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Hi and welcome Thats a nice BCNR33. Wheres your location?

Right here: Network 1991 They're a tuning shop in Nagoya or thereabouts. Specialize in Nissans. They have the wierdest looking R32 GT-R in their parts list...

The Nissan Fairlady Z (350Z) was released in 2002 and is coming to the end of it's life. If Nissan haven't done anything about this by now (I never really believed any of it) then nothing will happen at all regards the Z33. The new Z34 on the other hand... who knows... but the 350Z is no 4WD.

lol it doesn't have a handbrake so he puts that stick down to stop the car from rolling back... good engineering

Probably an off duty US marine...

lol... I asked my missus and this is what she understood it to be: 'Tetsu Shougun' = Samurai Leader She said it was 2000 year old kanji and not used at all anymore. Take a photo of the box and we might have a better idea of whats going on.

99% cool. I just think those A-pillars and roofline will look out of date very very soon.

Yep 2008 Messe is 9 - 11 Feb. I actually live on Port Island aswell... are you staying at the Quality Hotel? Or Portopia?

You're staying on Port Island? lol you may aswell come with me then...

lol what summer evening picnic by the river would be complete without cheap happoushu... Daiei are flogging 'Bergen Brau New Welt' happoushu for 98yen/can 498yen/6-pack!!! The Japanese 'goon bag' if there ever was one...

Alot of people are saying 'Kirin' and 'Sapporo' but which ones? I actually don't like Super Dry as much as Kirin Ichiban Shibori. Sper Dry just has that harsher taste to it. I might get criticized for this but if I were to compare Super Dry to Ichiban Shibori I'd say Super Dry is like VB and ichiban Shibori is like Crown. (<-- for comparisons only, I reckon both Asahi SD and Kirin IS are both better than Crown) This is not to be confused with Kirin Lager (most likely the one sold in AU that people are referring to). Kirin Lager is the default beer for a fair few places in Japan. It's probably the worst of the decent tasting beers... imo.

lol... whatever

In the other thread she said she had US$450... http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/in...20&start=25 last post in the thread

You got the whole VIP thing going there... nice one Eps. Hows the Ceffy?

You painted the carbon! Well done, like I've said many times already, it just looks amazing, should drive amazingly well, and should attract an amazing amount of attention. Whats next???

Nah Daniel the rest of the spiel is just Japanese pleasantries ie: 'after checking the above, please continue giving good favour towards us' etc... typical business speak.

もし可能だったら、カーボンの４cmダウンのウイングアームをＦＲＰで作ってくれますか？ Give that a go...

Nah the WRX 'Evos' were a Subaru Australia thing to boost interest in slow sales... you know, like Toyota Starlet 'Life' etc. Subaru Japan probably didn't have any knowledge of it, nor cared about it either.

I wouldn't wholesale trust that an 'Evolution' model GT-R is on the cards just yet. The only repeated mention of specific models of the new GT-R I've seen is the base model, M-Spec (leather version) and V-Spec. Not saying it won't happen, just haven't seen any mention of it amongst Japanese circles other than that article J-Spec put on it's site ages ago about the next 'Skyline GT-R Evolution'.

Thats it right there. I used to think there was a conspiracy at play with the Aussie government and Holden, basically pricing out any competitors to the sub-$40K RWD sedan segment from Japan. But now in hindsight I know thats pretty lame, especially since Toyota (and more or less Mitsubishi but they don't have any RWDs) make cars in Australia and that would mean limiting jobs etc. So whats the problem then? Price. Theres no way Toyota can tool up their AU plant to build the RWD Mark X in a similar spec to compete with Holden/Ford at their price level. The investment would be huge, so it just will not happen. The only way is to import, then it's up to Toyotas overseas plants to spec the car to a price competitive standard, which in itself would either be too expesive for the Holden/Ford market segment with it's native Japanese spec level (almost Lexus spec, which would come in at $45K+), or spec'd so low to keep it in Commodore Omega/Falcon XT price territory that it'd have vynil seats, no aircon, and only available in Taxi-pack white... which of course Toyota would never let happen. Ditto for Nissan Skyline/Fuga...

I wasn't 'competitively comparing' them to a GT-R. Where did you get that from? I was talking about the cars that Nissan doesn't import here for one reason or another... and it's not just one or two... so going by recent history and the relative limp wristedness of Nissan AU theres a pretty good chance the GT-R won't make it either. You can't ignore that.

Is it also a no brainer why the Skyline, Fuga, Stagea, Cima and President aren't sold in Australia? That alone makes me wonder if the GT-R will get a look in...

Thats fine and all, but they're still speculating on the price here in Japan (ie: nothing official has been said) so how could your guy at Nissan even know if the car is coming to AU, let alone the price? He's just guessing like everyone else.

Rika and I will be there with bells on... Rikas the cute one with black bag on the left.

El Camino? Thats what I'm talking about In the US you've got so many more cars which appeal to the mainstream. While we in AU can get Mustangs, Vipers etc via low volume import, I can't say anyone would go to the trouble of preparing one for drift competition... I may be wrong though! Alot of guys seem to put Chevy badges on their Commodores/Monaros (even though the latter is badged as a Pontiac in the US) so the support fot the 'parent company' is there, but I can't say many people would prefer to see a Viper or Mustang win a Drift Australia round over a Commodore or Falcon. I remember the first time I saw that Falken sponsored Mustang drift car and though "the V8 crowd in Australia would pay to see that drift". But I've mentioned it twice already, the drift purists who are diehard supporters of traditional drift in Japan would probably commit suicide before selling out and letting the V8 'cavemen' take over and run the show...