Remembering Japanese cars from the past
This week I was surprised to learn the European Nissan Primera P10 actually is over 5 centimeters (2 inches) wider than the Japanese counterpart! This is a big revelation for me as I just assumed the same car, the same dimension. But boy I was wrong! So I started to investigate and went down the rabbit hole to share this JDM Trivia with you!
Continue readingI received a huge stack of Mitsubishi brochures, and this time they come from the Dutch dealerships!
Most of the brochures are from the 80s and early 90s, including the Cordia and the Starion. But I also couldn’t resist getting that late 90s Galant that I love soooooo much. Watch the unboxing below: Continue reading
I know I have been slacking again on the blog lately… My job was killing me and last Tuesday I gave a presentation at a MySQL oriented conference in London so hardly any time left for anything else. So I promise to make it up to you with this beautiful photo of the N-Style Toyota Carina AA63 taken by Nori Yaro:
Alexi Smith (aka Nori Yaro) visited the N-Style garage and took a couple of beautiful photographs of their car lineup, including three of the N-Style Toyota Carina AA63.
So head over to Nori Yaro’s visit to N-Style to see all the other photos!
Yesterday in a blink of an eye I spotted some old cars parked in what looked like an old dealership. So I parked the car around the block and headed back, and this is what I spotted:
A lot of old historic Fiats were all parked inside an old Fiat dealership. The cars I spotted were: a Fiat visitor bus designed by Bertone, Fiat 128 Coupe, Fiat Dino coupe 2400, Fiat Dino spider, Fiat 130, Fiat 125 and in the back many many more: Continue reading
Don’t laugh, but this magazine was actually the Christmas present from my wife!
When I was in Hungary during the holidays my wife bought this magazine in the Tesco because she knows I like old rusty cars. Especially the name of the magazine is an Hungarian pun and would roughly translate into rustpile. She thought of it as a joke and so did I…
Until I opened up the magazine halfway and found this feature of an immaculate second generation Honda Accord coupe:
Nice, huh? It reminded me of this Honda Accord coupe near my son’s school.
Even nicer was this picture: Continue reading
Fifteen years ago this yellow Sprinter Trueno AE86 GT Apex was king of the mountain and the Honda in front of it king of the desert!
Now which one would you choose as your daily transportation?
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