Category Archives: Japanese Car Culture

Cars and tuning from the land of the Rising Sun

RAUH-Welt Begriff Brotherhood

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The latest video from Japanese Porsche tuner RAUH-Welt Begriff documents an unprecedented gathering of their international customers. Nakai-san invited RWB friends from Thailand and the US to help with a 4 car effort at a 12 hour endurance race held at the Twin Rings Motegi circuit in Japan. He made sure to mix everybody up when assigning the driver teams and pit crews to each car so that everybody could make new friends. The final scene describes it all: RAUH-Welt Begriff Brotherhood.


RWB Thailand in Idlers 12 Hours from TennXX on Vimeo.

Mazda RX-7 Spirit R – Motor Trend

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Carlos Lagos brings us something special on this week’s episode of Motor Trend Ignition. He gets to test drive the only left hand drive Mazda RX-7 Spirit R in the world. The Spirit R was Mazda’s way of commemorating the end of production for the 3rd generation FD3S RX-7. The last 1500 cars off of the production line received special upgrades to make them Spirit R’s. The car that Carlos gets to drive is a left hand drive model that a Mazda executive had converted to a Spirit R. He goes on to talk about how the harkens back to when the Japanese built cars that focused solely on driving pleasure.


Source: Motor Trend on YouTube