Author Archives: Will@FluxAuto

Japanese “Vintage Car Style Cool Classics” Meet

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I came across this video while exploring related links on YouTube. It’s some amateur footage of people leaving from a “Vintage Car Style Cool Classics” get together in Japan. It’s nice to be able to match some engine exhaust notes with the classic Japanese cars that you always see pictures of like the Hakosuka and Kenmari Skylines. It’s also kind of a look into the roots of VIP style tuning and there’s even a bosozoku car or two in there. The camera work’s not great, but it’s a cool look into the grassroots scene of Japan.


Source: YouTube user 0milners0

4WDing with Subaru

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This is a vintage Subaru instructional/promotional video from the same YouTube user who posted the “Getting Through” Vintage Toyota Offroad Instructional Video. What makes this interesting is that it comes from the era where Subaru first started offering cars with four wheel drive in order to provide a flexible vehicle that can drive on and off-road. This video shows off their 80’s Australian lineup and provides a guide to what the Subarus can do off-road. Keep in mind that the customers they were targeting were used to doing some pretty hardcore wheeling in trucks on the rough terrain and unpaved roads of the Outback. The video does a pretty good job of showing the benefits of a car based 4WD platform for on the tarmac, in snow and on high speed gravel roads while making very few compromises when doing true off-road driving. You could even say that this video is the essence of the Subaru brand.

 


Source: YouTube user 100bushy

Motor Trend Epic Drives: Corvette ZR-1

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Motor Trend’s editor in chief, Angus Mackenzie, takes professional race driver Justin Bell on a road trip through Europe in the Corvette ZR-1. They of course hit the Autobahn and the Stelvio Pass to see what it can do. As an added bonus, Mackenzie and Bell pick up a Ferrari 458 Italia from the Ferrari factory in Maranello to do some follow the leader. It’s a nice video for showing what the essence of the cars are like beyond the dry performance stats.


Source: Motor Trend on YouTube

Casey Stoner on Sliding MotoGP Bikes

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Two-time MotoGP World Champion, Casey Stoner, has a unique riding style in that he is able to do full lean high speed slides. Let me start off by saying that there is a big difference between competition drifting and sliding a little bit to help get around a corner and go fast. Stoner is one of the few riders who still uses sliding as a technique to improve times in the age of electronic traction control and it probably comes from his days racing dirt track. He says it’s difficult to explain because each corner has a different way to initiate a slide. It’s a technique that has to be consciously initiated and holds a lot of risks. Head over to Asphalt and Rubber to read Stoner’s entire explanation of the technique and its benefits. Red Bull also posted this video of him talking about racing while you get to watch him slide his Moto GP bike at full lean at 1000 frames per second.


Source: Red Bull on YouTube