JDM.RUN x EVO.ID Sentul Track Day // Photo Coverage
Where’s the fun in building high performance machines if you can’t drive them to their full potential? It’s no longer a secret that a lot of us enthusiasts these days are testing our rides on the highways during the wee hours, but what’s even more challenging are the proper track days. Timed laps on the track, where each participant can …
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HnP Singapore Trip // Audi A1 e-tron Experience
Innovation. Being the first with groundbreaking ideas and concepts could often be the success factors in the current automotive industry. Audi for one is amongst the Germans’ leading brands with substantial interests in the development of future-proof technologies. What I have today is the Audi A1 e-tron, one of their key electric city-car concepts. Built to showcase a proper combination …
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Contemporary Approach // BMW E90 3 Series Duo
Should we give older gen automotive builds some love? Of course we should! Despite the rising popularity of 6th gen 3 Series out there, we’re still finding a lot of great E90 builds that can be featured, such as today’s pair owned by William and Steven. In fact, we have always had special appreciations towards the great BMW 3 Series …
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Slidefest 2014 Official Photo Coverage Part 1
The moment you’ve been waiting for. I’ve finally received the first batch of Slidefest 2014 pictures from our very own photographer Charles J. A festival of drift, meet and fun, Slidefest 2014 was the definite great way to start the year of 2014. From aired-out VW to ultra rare JDM rides to British supercars, the meet was as crazy as …
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Top Fighter // TOP 1 Audi GT Radial Inspire Racing Team
Audi. The German automobile manufacturer that’s often regarded as a part of the “German Big 3” luxury automakers (BMW, Mercedes-Benz). Apart from manufacturing automobiles, they have also been keeping themselves active and competitive in the world of motorsport series. From Rallying, Le Mans series, World Endurance series, to World Touring series. Here in Indonesia we had a local event called …
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Wallpaper Wednesday // BMW Generations
BMW is definitely one of the most popular luxury brands ever featured on our site. Despite having sales figures that’s only half of its major competitor’s (Mercedes sold 4,100 units vs BMW 2,211 units in Indonesia last year); I find it interesting that we’re seeing a much larger number of modified BMWs on the streets (also think about the ///M …
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Built to Thrill // Posma’s N54 1M Hatchback
Started as a hobby and yet becoming a business? What could’ve been better than that? I personally started venturing into photography as a hobby, yet ended up becoming a part-time automotive photographer at the moment. A story that’s also happening to other HnP crews. Same thing has also occurred to Posma, owner of today’s outrageous 1M; his passion for BMW’s …
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The Editorial Duo // GTI MKV & MKVI
Behind the site, behind the photo shoots, behind the writings, behind all these hobby/passion jobs we do at HnP, each of our crew members has our own car projects we’re working on. We’ve always loved cars; we continuously admire other people’s builds through our site features. And we’re also dreaming of one day having our own ‘killer’ builds to be …
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Sportscar Community December Run // Photo Coverage
December proved to be the greatest time for communities to held end-of-year gatherings. While most people were on vacations, car lovers got the opportunity to enjoy a less-congested Jakarta. Just couple of weeks ago we joined the JDM.RUN December cruise, and today I present to you an even larger morning run arranged by Sportscar Community. Held on December 29th with …
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Wallpaper Wednesday // JDM.RUN
Last weekend the JDM.RUN crew did another morning run around the city, with quite several Evo’s joining the rush. Here’s a teaser picture from Charles J, which I’ve also posted as this week’s Wallpaper Wednesday. Car in focus on today’s post is none other than Didi’s Evo VIII we posted several days ago. Well built and immaculately maintained, his Daytona …
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Indo MINI Club End of Year Gath // Photo Coverage
Another great automotive weekend for the HnP Team. Enril from Indo MINI Club invited us to join their morning run and gathering yesterday, 8 December 2013. Attended by around 20 cars from Jakarta and Bogor, the casual event was infused with a lot of fun drives and a great photoshoot location at Aston Bogor. Meeting point was at the Panahan …
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Wallpaper Wednesday // Novitec Torado Aventador LP700-4
How could you possibly improve on excellence? I guess we could all totally understand the concepts behind tuning companies such as Brabus, Hamann, TechArt and many others; which has always succeeded in turning civilian cars into high performance, aggressively tuned vehicles. One recent read on Speedhunter’s Brabus article, for example, revealed just how unbelievably extreme has the company tuned some …
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Show Off // Riph’s Celica on Work
For today’s Show Off article I’d like to present to you something rather unusual found on our streets: an aggressively lowered 2005 Toyota Celica! Built by Toyota during the early 2000s, this seventh generation Celica proved to be the last and the best iteration to Toyota’s compact sports car of the period. Light, nimble and arguably good-looking, the platform became …
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A Visit to KW Suspension Indonesia Headquarter
Last Wednesday (6 Nov 2013) there was quite a special occasion at KW Suspension Indonesia. Oliver Scherbaum, KW Suspension’s Export Sales Director, paid a visit to the purple-yellow Kelapa Gading headquarter. A yearly business trip for Mr Oliver, he came all the way from Germany to meet Iwan and Alvin of KW Indonesia. As a means to keep up with …
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Urban Ranger // CX-7 on Rennen Forged
The jeep lovers vs sedan lovers. Observe the toys-pile of a five year-old and you’ll have a pretty good guess at his future hobbies in life. Some collect robots. Others bikes. Some like supercars. Others jeeps and trucks. Looking at a broader perspective, automotive enthusiasts these days also do show a pretty strong polarity towards sedans vs jeeps as hobbies. …
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Wallpaper Wednesday // Gallardo LP560-4
I just can’t believe the fact that the Gallardo is 10 years old already. I mean look at the LP560-4 we have today as our Wallpaper Wednesday. Striking. Modern. Still very sharp. A timeless representation to Lamborghini’s best-selling platform that has helped bringing the company to where it is today. This particular facelifted version shot by Charles J has been …
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HnP Photoday // Indostance // Part 2
So, it’s one day later and we have the Part 2 article up and posted for all of you! In case you’ve missed Part 1, go ahead and check out this post. Departing around 2PM from the Al Azhar meeting point, the 200+ stance-cars convoy was done towards Cibubur rest area, where a row of parking space has been reserved …
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HnP Photoday // E90ers
Couple of weeks ago we did another HnP Photoday with the E90ers community. We’ve had one with 86ID, Morning Call Bandung, and this time it’s E90ers turn, arranged with the help from Iwan of KW Indonesia. As many as fourteen cars showed up on that day, including a couple of 1M’s, F30 and E46, adding a great diversity to the …
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Wallpaper Wednesday // Ronny’s Phantom Hot Rod
It’s been a while since we last posted some wallpapers up. So today we decided to give you this unreleased (until now that is) picture of Ronny’s Phantom Hot Rod featured here. Unique and fascinating; Ronny’s rod is definitely among the nicest in town! Check out the download links below! Photography by: Charles J Automotive Photographer based in Jakarta and …
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Deja Vu // Bob’s Subaru GC8 on Volk Rays
An ever-growing trend among car manufacturers’ rivalries these days is in the form of numbers “racing” (a race for higher HP and lower 0-60 times repeated on a yearly basis). A 1992 GC8 Subaru WRX, for example, came off the factory floor with 236HP. It’s rival, the 1992 Mitsubishi Evolution I topped the output simply by adding 8 extra HP, …
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