Saturday night. Midnight. A desert street in a lonely industrial wasteland on the outskirts of Los Angeles...

Suddenly, a mighty roar. The air is filled with the sound of turbo-charged horsepower, coming from under the hoods of dozens of colorful Japanese and german sucompacts and sports cars which quickly pull into the street and create an illegal drag strip a quarter-mile long. These customized vehicals are driven by men and women, mostly in their twenties, representing all races and nationalities. They walk around and admire each others handiwork before getting down to the bussiness at hand - finding out who has the fastest car of them all.