No Tokyo Auto Salon would be complete without some delectable female eye candy there to spice things up and the quality at this years show was outstanding.
Road Test: Alien Honda’s Have Landed
January 12, 2010Honda Japan has made some very strange decisions lately, none of those more bizarre than the daft choice of pulling out of F1 a year before the team they abandoned went on to win the F1 WDC and Constructors championships. To say they choked isn’t even close to the truth. They committed sporting suicide.
The dumbest commercial Mercedes has ever made.
January 10, 2010It’s nonsensical, farcical, whimsical garbage.
No amount of emotive force can replace the absurdity that is this SLS commercial.
Note, if you will, the petrified faces of the firemen who, from behind the safety of their 1 foot high barrier, are set up to be completely obliterated by the gullwinged Mercedes should a mistake be made.
I wont even bother going into how extraordinarily retarded and utterly pointless the car barrel rolling in the tunnel is.
Gauges and Suspension Parts for the Skyline
January 7, 2010I received these as a birthday present not too long ago, last month actually.
Top of the line Blitz DC II with the DC Live Unit for oil, boost and water.
I was considering putting them on the Subaru due to the fact it has no boost or oil pressure gauges at all but then realized the Subaru will be gone soon and the ‘Line needs them just as much.
The Nissan actually already has these gauges but who can trust those? They’re 17 years old. Plus the boost gauge is measured in mmHG ( mm of mercury – retarded if you ask me )
F1’s Precious Flavio
January 7, 2010I’ve always wondered what Flavio Briatore’s 26 year old wife must be thinking when she kisses the human equivalent of Gollum. I mean, come now – look at him. Not exactly the Brad Pitt of the F1 world is he? So putting his very questionable pot bellied looks aside what else do we have there? Hmm… a duplicitous, conniving, heavy handed, arrogant cheat. Can’t be his personality then either, can it? Guess that leaves only his money.
And who would be surprised by THAT little piece of truth?
I mean, LOOK at this woman. It makes me physically ill to think that Gollum slithers all over her when the lights go out.
Michael Schumacher signs for Mercedes
December 23, 2009Wow…just WOW.
In my post couple of days ago I mentioned how I got to meet MS and how I expected him to come back for the 2010 season but the guessing and speculation is now officially a reality.
Michael Schumacher will return to the grid in 2010 wearing the black and silver of Mercedes. In this unprecedented move, Schumi will now partner Rosberg and Brawn under a brand new 3 year contract.
This is utterly fantastic news and many people are surely beside themselves over this.
I think I’ll put some money down on Schumi to take out the WDC title. The bookies must be having kittens!!
Michael Schumacher 2010
December 19, 2009Michael Schumacher retired from Formula 1 at the end of the 2006 season.
Suddenly, from every corner of the news, there is unabated fever among the inhabitants of F1 about the imminent return of the most successful F1 driver ever to grace the sport and live to tell the tale.
I personally believe he will come back and am writing this in due course.
I had seen him race so many times. I grew up in the shadow of the “Senna passes the dominance torch to Schumacher” era and what an amazing 15 years it had been. You may know I grew up in Australia, so I was no stranger to Schumacher or Hakkinen or Hill or anyone from the crop of the mid 80’s to now. You feel as if you know them all somehow and yet, have never met any of them.
As fate would have it then, some 15 years and a move to Japan later, at Suzuka in 2006, I got some pit access and managed to meet most of the field and memorably have a little quiet time with Schumacher, a single race before he retired ( as far as I or anybody else knew at the time ) for ever.
Road Test: Habanero Hatch
December 13, 2009
The new 2010 Mazdaspeed Axela (Mazda 3 MPS as it’s known in foreign markets) is the type of car that enjoys getting up in public and telling everyone in its roughest voice that it enjoys eating kittens. For breakfast.
Y’s R35 GTR
November 21, 2009
So what makes a totally decent man, take a thoroughly capable super car and do perfectly obscene things with it? Is the Nissan GT-R not a good enough car to begin with? Well no, not if your name begins with a Y it isn’t. You see, the standard GT-R was merely a starting point; a control specimen, from which all other improvements and modifications would be measured and I tend to agree, comparing a standard GT-R to this particular “works” version is foolish. Having driven both, I can say with absolute certainty that this is how the GT-R should really be.
2009 Audi RS6
November 13, 2009
We’ve got half a million dollars worth of cars here at our disposal with over 1100 angry horses between them and the weather is perfect. Thanks to the recent typhoon, all the smog that is indicative of Tokyo during a typical autumn day has been swept away, replaced by a more vivid shade of blue and refreshingly crisp winds. The elusively mercurial Mount Fuji is especially clear today plus the absence of humidity makes conditions all the more important when you consider that we also have 4 turbos to feed and 16 cylinders to fill with force injected air and fuel.
