Remembering Japanese cars from the past
Straight from a Toyota Soarer Super Gran Turismo MZ12 brochure this cutaway picture was scanned in a very high quality:
What I really like about this picture is the details in the 3 litre twin cam 6M-GE engine. Even though it was sold midst of Toyota’s twincam era it only featured two valves per cylinder. If you look close enough you can really see it clearly.
You can find the full size picture here: Toyota Soarer Super Gran Turismo MZ12 cutaway picture
Via MZ12GT
I watched this JDM advertisement for the Honda Civic 35XT and it kind of puzzles me what the 35XT stands for…
It just looks like a regular ED sedan, but then with the dual carbed hyper 16valve D15B2 engine in it…
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About a year ago I posted a Hello Kitty bus spotted at the JCCA NYM 2012, but that Hello Kitty bus is nothing compared to this pink monster:
This bus has been spotted at the Tokyo Auto Salon 2013 by Car heal space
Tokyo Auto Salon always has the great or weird things at display. I already read from several sources that if there is one thing that has been dominating the Auto Salon this year it has to be the Toyota 86/Subaru BRZ. (or Toyota GT86/Scion FR-S)
I guess this life sized Choro Q Toyota TRD 86 is no exception to this rule. ;)
Via Minkara
An intriguing photo: at the left you can see a sharknosed kaido racer, next to it a kyusha kai on SSR Formula Mesh, next to that it looks like an almost unmolested track toy and on the far right a shakotan with an oil cooler on its chin spoiler.
Four different styles and I’m wondering which one of these four Soarer Z10s would be your favorite?
Via Minkara
In the past ae86lan already proved to be the master of tire stretch by stretching to tires at the same time using the explosion method.
This time he shows how to stretch tires on a set of one piece Work Equip 01 using a bead blaster.
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