I’ve gone out drinking a handful of times in Tokyo, and it’s a different kind of being drunk there. You get drunk in the US, go outside, and you’re at risk of a public intox citation if you so much as mis-step on a side walk. You get drunk in Tokyo and as long as you keep to yourself/friend circle and don’t cause a…

It’s Confederate statues they’re tearing down, not “Founding Fathers” as they had a little more sense in their heads than having statues erected of themselves (You know, considering most of them were trying to escape a monarchy). Also the “founding fathers” pretty much made it right to burn an American flag; the First…

NASCAR titles have consistently sold very well. They wouldn’t continue to be made if they didn’t sell well. In the 90s NASCAR games on the PC were pushing ~400,000 units which was very respectable for the time period but now sales for the various console iterations are well into the millions. It likely helps that a…

You do that where I live and you pretty much get ran over. 75 - 80 MPH speed limits aren’t uncommon here, and triple digits are traffic pace.

A little odd why you’re against what the driver proclaimed (not to mention, you have to realize there’s a lot of paraphrasing going on by the author), however...

Prior to the pandemic I was over in Tokyo and saw a handful of the Century sedans like this. They’re very impressive vehicles up close compared to other vehicles on Japanese roads. Similar to a Rolls in dimension but relatively mundane. There’s also something to be said about it being Japanese luxury, which the…

Yeah! Isn’t it a pain to deal with people that all of a sudden are concerned about germ theory that they simply do the smallest of things to prevent themselves from getting illnesses such as the common cold or flu? How dare they put a mask on in their cars or when they’re out in a park? We’re just trying to be like…

When I was younger I remember always reading about anime conventions in early anime publications such as Animerica. I always wanted to go to one but there were none anywhere near where I lived, not even a state over. To go to one would have meant traveling which at the time I simply wasn’t able to do for a variety of…

Its Indycar related, but I think an even better pan job is the 1996 Texaco Havoline 200 at Road America when Christian Fittipaldi retired. I remember watching that race live and it was one of those old CART races that really made open-wheel racing of the time great. There were good on track battles, a few flips, and…

I’ve dropped coffee shops for screwing up coffee. This guy sticks behind a company after dropping six figures on a defective car.

Having been around anime/manga fandom for roughly a little over three decades now, it kills me when people talk about “not liking current shows” that are mostly slice 0f life, isekai, or any other insert-popular genre because it’s like would you rather sit through twelve or thirteen episodes and get a definitive story…

The fundamental thing that people forget about DeLoreans is in the period from 1983 to 1984 nobody wanted one - at all. There’s plenty of stories of dealers in the 1983/84 time period having thrown massive discounts on cars and they still couldn’t move them. Literally cars were marked down as far as $6,000 brand new…

Back in 2019 I saw my first 2000GT in Japan at the VenusFort mall in Tokyo (there’s a showroom there that has since been closed due to that area of Odaiba going through a redevelopment). When standing near it, I got a lot of Jaguar E-Type that an Opel GT smashed into -vibes. I had a difficult time REALLY appreciating…

I’ve owned every year Fiero except 1985, and the ‘88 model’s improvements are utterly fantastic. The car is near transformed compared to all previous models. It’s very much worth the effort to seek out an ‘88 GT or an ‘88 Formula (which is basically a GT with the base body).

As much as people may lament what the Riviera eventually became, the later years of production came with the Series II L67 supercharged as standard equipment (98-99). In that guise, it put out right around 240 HP and a very impressive 280 FT LBs. For comparison a Mustang GT in 1998 would have been putting out 225…

These look the exact same to me, and they’re a decade apart. Fascia and trim upgrades aren’t major styling changes, not to mention the face lift made it look like a 15 year old Genesis. The S is the same now as it was ten years ago, and looks every bit of ugly now as it did in 2012. And people pay $90K+ for these…

...paying homage to the golden era of Japanese street racing, featuring a replica of Tokyo’s iconic Metropolitan Expressway. It’s a setting that’s been mostly ignored in the racing genre since the Tokyo Xtreme Racer franchise of the early-to-mid aughts, and I’ve never understood why.

If you’ve ever been to one you would know why. They’re terrible for fans. If it isn’t buildings or trees or whatever else that happens to obstruct you sitting up in a random stand at the beginning or end of a corner, it’s you standing eye level looking between two sets of fences in select spots. Then getting around…

The underlying issue with Ford’s situation outside of recall issues with the Focus and Fiesta was their shareholders. Part of the reasons why Ford no longer make cars other than the Mustang is because all of the ones they did make had super small profit margins. On the other hand their trucks and SUVs make an…

Current Formula 1 circuits have to be FIA “Grade 1" to race at. Grade 1 requirements require specific run off, barrier construction and type, and proper facilites - among others - to accomodate the F1 “circus.” Many older facilites do not immediately meet Grade 1 FIA requirements and thus get assigned Grade 2, or…