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A snake slithering out of a drain in Asahiyama Zoo in Asahikawa, Hokkaido. It wasn't part of an exhibit...

Yes 116PS... I don't want to sound like a Toyota PR employee but it goes way better than the figures would suggest. Typical Toyota understating the performance. I'd say it at least had 130PS! 😅 Seriously though my son will be going for his licence in 2026 and it's a good manual car he can learn on without getting in too much trouble, and after that he will inherit it.

Japan has won 3 Baseball world championships, the most recent in 2023. They're pretty damn good. The two guys in the mural on the wall in the last pic are Darvish and Otani, both of who play in the MLB, both played for the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters team in their pre-MLB days. ESCON filed is the Fighter's home stadium. There's a micro brewery inside the stadium as well, first time I saw such a thing... Had a beer then was told it was made right over there -->

Inside and outside ESCON Field in Sapporo in Hokkaido

I realise that perhaps no one will in Japan will see this, but why not try anyway. What are you driving in Japan? I have a (sniff (;_;) ) 2018 Toyota Corolla Sports 1.2L Turbo 6MT. It has a class trailing 116PS and 190Nm power/torque... 😐 Why? Because back in 2018 there was only 1(?) manual transmission car available from Toyota which was the 86 (not including the Mark X GRMN 2015/2019), so when they released this one I had to support them by getting one in the hope that they would continue to release more manual models. As it turns out they released the Supra, Yaris, and GR Corolla all with manual transmissons after that. Mods are RSR Ti2000 Down springs, HKS panel filter, 18x8.5" Weds Sports SA-20R Face F with 215/40R18 Toyota Proxes Sport tyres. Eventually a full exhaust, boost controller sub-con, Blitz turbocharger and aero parts will be added before it gets replaced...

It looks proper factory fitted. It's exactly how I would do it. Well done 👍

Same (except for the R32 bit), my son is saving for his first car which he hopes will be a Kouki V37 GT with the twin turbo 3.0L V6.... kids these days! My first car was a Renault 16 haha 😄 Sorry for the thread hijack

Who's Adam? Hehe 😁All good mate, it's Justin. Been good! And you? The HCR32 is looking sweet by the way! Love the very neat Nav install. I would love to get one but I'm at a crossroads right now and can't commit to another car.

Is this for sale? 😋

It looks more grey than blue in daylight. I guess the bright lights they had in the Nissan booth made my phone camera make it look like Hyundai baby blue... But colour aside, Hyundai N was launched in 2017 and they copied the Nismo corporate black aero parts with red accent from the 2014 GT-R Nismo

Yes that's a VW Polo. The whole build inside and out was very well done I thought, in that Euro street style. The C110 drew a crowd lol, one girl in earshot kept repeating "Hora! Smaaafu! Smaaafu!" 😄 Yep the Jimny has a Lancia Delta Integrale-like kit on it by Damd. They also made a Jimny kit based on the Renault 5 Turbo (which wasn't there). Speaking of little 4WD's the white one is a 2008 Nissan Kicks modified by Nissan Automobile College:

I never really used facebook at all unless someone sent a link to a video etc. Where in Tokyo are you?

Things are great Christian! And you? Would be fantastic to see some of the oldies come back for sure.

Anybody home...? I used to moderate this part of SAU about 20 years ago... hard to beleive it's still around basically unchanged with all the old posts pinned at the top. Amazing to read all those posts again. If anyone drops by, I'm still in Japan (Nishinomiya, between Osaka and Kobe). Cheers 🙂

Some quick photos of a bunch of cars which (I thought 😅) stood out at the Osaka Auto Messe earlier in February.... Oh and... hi 🙂🤚everyone still on here who was around back in 2003 - 2009 😯

14 - super hard coat (paint protection, 5 year warranty afaik) 15 - rear wiper 17 - audioless (no audio from factory)

Don't do this, the meaning of the last few kanji are completely wrong. No offence First two kanji (Jyuuryoku) are ok, but using the term "sucks" in Japanese is like "あかん" (Tokyo people can post up whatever local word they like and say it's more appropriate, IDGAF), being that it's slightly slang like "sucks" is and also has the same meaning. So "重力はあかん" is pretty close to the mark, or as close as you'll get without sounding more formal.

I'm willing to bet it's just a local group of drifters/racers and had the sticker made up just for themselves. With what dead end searching I have done, I've seen Battle Club low down springs/grille/fender extentions so the name is/was used by an obscure parts manufacturer: http://1999ch.com/estima/eg-r15.html http://1999ch.com/estima/eg/eg-r15-1.jpg <-- yes that's a Japanese made "Hiclone" by Battle Club. Check the font of the sticker, is it the same as the Battle Club on the instruction sheet? Could be it... http://minkara.carview.co.jp/userid/261584...64799/note.aspx http://www.bidders.co.jp/dap/sv/nor1?id=49...&p=y%23body Just say it's a local Japanese car club from whichever area the car auction is that it was bought from and leave it at that.

How could anyone in their right mind fag up an R32 GT-R like that? (the typemoon one). Oh I see, a GT-R bandwagon-jumping anime freak owns it.

How info do you have on this club? Location? Their local circuit? Photos? Anything might help a bit more than just a name. How do you know about them?

Ok maybe not 11ty million, maybe just 1ty million. It was just to illustrate the difference between working as a non-Japanese speaker in Japan to a non-English speaking worker in Australia. In Japan it can be done and work isn't reliant on you Japanese ability.

Go to any of the large chains when they have certain campaigns running like a "Advan Campaign" at SuperAutobacs, Yellow Hat etc and the sales people are as flexible as you could expect someone who usually doesn't discount to be They're all so similar I don't think any one place is miles better than another unless they're doing free tyre fitting or some other freebie. The guys at Power Sports recommended me these for street/track -> Neova AD08s: http://www.yokohamatire.jp/yrc/japan/tire/...neova_ad08.html I'm a bit biased towards Advan

18: 助手席 = Joshuseki = Passenger seat

The difference being Richard is that there are 11ty million Japanese people wanting to speak English... so the possiblities of getting halfway decent work in Japan can't be compared to a non-English speaker seeking employment in Australia. direct: you need to tell us the answers to Beer Baron's questions before we can suggest anything. For a start, have a look at this: http://jobs.kfm.to/jobs (it says Kansai but the jobs listed are national). If you find anything in there that you think you might have a chance at getting then let us know with the other info requested and we might be able to help out in a meaningful way. One last thing, Japan isn't everyones cup of tea, what may seem like a good long-term relocation idea while in Australia may very well vanish as soon as you arrive... it's happened to many people I've known over the years.

First of all "sweet ride" isn't used in Japanese so you'll have to go for the closest thing to it "cool/stylish car". Sorry it doesn't sound as street as you'd like it but I guess Japanese car enthusiasts aren't led by the US so much in the language department like we are. かっこいい車 ^^ IMO use that and be done with it. If you want to write it in a cool Japanese way, use Katakana "カッコイイ車". I'm sure someone with "loads of JDM experience" will come by and tell you their suggestion is better so if that's the case, yeah, do that.