginning but also the end of and era for us.

So to get a grasp on it all, be sure to check out OUR FACEBOOK where we’ll follow the ”classic” format of plenty of photos- while our blog will shut down and only allow finished products of media. Always at the state of the art, or with a direct message.

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Have to prepare right now to leave, hoping to land somewhere tonight and later bring you a update on whats up. 

For more steady updates and pictures, again; CHECK OUR FACEBOOK and just enjoy it! 

Jag hoppas verkligen att ingen har missat att det är Sveriges roligaste, Bästa och mest actionfyllda event denna helgen?

Alla vi som… ALLA ser fram emot detta event!

Jag fick frågan tidigare ikväll ”Är du laddad inför helgen?”

Och faktiskt.. Nej..

Haft en tuff vecka som fan..

Så jag har inte ens haft tid att lyssna på Mickes planer.. Han skickade mej ett schema som jag snabbt sneglade över

* 08:00 Möte

Och där slutade jag läsa..

Har tänkt ringa Micke hela veckan.. Och han har tänkt ringa mej.. Men han har mer än fullt upp med att planera helgen.. Och jag har fullt upp med att styra upp annat för att klara mej i helgen.

Men.. Det är väl som vanligt.. Planera planera planera.. Och så gör vi något HELT annat.. Och det blir skitbra ändå =)

Sen en annan sak.. Lite lite trist är det att vara på Gatebil och inte köra bana själv för första gången..

Även om jag INTE hade bytt ut att köra Malmö-Mantorp i en stötig, Hård racebil istället för att glida i Lexusen..

Och.. Jag har ju faktiskt sagt dom senaste åren.. Att det är MYCKET roligare att vara på Gatebil som åskådare än att bara leka på banan.. Faktiskt..

Oavsett hur mycket jag ÄLSKAR att köra bana.. Jaga tid.. Drifta.. Busa.. bara leka..

Så är det SÅ mycket man går miste om när an bara sitter i bilen eller i depån..

Och det är JUST pga detta som vi startade hela Superior Media..

För att visa alla som kör.. Som är där.. Som festar.. Som inte är där.. Vad dom missar på alla höll och kanter på detta event.

För oavsett hur aktiv du än är på Gatebil.. Så hinner du ändå bara se 1/3 vill jag påstå. Om ens det!

Så.. Som svar på frågan..

”Är du laddad inför helgen?”

Nej.. För att Gatebil är min semester..

Gatebil är det som jag ser fram emot hela åren.. Gatebil är sommar..

Gatebil är där man vilar ut.. Njuter.. Lever livet.

Så till fråga nr 2.. Som kom ifrån Micke

”Hur har du planerat inför helgen”

Jadu.. Inte ett skit..

Jag ska njuta.. Vara så social jag bara hinner med och försöka ta igen all kvalitetstid som vi har fått sätta åt sidan det senaste året.

Jag ska försöka se så mycket som möjligt.. Och förmedla så mycket som möjligt till er.

Ska jag inte stå framför kameran så ska jag ha en kamera i handen.

Så.. I år.. Leta upp mej.. Kom fram.. Ge mej en kram.

Ta en jävla massa bilder på allt möjligt så lägger vi upp det på facebook sen och taggar allt vi bara kan.

Och som jag sa innan. Ni som använder Instagram. tagga #SuperiorMedia på era bilder.

Så.. Har jag mycket att göra i helgen?

Oh ja..

Har Micke planera in mycket under helgen?

Mer än någonsin.

Vad ska vi göra i helgen?

ALLT!

Vad ska vi mest rikta in oss på?

Ha kul!!

Vi ses där…

I guess its time to make it more then just common knowledge; but we have recruited another very talented guy to our SUPERIOR MEDIA video division- welcome aboard Daniel ”O’SNAP” Hovdahl from Heggedal, Norway!

This has been a careful selection process, and although we have many friends who are contributing in one way or another; this is a commitment we make with Daniel to be a longterm resource for our different projects.

You already saw a little preview of what our collaborations will be all about- in the Kenneth ”Kenny” Moen Supra shakedown movie a few weeks back. Daniel was also supported by friend and SUPERIOR SELECTED prospect HENRIK OULIE in that clip.

Nevermind, as we will let the work we do speak for itself. The general theme of this little gem is sun, smoke and subtle cool (yes, you could use a ”the three S’s cliché to summarize).

GATEBIL events never fail to put on a show, and the early birds in Norway were at it right away mercilessly slaying their tires.

