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The BRZ is the Car of the Year
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Once you identify the goals for a particular vehicle, the plan is set to get to those goals and the vehicle continues to impress you each time you use it of course it becomes the Car of the Year. The Subaru BRZ was brought on with the intention of building a reliable, fun track car. The car now has 9 track days, over 750 track miles and it has not balked at me once. Other than adding gas and doing the usual once over maintenance items that any track car requires the BRZ has gone out session after session and...
CRX Road Trip
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I like buying cars. I like finding cars. I like owning cars that I have coveted. Sometimes the cars stick around for quite some time, other times they are gone a month later but I always enjoy the time that I do get to own them. This story starts out like most of my car buying stories, wandering around the internet looking to see what is on the market. Landing on eBay one Friday afternoon brought a 1991 Honda CRX Si to my attention. Who doesn't like the Honda CRX. It is easy to appreciate it for what it is...
5 Tips for your first HPDE
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5 Tips to prepare yourself and your car for your first HPDE HPDE's are some of the most fun that you can have in your high performance street car and some basic rules of thumb will go a long way to making the day enjoyable. A HPDE (High Performance Driving Education) is a chance for you to take your street car onto a race track and drive it like it was meant to be driven. These events are held all across the country at various race tracks with various organizers all year long. #1 - Pre-event check list. Your car...
BRZ Track Car
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There are 2 track weekends under the BRZ's belt and it has proven to be quite impressive so far. The majority of my on track experience is in FWD vehicles so I expected a bit of a learning curve getting into the BRZ but the confidence the chassis gives you expedited this process. With 360 track miles on the car so far there is not 1 thing that I would change. Both weekends have been run at Sebring International Raceway. Most recently I ran with NASA and picked up over 4 seconds per lap from the first time out. My...
Chris Dutkewycz's 9 Second H22 EK
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Working at IPG is fun. We get to be involved in an industry that we are passionate about day in and day out. In addition to building and racing our own cars we get the opportunity to work with a wide array of customers around the world. Chris Dutkewycz is one of those people. It is always enjoyable to be associated with an enthusiast and racer that has a never say die attitude and keeps coming back for more to meet their goals. Chris purchased this 1996 Honda Civic Hatchback from us as a rolling chassis and in turn finished...