Here’s another random Japanese car meet mass exodus video I found on YouTube. It’s good to see so many of the classics well taken care of and on the road. Lots of old Skylines, RX-7’s, S30 Z’s and even a couple of Toyota Crestas.
The Best Motoring crew sets out to find the ultimate naturally aspirated car the only way they know how: a track battle. These guys do car reviews similar to shows like Top Gear, but the big difference is they like to interact with aftermarket tuners such as Spoon, J’s Racing and Powerhouse Amuse. They do a lot of wheel to wheel track racing and touge road racing to compare cars and discuss tuning philosophies. For this particular comparison, they try to find the best of tuned naturally aspirated cars. They talk about the benefits of NA tuning versus turbochargers and then they see whose car is fastest around Tsukuba. The lineup runs from a B18 CRX to a couple of NSX’s, a 350Z and 20b 3-rotor FD RX-7 by RE Amemiya.
7Tune posted these pictures from a testing session at Fuji Speedway for RE Amemiya and Voltex. Both companies were prepping cars for the World Time Attack Challenge in Australia. Head over to 7Tune for the full story.
Yasuyuki Kazama is a Japanese driver that used to compete in the D1 Drift Championship. In his prime, he was widely regarded as the best drifter in the world. While he was competing, he earned the nickname of “Waku Waku Kun” which means “Rodeo Clown” in Japanese. He got the nickname by driving his car while half hanging out of the window. He even got good enough to drift the car like this. Don’t try this at home, kids.
Have you ever wondered what people from other countries feel like when people in the US spend a lot of effort to import stock parts from their domestic markets to put on our cars? It’s an odd feeling. Check out this video from this year’s USDM Jam in Japan to see what I mean. It seems to be a celebration of some cars converted to US bumpers and badges with an influence from “stance culture.” There’s one shot of some girls dancing so I’ll go ahead and give this a *NSFW* warning. Even though there’s nothing close to nudity it, could be still be misconstrued by your boss.