Among many that featured, we can mention names like Kenneth Alm, Team Yellow, Fredrik Öksnevad, Öivind Översveen, Kenneth Groth and Team Japan Auto among many many maniacs- enjoy the clip:

We appreciate you ”sharing” the clip if you enjoyed it, and as usual follow the ”behind the scenes” of everything we do at SUPERIOR FACEBOOK!

…one final ”welcome aboard” for the new guy Daniel as we also encourage you to check out his own FB-PAGE O’SNAP!

After a long silence, we will give you quite a treat to forgive us as we give our SUPERIOR SELECTED guru photographer Martin ”BILBILDER.SE” Persson the honors of releasing the first official photo of Superior Drift 2012! We spent almost 24 hours a few

sundays back shooting three of the official team cars, and also had some track time testing them out. But info about that is coming at a later stage (we love saying that these days) and we focus on this gorgeous sample Martin was kind enough to release if you promised you would LIKE HIS FACEBOOK PAGE and continue to support him. Not too much to ask, but we’ll still leave it to you if its worth the effort if you really like the pic: Martins own comments on this specific setting were that the environment was a pleasant surprise in the dwindling light of dusk: ”I didnt have the occasion to prepare much before (which is something you have to be used to as a photographer), but seeing the temple with its surrounding area- I just felt it was the best place symmetrically with many contrasting textures. Having the morning light available for the threesome was a real blessing. Very satisfied with the result!”

– Martin ”BILBILDER” Persson

We are very happy to bring you this desktop sized picture free from any watermarks (I guess the message of the pics is still kept quite clear). If you do want to ”share” it, we would be extremely happy if you linked to SUPERIOR FACEBOOK and also BILBILDER FACEBOOK. Thanks in advance!

There are many sentimental conclusions and interesting facts behind this simple start-up video. The two most important ones to save you the trouble of too much reading is:

1. Sourcing this engine from Japan indirectly meant planting the seed for Superior Imports AB. I did it as a personal favor to ”some dude I knew was hella-good at the FD3S RX-7, so he could help me out; and thats how it basically went from there.

2. ”All good things take time” as this personal labour of Superior Workshop Katrineholm chief Martin ”Gzon” Gustavsson has been an on/off project for sooo many years. Cant even start to think about how many its been now?!

You’ve seen some teasers in OUR FACEBOOK PAGE about it, standing in the Katrineholm Workshop; and Iam sure skeptics have been wondering why we haven’t seen more of it.

All good things take time…

VIMEO:

Some see the many inspiring builds of Japanese tuning companies like RE-Amemiya running RX-7’s with this unique engine, and think its ”your basic engine swap”.

Being a witness to this entire process, I can tell you its definitely not.

I don’t think spec sheets will explain how much fabricating, electrical work and research it really takes. But if you want to have a go anyway, take a look HERE at Martins own profile at GARAGET.ORG.

This is still at the earliest possible stage, and a new turbine kit tailor-made for the stock FD3S gearbox to handle is coming up. General goal for this season…?

Just enjoy that unique sound, as Iam sure we will have the pleasure of sharing as soon as the block has been run in properly and some tuning to the Haltech ECU is done.

This is a first in many regards. Starting with the guy featured in the movie, Formula Drift Pro-drifter Kenneth ”Kenny” Moen brings out his Norwegian ride for a ”shakedown” at Gardermoen airstrip.

And as you could probably guess, this is not our stock average Toyota Supra, it actually has well over 700+HP to make those wheels burn tires more then ever before.

We did this as a part of a voyage to Norway to meet up with some GATEBIL profiles we really appreciate, and we intend to cover a little extra this season. Lets watch the clip already!

And who are ”we” you might ask? Well, let me introduce Daniel ”O’SNAP” Hovdahl who is one of our best signings (if they ever exist in automotive social media?) yet  for us with his extremely promising skills filming, editing and generally being a multiverse media maker.

We also added Henrik Oulie (FB-PAGE HERE) to the mix as a SUPERIOR SELECTED prospect, and he already showed his worth adding some of the material from this improvised session with Kenny.

Welcome aboard to the both of you, or actually three of you as we go into another gear in our adventures around the Scandinavian auto enthusiast scene…

Som att det inte räckte för mediajätten SPEEDHUNTERS.COM med att ta ”Mad Mike” Whiddett till GATEBIL RUDSKOGEN den 13 – 15 Juli, nu avslöjas ännu ett projekt som går och ökar glöden än mer inför detta sanslösa ”be there or be square” event i sommar.

