Cars: Hot Import Nights

March 07, 2005 - If we have to go to the Los Angeles convention center for any reason, it had better to be worth our time -- especially if it means working on the weekend. Fighting the traffic to get into downtown L.A. does nothing but annoy us. Things don't get better exiting the freeway due to the over-abundance of one-way streets -- just try to figure out where how to get where you need to go without accidentally running over a homeless person. It's tough, trust us. Hell, even arriving at the L.A. Convention Center and trying to find a parking spot is an exercise in frustration.

However, the promise of fixed-up rides and fixed-up models helped us to block out the pressures of L.A.'s traffic. The desire to see people flossing their new fixed-up rides and models flossing their new boobs (while wearing butt floss) helped to keep us motivated to complete our journey to the Convention Center. In case you couldn't guess (or if you didn't read the Headline at the top of the page), Hot Import Nights rolled its way into L.A.

If you've never been to (or heard of) a Hot Import Nights event, it's something akin to Disneyland -- but with cars. Wait... no, that's not right. Disneyland has rides and stuff, but no surgically-enhanced models (insert your own dirty "ride" joke here). Maybe HIN is more like videogame super-convention E3. We're not sure.

All we know is that both events take place at the same location (Los Angeles Convention Center for those of you not keeping track), take place in the dark and have the volume for everything pumped to the max. Oops... almost forgot... both shows also are also packed with more seizure-inducing lightshows than is allowed by law. Oh yeah, both shows also have hordes of hot, half-naked models just about everywhere you look.

HIN one-ups the hallowed E3 trade show by adding DJ's, loads of free stuff and enough blaring hip hop and trance to get the booties of all of Los Angeles shaking in unison. We almost forgot the most important thing: Hot Import Nights also comes packed to the rafters with some of the sickest cars known to man.

That's right: many people have seem to forgotten that Hot Import Nights is one of the world's premiere car shows. The hottest cars from the best tuners come from all over the world just to be seen at HIN. We saw D1 cars (such as Nomuken's Skyline - surprise, surprise), turbocharged Civics, luxury VIP-style rides from Mercedes and Lexus, and... Hummers?

It seems that a lot of people can't read the word "Import" in the show's title. We saw massive Hummer H2s, pimped out Chrysler 300Cs and that big-rig thing that Ashton Kucher drives around. Personally, we like to see the diversity amongst the rides at this car show. A show with only Civics or 240s gets really boring really fast (many shows back in the day featured only Civics -- it's true!) We'd like to think that the massive line that went around the L.A. Convention Center was there to celebrate the diversity within the auto tuning industry.

We'd be wrong, though. The biggest crowds were always around the models, and more than a few HIN patrons seemed surprised to see cars blocking their view of freshly-installed breast-es-es.

We liked both the cars and the ladies. You see, there's enough love in our hearts for both. As such, we took lots and lots of photos of both babes and rides. Check our Media Page for a huge gallery of half-naked women... oh, and some Cars, too!