Let's recap the whole year, which has gone faster than the last one and slower than the next one. Pleasant meetings, thousands of orders processed and new products on offer were the main denominators. We brought you many new brands like NRG, Origin Labo, Ondorishop, JBL, Deatschwerks, Osram, Elta, Photon, RacingDiffs, Eventuri, Meguiar's, Odesa CNC, Cybul, Rota, Rotiform, Strom wheels, CNC 71, Schroth, TAKATA, Koch-Chemie, DYNAMAX and many more. In total, there were more than 36,000 added products from the mentioned manufacturers.
We have expanded our ranges with support in the Czech language and established our brand in the Italian and Slovenian markets.
At the beginning of the year we revealed the secrets of warehouses and packaging through a visit of Dj Lucky Boy, who made an extensive, almost 50 minutes long video about our operation with more than 40 thousand views. Since then we have expanded our warehouses by another 1000m2 to bring you more products in stock with delivery within 24h.
Every year we are part of one of the biggest tuning events like AMTS in Budapest. In 2023 it was no different and on an area of 125000m2, we addressed you with the most desirable products from our offer. This time we joined forces with the well-known company Foliatec, of which we have been a proud supplier for several years now, so you could take away handy gifts, stickers and free energy drinks directly from our booth. Among the novelties we presented were also our stylish seat belts and RACES hobby overalls.
We have been toying with the idea of organizing a reunion or meeting for a long time and after a few weeks of preparations we organized a Meet & Greet event right in our premises together with Illegal Night and Furt Bokem. Our invitation was accepted by well-known personalities such as Drift Masters driver Kevin Piskolty, Dj Lucky Boy and Lady Hoonigan. Pleasant weather, music and drinks attracted more than 2000 people and 30 luxury, supersport and tuning cars like Ferrari Roma, Porsche 911 GT3 RS, Subaru Impreza WRX STI and many more. The high turnout and especially your satisfaction assured us that next year we will organize a similar event where we will bring you even more cars and interesting people. More information about the event can be found in our BLOG.
Izumi is the name of the Anime character, but also the name of the BMW E36 that you had the chance to win during a contest, that lasted almost half a year on our website. It's a BMW E36 with the M50B25 engine, so a 2.5-liter atmospheric inline 6-cylinder ready to burn the rear tires with a snap of your fingers. The guys at Furt Bokem have prepared Izumi to a "drift ready" condition using mostly the parts from our offer. The winner just needs to sit back and ride as far as his rear tires will take him. In the past we have worked with TopSpeed automotive editorial to win a BMW E36 Compact and a Mercedes SLK, but this time it was a truly unique opportunity to win a drift-ready car and the chance to become a Furtbokem member by creating a minimum order of €20 and entering "Izumi" in the comments. This competition is now closed and we will be announcing the winner in the coming days. For more information about the competition and the car, please visit our BLOG.
We ship our products to all EU countries, but 8 of them also have full telephone and email support in their native language. For this reason, we try to create strong social connections on the ground, as we have done in Gatteo Mare, Italy. On 800 meters long street at the beach promenade, 20000 people and 150 cars were present during the whole weekend. We are extremely happy that the attendees suddenly showed a huge interest in our products and we believe that Italy will become one of our strongest markets and that we will be able to establish ourselves there over the next few years. Visit our BLOG dedicated to this exhibition.
From sun-drenched Italy we moved to Nitra, where we had a "home" background and therefore more opportunities. Once again we have brought you the most interesting of our offer. Our stand was complemented by Toyota Supra MK4 2jz-gte and since motorsport is close to our hearts, we also became part of the jury at the drift event "Drift SK vs CZ". Nitra is also one of our regular stops, so we are glad that we had the opportunity to meet great people and re-evaluate future cooperation or see new gems of Slovak tuning. You can find more information about this event in our BLOGu.
The Czech market is one of our strongest. That's why this year we visited the Prague Car Festival. Our expectations were met and even exceeded by the number of positive people and our fans. We were kept company by Furt Bokem and JDM classics like Toyota Supra, Nissan Silvia S15 and also Izumi BMW E36. We dedicated a separate BLOG to the Prague Car Festival.
We wrapped up the show season in the bowels of the Furtbokem garage at the Xbox Game Pass 2023 event. Our offer also includes various gaming accessories such as hand brakes, steering wheels, simulators and lifestyle accessories. The limited number of people made for a friendly environment, and we were delighted to meet and have a few words with people who are no strangers to simulators and are training for the opportunity to build a strong racing career, which we hope to be a part of. More information about this event can be found in our BLOG.
In 2023 we also brought you new videos that we would like to pay more attention to in the coming years because it is better to see once than to hear 100 times. The first video was the installation of the Eventuri intake in the BMW F90 M5 COMPETITION. This modification brought an aggressive intake sound and a few extra horsepower to an already very powerful engine. 630 is a horsepower figure that is certainly not final and we will be looking at this car a few more times in the future.
The addition of Photon's halogen, xenon, and LED bulbs to the lineup motivated us to create a comparison video where you can see the difference between traditional bulbs and xenon bulbs compared to the upgraded solution from the aforementioned brand. We hope that videos like this help you in choosing the right product. If you have any ideas for further videos, please feel free to contact us and we will do our best to accommodate you.
We are constantly striving to improve and bring as many new products and sales options as possible to satisfy each and every one of you. Thank you for your trust and we look forward to shopping with you in 2024.
