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Brilliant: Honda Museum in Google Streetview

October 17, 2013 / banpei / 0 Comments

A couple of days ago I read on Jalopnik that the Honda Museum in Kanazawa (Ishikawa Prefecture) in Japan is now available on Google Streetview. Of course you can’t read all the fine details on the exhibits but you surely can get a good impression of the museum and if I ever go to Japan I’ll certainly will visit the museum!

Next to the entrance this Honda RA271 formula one car welcomes you:

Next to it is a pristine S600 convertible.

Upstairs you will find even more formula one cars, like the world championship winning RA272: Continue reading

Down on the Street: Toyota Altezza SXE10

Down on the Street: JDM Toyota Altezza SXE10

October 13, 2013 / banpei / 0 Comments

Now for something more refreshing after all those Hungarian Honda Civics: a JDM Toyota Altezza SXE10!

Last Wednesday I was enroute (by bike) to pick up my son from school when in a blink of an eye I spotted something wrong with the “Lexus IS200” on the other side of the street. I quickly grabbed my phone and took the picture above.

There was indeed something odd and it wasn’t only being RHD, nor the JDM Altezza grille and after market bumper: Continue reading

Commercial Time: Leonardo di WagonRio

October 12, 2013 / banpei / 0 Comments

Don’t get me wrong: I’m not dissing Leonardo di Caprio here but it just seemed to be very very funny that Leonardo is actually doing a commercial for a dull car as the Suzuki Wagon R Wide in fluent Japanese:

BTW:The Suzuki Wagon R Wide is the same as the Wagon R+ in export markets. ;)

Continue to the next page to see the video: Continue reading

Shakotan: How low can a Nissan Skyline DR30 go?

October 10, 2013 / banpei / 2 Comments

It has been a while since this link entered my linkdump, but it kept popping up now and then. Basically during a Skyline meetup this Skyline owner took a couple of pictures of this lowered Tekkamen Nissan Skyline DR30:

Shakotan is generally connected with zokusha and mad camber cars but actually it means low car…

And this DR30 is certainly LOW: Continue reading

Fixed the Carina A60 Chronology

October 7, 2013 / banpei / 1 Comment

Not a very big update, just that I revived one of the older pages that got lost when my server crahsed:
Carina A60 Chronology
A bit more work than I anticipated for but most of it is good old handwork.

Next pages I need to revive are the Carina brochures and the Carina specification pages. ;)

Down on the Street: last Hungarian Honda Civic EK

October 6, 2013 / banpei / 1 Comment

This actually isn’t the last of the Honda Civics I spotted in Hungary, but it will be the last one I’ll share. Maybe it has been some sort of foreboding spotting that many Civics? Anyway, the others were, I guess, less interesting… Now this Honda Civic EK is interesting:

As you might have spotted it features ATS Cup rims and double exhaust pipes which are obviously not very JDMish. Correct: it actually is very Veedubbish (or VWish) and most of the tuned cars in Hungrary are done in this style. I even spotted and photographed a flushed Civic EG that made me think Honda could actually have been originating from Germany, but not worth sharing as the car was a WIP.

So what if the rims actually belong to a Golf? To be honest: the whole BBS style rims on JDM cars originated from the BMW scene, so why not a set of ATSes?

So what do you think about these mix and match styles?