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By The Community Let's Talk About What Everyone Else Is Doing You know the drill. Somebody wants to build a drift car in Pakistan. They go for the KE70 Corolla. Cheap. Common. The starter platform everywhere kyunke saman mil jata hai easily and its a decent car in itself.... Or they stretch a bit more […]

The Underground Racing Scene: Bigger, Wilder, and More American Than You Think By The Community Disclaimer: This article focuses on car culture and community. We acknowledge the political differences between Pakistan and Afghanistan, but this is about the love of cars...a language that needs no translation. Let's Talk About What's Across the Border You know […]

By The Community Not a promotion. A standard. Let Me Tell You What I Saw I walked into RPS in Islamabad the first time years ago with no agenda. Just curiosity. I'd heard the name. Real Performance Shop. Conversions. AMGs. The purple Skyline that everyone talks about. But what I found wasn't what I expected. […]

When Pakistan Switched from JDM to Mercedes, BMW, and Audi By The Community Disclaimer: For informational purposes only. We do not encourage illegal activity. Remember When It Was All About Japan? RX7s. Supras. 350Zs. That was the dream....those were the cars that everyone wanted...affordable and powerful Then something changed. Around 2018 or 2019, the JDM […]

By The Community Disclaimer: For informational purposes only. We do not encourage illegal activity but will definitely tell you about it.... Let's Talk About the Z You've seen them. The silver ones with QF-350 plates. The blue ones with faded headlights. The ones that sound like they're trying too hard and the ones that sound […]

By The Community Disclaimer: This article is for informational purposes only. We do not encourage or promote illegal activity, including the purchase or transport of non-custom paid vehicles. So You Read The First One Last time we talked about how NCP cars flow into Pakistan. The routes, the risks, the Quetta Gallardo. The gray world. […]

Let's Start With The Truth You've seen them. The Crowns with no number plates. The Mark Xs that look too clean for their price. The 350Zs that roll through town on a Sunday evening, almost everywhere in Pakistan lol. Non-custom paid. NCP. The backbone of Pakistan's underground car culture. Everyone knows they exist. Few talk […]

How a 1UZ V8, an RX7 Sunroof, and Some Guys from Mardan Built Pakistan's Most Serious Corolla By The Community Let's Be Honest Nobody looks at a KE70 and thinks "drift car." It's a Corolla. A small one. The kind of car you learned to drive in, not the kind that makes people step back […]

The Untold Story of Neela's RX-8 and Its Journey to Pakistan By The Community Documentation & Verification: Arkimoto Team So. You know the film. Tokyo Drift. 2006. For a generation of us, it wasn't just a movie. It was a doorway. The first time we saw a car move like that, like it was dancing […]

Picture Credit: Zawar Shah  THE EARLY DAYS OF 091: So, listen. You know how it was. Back in the day, Peshawar was just... alive with it. You couldn't walk through Shoba Bazaar without tripping over a 1JZ block. Every second 86 had something wild under the hood. It was cheap, it was loud, it was pure […]