Perhaps the backbone of the global car culture is the local meet. Local car events, whether they be a Cars and Coffee, cruise-in, or a full-blown meet, are the life-blood of enthusiasts who enjoy showing up with all their friends to a lot full of other passionate drivers. In between the large-scale high production value [...]
Some cars have always carried a certain stigma attached to them. When I think about the quintessential scene-kid car, one of two comes to mind. I picture either a Honda Civic or a Volkswagen GTI. In my humble opinion, the GTI replaced the Civic as the go-to boy-racer vehicle of choice in recent years. [...]
As an automotive enthusiast and journalist, my life revolves around cars. Part of the auto-centric existence I lead is occupied by hours spent in amazement of what this past time represents to me and others. While I do have other interests like writing, for example, no hobby is quite as curious as that of [...]
In the mid-eighties, BMW released the second generation 3-series with its new E30 chassis as the sports car aimed at a market of enthusiasts with a taste for refined luxury and simple practicality. The car evolved over the years and truly became one of the all-time automotive greats, as its namesake is [...]
Everyone bring your baseball bats for this edition of the ECS Tuning blog because we have a dead horse that we want to beat. The horse in question is the Volkswagen Golf GTI. As a European tuning company, a staple of our market is the GTI owner segment. The GTI sits among the most [...]
The North East Ohio Cars and Coffee is an event much like other C&C events across the country where enthusiasts gather for morning snacks, caffeine, and a few hours of hang time with vehicles of all types. The NEO C&C, unlike some of the similar meets around the States, is a traveling venue. Last [...]
Just like motorsports never stops evolving as new technologies develop and discoveries are made by drivers to take their cars to new levels, ECS never stops growing to meet those demands. We bring companies on board who produce high-quality products to provide enthusiasts the widest variety of modifications and manufacturers so their build can be [...]
Whenever I ask a fellow car enthusiast what it was that first struck them about cars in general, the answer that follows is rarely short. For myself, I can remember being given a model of the then-new 993 Carerra Porsche when I was young. From the shape of the car to the articulation of the [...]
If you own an E30, then you have no doubt experienced some of the inconveniences that go along with driving that wonderful car. Though it is still God’s Chariot, the E30 chassis has some drawbacks. Namely, the factory suspension is not adjustable for camber or caster. This alignment problem causes serious issues for the [...]
After what felt like a never-ending winter, warm weather finally brought with it the show season and an excuse to leave the office to spend a few days on the beach in South Georgia. While the official debut of our sweepstakes GTI happened last month at Euro District, ECS Tuning attended The European Experience [...]