Tuning Japanese: normal is overrated
18 April 2015
View fullsize The fine line between insanity and genius is blurry in Osamu Kawashima’s world. You only have to look at his infamous oni-camber Toyota Celica
View fullsize The fine line between insanity and genius is blurry in Osamu Kawashima’s world. You only have to look at his infamous oni-camber Toyota Celica
View fullsize There are a few cars which don’t need definition when discussed. If someone mentions the name Exige, Veyron or Aventador you know what
“Staffer Rene gets his hands on the latest performance coupe to come from the Lexus stables — the Lexus RC-F, a 470hp V8 monster”
View fullsize The choice of platforms for anyone building a drift car is like a Japanese smorgasbord — plentiful, and with way too many choices.
The Goodwood 73rd Members Meeting, held on March 21–22, was a spectacular occasion showcasing some of the best racing flashbacks seen for years, but what
The Mitsubishi Lancer GSR has a very strong heritage in New Zealand, being popular due to its four-wheel driveline and relatively strong 1800cc DOHC turbo
It was at the first New Zealand Drag Nationals at Kopuka on a dry summer’s day in 1967, where Bob Rossiter’s ‘Pirate’ dragster faced off
“When your show-worthy Mazda RX-3 is too mint to enter burnout competitions, what do you do? We spoke to Andrew Pulford to find out
“Sometimes you don’t have to spend much to get a lot of car. Rene Vermeer explains why he loved his Nissan Stagea” There aren’t
A couple of weeks ago Matt Farah and The Smoking Tire crew came to New Zealand to check out the local car scene and film some of
One of the first meets that a couple of mates and I went to was the JZX NZ meet, and ever since then it’s kind of
“It’s not often you get to drive, let alone own, the car that you’ve idolized since you were a teen. But NZ Performance Car’s
Matakana-based Mortimer Motorsport has just landed a very special restoration project from Japan in the form of a Mazdaspeed Group C car that was raced
It’s been 40 years since Ferrari came out with the legendary 308 GTB, the marque’s first mid-engined V8 model, and now we have this —
I think most people will have a weird opinion of these guys. I know some people either hate them, while others love them. It’s been that way
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