Author: Albert Roxas

I’m officially changing the name – a few buddies of mine always hit Lee’s right after this so I don’t consider it Cars and “Coffee” anymore lol. Here’s the pics from last Sat.

I felt compelled to take a pic of this 430 simply because it was rocking some bigass wheels…when I say bigass, I mean 20″+ (I want to say the rear was a 21?) – shocking, but to each his own…

Shot of the back row – this is why we wake up early and are a bit spoiled here in SoCal…(even though a Viper is in the shot – bleh) – take a look at all the cars and the people, enjoying an early Sat AM.

Rapide showed up – still not my particular choice at this price range for a 4 door lux, but a pretty car…not feelin the Social Security Color though…COME ON.

This angle wants the child in me to sing “TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES, TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES…” – that’s in the 80’s for you young folk.

Kids checking out the Campagna T-Rex’s…taste the rainbow.

HRE’s on this Storm Trooped out Rob & Big look-a-like.

Following my 80’s theme…HIGHWAY TO THE DANGER ZONE! Crazy Widebody Vorsteiner VF Engineering E92M3 (say that 3 times fast)

And the piece de resistance – in the parking lot…the ever elusive, super exclusive…FIERO-ARRI-ROSSA.

Notice the amazing attention to detail (rolls eyes)

Yeah, notice I didn’t even watermark these pics so that the mullet haired steroid using owner can’t track me down. But hey, to take a quote from Ferrris Bueller – look, “Don’t worry about it, I don’t even have a piece of sh*t. I have to envy yours”

Just thought these were interesting…

Shot of a Carrera GT, one of the “Dirty Dozen” – known on the internet as the guy who has 12 pretty badass cars. His wife even drove an RD Sport M5 at the time…craze.

Me in front of the London McLaren Dealership back in 2001. Met up with my old school homie Don in Picadilly Circus then rolled to checkout some cars…good times.

Me (again) holding up my CF hood from my old school E46 back in 2001 – yes, they had CF in 2001, I was a very early adopter of what is commonplace now. CF is pretty much played now IMO unless you’re doing something sick with it.

Busy weekend. Aside from the usual Cars & Coffee, I rolled up to Venice with my buddies to checkout the HellaFlush meet, got a HellaTicket which was Hellawack, then rolled to Ogara Coach to checkout some sick SuperCars. All in all, can’t complain – great weather, good friends and some badass cars.

First off Cars & Coffee…nothing crazy noticeable, but these caught my eye…

Sweet racing livery on this Exige.

Mean CLK Black Series from Renntech (happens to be a friends Dad’s actually LOL)

In the parking lot – the ultimate sleeper, Audi S8 *detuned Gallardo motor people…BOOYAKASHA.

After our usual Lee’s stop, it was off to Venice Beach for the Hella Flush event…a little disappointed to be honest, not an amazing turnout.

Sick Lexus SC/Soarer – Old School Mystic paint along with some Volk TE’s…NOICE.

Crazy Dropped Lexus LS on some new gen SSR’s.

Really feelin this sick xB w/Burberry interior and BBS RS w/Gold flaked centers! DROPPED.

Gotta give “Hey Mikey” some love of course – reppin’ my homie Jay’s company JDMEgo.

Platinum VIP representing with a sick 5’er Wagon, ///M5 and some others…

Craziest fitment goes to this Miata – NUTS.

After leaving HellaDisappointing, I got a HellaTicket for HellaFailure to HellaYield to a emergency vehicle. I’m gonna have to Hellafight it because we didn’t hear it, were stuck in crazy traffic and couldn’t move to the left if we Hellatried. I was pretty much HellaOver-it at this point.

The only redeeming value was that we were on our way to Ogara where a buddy mentioned that 4 of the sickest SuperCars were under the same roof.

NOTE: The following pics were from my iPhone, didn’t want to roll in with full camera gear lol.

JUST STRAIGHT KILLIN IT. Zonda-R all up in your grill.

Reventon – Batman on Steroids.

Bugatti Veyron – Still the “Production” King.

Koenigsegg CCX – SWEEEEEEDISH. (Tom Green Fans will remember this LOL)

If you only had one to choose from…which one would it be?? I’d have to go with the Zonda-R, would be so sick to roll up to Lee’s in that thing. hahahaha.

Gorgeous Memorial Day weekend for Cars & Coffee…marquee was “MicroCars” apparently – some pretty cool stuff. Lots of Isettas and these 2 lil’ guys.

