The Unknown Car Scene in CHINA | iAcro Shanghai | HALCYON (4K)
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- Опубліковано 16 кві 2020
- The Chinese Car Scene: Behind the Firewall | iAcro Shanghai | HALCYON (4K)
When it comes to car culture from Asia, the first thing that comes to mind for most people is Japan. Perhaps Thailand and Indonesia as well. But behind the great firewall of China’s internet is a culture of cars and people that rarely sees the light of day. In 2015, I was sent to Shanghai, China by AccuAir Suspension to capture an event hosted by iAcrophobia, a Chinese based car group with chapters around the globe.
This film was originally supposed to be uploaded to the AccuAir channel, and for various reasons, they held off on releasing it. With the recent news of them closing down, I knew this content couldn't stay hidden forever, and wanted to get it out for all of you guys and the people of iAcro.
This footage is now 4 and a half years old, and while far comparable from my current work, I hope you enjoy a peek into the universal language that is a love for car culture. When I arrived at the show, this universal language was all I needed to communicate with the enthusiasts at the show. Their passion and love for cars are just the same as anywhere else I have been. It was an experience I will never forget.
In China, you can not access major western websites and social media, like Instagram and Facebook, without the use of a VPN. Even with one, connections are slow and unreliable. With the lack of social media, everyone’s engagements with each other felt more pure, genuine, and less about displaying their own experience out to others, and more just about enjoying the moment. This most definitely will not be my last time documenting the Chinese car scene.
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iAcrophobia - @iacrophobia
Taylor Chase - Motion Graphics - @chaseincolor
Hugh O Malley - Location Coordinator
Rilber Li - USA Coordinator / Translations - @iacro_rilber
Haitao Shi - China Coordinator - @iacro_tao
Danny Suarez - Producer - @dankasrz_666
Terry / Jimmy Tse - Featured Vehicles - KANTOWORKS - @kanto_terrytse / @kanto_jimmyxie
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Hey everybody, I hope you enjoy the video. Please read the description. This isn't my best work considering it was captured in September of 2015, but this piece means the most to me. Enjoy and be safe out there.
This shows that you where crushing it in 2015 already 😁
HALCYON glad you clarified that. I was wondering. Keep it up!👊
Amazing work, thanks a lot man. Great to see the car passion in China 🌺👌
Something that needs to be mentioned is that almost all car modifications are illegal in China. No engine or exhaust modifications, no rims (unless it's the same size as stock, no suspension, no wide body. So, car guys in China are taking an extra risk to build their cars while having to hope there are no traffic cops around the corner, or they'd have to pay a big fine, or eorst case scenario, return the car back to stock. Also, there are yearly inspections which you can't pass without returning the car back to stock or "knowing a guy"
In addition to that, owning a vehicle in large metro areas like Shanghai is subject to a pretty extreme tax for the license plate alone.
@@HALCYONphoto yes, there is a lottery system for the number plates in Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, with extremely low odds of being picked. There are plenty of people who have played this lottery for years but haven't won yet. Once you're lucky enough to be picked, you have the privilege of spending a ton of money to claim the plate as your own. Also, owning an old car (anything over 15 years old) here is super hard, due to the biannual inspections and restrictions on registration and movement.
@@HALCYONphoto the Chinese car scene has some truly dedicated people, considering how many obstacles they face
Wow, that actually sounds even more stupid than in germany with TÜV. Why they doing us like this :/
LAP_Maxwell Well the best explanation is that Chinese car scene wasn’t long enough when comparing to US or Japan, they did taking down some restrictions but that’s still not enough for the car enthusiasts really. I’ve ask some of my friends in China, they all say that China have some potential to grow its car community, but won’t happen soon
China’s car scene weren’t big, due to all the regulations, but that can’t stop the dream😻😻😻😻
The last scene of the show hit hard.. theres a lot going on in the world but all enthusiasts are the same. respect
RIP AccuAir will always love your products
Ew air suspension
Due to regulations not many can be modded there, so most of them are about rims and stance. However I'm glad to see track days becoming more and more popular and slightly revised and loosened regulations coming out. One thing that stood out to me was the absurd prices of some imports. A NA Miata costs $40k and a S2K was recently auctioned at $140k.
when i first learned that, and the license plate tax for select cities, i was blown away. so crazy.