Det är den sanslösa kombinationen av Fredric ”The Norwegian hammer” Aasbo som ska vara pilot i en splitt ny Toyota 86-X med en 700HK 2JZ-GTE motor!

Vi kan inte låta bli att kärleksfullt hata att dessa amerikaner kommer göra mer än att stjäla showen på plats; de kommer äga den och snart kommer väl namnbytet till ”Speedhunters Festival 2012” också…? 😉

Skämt åsido så är det beundransvärt att de fortsätter leda industrin framåt, det går ju inte förneka att många inklusive oss själva tagit grym inspiration från deras koncept; och nu kommer de lyfta Gatebil events till nya sjuka höjder.

Men där tar röv-kyssandet slut, och nu måste ju vi Skandinaver känner ännu mera press på oss att prestera för att visa världen vad Gatebil egentligen handlar om?

Vet att det finns många team som har en del jokrar att visa upp som förhoppningsvis kan ge både Aasbo och ”Mad Mike” en match iaf. Vad tror ni…?

Well we did promise our loyal readers of the blog they get to see

the preview of the movie first, right? Its this simple, just GO HERE (Vimeo) and then use ”supvip” as the password. Thats all, and I hope that if you like it you can ”Share” OUR FACEBOOK and tell people we are releasing it to public very soon. If you are feeling really generous, check out O’SNAP and HENRIK OULIE MEDIA as well who had more then a finger in making this video happen (and yes, expect to hear more about them very soon…) No strings attached, we hope you enjoy it! 🙂

Our recent travel to our western neighbors Norway led us to mysterious ways cialiscoupon-onlinenorx and conclusions. One thing we can definitely reveal out of this is that we have made friends for a long time coming, and we will give it a more formal introduction; but what better way to show our freshly acquired resources then by a little clip of our first cohesive effort? Topic of the clip is cialis one a day Kenneth ”Kenny” Moen, who is only one of two Scandinavians that compete in Formula Drift. He was among the people we were meeting to discuss media sponsorship. Very fortunate enough we ran into him when is Toyota Supra Drift machine was going to do its ”shakedown” at Gardermoen airstrip: Our agenda was never to film this, but it turned out to be a nice little cialis soft tabs review feature with the ”new guys on the block” showing how the future of how long cialis works our media coverage will sort of look. This gallery is a little tease only, but for our loyal blog readers we have a little bit of fun news if you tune in here tomorrow 24h from now = cialis uk the password to the preview!

En av Sveriges utan tvekan topp-driftare är Daniel ”Limmet DrifTeam” Liimatainen som denna säsong siktar mot ännu högre höjder med sitt nya BMW 1-serie bygge.

För att vara en extremt ung sport i Sverige, så skapade sig han otroligt många fans på kort tid när de smiskade en BMW E30 med kompressormatad M5 E39 V8.

Samma motor hamnar även i nya projektet, och det har alla förutsättningar att bli ”bilen att slå” denna säsong 2012.

I denna intervju tar allt från Daniels egna bakgrund och hur han snubblade in i driftingen, samt målsättnignar för denna säsong- blandat med kul inslag om att:

*Idén till nya projektet som föddes en seeen midsommardag.

*Hur han alltid sneglat mot Japs trots att han är en stor BMW-profil.

*Hur jakten på sponsorer äntligen blivit lättare.

VIMEO:

Ni kan följa Limmet DrifTeam på Facebook (facebook.com/LimmetDrifTeam) och gillar ni denna typ av media från oss får ni mer än gärna besöka våran egna FB-sida också!

SUPERIOR IMPORTS FACEBOOK PAGE!

We like to surprise you with our media content, so we slap out this clip of a Pontiac GTO with a massive supercharger doing what a car is meant to do with power like that. Burn rubber!

The car belong to one of our old friends around Superior Workshop Katrineholm, Kalle Strand.

He used to be one of the pioneers in 1/4 mile racing with an RX-7 here in Sweden, but has now gone over to the ”dark side”- and this clip explains the simple pleasures of why you would do such a thing:

If you want to know more about the car, you can find a speclist partially in Swedish HERE!

Hope you like our mixed bag of content occasionally, hit us up AT FACEBOOK (CLICK!) to follow all the stuff coming out!

