Nice work, Kirk! I believe that's him in another pic in the gallery.

It's Spanish-language music day! I don't know what they're saying, but hey, music is music.One of the best rock-pop-folk--however you want to classify them--bands of the last decade or so. Had the chance to see Cafe Tacuba at the Hollywood Bowl. The only negative...

In California this qualifies you for the car pool lane! But yes, you need a special harness for safety.

Press ReleaseSecond Skin, which was started in 2002 by Anthony Collova, was recently sold to an individual buyer. After 22 years in the auto glass business, Ken Kanefield decided that the timing was good to pursue an entirely new venture. Ken remarked, “The...

This Tricks of the Trade is about the sub/amp install in a Honda Element. This vehicle served as one of Alpine's show vehicles a while back. Some of you may recall that we ran another how-to on the building of the pillar-mounted speaker enclosures in the magazine....

Budget woofers are great, big bass for small bucks. But if you can afford a little more, you can get that much more performance and musicality for your car audio system. Here, we look at the more than formidable Alpine SWX-1243D, a finely engineered product... See all 3 comments

I want to thank our users for loading some terrific pics in the galleries this past month. We couldn't possibly have covered every amazing custom car we've seen the last few weeks, not in the same period of time anyway. And that's why as much as I miss the...

Gear gets old, but a great install design doesn't age, as is evidenced here with this amazingly sophisticated system by top installer Calvin Thomas from a while ago. We saw a lot of bad custom cars for celebrities over the years on the magazine. And we unfortunately...

Big bass doesn’t have to cost an arm and a leg. In fact, these days it’s easy to round out a system on a budget without sacrificing much in the way of sound quality or overall volume. We spoke to some of the finest installers from across the country to...

It has been more than two weeks since we purchased our CAE project vehicle, the 2011 Kia Sportage. During that time, the odometer has zoomed past the one thousand mile mark. Having had a bit more experience with the vehicle, including two roundtrips to San...

This week we are continuing our “Back to Basics” series. Last week we covered The 3 Myths About Car Audio Speakers and Speaker Placement, and this week the subject is subwoofer mounting options and a refresher course on simple box building. One of the...