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Month: January 2009 (Page 4 of 4)

How cool can a Toyota Chaser JZX71 be?

January 6, 2009 / / 1 Comment

Noriyaro posted some amazing pictures again! This time of a typically 80s boxy Toyota Chaser JZX71:
Toyota Chaser JZX71 drifting
Boxy 80s Toyota Chaser JZX71 drifting

I do not agree with him that the car is bosozoku, it is more kyusha kai than bosozoku: it is lowered and it got stretched tires around deep dished rims. No further bosozoku styling (like ridiculous body modifications) or what so ever.

If you’re interested in all pictures of the Chaser, you can find them in this posting on the Noriyaru site:
Nori Yaru’s Chaser

Digidash was a standard feature on the early 3 door zenki AE86!

January 3, 2009 / / 0 Comments

I did some research into the digital cluster on the AE86 since my blogposting about the Impulse AE86 rebuild. Lucky enough I have both catalogues for the Zenki AE86s: both the Sprinter Trueno and Corolla Levin (which are for sale actually!). ;)

If you’re not familiar with the digital gauge cluster of the AE86, this is what I’m referring to:
Zenki AE86 Sprinter Trueno digital cluster
The digital gauge cluster of the Zenki AE86 Sprinter Trueno

I looked into the options and standard features of both the Levin and Trueno:
Zenki AE86 Sprinter Trueno GT Apex digital cluster default option
The 3 door Zenki AE86 Sprinter Trueno GT Apex had a digital cluster as default option
Zenki AE86 Corolla Levin GT Apex digital cluster default option
The 3 door Zenki AE86 Corolla Levin GT Apex also had a digital cluster as default option

As you can see: both 3 door GT Apex AE86s have the digital gauge cluster as a standard feature. For 2 door GT Apex cars the digital dashboard was only available as an option. And for all other trims and variants it wasn’t even available!

Both catalogues are from S58 (1983) so that still doesn’t say anything about which years it did feature on the cars…

WTF: Nissan Skyline’s mini: Langley

January 1, 2009 / / 1 Comment

I really had a WTF here: I saw this ad by the same poster as a Carina ad. It is about the Skyline’s Mini, also called the Langley:
Nissan Skyline’s mini ad on Youtube

Further investigation gave me this video:

Wikipedia redirected me upon Nissan Langley to the Nissan Pulsar page and there it was: The Nissan Langley, from 1980, was a more upmarket Pulsar.

Basically what Nissan did was give better looks to the FWD Pulsar, slap some round taillights on it and call it the Nissan Skyline’s mini to attract even more buyers! Sounds to me like the same if Toyota would have sold the 3 door Sprinter Trueno as the mini Celica XX in Japan.

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