With soon just one month until the big premiere ofTIMEATTACK.NU coming where SUPERIOR MEDIA are main media sponsors; we bring you a little tease from Daniel Hovdahl aka O’SNAP from whats going on in Norway at the moment! Its hard to call this anything but an utter tease of things to come, and as usual it feels almost surreal that we will finally experience those sunny days out at the track; after enduring

a cold and unforgiving winter/slow spring the past few months… Daniel did this gig with Norwegian organizer TRACKDAY.NO, which we will naturally keep an eye on to see if we can find common ground in breeding interest for this pure form of enthusiast Motorsport in Scandinavia! Mr. Hovdahl would love any feedback and appreciation over at his OWN FB-PAGE ”O’SNAP!”. During the season, we will see much more of this young talents work here in the Blog… 🙂

A pleasant surprise is coming as RANI GILIANA gives us one more SUPERIOR SELECTED gallery from BILSPORT PERFORMANCE AND CUSTOM (or in commoners own words ”ELMIA 2012”).

Swedish premier track/raceway MANTORP PARK had a really sharp display this year, throwing a bit of everything into the mix to show people they were down; but now are far from out.

Because if you didn’t know yet, our countries most recognized and always ”first that comes to mind” when it comes to either dragracing, track days and festivals- went bankrupt this winter.

It quickly found new owners in publishing company FABAS that among many magazines publish the biggest automotive enthusiast magazine called BILSPORT.

This is on paper a perfect fit, since many of the big events like Gatebil Sweden, Action Meet and more have been organized by said organization for many years.

It was only logical then, and we hope they will bring new life not just to the track itself; but give the whole scene a vital injection…

Judging by the cars they had handpicked for their stall, they have the right feeling on whats hot right now. Johan ”Hollywood” Halvarsson and his Kermit green S15 2JZ-GTE drift car was a bit early from its livery of the season.

So we give you the pleasure of his recently released promo-video to show you how it looks right now, the man with the manly mustache will surely head into the season as someone that can snatch a Top 5 finish in any event he participates in…

Two really sharp E30 BMW’s also proudly took a lot of space in the stall, where one of them belongs to a very likable guy named Rickard Ivars.

His builds  on various ”Bimmer-chassises” have always resulted in the same thing; dreadfully fast in the 1/4mile!

This might have the look of an ordinary tuned car, but under there lurks 1020 RWHP ready to thunder down the quarter mile in under 9 seconds…!

Rouding things off was this amazing US-build, with a properly sized Supercharger not too violently hidden…

Hats off to the organizers, and RANI (CLICK FOR HIS FB FANPAGE!) did an awesome job shooting it.

We have been more then pleased with what we’ve produced from ELMIA 2012 EXPO in the photography aspect of covering it. Wouldn’t mind feedback from our readers about what you think?

We are doing some big changes in the near time here at Superior, so we hope you keep an eye out on OUR FACEBOOK for ”small nuggets” being released and hints of whats to come as well.

Sadly, we might be in for some sacrifices to make; but always for the great good. Hope for your continued support and enthusiasm!

Nu tar vi ett snack med en av våra mest långvariga vänner i branschen.

Ända sedan hans fantastiska Mazda RX-7 bygge ”Zlayer” gjorde på ett objekt levererat av Gzon; så har proffset inom svenska styling-scenen Lukas Koos haft vårat stöd.

På BILSPORT PERFORMANCE AND CUSTOM MOTORSHOW 2012 kom han med ett ”nytt” bygge, eller närmare sagt en total ”make-over” av hans Nissan 350Z ”Zuperior”- som numera lägger till ”Reloaded” i sitt artistnamn!

Det är alltid kul att prata med Lukas, då han väldigt sällan stelnar till framför kameran och går in ett ”bästa artiga svar” läge så fort det är en kamera som filmar.

Han är sig själv i alla lägen helt enkelt!

Värt att understryka ett par punkter som nämns i videon, att det är en fruktansvärt ödmjuk kille med grym självdistans- trots att många med betydligt mindre framgångar på styling-scenen lider av hybris:

Däremot är språket i de otaliga extrema bilar han slutfört något som… gärna tar för sig av ögonen, och därför fått två läger i om man älskar/hatar dom.

Klart är däremot att en bilbyggare som lagt ner över 5000 timmar utan lön, sponsorers vara eller icke vara; skall ha respekt av andra entusiaster.

(Därmed ännu en gång osagt om man gillar stilen eller ej, vilket vi gärna ser er diskutera genom att kommentera nedan eller på VÅRAN FACEBOOK!) 😉

As a new spice to the Superior-blog which is hideously slow these days due to so much behind the scenes work, we add our friend in Japan Seiji Ishikawa @ REVOLT-IS as a partner.

