GALLERY: Air Lift Performance @ Ultimate Dubs 2017

Ultimate Dubs is a pretty self-explanatory show. Take one indoor venue – located centrally within the UK no less – and then invite hundreds of high-quality show cars along. The end result, as you’d expect, is a weekend spent drooling over all the latest styles and car builds happening within the UK scene. And that’s never a bad thing.

Year after year Ultimate Dubs has continued to expand, now boasting to be the largest indoor event for VAG tuning across the whole of the UK. In fact, it’s now become the ‘unofficial’ start of the UK show season, with most tuners and enthusiasts building cars specifically to unveil at Ultimate Dubs more than any other event in the calendar.

Why? The winter months in Britain are properly bleak. Think minimal daylight, persistent drizzle and dreaded salt on the roads. It’s not really a time of the year to drive any car you care about, meaning any ‘show’ car gets tucked away in the garage until the sun makes a rare appearance in March… which just so happens to be the same time as Ultimate Dubs!

Combine this with an invite-only event and the quality of cars on display really is second to none. What’s more, the indoor location (and lighting) means every stone chip, paint swirl or even spec of dust is highlighted far worse than an outdoor show, so having a super-clean car is non-negotiable…