Remembering Japanese cars from the past
I’ve posted up a couple of reverse fetishes so far and I even posted an AE86 Gauge cluster before (which was wrongly indicated as EUDM). Japanese like overseas stuff like the Datsun 240K badges or Renault 5 Turbos. So not surprisingly this USDM AE86 Gauge cluster from a US Toyota Corolla GT-S AE86 is currently […]
I’ve seen many Fujiwara Tofu Shop (private) inspired vehicles so far, but this Nissan Sunny RZ-1 B12 is done in such perfection that if the original was a Levin you had to look twice to see the difference. Of course it does help that the Nissan Sunny RZ-1 B12 and the (kouki) Toyota Corolla Levin […]
Straight from a Toyota Soarer Super Gran Turismo MZ12 brochure this cutaway picture was scanned in a very high quality: What I really like about this picture is the details in the 3 litre twin cam 6M-GE engine. Even though it was sold midst of Toyota’s twincam era it only featured two valves per cylinder. […]
I watched this JDM advertisement for the Honda Civic 35XT and it kind of puzzles me what the 35XT stands for… It just looks like a regular ED sedan, but then with the dual carbed hyper 16valve D15B2 engine in it…
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 […]
About a year ago I posted a Hello Kitty bus spotted at the JCCA NYM 2012, but that Hello Kitty bus is nothing compared to this pink monster: This bus has been spotted at the Tokyo Auto Salon 2013 by Car heal space