Well, it’s that time of year again where we make our way to the International Auto Show so that we can pay $15 for parking and get free dealer bags. We don’t really go for the cars all that much anymore LOL.

I’ve gone from taking pictures of nearly every car to most of them to some of them and now to only the ones worth looking at for longer than a few seconds. It’s cut down the amount of pictures I take considerably but I think most of you just want to see the cool cars, if you are even interested in this at all.

Anyway – a few cool pics of the few cool cars that showed up. Gives me some content.

The new Dodge Viper. Was digging the colour for sure.

The Scion iM AKA Corolla hatchback.

The Scion FRS from Ontario. Sporting the Voltex swan neck, AP racing brakes, Advan GT’s and a full race interior.

The ropes kill the picture for real. lol

The new Nissan Titan. Bad ass because it had carbon fiber flares that flowed up through to the front bumper.

The new Civic coupe. Not a fan of the new Civic at all… Makes me lose hope for the Type R. I really wish the UK version came here instead of this monstrosity.

The Ford Focus RS. Almost $50k CAD… kind of steep… But I’m just judging a book by its cover.

Digging the front though. Love these huge, aggressive front bumpers coming out lately.

The new Audi R8 V10 Plus.  The colour was killer – the spot they put it in was not… Too much bottlenecking!!

Another bad spot to put a trio of Lamborghini’s you can’t even get within 4 ft of. Blocks the walking space…

The new Lexus LF C2 concept. Love the colour on this one too.

Also digging their new spindle grill. It almost looks like it melts down to the middle and then starts twirling together. So bad ass.

The Lexus RC-F. Meh about the colour for me…

Kind of a bad shot because the door was open, but I think one of my favourite SUV’s out right now is the new RX. Lexus has killed it with their front fascia on their whole line up. I know when it first came out, there was a lot of ehh’s and uhh’s…

A slammed TLX  on Vossens

Not sure how I felt about the wrap though. It was like halfway between matte and gloss it almost looked too fake.

Race ILX

The elusive NSX. The colour was just amazing in person.

Not to mention the awesome front. I wouldn’t even want to drive this in fear of ruining the beautiful finish lol. Of course, I’ll never own one… If I did, I’d probably have enough money not to care. hahaha

Ass.

The BMW M4 GTS. Super rad matte finish.

Check that lip. All it would take is a bump on the curb or some asshole deciding to test it’s strength lol

Fingerprints FTL

One of my favourite cars there was this Rocket Bunny RC-F. It was sad because it was tucked away in the corner where everyone was eating and not blocked off. If any car should’ve been blocked off, it should’ve been this one LOL.

You can see in the pics how close it was to the chairs and stuff. Brutal.

Love.

Punit…

The BMW M2.

Here is what my house is probably worth in one picture.

And here is what is worth more than my house in one picture.

Porsche love.

LOVE this AMG GLE 63 S. It is eerily similar to the X6 but I love that slope in the rear.

Punit got adopted by this nice Asian lady. At least it’s in a nice and new NX 200T.

And we’ll end it with these chumps all packed into the GS-F for a group shot. ❤

It’s that time of year again where we make our annual trip to the auto show to check out new whips and for Diana to get free things – it’s a good compromise.

Lots of cool cars like always – super busy but always a good time to hang with the dudes. Thanks to JC for the free tickets! The car pics will start after our little pre-show caffeine load up.

Diana and I decided to head to Cafe Blanca before the show to check out the new ways of making hipster coffee. I had to take some pics cause it was hella cool. It’s called Siphon Coffee and it’s an elaborate way of making coffee and it’s currently the only cafe in Calgary that does it this way. Didn’t look like too many people in the cafe knew about it but it’s definitely worth trying once… Check it out:

Siphon coffee starts off with a flask and a heated element underneath – the red base in the pic. It’s quite the chemistry-looking set up.

Next, a glass goes on top. The bottom flask is filled with water and there is a siphon in the center that connects to the top.

As the bottom flask heats up, the water rises and transfers into the top glass.

From there, coffee grinds of your choice are measured perfectly to match with the amount of water and then added to the heated water in the top glass.

Here she is using a wooden stick to remove the gasses that form at the top of the coffee.

Once the gasses are gone, the mixture falls back down into the bottom flask since there is no more heat to hold it in the top glass.

Once it’s separated, you have your coffee grounds in the top of the glass and fresh siphoned coffee in another flask! The difference between this way is that you get a really natural tasting coffee where it’s not sour or bitter. Once the process is complete, the smell of the grounds is significantly different from the siphoned coffee. It’s pretty cool!

And here we enjoy the siphoned coffee. Awesome little place to try out. /end foodie post.
Now onto car pics!

We start the show with the new Dodge Viper. I love that Dodge has kept the general look of the Viper that we are all so used to. The fender lines, even the center stripes.

A pricey Dodge Charger SRT at $80,000. Nice bronze wheels and huge Brembo brakes right behind them.

A very awesome B6 Alpina with those classic Alpina wheels.

Front end is amazing.

Rolls Royce… Once again, there’s a house sitting right there.

Awesome Bentley

A matte wrapped Acura TLX lowered on Vossens. It was dece… I’m not a fan of the new Acura models for some reason. They’re more mature-looking.

Had to get a shot of one of the twins – BRZ.

