Remembering Japanese cars from the past
Speedhunters already made a posting about it yesterday, but today and tomorrow is the D1GP final.Daigo Saito, Youichi Imamura and Ken Nomura will be fighting for the title of 2008.
Have a look at this funny poster they made:
I think originally Keiichi Tsuchiya thought the pre-last frame was the craziest. ;)
In this final Takahiro Ueno will use his Toyota Soarer for the last time. Sad to see such an icon go. Feels a bit the same as when Katsuhiro Ueo left the AE86 platform. :(
After two weeks of drifting Babe action I thought I should change back to the musical entries. ;)
Not a Last.fm entry because I found this one genuinly through Youtube:
Once I tried to run, once I tried to hide, but Jesus found me and touched me deep down inside.
I personally love 80s ska bands like Madness, Specials (or Special AKA or the Special Beat), Mark Foggo and Mr. Review but I don’t really like this! ;)
I don’t really have anything to say about this except that the guitarist really goes wild at 1:36! ;)
BTW: This is not meant to insult Christian followers. :P
I found another one:
It is a compilation of two other advertisements and that’s probably why I didn’t notice it before and thought it was a double.
It is a crossover of the Puppy saving TA63 Carina advertisement and another one…
Puppy saving advertisement doesn’t work anymore on Youtube, so I added this advertisement here:
Look at what I found on Photobucket:
A white Toyota Carina DX TA60 which looks like new!!
I wonder what the colorcode would be… Maybe it has the same code as mine and features also an automatic… Maybe I can swap the car during the night and nobody notices!! ;)
Just found this 1983 Toyota Carina advertisement on Youtube:
Powerwindows, powersteering and stains on the seats? Sounds like a Carina MyRoad! ;)
Too bad the first video of the previous posting isn’t working anymore:
More carina ads I posted in March 2008. Perhaps I should collect them as Flash video files and store them locally here. ;)
I watched the first 7 minutes of Initial D Extra Stage 2 Japanese raw I found somewhere on the net.
First impression: nice cartoony graphics during the intro. :)
Second impression: too bad they didn’t continue with that during the rest of the episode. :(
So far it looks like Mako is missing Iketani and the Akina Speedstars decide to take a drive up Mount Akina. Nothing much happening so far:
What I like is usage of the split screen graphics, just like in the episodes in Stage 4. The screenshot above of the four different Akina Speedstars cars (Takumi’s Corolla Levin AE86, Itsuki’s Corolla Levin AE85, Iketani’s Silvia S13 and Kenji’s 180SX RPS13) show nice usage of this. Hopefully this will also feature more during the battles. :)
Overall I think the quality of the graphics is as good as we saw in Stage 4. I actually did expect it to be another improvement as we saw during Stage 4. Music was again by Move and the soundtrack sounded catchy and not too Eurobeat.
Can’t wait to watch the rest of the movie! :)
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