As I was saying in the RWB Osechi feature, tuning is not dead in Europe. Proof of that is the quantity of custom cars that were seen during the weekend of the Tuning World in Germany’s Friedrichshafen. There was a bit of everything for everyone.

When a few days ago I jumped on a plane to Munich, I mainly did it because we had been invited to witness Nakai-san, the man behind RAUH-Welt Begriff (RWB) modify a Porsche 911 993, but I wasn’t expecting much more from that trip. Fortunately, I was totally mistaken. Tuning World Bodensee, the event in the small german location of Friedrichshafen where the birth of the second RWB in the country took place, surprised me in a good sense: tuning is not dead in Europe

This past December I decided that, for once, I didn’t want to be cold in winter. So I planned a getaway from Barcelona’s low temperatures looking for a warmer new year’s eve. The chosen destination was China and, as it has become the common thing to do lately, when I planned the trip I also organized a short visit to Hong Kong to get a feel for the local automotive culture.

First time I came across them on a random Internet blog I didn’t know what I was looking at: pictures of cars taken at the same white, nearly aseptic corridor, with a shy driver who bowed down to avoid being recognized.