If you cast your minds back to my event coverage from the The Elite Showcase and Bandung JDM Fest in Indonesia earlier this year, you’ll remember that I was blown away by the quality of the modified and custom cars on show. This archipelagic state in Southeast Asia has a thriving scene, and that was totally reflected in […]
A Swedish Time Attack Monster
I have to give credit where credit is due. If it wasn’t for the coverage I saw on Speedhunters and Narita Dogfight long before I started contributing here, I wouldn’t have such a keen interest in time attack today. The content coming straight out of Tsukuba Circuit’s pit lane garages intrigued me, and ever since I’ve found myself following […]
At $47,991, Is This 2011 Lotus Evora Worth Evaluating?
While the Elise was created as a bare-bones and thus uncompromising sports car, today’s Nice Price or No Dice Evora was designed as a more thoroughly realized and thus potentially a more universally appealing automobile. Let’s see what concessions need to be made to buy it. The 2002 Mercedes-Benz SLK 32 AMG we considered yesterday […]
Firepower: Japan’s Fastest Time Attack Car
At Attack Tsukuba 2023, all eyes were on Toshiki ‘Fire’ Ando when he took to the track in his Escort Racing-built Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution IX. There was, of course, a very good reason for this. On January 27, at a Zummy-organized event, Ando-san blasted his Evo to a new Tsukuba tuning car lap record: 49.897. While he wasn’t able […]