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Car feature: Nissan Gloria Brougham VIP Y30

March 30, 2010 / banpei / 1 Comment

It can’t get more VIP than with this Nissan Gloria Brougham VIP Y30! If not only for its interior, but also for its smooth VG30ET 3 liter V6 turbo engine! Apparently Youtube user iwa730 wants to share its luck with us:

Its got about everything Nissan and the Japanese innovation could cram into that 185 inch long ship: cruise control, active suspension, cruise control and radio controls on the steering wheel, auto transmission with sports switch, radio with tapedeck, aircon, leather seats, pluche door cards, adjustable power mirrors, code protected driver side door, genuine hardtop roof, wire wheels and the list is probably ten times longer than this!

Also the car is in great imbalance: the V-30-turbo Brougham VIP badge is about ten times as heavy as the Nissan badge on the other side of the car! :D

Anyone wants to trade his Nissan Gloria Brougham VIP for my Carina TA60? :P

DOTS: Nissan 200SX S14 end of winter

March 28, 2010 / banpei / 3 Comments

Just realized I haven’t posted the Nissan 200SX S14 for a while, so here are some recent pictures of this rustoseum:

Down on the street: Nissan 200SX S14 rustoseum
Yes, it is still there… And the car is getting a better stance every day since the tires are getting flatter and flatter…

Down on the street: Nissan 200SX S14 rustoseum
Even people start using it to write dirty car graffiti on its rear window!

Down on the street: Nissan 200SX S14 rustoseum
The winter time was very harsh for this car! It is rusting so badly I already start calling it a rustoseum…

Video: CRX 4×4 somewhere in Holland

March 27, 2010 / banpei / 0 Comments

Now this is the weirdest 4×4 I’ve seen for a while: a Honda CRX 4×4!

I found a video on a (Honda related) Minkara and when looking at some other videos posted by its uploader it revealed the 4×4 CRX was actually from the Netherlands! Now that’s social media: finding stuff on the other side of the planet that actually happens around the corner! :D

I found it is actually for sale as well:
CRX 4×4 for sale

According to the information I found in the ad (and another one) the CRX shell is placed on top of a Nissan Patrol with a 3.3 liter turbo diesel engine. Now that’s a fun machine! :)

Hilarious: 8 minutes Kamen Rider compilation

March 26, 2010 / banpei / 0 Comments

Time to feed you some more tokusatsu! An 8 minutes Kamen Rider compilation with the heroic Kamen Rider song in the background!

I think I got enough of the rubber suits, big explosions, bad kung fu, bosozoku wannabes and sung heroic poems for the next three months! ;)

Another Hakone AE86 drift video

March 25, 2010 / banpei / 1 Comment

Over one year ago I posted a series of drift videos on the Hakone mountain pass, shot somewhere in 1995. In this video the same mountain pass, about 3 years earlier and this time only a zenki Corolla Levin AE86 is doing its drifts:

This guy is a very skilled drifter, he drifts both up and downhill. At the same time he manages to keep the car within the lines of the outer lanes through the whole corner!

Cash for clunkers: immaculate German Celica GT carbio ST162

March 24, 2010 / banpei / 7 Comments

This is a very good example why Cash for Clunkers is wrong:

Immaculate German Toyota Celica ST162 to be wrecked
This Celica is for sale at Marktplaats (Dutch craigslist), but you can never drive in it!

According to the ad:
AUTO KOMT VAN DUITSE SLOOPREGELING DUS GEEN CHAS>NUMMER DUS ALLEEN VOOR SLOOP OF ONDERDELEN

Which roughly translates into something like this:
Car was taken in from the German Cash for Clunkers, so no valid chassis number and only to be used for wrecking or parts

Immaculate German Toyota Celica ST162 to be wrecked
That is a bit of a shame since it is a very rare original cabrio Celica GT (3S-FE) and comes with ABS, central locking (like that is useful!) and 4 brand new tires!

Immaculate German Toyota Celica ST162 to be wrecked
And if you thought it had been used a lot before it was traded in you’re wrong! It did not even drive 75000 kilometers in its life! For a Toyota the car has just been broken in. :(

Hopefully the car is now being reused in some other way… It is still a shame to see such a thing happen! In some cases the Cash for Clunkers may be a good thing, but looking at this example it sounds like a very bad practice of funding the car industry…