Think Thailand and chances are car meets and an 800-strong automotive showcase probably won’t be on the tip of your tongue. Just goes to show, given the support that turned out for only its second event, how well and how quickly Flushstyle has gone down with petrolheads the world over.

crankandpiston have been showing some love for old school Japanese goodness recently, so we thought it was about time that we stopped teasing you and served up a three course meal. For starters, we have an assorted platter of four Datsun delicacies presented by Ryan Washburn to wet your appetite. All four are owned by an avid Datsun collector in… Read more »

As views go, I’m sure you’ll agree this is a pretty good one. Think about it. You’re at the wheel of a Lamborghini Murcielago LP670-4 SV, tearing down a deserted highway and only mildly terrified. All of a sudden you have a playmate, in the shape of a Bugatti Veyron. And a Grand Sport no less. Frankly, with a combined… Read more »

If you’re into your Volkswagens, then the word Wörthersee should be get you shivering in anticipation. The largest Volkswagen meet in the world, the GTI Treffen in the Austrian town of Wörthersee is now in its 31st year and attracts a seriously high calibre of modified VeeDubs (and Audis) of all ages. Here, to give you just a flavour of what was… Read more »

Rifling through some of the photos that sadly didn’t make it into their respective posts, we couldn’t help but get a bit wistful. Recently we said goodbye to our beloved Toyota Yaris. Seems like only yesterday – alongside the Nissan Juke – we were welcoming the nippy hatchback to the crankandpiston fold. We wanted to make sure the Yaris went… Read more »

Eight days. Petrolheads throughout the UAE need only wait eight more days before Toyota’s awesome new 86 makes its regional debut. And you can be sure crankandpiston will be all over that. The news doesn’t stop there though. Thanks to our mates at Toyota UAE, we’ve managed to wangle a ticket to the regional Toyota 86 launch at Yas Marina… Read more »

Since the weekend just past brought the 2012 Drift UAE season to a close at the Dubai Autodrome, we figured we’d Canon up and check out the paddock before the show got under way, shirking the ‘till late’ part of the online invitation in the belief that Ford Mustangs and spec’d Silvia S14s would be worth missing our bedtimes for.… Read more »

One reason to get to the cinema early is the trailers. Once we’ve skipped past the adverts for shampoo, phone networks, assorted chocolates and various other rubbish, it’s always interesting to see what the next blockbuster will be. So you can imagine the reaction when crankandpiston stumbled across a trailer pitting a Maserati Quattroporte against a Dodge Challenger. Coming soon.… Read more »

Our digital team at crankandpiston has been pretty busy as of late. Really quite busy in fact. I mean, this month we’ve brought you the RAUH-Welt Porsche 993, the Backdraft AC Cobra, a Harley Davidson Softail Slim, the Lexus GS-350 F-Sport and the Drift UAE finals at the Dubai Autodrome among others. And that’s not even including the long-term projects… Read more »

Snow doesn’t play much of a role in our daily lives in Dubai, UAE. That doesn’t mean, of course, that we can’t appreciate scenarios such as this one. Behind the wheel (we assume) is Mr Jon Olsson, owner of the rather unorthodox Lamborghini Gallardo you see before you. Given that he’s an alpine ski racer, he’s no stranger to snow.… Read more »