He frequently visits different meets in Japan as well as tuners directly, and continues to share his adventures with us.

To really put things in the limelight they deserve, we let our own SUPERIOR SELECTED pro Martin ”BILBILDER.SE” Persson give all his pics a little ”brush” to get the final presentation quality that they deserve!

This means we have something genuine JDM for our followers to bit on from time to time. And we will continuously post previews at OUR FACEBOOK before getting the whole gallery here in the Blog.

We are as mentioned in some major overhauls when it comes to the blog and media, so just enjoy it and continue to give us feedback and we’ll reward it many times over!

We are very grateful to be handed this material exclusively, and you can feel free to visit REVOLT-IS on Facebook to become a fan of Seijis different adventures.

Likewise we would like to flag BILBILDER.SE as another place to ”Like” if you like to see a professional photographers work on a daily basis…

There is no denial that the JDM Pro-drifters have builds in a class of their own, and you get astonished by every little participant. This years field looks sharper then ever, with the introduction of the new FT86 from Toyota/Subaru really making an impact on the series.

Really wish we could give you more background on each car, but if you FOLLOW OUR FACEBOOK we might give you some fun facts about each of these masterpieces there!

Do you have a personal favorite in the D1GP circus you would like to read more about?

Don’t be shy to comment below if there is anything catching your eye and extra curiosity!

Något som är ren formalia att planera in varje år om man älskar galen motorsport är GATEBIL RUDSKOGEN.

Det kan närmast som event liknas att vara det Woodstock 1969 var för musiken; fast på fyra hjul och xxx(+x?) hästkrafter i varje ekipage!

Nu blir de rika rikare när Sociala media-giganten SPEEDHUNTERS.COM ger sig in i leken på allvar.

Lyssna bara på denna purfärska PRESSRELEASE där deras egna Drift Team presenterar sin lagupställning på festivalen den 13 – 15 Juli:

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It’s with great excitement that we’re announcing the formation of the Speedhunters Drift Team, consisting of MadMike Whiddett, Darren McNamara and Fredric Aasbo. To get things rolling, all three drivers will be appearing at the Gatebil Festival, 13-15 July 2012.

Darren and Mike will be joining up with Fredric Aasbo and an international collection of Speedhunters photographers and models to make and capture as much of the mayhem as possible.

We’ll have more news related to our European drift event program in the coming weeks.

Start planning your Gatebil trip now!

:Rod Chong – Creative Director SPEEDHUNTERS.COM

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Vi sitter fortfarande stumma av förundran över att vi kommer kunna höra förmodligen världens råaste motorljud inom drifting live och vi råder alla med minsta motorintresse att komma till Norge för att göra detsamma:

De två andra bilarna är det inget fel på heller, och borde inte vara främmande för något riktigt fan av sporten drifting…

Det är bara packa väskorna redan nu och boka denna helg för att vara med och uppleva något unikt, då norrmännen inte kommer sitta och titta på medan folk driftar byxorna av dom på hemmaplan.

…och det kan mycket väl bara så att vi på Superior har några jokrar till nyheter att spela ut inom kort- hursomhelst så kan vi till 1000% garantera mycket kvalitativ media från denna träff då vi ska dit!

Today we bring you more in the aftermath of the ELMIA 2012 EXPO which we are far from done with.

We at Superior are proud to say that quality over quantity is something we are able to live up to on many occasions, and this some Stance/Lifestyle community OIJ OIJ SOCIETY truly made our job easy to maintain that principle.

They had two head and shoulders above the best stand (ever?) at the expo, and can be very proud of themselves for the result.

Something worth to also credit, is that the organizers of the expo = BILSPORT MAGAZINE finally gave a growing trend a shot at glory and look what happened:

We hope this is a breakthrough, and they will continue to hand out confidence in creative & driven groups to create stand-out things like these on Scandinavias by far biggest and most historic auto expo!

Therefor, instead of leading you by clichés and explaining things that are obvious looking at the pics- we simple present you the gallery and let you enjoy it:

If you think this is what we should devote our energy from, and you also feel the pics by RANI GILIANA AUTOMOTIVE PHOTOGRAPHY excels- don’t be shy to comment below about it!

Also support OUR FACEBOOK where we often drop teasers for our SUPERIOR SELECTED galleries. Thanks!