I did know about the existence of turbo-ed 2T and 3T engines, but bi-turbo?

If you look well enough you can see a big intercooler behind the cutted front air dam. Also where the grille used to be an oil cooler has been placed. It is unknown which engine has been used for the swap, but it is surely a bi-turbo diesel engine.

The original car appears to be a TA60 Carina coupe and its 31 years old Finish owner takes really good care of it:

Yep, that's how easy it is to get a Carina sideways when you have loooooads of torque! I wonder how long it will take before D1GP will be flooded with diesel engines. :D :D

This is the most recent video of the car:

I wonder if there will be more updates soon! :)

Apparently I was wrong that you can only find a Mazda Cosmo down on the street in Japan!

Mazda Cosmo rustoseum
Apparently not all Cosmos have found their way to museums yet!

I found this picture here!

Half of me said WTF?! while the other half of me said Brilliant!

Paul Newman sticker
Yes, the Skyline R30 is terrific!

I found the sticker here at zeki's blog @ minkara. Another four stickers can be found there as well!

I'm not a big Honda fan, but I always liked the Honda Accord Mk3 because it looks a bit like the zenki Trueno. At least: that's my thought every time I pass this abandoned Accord Mk3 Aerodeck when driving to my dad's house:

Honda Accord Mk3 Aerodeck
For all previous generations of the Corolla Toyota had a 3 door liftback model which was a small brother of the sporty coupe. With the introduction of the FWD E8 series they kind of ditched the 3 door liftback model and named the five door EE80 model the liftback. IMO the Accord Mk3 Aerodeck resembles what the AE86 liftback would have looked like. ;)

Honda Accord Mk3 Aerodeck
Last sunday I had another drive to my dad and this time I brought my camera along. Since it was snowing it would certainly add that little extra to the dramatic state of the car. ;)

Honda Accord Mk3 Aerodeck
Anyway, let's get back to the Accord... I did notice some time ago that the license plates of this Accord were removed. Most probably done by fuel-thieves. What puzzles me is that neither its owner and the Police actually did something about it...

That was not the least thing the owner did neglect to do to this Accord: as you can see it has got a lot of rust on it already...

Honda Accord Mk3 Aerodeck
Not to mention the amount of moss sticking on it...

Comparing this Accord to the Pony I reckon this car is standing there a bit longer than the few years the Pony spent on its resting place. Must be something near the 4 or 5 years I guess... ;)

Got a mixed bag of Toyota commercials from Japan: Starlet KP60 Trans Europe trial, Corona T100, Celica XX mk1, Chaser MX30 and the KE30 saloon!

Even though I live in Europe, in a country next to Germany I still have no idea what the Trans Europe Trial actually is... It must have been something like Toyota wanted to prove the Starlet was an excellent car for European roads, therefore it would certainly be an even better car for the Japanese roads!

The Corona T100 looks like it would have been sophisticated back in a day, but with those features (central warning light, 5mph bumpers) you can even find on BYDs nowadays!

And that Chaser MX30! Of course if you first run it flat out on the saltflats (who put those lines there??) you definitely need to wash your hair!