ÓûÂþɬ Performance Auto & Sound - The Tuner's Source for Modified Car Culture since 1999 /features/people-opinion 2025-11-23T12:18:28+00:00 ÓûÂþɬ - since 1999 - Performance Auto & Sound The Tuner's Source for Modified Car Culture Joomla! - Open Source Content Management 2025-11-18T16:27:56+00:00 2025-11-18T16:27:56+00:00 /features/people-opinion/pasmag-audience-choice-awards-2025 Adam Gordon

<p><img src="/images/2025AudienceChoice.jpg" /></p><p>We're back again with another round of ÓûÂþɬ Audience Choice Awards, for the first time since 2018. Our team put together a list of names for each category, and narrowed down the nominees for each one to six finalists. The idea behind the Audience Choice Awards is to recognize builders, events, creators, and personalities from across our industry for their contributions to our culture. In true Audience Choice Awards fashion, the ultimate decisions on finalists will be left to you!&nbsp;<br />We will reveal the winners of each category on an upcoming Editorial Desk podcast!</p> <p>{loadmoduleid 184}</p>

<p><img src="/images/2025AudienceChoice.jpg" /></p><p>We're back again with another round of ÓûÂþɬ Audience Choice Awards, for the first time since 2018. Our team put together a list of names for each category, and narrowed down the nominees for each one to six finalists. The idea behind the Audience Choice Awards is to recognize builders, events, creators, and personalities from across our industry for their contributions to our culture. In true Audience Choice Awards fashion, the ultimate decisions on finalists will be left to you!&nbsp;<br />We will reveal the winners of each category on an upcoming Editorial Desk podcast!</p> <p>{loadmoduleid 184}</p> 2025-10-14T15:51:03+00:00 2025-10-14T15:51:03+00:00 /features/people-opinion/what-should-we-look-for-at-sema-2025 Adam Gordon

<p><img src="/images/SEMACTA.jpg" /></p><p>The big show is upon us once again, and we've been watching everyone get their builds prepped for SEMA 2025. The hashtag "#SEMAPREP" is building up tons of new sneak peeks and teasers, and some of the industry's highest profile builders are letting their audiences behind the scenes to look at some of the secret sauce we can expect to see in Las Vegas. With that said, we're always looking to see what else we should be looking for at SEMA 2025 - and we would love to hear from our audience!</p> <p>If you, or someone you know, has a big plan for a reveal or a display at SEMA 2025, let us know! We'll do our best to see them all.</p> <ul> <li>Slide into our <a href="https://www.instagram.com/pasmag/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DMs on Instagram</a></li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <ul> <li>Email us <a href="mailto:Editor@pasmag.com" target="_blank">Editor@pasmag.com<br /><br /></a></li> </ul> <p>If we select the vehicle you submitted, we'll let you know when we're checking it out at the show, and on the podcast!</p>

<p><img src="/images/SEMACTA.jpg" /></p><p>The big show is upon us once again, and we've been watching everyone get their builds prepped for SEMA 2025. The hashtag "#SEMAPREP" is building up tons of new sneak peeks and teasers, and some of the industry's highest profile builders are letting their audiences behind the scenes to look at some of the secret sauce we can expect to see in Las Vegas. With that said, we're always looking to see what else we should be looking for at SEMA 2025 - and we would love to hear from our audience!</p> <p>If you, or someone you know, has a big plan for a reveal or a display at SEMA 2025, let us know! We'll do our best to see them all.</p> <ul> <li>Slide into our <a href="https://www.instagram.com/pasmag/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">DMs on Instagram</a></li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p> <ul> <li>Email us <a href="mailto:Editor@pasmag.com" target="_blank">Editor@pasmag.com<br /><br /></a></li> </ul> <p>If we select the vehicle you submitted, we'll let you know when we're checking it out at the show, and on the podcast!</p> 2024-12-12T17:43:59+00:00 2024-12-12T17:43:59+00:00 /features/people-opinion/pas365-editorial-desk-episode-8 Adam Gordon

<p><img src="/images/PodcastEp8.jpg" /></p><p>The editorial team returned to the live stream on December 10, 2024 to chat about the latest happenings in the automotive industry, their own car progress, and as usual - to evaluate a handful of submitted features for the 2025 calendar year live on the air, taking calls from the vehicle owners to see who was worthy of a feature in the coming year of 12 magazines. This week's topics included BMW's Need For Speed recreation, UHaul's new car trailers, PRI 2024, Recaro's bankruptcy, and more. Join Adam, Rich, Youssef, and Harjaan at the desk for this week's episode.</p>

<p><img src="/images/PodcastEp8.jpg" /></p><p>The editorial team returned to the live stream on December 10, 2024 to chat about the latest happenings in the automotive industry, their own car progress, and as usual - to evaluate a handful of submitted features for the 2025 calendar year live on the air, taking calls from the vehicle owners to see who was worthy of a feature in the coming year of 12 magazines. This week's topics included BMW's Need For Speed recreation, UHaul's new car trailers, PRI 2024, Recaro's bankruptcy, and more. Join Adam, Rich, Youssef, and Harjaan at the desk for this week's episode.</p> 2024-12-03T19:33:09+00:00 2024-12-03T19:33:09+00:00 /features/people-opinion/pas365-editorial-desk-episode-7 Adam Gordon

