Welcome to JDM Trivia #2! For some time now I have been pondering about the ridiculously long car names for the 80s and 90s JDM cars. I gathered data from various Japanese car manufacturers, made a potential selection of models, looked up their brochures and wrote down the name as advertised. What I did was…
Yes, a new idea/section/regular just emerged: sanctuaries! Why? Well basically last night I suffered from insomnia and for whatever reason my mind wandered to the original Initial D Tofu shop which is located in Shibukawan next to Mount Haruna (the town called Akina in Initial D) and that the original tofu shop has been demolished…
Last weekend Episode 2 of Initial D Fifth Stage has been broadcasted in Japan. Obviously it was fansubbed just within a couple of days! This episode focusses on the battle between Keisuke in his RX7 and Kobayakawa in his LanEvo VII. A bit different this time is that I actually managed to embed the video:…
I spotted this Mitsubishi EVO nine two weeks ago in a parking garage in my hometown. It is a bit hard to see on this blurry picture, but there was a pair of glasses on the dash that literally shouted “old guy in midlife-crisis”. My biggest objection against the EVO is the too-big-for-my-taste wing on…
As said in the first impressions posting: it was misty… To give you an impression, it was this misty: On the positive side it could theoretically be beneficial for taking photos at a smaller diaphragm without losing the depth of field. Unfortunately mist also means there is less light, so I had great difficulty to…
Mitsubishi assigned a number to each evolution of the Lancer rally car with four wheel drive and a 4G63T engine (after 2008 the 4B11T), so the EVO VI would actually be the sixth evolution of the Mitsubishi Lancer rally car. I found this seventh generation Lancer powered by the 1.3 4G13 parked around the corner…