@@HALCYONphoto Yeah. Another reason why people went hybrid/electric was because they get free license plates and don't need to win an actual lottery in order to get their plates.
that's because import of old cars is illegal so they are old imports which were rare then and rarer now
I think the chinese car scene is underestimate here in europe/usa. Thank's Halcyon to share in this superb video !
Thanks Anthony, I truly believe that this film was meant to come out now, instead of back then. To show people that no matter where we were born and were we reside, we are all human. Doesn't matter if you are a car enthusiast in Asia or Australia or Europe or here in the states. At the end of the day we are all just nut jobs who like cars a little too much, and we wouldn't have it any other way. Thank you for releasing this, great work as usual, and thanks for reminding me that high school was 4 years ago
thank you for the kind words !
Man, this makes me miss the car scene so much. Dying for all this covid situation to get better and we can finally go back to show off our builds.
Seriously, it feels like forever :(
@@HALCYONphoto facts man... just gotta be positive through all of this.
Mega Appreciation shot - 13:16 that looks so damn beautiful!
So glad to watch this video on UA-cam, 5 years later, its suppose iAcro 10th year celebration, but because the Corona virus, there maybe no more meeting this year. However still have lots friends working on their cars and wait for meeting. Thank you Halcyon upload this video and wish you guys have chance come to China again, you guys have lots fans in China now, and inspired many people who love to filming cars, so do i. Wish we have chace meet in iAcro next event!! 感谢寜静！
thank you very much Greddy Li. I can't wait to be back for another event. I hope you all doing well there.
Such an awesome video and a really cool take on the Chinese car culture. Great work man!
Uhhhh I've waited years for that opening sequence, thank you Anthony for dropping this
thank you man
I honestly didn't even know their was a Chinese car scene so that's pretty awesome. Also reading some of the restrictions they have on mods in China, mad respect to these guys for getting out their and promoting the scene
they're vehicles go hard, check out @iacrophobia on IG!
Great work as always mate !
☄☄Amazing video! 🖤
Beautiful piece Ant! Even in 2015 you were killing it brother!!
thanks JMcK!
Beautiful video ! 🤙
Love it man!
Pleasing to my eyes, very nice composition.
Considering the regulations in China, damn...it must take some really dedicated people to make things like this possible, so huge respect for them.
Also,
R.I.P. AccuAir
"Far from my current work" Still a legend in the video world! You are awesome for sharing this video and expanding everyone's view on the worldwide car scene!
thanks Roma
Dude how come I just saw this video! Thanks for introducing the Chinese tuning scene man! It's just bad timing that our car culture begin late, there's no laws to categorise them and electrifications are taking over but hey, enjoy tuning while we can
I think car culture creates a second family, where people can gather with passion about automotive discussing cars. Besides, the most important thing is the existence of the media, whether it's photographers or videographers, thank you for creating amazing content!! greetings from the Asian region. , I hope this COVID pandemic will pass quickly,
well said
Back for my yearly viewing of this. So cool, and I hope that the scene has only grown since then.
Another good film, loved it. 👍
thank you paul!
Your work is amazing.
thank you very much!
Still cant believe Accuair shut down :( I almost bought their kit, but ended up going with AirLift for price reasons, but thats tough. Great work as always man!!!
for the fozzy?!
For the Legacy bro :) Fozzy has been sold :(
So good Ant
Evil Beaver thank you!
It's great to see the chinese government tolerating more positive and peaceful international influences! It's sad to see all this AccuAir-Sponsorship while the company itself is gone. I loved their products. Thanks a lot @HALCYON for all the editing work and this great and entertaining video! #Level💯! 👍😎👍
That intersection hyperlapse was a dope shot. For your early work this still looks great! Do you remeber what you were shooting with then?
Thank you! It was an A7RII, with a Tamron 24-70, and a DJI Ronin
Awesome location and cinematography . Greetings from z nation Germany
Thank you very much!
Amazing video dude, if you can show more out of china. So interesting 👌👌👌
I hope to be back in the future!
Again feel so greatful to see my home country content.Your video always fire in our local "UA-cam".Wish u can come Canada someday.We got lots of cool car here too hahaha
are you talking about Youku? I know the iAcro guys uploaded it there a few years ago.
@@HALCYONphotoCalled ''bilibili'' kinda like UA-cam in China with more anime content.
4:45 that LS400 with the G50 Century front end is SICK
Yup!! When that thing rolled in I didn’t know how to act 😂
HALCYON it’s a shame we can’t get that model century in the states yet, I’d mob that thing so hard lmfao
Damn It’s really poppin. Good Shots here i dig 👌👍
thanks!