<p><img src="/images/PodcastEp7.jpg" /></p><p>Back again for another episode of the PAS365 Editorial Desk, the editorial team returned to the live stream on December 3, 2024 to chat about the latest happenings in the automotive industry, their own car progress, and as usual - to evaluate a handful of submitted features for the 2025 calendar year live on the air, taking calls from the vehicle owners to see who was worthy of a feature in the coming year of 12 magazines. This week's topics included Jaguar's controversial rebrand, Nissan's lifespan as a brand, the final A90 Supra, and more. Join Adam, Julia, Youssef, and Harjaan at the desk for this week's episode.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><img src="/images/PodcastEp7.jpg" /></p><p>Back again for another episode of the PAS365 Editorial Desk, the editorial team returned to the live stream on December 3, 2024 to chat about the latest happenings in the automotive industry, their own car progress, and as usual - to evaluate a handful of submitted features for the 2025 calendar year live on the air, taking calls from the vehicle owners to see who was worthy of a feature in the coming year of 12 magazines. This week's topics included Jaguar's controversial rebrand, Nissan's lifespan as a brand, the final A90 Supra, and more. Join Adam, Julia, Youssef, and Harjaan at the desk for this week's episode.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> 2024-11-26T21:29:17+00:00 2024-11-26T21:29:17+00:00 /features/people-opinion/pas365-editorial-desk-episode-6 Adam Gordon

<p><img src="/images/PodcastEp6.jpg" /></p><p>Back again for another episode of the PAS365 Editorial Desk, the editorial team returned to the live stream on November 26, 2024 to chat about the latest happenings in the automotive industry, their own car progress, Black Friday 2024 sales, and as usual - to evaluate a handful of submitted features for the 2025 calendar year live on the air, taking calls from the vehicle owners to see who was worthy of a feature in the coming year of 12 magazines. Join Adam, Julia, Youssef, and Harjaan at the desk for this week's episode.</p>

<p><img src="/images/PodcastEp6.jpg" /></p><p>Back again for another episode of the PAS365 Editorial Desk, the editorial team returned to the live stream on November 26, 2024 to chat about the latest happenings in the automotive industry, their own car progress, Black Friday 2024 sales, and as usual - to evaluate a handful of submitted features for the 2025 calendar year live on the air, taking calls from the vehicle owners to see who was worthy of a feature in the coming year of 12 magazines. Join Adam, Julia, Youssef, and Harjaan at the desk for this week's episode.</p> 2024-11-21T17:18:08+00:00 2024-11-21T17:18:08+00:00 /features/people-opinion/pas365-editorial-desk-episode-5 Adam Gordon

<p><img src="/images/Ep5.jpg" /></p><p>On Tuesday November 19, 2024, we took to the airwaves on our live podcast to make a big announcement. In light of the ongoing demand for more print magazines by our audience, and more features of their builds, we're doubling down on the magazine presence and features in multimedia for the year of 2025. To start the process, we dig into the pile of submissions that have built up since our previous print issues to evaluate them live. Viewers and vehicle owners have the opportunity to call in and discuss after the segment as well, which makes for an interesting few phone calls. As always, we also discuss what's trending around the industry, our own automotive adventures, and more.</p> <p>Do you want to submit your vehicle for live judging and a potential magazine feature? <a href="/vehicle-feature-submissions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Click here!</a></p>

<p><img src="/images/Ep5.jpg" /></p><p>On Tuesday November 19, 2024, we took to the airwaves on our live podcast to make a big announcement. In light of the ongoing demand for more print magazines by our audience, and more features of their builds, we're doubling down on the magazine presence and features in multimedia for the year of 2025. To start the process, we dig into the pile of submissions that have built up since our previous print issues to evaluate them live. Viewers and vehicle owners have the opportunity to call in and discuss after the segment as well, which makes for an interesting few phone calls. As always, we also discuss what's trending around the industry, our own automotive adventures, and more.</p> <p>Do you want to submit your vehicle for live judging and a potential magazine feature? <a href="/vehicle-feature-submissions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Click here!</a></p> 2024-11-01T16:41:15+00:00 2024-11-01T16:41:15+00:00 /features/people-opinion/did-we-start-a-podcast-episode-1 Adam Gordon

<p><img src="/images/PodcastThumb.png" /></p><p>We decided to go live from the Editorial Desk at the PAS365 HQ to give our audience a look behind the scenes at what goes on here when we aren't working on ÓûÂþɬ, PAS365 TV, or other projects. This quickly became the first episode of our currently un-named podcast. In this episode we introduce the staff and their vehicles, some personal tastes, some controversial issues, and answer questions from the audience.</p>

<p><img src="/images/PodcastThumb.png" /></p><p>We decided to go live from the Editorial Desk at the PAS365 HQ to give our audience a look behind the scenes at what goes on here when we aren't working on ÓûÂþɬ, PAS365 TV, or other projects. This quickly became the first episode of our currently un-named podcast. In this episode we introduce the staff and their vehicles, some personal tastes, some controversial issues, and answer questions from the audience.</p>