Remembering Japanese cars from the past
Back in the early 00s when I tried to convince my friend Mux to buy a hachi my idea was to buy the same one as he did. This photo reminds me a bit of that era:
Two friends buying the same car, modifying it in the exact same way.
For Mux and me it worked out a bit differently: he bought a zenki Levin in metalic blue (colorcode 8A9) and I bought a zenki Trueno in silver grey.
Found at Kosi Gaya Racing
Do you love Japanese retro styled cars like the Nissan Pao/Figaro or the Subaru Vivio Bistro? Then you will definitely dig this van:
Influenced by the Citroën H van and improved with aircon and powersteering. ;)
Anyone got an idea which kei-van platform this was built on?
Finally found it: it is a Honda Vamos Mooa!
After two Miataless months I thought it would be and excellent time to post up something I snapshotted half a year ago when I was at the Santa Clara conference hall. A USDM Miata had been parked at the conference parkinglot and while I was searching my bag for my HTC phonecam a white Celica RA42 parked right next to it! Yes, the Celica was indeed driven by a disabled person and it did have an automatic transmission.
If you look at the Celica and Miata and compare it against the other two behemoths next to them you realize these two cars are very very un-American. ;)
When I walked around to take a snapshot up front the Miata owner returned left, so all in all I just had about one minute of luck to take the above snapshot. This is how the Celica looks up front: Continue reading
Just like the new modern Subaru BRZ is an innovation for Subaru, back in the 80s Subaru’s 4WD technique was innovative and ground breaking. Subaru’s 4WD is just like a baseball bat: you aim for it and hit the apex at the right spot.
So of course they applied the 4WD package to all model lineups including the new Leone 2. Funny to see them now going back to 2WD…
Haven’t found any footage of this series on Youtube so far, but the intro of this tokusatsu surely looks promising: the Toyopet Crown S40 estate featuring in the first long shot gets blown to smithereens after only 30 seconds!
The show ran for ten whole years onward after its inital release in September 1969. Now these guys are supposed to be the good guys and they are just blowing up stuff the whole time? Oh man, you got to love the 70s for that!
Nissan versus BMW, Skyline versus 5 series, R31 versus E34, bippu versus autobahnstürmer. Do I need to say more?
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