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12/1/22

A red hot overheating Aro 10!

11/2/22

The three box sedan! Surely there are still plenty of “sedans” available, but none of them are remotely similar to the three box design. They all look like giant teardrops or big blobs of jelly that spent three months in a windtunnel.
In my opinion this is a three box design:

10/31/22

The Mitsuoka Orichi will definitely eat you alive!

10/18/22

A giant snow plow!

10/14/22

Normally I’d say cars get out of fashion within 15 years. By then the advanced and daring designs seem to get out of fashion quicker than contemporary designed cars. For instance, ten years ago I loathed the R33 generation of the Nissan Skyline when it was about 15 to 20 years old. It looked like an overweight whale…

10/11/22

This six rotor Mazda Cosmo:

7/15/22

I had the exact same idea when I saw the concept:

7/13/22

This is to be expected and I’m not surprised. Schiphol, the fourth largest airport in Europe, made the exact same mistakes. They have been warning for months now that flights have to be cancelled: https://nltimes.nl/2022/06/16/schiphol-press-conference-many-flights-will-slashed-limit-passengers-ceo-wont-quit

7/8/22

Some people will assure you Eurobeat is only good for conquering the touges of Japan, but I know from experience it can also keep you awake when you already have driven the entire day. No one sleeps in Tokyo blaring out of the car stereo is the best thing to keep those sleepy eyes open and fixed on the road!

7/5/22

In 2013 I was in the market for my first brand new car. As a Toyota enthusiast for over a decade and owning two classic Toyotas, I decided I hop into the local Toyota dealership.

6/17/22

Even though it’s called the Space Cruiser, it’s missing out on the Skylite roof that could be found on the higher specs of it’s JDM counterpart the Liteace Wagon!

5/5/22

I once installed a JDM speed chime in my USDM Corolla SR5 AE86. Of course the connector was missing, so that was kind of useless. Years later I imported a JDM AE86 and found out why: it’s JDM-only.

2/25/22