Front end shot of the Nismo 370Z. It was tough to get a shot of the full car because all the fanboys were crowding it along with the GTR over to the left. The abuse these cars go through is crazy…

One of the cooler cars there was this race-built FRS. Scion always has interesting ricer cars in their booth for people like us.

Awesome wheel and brake set up with Volk CE28RT’s and AP Racing brakes behind.

JC and Punit decided it was worth pointing the imperfections out on a car that actually gets tracked lol. Disrespect.

Rear quarter shot. Valenti tails and what looks to be a Tomei type 80?

In the back of the Scion booth was a Rocket Bunny-esque Scion Tc on velvet blue Gram Lights. Pretty cool.

Over in the Honda booth was a pretty cool Fit all snazzed up.

The front end was pretty awesome with the Mugen front. I love how they’re starting to pay more attention to good-quality parts and bringing them to shows like this.

Another shot of the Mugen front.

Race set up inside.

A $30,000 Mazda3 hatch… Not sure I would ever pay for that though.

A classic take on the VW Beetle.

The new Nissan Titan with the new Cummins engine inside. Thing was huge.

The Juke – always a cool looking car.

The Mercedes AMG GT. Reminiscent of the SLS but without the gullwing doors.

The Mercedes S63 – Another bad ass car.

And it continues with the Audi RS7.

My favourite of the whole show was Infiniti’s Q80 Concept. It’s sad that the Calgary show doesn’t get to see many of the concept vehicles like the FT-1, but this was awesome.

Front end was definitely cool.

Awesome LED headlights

Another shot

And the rear. Super futuristic looking which will probably not carry over…

The Lexus RC-F. Super awesome looking in person. Reminds me of all the hype that came out when the IS-F was released.

Love the spindle grill on all the Lexus vehicles.

The CT200h. JC you need this front end in your life lol

The RC350. Still equally as cool as the F model.

Ass shot. Lexus did good on both the front and rear of the RC-F.

The guys entertained with a touchscreen that did nothing. lol

Super badass Camaro Z28. I would rock the shit out of this thing.

Same with the Corvette. Chevrolet is killing it.

We’ll end the show with Punit and the typical car show picture. This is so he can post it on his social media and look cool.

Hope you enjoyed!

Finally another post! It’s getting rare lately but I’m trying my best. I was able to go to the Auto Show with Diana, JC, and Punit on Saturday and see what was new and exciting and drool over things we can’t afford. Another pretty decent show – the hard hitters as usual were Audi, Mercedes, Infiniti and Lexus. I’m over taking pictures of every damn car because I don’t care much for the others… You’ll just see shots of the more interesting cars to me.. 🙂

The new Fit. Not a fan of it all… Especially the headlights. Reminds me of the Insight.

My all-time favourite car at the show was this beautiful RS7. Words cannot describe how much Audi killed the design and styling of this car. Everything from front to back is just beautiful. $160,000 of beauty.

Back end is awesome too. One of the only Audi’s that is really different than the other models.

The Audi A3. Meh.

The new STI. I’m personally a pretty big fan of the new styling… It looks a little smaller overall, but pretty decent. Side note: You see that group of guys? Two in the car and the other one looking in? That one guy looking in was going on and on about how the trunk didn’t close when he was tapping it. He also went on to talk about down force and somehow mated it up with the idea of closing the trunk. My #1 pet peeve at car shows: everybody is an engineer and knows everything about every car. We also later saw the genius at the BMW booth and couldn’t figure out how to open the hood cause he couldn’t find the latch *cough in the grill *cough.

Interior of the STI. A lot nicer than the previous gens. My complaint about mine was the interior never changed much… I like the addition of what looks to be a G-force meter in the center.

The CLA. Looks great too

The all new S-class. I love this chassis…

Again, front end styling on most of the luxury manufacturer cars are getting super aggressive. I love it.

Same with the new Genesis sedan… Starting price at $45,000?! I’M IN.

The new Infiniti’s are pretty nice as well. However, I’m not going to go and pretend I know all of the new models, cause I don’t….

But the interior of the new Infiniti’s are awesome. That wood is crazy.

The Lexus flagship – LS460. Love the new front fascia… What I would do to trade mine…

The Ct200h and its new spindle grill looks great too.

The LFA just on the other side…

And the GS right beside the CT. My favourite bumper of the whole Lexus line up. Good job, Lexus.

Beautiful Panamera.

Cadillac is also another hard hitter lately… Before they were always seen as an “old man’s car”. But with their recent change in styling and new models, it looks like it’s catering more towards the middle aged demographic. I’d rock one though

CTS-V has been a long time favourite of mine…

The TLX prototype. While I’m a fan of it, I’m confused with where Acura is trying to place themselves in terms of class. Maybe it’s just me but it just looks like they’re taking every letter of the alphabet and trying to make sure they create a car that ends with an “X”. lol

Love the jewel headlights though.

Beautiful M6.

New Escalade. How do you say no to how gangster that looks?!

Shot of the Scion booth. Similar set up every year…

Crazy IQ that Evasive looks to have built with a Voltex wing.

Baby blue Aventador.

The car equivalent to my house. T_T

And a shot of the Scion FR-S that I missed when we were at the booth. I get the feeling that this is the same one as last year but with different vinyl and livery…

Anyways – a pretty decent show overall. A good space filler for the blog! lol