Who cares about Tokyo Auto Salon?

January 16, 2013 in drift video

While all the journalists of any importance were drooling over all the Toyota 86-es and Subaru BRZs at the Tokyo Auto Salon 2013 these guys were actually having some fun in the real 86-es at a circuit day organized by Auto Service Ito!

Who cares about 86-es and BRZs at the Tokyo Auto Salon when you can actually have fun with the real deal!

Direct link to video: 2013.1.13 日光サーキット 逆走 AE86 車窓 ノーマルエンジン

Thrilling Celica RA40 at Bathurst in 1980

January 9, 2013 in video

Just saw this video being posted on Facebook by Thomas Delien on the TACN Facebook page and it is a thrilling 5 minutes of footage from Peter Williamson’s Celica in the 1980 Bathurst race:
Celica RA40 at Bathurst in 1980
Peter Williamson was doing live footage for the Australian Channel 7.

Video can be found on the next page…

Video: Initial D Fifth Stage episode 2

November 22, 2012 in video

Last weekend Episode 2 of Initial D Fifth Stage has been broadcasted in Japan. Obviously it was fansubbed just within a couple of days!
Initial D Fifth Stage Episode 2
This episode focusses on the battle between Keisuke in his RX7 and Kobayakawa in his LanEvo VII.

A bit different this time is that I actually managed to embed the video: Read the rest of this entry →

Nissan R382 with a 60s vibe!

November 20, 2012 in video

Another interesting video by IKnowSkyline is this video of the Nissan R382 preparing for the 1969 Japanese Grand Prix:
Japanese Grand Prix 1969

You can see that Nissan put three R382s at the starting grid and they had almost to no competition from the Toyota 7s and Porsche 917s and started all three from pole position: Read the rest of this entry →

Hayai! The new Nissan R380A-II!

November 19, 2012 in video

I posted a video of the Prince R380 breaking the landspeed record at the Yatabe test course over three years ago and now IKnowSkyline posted up another one of the Nissan R380A-II:
Nissan R380A-II
Not only did Nissan use this Prince developed race monster: Read the rest of this entry →