Remembering Japanese cars from the past
I found this cozy tilt-shifted family photo on RA64Freddy’s blog:
S chassis family by Oh Mai Googles
The picture itself would have been great by itself, but the tilt-shift effect just shifts the picture to sheer brilliance! It almost looks like all of them are incredibly detailed scale models! ;)
I was able to track the original down to Oh Mai Googles Deviantart page.
After last weeks puppy saving Carina with Sonny Chiba we have two other Carina videos featuring him:
The Sporty Special looks like a great car to me! Could it have been a special version of the Carina GT coupe TA45 or was it just the ordinary LX or XT?
How about Sonny Chiba driving the Swiss Alps then?
Lovely sight to see the Carina coupe driving through the mountains! Even the Swiss Rescue give their thumbs up!
Being from the Playstation generation I only knew about the existence of the 1992 twin engined Suzuki Cultus (aka Suzuki Swift) through Gran Turismo 2. This little car is overshadowed by its bigger brother, the Suzuki Escudo Pikes Peak, but looking at these two videos of the 1992 Pikes Peak hillclimb makes me fond of the little brother too!
The first video shows Daijiro Inada doing the 0-100 in 3.6 seconds (I bet he liked that!) and some of the JDM competitors damaging their cars.
Quite spectacular is the onboard camera footage from the Mitsubishi Colt number 7 when it tumbles down the mountain:
Even more spectacular is the run done by Nobuhiro Tajima in his twin engined Suzuki Cultus: even though he has a damaged tire he manages to finish his run in 12:51! Amazing!
Makes me wish it was 1992 again! ;)
Personally I’m not really a Honda man, but I do like beautiful things like the NSX! :)
Hiroun156 uploaded this beautiful Honda NSX promotional video from the early 90s (probably 1990) with the NSX driving through European landscapes:
Note that both NSXes used in this video are RHD, so a (temporary) Japanese car import was required to shoot these videos.
And the hand of the driver at the Nürburgring, could that have been Motoharu Kurosawa?
On the other hand, Gan-san did not wear an helmet when he drove that NSX to a 8:16 recordtime in 1990:
When I 16 years old and still in high school there was this guy in my class who became 18 years old and was allowed to drive a car to school (in the Netherlands the age getting your license is 18). The car he drove was a tiny black Suzuki Cervo SC100 with some wicked rims under it. It looked a bit like the SC100 I found a few days ago:
Down on the Street: Suzuki Cervo SC100
Maybe it is even the same car and still owned by that same guy! ;)
Down on the Street: Suzuki Cervo SC100
Back then I thought it was one of the best cars you could possibly own: a small (economical) car with enough power to make it a bit sporty due to its size… Of course I wanted such a car as well. Back then I never concluded that my size (6 foot 5) would be a problem… I fitted on the passenger seat and my hair was scraping against the headlining, what’s wrong with that?? ;)
When I finally wanted to buy my first car I was looking for such small cars. I did drive the Suzuki Alto CA71 owned by my brother and found out that it was already hard to drive a car longer than 30 minutes when you are cramped between the seat, the headlining and the steering wheel… So in the end I started looking for a B class car instead.
To give you an impression on how small these Cervo SC100s are:
Down on the Street: Suzuki Cervo SC100
Yes that’s right: it is parked between a Toyota Starlet and a Peugeot 206 and it is about three quarters of the size of that Starlet! :D
Remember the Car Guidance video of the Honda City I posted two weeks ago? Well, there is a whole series of Car Guidance videos and they are dull, boring and only focused on how to handle the car in a normal way.
So I will just bore you with them as well:
Actually this video about the Soarer GT Limited isn’t that boring: I already spotted the badass 80s Carozzeria speakers at the shelve in the back of that Soarer. I also love those Soarer wheels: they are basically the same as the ones on my Carina (Celica Supra rims) but they have a different centercaps with a griffin (logo of the Soarer) on it.
Also great are the numerous switches on the steering wheel: but what can you adjust? The auto gearbox? The airbag suspension?
And what about the exciting ending? 11PM… Kitty bedtime?! :D
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