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JDM Trivia #2: Ridiculously long car names

December 5, 2015 / banpei / 0 Comments

Welcome to JDM Trivia #2!

For some time now I have been pondering about the ridiculously long car names for the 80s and 90s JDM cars. I gathered data from various Japanese car manufacturers, made a potential selection of models, looked up their brochures and wrote down the name as advertised.

What I did was probably not a very good scientific approach but for a long shot this probably will do and I may have left out two or three ridiculously long car names this way. As I’m a database guru I put everything in a database and made my calculations based on that.

This is probably what you are waiting for: why I put those particular five cars in the teaser. Well that’s because they are the top five longest car names. So here we go from five to one.

Reverse Fetish: LHD Toyota Sprinter Trueno AE86 in Japan

August 10, 2014 / banpei / 0 Comments

The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence, so naturally in the US and Europe we love the JDM cars and RHD is actually a novelty. It is no different in Japan: they love USDM and EUDM car: in the past I’ve posted a few other reverse-fetishes. In this case it is all about a left hand drive (LHD) Toyota Sprinter Trueno AE86 at the HaCHiRoCK Festa 2008:

Seen from the dash it is an USDM model (tachometer on the left, speedo in miles), the seat has the inflatable lumbar pump (as seen on the Celica XX) on the driver seat and the body style is a JDM Trueno or USDM GT-S. The source only has this particular photo so it is unclear whether an existing RHD has been converted to LHD or this car is actually a genuine USDM Toyota Corolla GT-S imported into Japan (most probably), so we’ll probably never know for sure…

Found at: Minakara

WTF: Nineties stickerbombed Trueno AE86

July 9, 2011 / banpei / 0 Comments

Proof that stickerbombing is not some new craze at all:

Nineties stickerbombed kouki Trueno AE86
Okay, not entirely true: the stickers are perfectly aligned to each other (just like the late 90s/early 00s TFNF fashion) but the whole car is covered…

Found at: [El & BB Miyazaki]

Events: Hachi Rock Festa 2010

September 21, 2010 / banpei / 4 Comments

Last weekend the Hachi Rock Festa 2010 was held at the Sagamiko resort. I already did find some really nice pictures of this largest AE86 event!

Hachi Rock Festa 2010
Sure does look like they had fun! Wish I could have bought one of those vintage wheels…

And what about this crazy smallport 4AGE blacktop with ITBs?

Smallport 4AGE blacktop?

And how about an updated modern hachi like this?

Led cornerlights and HID lights?
Maybe not everyone’s cup of tea, but it surely looks modern enough!

You can find more amazing AE86 pictures in these Minkara galleries:
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Hachi Rock @ private garage krf
Hachi Rock @ ????????

Find your own garage on a model kit

September 14, 2010 / banpei / 0 Comments

Now I would be very surprised if I found my garage on the front of a model kit… Same happened to AE86 specialist Tube Garage when they saw this Aoshima model kit with a Sprinter Trueno AE86 on it:

Aoshima Sprinter Trueno AE86 model kit

And here is a picture of their workshop:

The original at Tube Garage

Video: Aggressive AE86 Trueno drifting at Sekiasakitto

July 10, 2010 / banpei / 0 Comments

Found some drifting footage of a preliminary for the middle cup in Sekiasakitto.I have no idea who this guy is, but his lines in the Trueno are really aggressive!

I love the sound of that 20v revving through the corners!
Now if only I could find more of this guy! ;)