I don’t think I’ve ever driven so many pre-production versions of a car like I have the Toyota 86. Ever since that first short test around the Fuji Speedway short course back in November, and the glorious day thrashing the 86 and FRS around Sodegaura Forest Speedway in December, I’ve always wondered how the affordable [...]
It seems no Japanese tuning shop out there is going to pass up the chance to create its own interpretation of the Toyota 86 and Subaru BRZ. Kitabayashi-san at Pentroof is well on his way with his brand new demo car which he picked up just the other week. He has already begun turning it [...]
And so the quest continues. It’s been 13 years now that I’ve had the pleasure of enjoying what is without a doubt one of the most special cars to have ever come out of Japan, and like for most enthusiasts out there the need for more performance is always hard to resist. You will probably [...]
Here is a little glimpse into VIP style, courtesy of Maiham Media. Hit play and enjoy two of the most extreme slammed rides from this year’s Excite King VIP meeting.
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Excite King VIP meet coverage on Speedhunters
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It’s great to see that the fun day I had at Fuji Speedway with the SSCT guys went down so well. I’ve prepared some high-resolution desktops that on top of some of the GT-Rs that were present… …include images of the other cars that were present like this wide body NSX… …and of course that [...]
There is a reason I find myself driving down to Osaka every other month. A few hundred kilometers sure make a difference in Japan, and while every city from Hokkaido all the way down to Hiroshima looks exactly the same, it’s the people and their attitudes that change. This is especially the case in Kansai, [...]
In order to streamline the site and make things easier on you guys, we decided to conveniently locate the desktop wallpapers from each week’s car features in one place.
Composite materials and billet aluminum are probably the last two things you would associate with a vintage car, but for Watanabe-san of Rocky Auto these are the materials of choice when creating the most unique restorations we have come across in Japan. Actually scratch that; what Watanabe-san does is more like modernizations, making everyone’s favorite [...]
I just stumbled on a little folder of pictures deep in one of my external hard disks labeled “SSCT Fuji.” You see at times, when I get a little bit of time I attempt to go back and sort through non-work related pictures, folders that have been sitting for months waiting to be looked at. [...]
As you can see from the opening shot my last trip out to Phoenix’s Power in Kyoto was met with a bit of unexpected weather. But passing snowstorms aside, it was their Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution X demo car I was there to get a few quick shots of. The car has been built in collaboration [...]
