Culturally there is every reason to leave it out. It’s not the USA. It’s Japan.

Well, there’s the problem. Try moving past high school journalism headspace and get into international journalism headspace.

Same old saw. Trying looking at the view Outback. It might be more correct.

So I mentioned this to someone else, but it seems like in the 70s/80s the drivers were likely conditioned for supercars to come roaring past them at 160+ mph since that was a condition of the Midnight Club and they were a common sight on the expressway at certain times.

Were you driving the expressways of Japan in the 80s?

There wouldn’t be an outright mention of it in this article. Mr. Saito most likely wouldn’t want to embarrass him by directly asking him if he is ashamed of it. And he would never admit to being ashamed of it. The only people who apologize are train engineers who accidentally leave the station 3 seconds early.

my maths may not be so good, but if all 10 denied ever exceeding 100 mph then they shouldn’t be accusing anyone ;)

One article is written about the damaging effects of street racing that occurred in the USA, and the other is an interview written about someone in Japan by a Japanese person. Each writer needs to apply pretty significant differences in how they treat the material.

I think you might not understand the difference in culture. He doesn’t regret it because he successfully defended the honor of Ferrari. He’s ashamed to have done it, and according to the article he never wanted anyone to know that he was the one who had done it.

I’m pretty sure the whole “busted on the road doing a test pull” was staged as well since their side of the expressway (at least the seasons I watched) was empty except for the one car (and only one) that always drove past while you could see multiple cars on the opposite side, but then a police car would pull up and…

“The only way for the driver to know that the road is empty is to race on a closed course. You can do all the pre-race checks you want, but knowing that the road was empty before the race is not the same as knowing it will be empty during the race.”

When I watched it the EMS were sometimes hard to see, but it was easy to tell that it’s an entirely closed set by the massive spotlight rigs everywhere to provide adequate lighting for safety (and for proper camera lighting). 

Just lay the seats back.

I’m pretty sure it would look exactly like one of my son’s Hot Wheels in the black if it had flames. Which I am pretty sure I would like.

Well, some of the first advice boils down to ‘keep “your” money in “your” pocket... because having that money sure looks nice.’ 

It’s funny, you think they know there is a V6 underneath the plastic engine cover.

Where is the NSFAnyone buffer image. Dear God, the sight of the car burns my eyes worse than the bleach does.

It’s worst in person. I just cannot understand why someone decided the front end from a Semi belonged on a mini-van.

It’s quite possibly caused by the fact that a Japanese engineer can’t imagine that any person would keep a car with that many kilometers. It’s really rare for someone to not trade in their car at 100,000 kilometers (or 10 years) so for a car to have triple that amount is quite possibly not conceivable for them.

I’m just curious what the different trim level packages include that you can’t add as options in the basic model.