Technocraft Gallardo was there with their new CF Bumper…

Yep, that’s Will and Phil getting in my shot dammit (reflection in the bumper)!! Kidding!! LOL.

Brad/Simon from EVOSport brought out this mean Mas…it’s been a minute since I’ve talked to you guys, great to see you’re still building quality cars!

Random Stradale Shot…

Another random CLKBS shot, thought the yellow coming off the other car looked sweet.

Caught this Seal Grey CGT bailing out of the parking structure – reminded me of an old friend Ben, we miss you man.

Went to the local Ferrari dealer to checkout the 458 today. First time I’ve seen it in person as Ferrari didn’t show at LA Autoshow Media Day and historically, cars look better in person so I was anxiously awaiting to see this car in person. I gotta say I was seriously disappointed. Even my buddy Tony who was with me (who is a real “Tifosi”) felt that the 458 was “fail”. Some parts just felt…well…CHEAP. The sideskirt (unpainted) looked gimicky, not to mention the front end “flaps” that work for aerodynamics. The prancing horse emblem on the front sticks out of a single “stem” and looks CRAZY out of place. The interior was straight out of Space Mountain – I understand the whole driver oriented cockpit deal, but sitting on both the drivers and passengers side, I found it to all be just a little too odd. The center console is what really reminded me of Space Mountain, just too futuristic for my tastes. I’m not hating, in fact – maybe its a design that we’ll all grow into…all pics courtesy of my buddy Tony, Mr. Tifosi himself…who didn’t particularly like the car either.

This is a nice angle, a little reminiscent of the 360 in the rear 3/4.

Rear shot, the 2 light deal and the cutouts are a bit odd (although very aero functional) – a lot of controversy surrounds the use of the 3 tips, but for those that really know Ferrari’s, they’ll remember that the F40 had 3 tips as well..

Front head on – the silver diffusors in the bumper move up and down (not mechanically) and that silver prancing horse sticks out on a stick (literally) which is a bit odd. Lots of cutouts for aero, the front looks MEAN.

Drivers Side – cockpit, all oriented towards the driver. The steering wheel had WAY too many buttons, notice no stalks for the turn signal and wipers – they’re all on the steering wheel.

Just reminds me of waiting in line forever…SPACE MOUNTAIN! I dunno why, but the 3 button deal and overall shape of the center console just brings me back to Disneyland lol.

BUSTED…me checking out the 458 LOL.

You’ve got the POWER!! LOL.

Anyone who’s into cars knows that Japanese car manufacturers OWN the market for great navigation. They were the first to introduce it, first to offer touch screen and simply the best function wise. Counter that with the European offerings for Navi…well, lemme just say – they’ve been pretty bad. Porsche’s original PCM was particularly archaic considering in 2006 our Cayenne had PCM (Porsche Communication Management) and didn’t even offer a touch screen, but rather utilized 2 scroll buttons (UGH). It would take minutes to just input a location, scroll then push, scroll then push – letter by letter, HORRIBLE. Turn by turn directions were decent, but input and selection was such a chore due to the scrolling necessary for each selection that we’d often not even use it.

Porsche’s new PCM 3.0 (Touch Screen) is WORLDS better than the old PCM. Seriously. Much more intuitive function-wise, not to mention that the touch capability KILLS the old 2 button scroll deal. Address input is substantially faster, simpler and the format makes much more sense.

Did I mention it reads MP3’s exceptionally well? The old version of PCM touted “WMA” functionality but it was hit and miss. PCM 3.o luvs MP3’s. Wife’s music not mine, BTW LOL. Reads MP3’s like a champ – including title, track, etc. Note the new SD card slot option,  a good alternative to burning CD’s. Simply scroll or touch the screen with your finger and you’re to your particular track. On the old PCM, you’d have to know the # and punch it in manually.

This is pretty sick as well, up to minute traffic! Not even offered on the old PCM, again – another nice addition, esp. when you’re in a hurry to get to your destination.

Satellite Radio…nice when you don’t want to listen to commercials, some good channels as well.

Has bluetooth as well obviously – I can’t say enough of how much better this version of PCM is. Intuitively works like a “JDM” NAV, super easy to use 0- which is what you need when you’re driving! Hopefully other European manufacturers have followed suit and integrated touch into their setups as well, works so much better than any type of scrolling (iDrive) technology…