Interesting to see the car scene from the other side of the world!
Come for the cars, stay for the music ❤
Hey I absolutely love your videos and you’ve inspired me to get into cinematography. What camera do you use and what FPS do you shoot at? Thank you!
Thank you! This was on an A7RII at 24fps.
I like this video
Cool
@halcyon what drone did you use during this shoot? The time lapses are amazing too, sick work
drone is stock footage. regulations in major cities in China are pretty strict, so didn't want to get myself into any trouble in a different country haha.
HALCYON totally understandable, knew of a guy when I was in Japan that got arrested for flying over a government building but he had no clue lol Better safe than sorry
China car scene is clearly Ahead of the world wtf. How this is 4 years old 😆😭 also awesome work as always love u ❤
Thank you
thank YOU!
Top como sempre o vídeo parabéns.. Brasil 🇧🇷
RIP Accuair
great
来了！
China has by far the best taste in cars, they just know how to pimp out a ride correctly.
简直是跟日本的水平一模一样了，太棒了，我喜欢😍
The roads there are perfect
Need more of that black mark x pleaseeeeeeeeeeee❤️💕💕💕💕💕💕 i love that car man
I so wished that the Toyota Mark X in the ending scene came to the states!!! 🔥😭
right?! would be so cool to have here
China is allowed to have a car scene? I'd be very afraid personally of getting into trouble with the law out there. Great video as always though! Good to see things from an entire different aspect of the world.
This is so sick
好！
My boi halcyon showing us his archives
few more coming!
@@HALCYONphoto keep them come, we love your videos
Rock It!!!
Leggoooo
Vc tem canal no UA-cam ne top
❤️❤️❤️
I was there back in 2015, with my EX-girlfriend and my old E46 325Ci. All gone and all in memories now.
RIP AcuAir
Очень круто!!! Респект!!!
Спасибо
RIP accuair
We need a movie in Japan. Japanese car scene are awesome!
There are too much law restrictions in China. Modified cars aren't welcomed. It's tough to promote car culture there, but iAcro did it. For me, iAcro is not an organization, it's a lifestyle :)
yes! they are truly dedicated
来了来了
12 gen crown, I miss and not miss my handsome old man. Now i am with abarth 124. lite, like jet ski not like a boat.
Glad this car meet they dont care what care what nation is car made from. What they care is just a passion
8:40 the vibes hit me hard here
It's sad to see what happened to AccuAir
我期待这与你合作拍摄更好的作品！
我希望将来
@@HALCYONphoto 这是一件很酷的事，我很期待
😍
I’m just here for the comments 🍿🍿
What’s the song @4:46
Hy can u make a film on Ferrari 458gt3
sure, bring me one.
Farewell AccuAir.
I thought the cars in China would be Eastern European stuff, like Lada, Skoda, Volga, Tatra, etc.
To see so many cars on hydraulics, I'd say China car culture is there, but haven't really grown into the "racing spirit" yet. It's still in the "cosmetic" era. Big potential to go bigger
cena chinesa é sinistra bro, vale a pena pesquisar.
muito mesmo!
RIP accuair
I hope you can come to Indonesia bro
that would be awesome :)
❤❤
8:46 Did paul walker really say that? if so, thats pretty haunting...
I wonder if they buy the counterfeit versions of Japanese bodykits.
looks pretty much like the japanese carculture, but with more european cars, But with the internet, the carculture looks more similar over the world.
you are now warching,Halcyon
"Is this car stock, son?"
Yes officer, bone stock.
"Well I measured your rims and they're not regulation size; they're huge."
*Pulls out tape measure from Wish*
See, officer? Stock size.
"I apologize, go on with your day."
2:44 / 13:36 my favourite car
@iacro_bean
What suv is that at 2:39
Porsche Cayenne
when pooh bear can’t keep you from getting 3 piece wheels
second one
i was expecting some knock off car brands like how they showed them in top gear
Just set saillllllls
Wonder if you'll go to the philipines one day they have nice cars there and you might see lots and lots of random riced cars roaming the streets
hmm隶属于广东省的车牌，非常有趣。
活动从北京广东深圳出发！
Was honestly expecting to see some chinnese cars but not really alot different than us ones lol
So many japanese cars. Chinese government must be proud
牛逼
谢谢
帅，666
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Marlene Guivara Lopes hows it going!
China us human too Never Forget.... We all Love and Build
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