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JDM Question of the week #1: Chindogu!

November 20, 2015 / banpei / 0 Comments

I have been toying with the idea to create a question of the week for a while now and I think it is time to move forward with it.

I will start every week by giving the answer for last weeks question, sometimes with a bit more in depth information on the subject.
Then I’ll announce the winner of last weeks question. If there are multiple winners I’ll draw one. After that it will be time to announce the new question of the week and show, if available, the prize you can win.

Question for this week: in the video you can see some weird chindogu applied to a car. What is this invention, what does it do and what car(s) does it belong to? Continue reading

Carina Sightings - Carina AA63 with mad gauges

Carina Sightings: mad Carina AA63 with gauges

November 16, 2015 / banpei / 0 Comments

I just found this mad Toyota Carina AA63 with an awesome set of gauges stacked on the dash:

It has an oil temperature gauge, oil pressure gauge, water temperature gauge, negative pressure (?) and an exhaust gas temperature gauge.

The handiwork started off by re-trimming the original dash with leatherette: Continue reading

Down on the Street: insane Nissan Sunny GTI-R

November 14, 2015 / banpei / 2 Comments

Everything about this Nissan Sunny GTi-R is insane and I’m not only referring to the specifications of the car! I covered this GTI-R a few years ago with a couple of photos but back then I was ignorant of its importance. As I had to pass this car every other day I decided to collect some more footage this time:

On the Dutch licence registration page the information told me it had been registered officially as a Sunny 2.0 GTI-R van. Wait a minute: someone was able to register a Nissan Sunny GTI-R as a van in 1993?

The video

Enjoy my homage to the Nissan Sunny GTI-R below that I created using the footage I collected during some five to six times passing by:

Carina Sightings: turbocharged Toyota Carina AA63 in Hot Version 33

October 29, 2015 / banpei / 3 Comments

Ka Ko posts clips from various Hot Version videos regularly and yesterday he posted up a short clip of a turbocharged Toyota Carina AA63 versus a Toyota Corolla AE92 sedan.

The Carina is wrongly placed as the T15/T16 in the description but in reality it is a resprayed Toyota Carina AA63. Also don’t get fooled over that 4A-GZE that got swapped in from an AE92: it is actually turbocharged! Another way to get a twin cam turbo in a Carina!

The comparison between the two is made by driving them as fast as possible on the Ebisu track: Continue reading

Family Album Treasures: so much wow from Toyota!

October 28, 2015 / banpei / 0 Comments

Toyota launched their latest campaign at the Tokyo Motor Show 2015 today and it is called What wows you?. For the introduction video of this new campaign they used various photos that I often label here as Family Album Treasures: aged photos of people posing in front of their pride and joy that could literally be taken out of their family albums.

Surprisingly the photos used in the video aren’t all made by Toyota: the first shot even portraits a BMW 5 series and later in the video there are a Mazda Familia (BH) and VW Beetle to be seen. But of course the majority of the photos are all Toyotas.

It isn’t a Doge so much wow-meme they used though. You can watch the video below: Continue reading

Carina Trivia: Carina A60 weight distribution

October 24, 2015 / banpei / 1 Comment

A few weeks ago someone requested some specific data of the Toyota Carina GT RA63 and of course I did manage to find the data. One of the interesting things I found was that I was able to find the total weight, front weight and rear weights of all Carina A60 models in my data and hence could calculate the weight distribution. So after digging, copy/pasting I made a big overview of all the JDM body types, grades and model codes with their respective weight distribution.

Of course it is not that interesting to dig through each and everyone of them, but there are some nice giveaways. The most interesting is the averages I calculated: Continue reading