About-Us
OUR STORY
This is Eddy, founder of SUMA Performance. You’ve probably never heard of me — I’m a late bloomer in the car community. Why? Read on.
I got into cars in the summer of 2000, when I was 20. That summer, I visited my brother in Taiwan, who had just bought a heavily modified WRX STI. One midnight, he took me on a night cruise with his crew that lasted until dawn.
The roads were empty and wide open — perfect for their group of 5–7 tuned WRX STIs. The sound of the turbo, the sparks from the exhaust… I was instantly hooked.
But like many first-generation Asian immigrants, I was told to focus on school. So I put that passion aside. Three degrees later — a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering, and a JD in Patent Law — and after building a professional career, I told myself: it’s now or never.
That same brother who took me on that midnight run? He’s been in the aftermarket car industry ever since — now a successful manufacturer supplying both OEM and aftermarket products across Japan and Europe.
Twenty years later, he took me for another ride — and it reignited the 20-year-old inside me. This time, instead of just dreaming, we started a business together.
And that’s how SUMA Performance was born.