While most car builds revolve around the usual suspects like Hondas and Mitsubishis, its a refreshing sight to see someone delve into something different. How different? Well how about the curvaceous, second-gen Toyota MR2. With a mid-engine rear drive layout, 50-50-weight distribution and a perky 2.2-liter engine, it certainly has all the elements for the makings of an awesome tuner car.
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Hello everyone! My name is Steve Rojas, and I’m truly honored and excited to be writing for Autoindustriya.com.
I have an unyielding passion for cars and the automotive world that all I do is write and take pictures of anything related to the topic. I asked Brent if he could let me write for Tuned after he saw my senior thesis for college. I’m really grateful to him for giving me the opportunity because here I am now writing my first and introductory post on Autoindustriya.com’s Tuned section.
I also race for Rota in the Philippine Autocross Championship Series and at Circuit Showdown, although I’m new to the racing scene since I’ve only been racing for about 2 years.
I race a Toyota Vitz at the Philippine Autocross Championship series. It’s not a powerful car, but it does handle well, which is perfect for autocross.
For Circuit Showdown, I race a LanEvo 4 which we all know is a very reputable and capable automobile for circuit racing.
However, for this 2012 season, I’ll be using a Flame Red ed. Mini for some of my races in the Philippine Autocross Championship Series. This Mini has been cooped up (no pun intended) in our cold and dark warehouse for about 3 or 4 years. Poor thing. But me and my dad decided to revive her, and she’ll be making her debut on the first round of the P.A.C.S. which will take place in Alabang this Sunday.
Well, that’s me and my machines. I hope I’d be able to supply the readers of Tuned some interesting views and insights with my future content. I’ll mostly be writing about the events and races that I participate in so that readers can be aware of what they missed just in case they weren’t able to attend.
Well that’s all for now until my next post! 
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When the owner of this stunning Corolla wanted to build a light and agile street/track car, he spared no expense in backing up the whole effort. After all, it was supposed to deliver a high level of performance in a car show-worthy package. Quite difficult and very costly, but based on the outcome and the mods that it currently boasts of and the numerous car show awards which it has already garnered. This show worthy and track ready Corolla has perfectly accomplished what the owner wanted.
It may be Las Vegas, but all bets are off when America’s top custom car design teams are commissioned to create stand-out show machines for SEMA, the USA’s number one trade show for the specialist auto parts industry. Toyota seized the opportunity to parade beefed-up race and rally versions of Yaris and Urban Cruiser and a street-mean interpretation of Prius at the show, taking place this week. Continue reading